Prelims Questions Thread: CSP 2021
Hi Forum,
I am sure there are many on this platform who are preparing for CSP 2021. As I prepare from the very basic books right to the Laxmikants & Spectrums, will be posting questions for practice and benefit of all 2021 aspirants.
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When you get those UPSC level questions ( from various exams ) right, poor or below average scores in mocks cannot discourage you anymore. You will develop a steely resilience and an amazing defense mechanism. You can keep telling yourself, that come the D-Day, i will be ready !
To substantiate further, here are two examples of how Examrobotcould have helped someoneon 4th October 2020 :
1. Notice the question below from NDA 2018 exam.
And now thesame question came verbatim in 2020 Prelims:
Nownotice this question from CAPF exam 2017.
And if you had solved this, you could easily have solved this question from preilms 2020 exam.
Its powerful bro. That's a4 marks bonuswhen0.5 marks decide our chances at writing mainsanddictate our mental state of well being for the next 12 months.Its huge. See if you can find a way around working on it :)
Happy solving :)
1. Know the demands of what you have to study. Our brains have something called reticular activation system (google it!) that helps us stay sane by filtering out unnecessary information in our everyday lives. Similarly, youmust develop your own RASwith respect to the syllabus. Syllabus is your ally here.
2. Scour every prelims question paper of last 5 years and you will know what kind of news items are important for Prelims. UPSC has been throwing bouncers after bouncers every year. For example :
- Till last year, an aspirant would be fine if she/he had revised core concepts of Monsoons and oceanography that has been explained brilliantly in PMFIAS notes/ NCERT.
- But then we get this question in2020
Now this question, applied in nature, has been picked directly from this THE HINDU ARTICLE (Screenshot below)
- I wouldn't blame anyone who picked up the newspaper on that day in 2018 (yes this is a news item from 2 years ago), saw this news item and simply told herself/himself, " these are too technical. Too much data. advanced concepts/numbers. Yeh nahi aayega," and skipped the news item. But now, the stakes have changed.Anything and I mean anything related to the core concepts/themes asked repeatedly by UPSC just have to be noted down. You get something remotely associated with National park, you take notes out of it. You get something associated with some XYZ river rising from some ABC glacier or some LMN desert in some QRS country, you make a note of it. No assumptions/ second-guessing
3. Similarly,Scour every Mains question paper (post 2013) and you will see that you need to prepare themes for Mainsand hence developing answers out of editorials is imo a time consuming , draining and futile exercise.
- Editorials tend tocover a very micro aspectof alargely macro issue. UPSC generally takes thismacro issue, clubs it with another Macro issue and then frames a question that test your inter linkage skills.
- Hence, mapping relevant points of the editorial onto the main topic of the syllabus (evernote/onenote/notion/hand written) and then developing interlinkages across GS Papers/topics is a much more rewarding exercise.
That's my two cents. But like i said,there is little credibility to all this so called Gyaan, at least until the time the holy pdf pops with my name in the list:D. You are hence advised to listen to do your own research, develop your own principles and in the end listen to your own gut :)
My best wishes :)
Sir, can anyone please suggest revision chart for constitutional and non-constitutional bodies from any good source. Thanks a lot.
Constitutional Bodies.pdf Constitutional and statutory bodies TRICKS.pdf Statutory bodies.pdf
I hope these help
Correct statements - fin year 2020-21
1) Top countries with FDI inflow - Singapore>US>Mauritius >UAE
2) Gujarat received most FDI
A- only 1
B- only 2
C- 1 and 2
D- none
With Option 1 I know singapore is the highest. Have slightest doubt in US being 2nd. But I think itna confusing nhin kregen.
Option 2 well known.
C 1 and 2.
Top FDI receiving states: Gujarat >Maharashtra >Karnataka >Delhi
Top FDI sources: Singapore >US >Mauritius >UAE
Top FDI receiving sectors: computer software and hardware sector >infrastructure sector (construction) >services >trading
Source: FDI in India: Foreign Direct Investment Opportunities, Policy | IBEF
@Vayu I have a feeling I am not qualified enough to answer all your queries. There are so many toppers's videos on the same topic out there. I do nothing different. But nevertheless, here are few important tips that any aspirant/topper would agree to.1. Know the demands of what you have to study. Our brains have something called reticular activation system (google it!) that helps us stay sane by filtering out unnecessary information in our everyday lives. Similarly, youmust develop your own RASwith respect to the syllabus. Syllabus is your ally here.
2. Scour every prelims question paper of last 5 years and you will know what kind of news items are important for Prelims. UPSC has been throwing bouncers after bouncers every year. For example :
- Till last year, an aspirant would be fine if she/he had revised core concepts of Monsoons and oceanography that has been explained brilliantly in PMFIAS notes/ NCERT.
- But then we get this question in2020
Now this question, applied in nature, has been picked directly from this THE HINDU ARTICLE (Screenshot below)
- I wouldn't blame anyone who picked up the newspaper on that day in 2018 (yes this is a news item from 2 years ago), saw this news item and simply told herself/himself, " these are too technical. Too much data. advanced concepts/numbers. Yeh nahi aayega," and skipped the news item. But now, the stakes have changed.Anything and I mean anything related to the core concepts/themes asked repeatedly by UPSC just have to be noted down. You get something remotely associated with National park, you take notes out of it. You get something associated with some XYZ river rising from some ABC glacier or some LMN desert in some QRS country, you make a note of it. No assumptions/ second-guessing
3. Similarly,Scour every Mains question paper (post 2013) and you will see that you need to prepare themes for Mainsand hence developing answers out of editorials is imo a time consuming , draining and futile exercise.
- Editorials tend tocover a very micro aspectof alargely macro issue. UPSC generally takes thismacro issue, clubs it with another Macro issue and then frames a question that test your inter linkage skills.
- Hence, mapping relevant points of the editorial onto the main topic of the syllabus (evernote/onenote/notion/hand written) and then developing interlinkages across GS Papers/topics is a much more rewarding exercise.
That's my two cents. But like i said,there is little credibility to all this so called Gyaan, at least until the time the holy pdf pops with my name in the list:D. You are hence advised to listen to do your own research, develop your own principles and in the end listen to your own gut :)
My best wishes :)
Good write-up, brother. Do not worry about the holy pdf. It is meant for people like you. Keep on enlightening the community!
While Janapadas relied on gifts and Mahajanapadas relied on taxes. statement is correct, but answer is D.
Occasional gifts brought by people, as in the case of the raja of the janapadas, Mahajanpadas started collecting regular taxes.
• Taxes oncropswere the most important. This was because most people were farmers. Usually, the tax was fixed at 1/6th of what was produced. This was known as bhaga or a share.
• There were taxes oncrafts personsas well. These could have been in the form of labour. For example, a weaver or a smith may have had to work for a day every month for the king.
•Herderswere also expected to pay taxes in the form of animals and animal produce.
• There were also taxes on goods that were bought and sold, through trade.
• Andhunters and gatherersalso had to provide forest produce to the raja.
With reference to Monoclonal Antibodies, consider the following statements -1.They are artificially created by cloning a unique WBCs which aims to aid the body’s natural immune system.2.They are designed to carry drugs, toxins, or radioactive substances directly to affected cells.a. 1 Onlyb. 2 Onlyc. Both 1 and 2d. Neither 1 nor 2c?
Correct.
Antibodies are substances (Y-shaped proteins) that are produced by our body’s immune system, which destroy invading pathogens. Monoclonal antibodies are antibodies produced in labs, using living cells. These drugs therefore come under the head ‘biologics’, which are drugs produced exclusively from living organisms. They could also be ‘biosimilars’— biologics that are ‘similar’ to another ‘reference’ biologic medicine.
Q. With reference to megaliths, consider the following statements.
1. Tools made of iron were buried along with the dead.
2. Often family members were buried together in burial pits.
Which of the statement above is / are correct ?
a. 1 only
B. 2 only
C. 1 and 2 Both
D. Neither 1 nor 2
c
Correct.
All burials have some common features.Generally, the dead were buried with distinctive pots, which are called Black and Red Ware. Also found are tools and weapons of iron and sometimes, skeletons of horses, horse equipment and ornaments of stone and gold.
Megaliths contain more than oneskeleton. These indicate that people, perhapsbelonging to the same family, were buried in thesame place though not at the same time. The bodiesof those who died later were brought into the gravethrough the portholes. Stone circles or boulders placed on the surface probably served as signpoststo find the burial site, so that people could returnto the same place whenever they wanted to.
@Itachi Hello bhai. I won't be appearing for CSE prelims this year. However, here are a few pointers from my side :1. I think its high time we showed courage and moved away from the CA compilations and 365s. We spend endless hours and energy on them while preparing for coaching based tests. But they have almost zero applicability in the final exam. The key here is to not fall prey to peer pressure or mass mentality, You will still be seeing people with 365s in your library/ sutta/ tea place.Do not get perturbed and do not give in to FOMO.2. In the meantime, focus on static portions(especially Medieval, Ancient, Art & Culture). The key still lies in these core areas. That's a range of 40-60 questions. Master them. No substitute. No alternative.3.Analyze question papers from 2017 to 2020.Go through application based questions. Go over them again and again, and ask yourself, "where is that subtle hint / giveaway that would have helped me solve this question had i appeared in the exam." Make your deduction, interconnections, and let the style of asking questions be completely ingrained in your brain. Do not let the mindless and factual question papers of coaching institutes (where there is minimal scope for guessing) effect your brain's programming.4.Environment and Geographyare still scoring areas. Topics like National parks, Animals, Climatology, Reports by MoEFCCC etc. just have to be mastered.4. Look only for test series that have quality3 statement and 4 statement questions. Practice as many as possible. See if you can solve them without any substantial knowledge by smart elimination. The better the quality of the questions, the better. the training of your mind.PS : if you have not prepared your notes from the Hindu, then you can ignore point number 1 and give a cursory look over the factual things given in the compilations. But my gut feeling is, its not going to help much. A good15-20 questions simply cannot be prepared for. Anybody who tells you otherwise is either lying or selling a product to you. These questions will come fromresearch papers/ obscure sources where the eventual deciding factor will be whether or not the candidates have the balls to mark D (all of the above) or stay calm and look for that one thing which won't fit. That is where point number 4 comes in. But you will have to look hard in the market.Happy preparations :)
"I think its high time we showed courage and moved away from the CA compilations and 365s. We spend endless hours and energy on them while preparing for coaching based tests. But they have almost zero applicability in the final exam. The key here is to not fall prey to peer pressure or mass mentality, You will still be seeing people with 365s in your library/ sutta/ tea place. Do not get perturbed and do not give in to FOMO."
@Sherkhan1428 ji, I think this is 'the truth has been spoken' moment.
answer given is D.
I always thought algae are cyno'bacteria'
@Shailputri i too marked C going by the same logic.
@sjerngal Yes it is D :)
cynobacteria are algae ( blue green algae ) but algae not equal to bacteria
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