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Response to RTI by UPSC regarding new restrictions on improvement attempts. If you have been selected through any list in 2025 or earlier, one improvement attempt will be there in 2026 or 2027.

Why syllabus keywords and PYQs are important - for mains and prelims both ? • They are the only guiding light in this ocean of knowledge. You can learn all about Bahmani Sultans, Yadava kingdoms etc but if UPSC is not asking them - they are irrelevant. • Coachings with their foundation programmes are actively sabotaging their own customers. They have incentive to prolong the preparpation of candidates. Why does a well educated graduate need foundation for general studies ? I mean - answer writing, elimination techniques need guidance - but giving 10 tons of material for SnT - cryogenic rockets and deep subject specific tidbits in an exam that rewards breadth rather than depth is mind boggling • Circling back to the first point - PYQ and syllabus tell us what is expected and how much. If Food processing industries is there in GS3, we just use PYQs to analyse what all dimensions have been asked from this topic. Thus, notes can be prepared very easiliy using good prompts or by following topper notes. • Also, syllabus keywords should be memorised by heart. If you are reading a newspaper - you can easily filter out CA if it doesn't fit any syllabus domain. So it acts as the ultimate BS filter too. • Similarly, if you are writing an ethics answer - just add one dimension in the answer each from - attitude, aptitude, EI, Ethics in IR, Public service values and your answer looks all encompassing now. Thus syllabus is the ultimate template - and if you can exploit every syllabus keyword as dimension - like using GS1,2,3 and 4 keywords for opening dimensions - you are almost sorted. Only value addition/CA annotation is required. • So please don't ignore syllabus keywords and PYQs. Never. @upscseeproanalytics

Rupee goes to : States share of Taxes (22%) > Interest Payment (20%) > Central Sector Scheme (17%) > Defence (11%) > Centrally Sponsored Scheme (8%) > Finance commission (7%) > Other Expenditures (7%) > Civil Pension (2%)

Rupee comes from : Borrowings and Liabilities (24%) > Income Tax (21%) > Corporation Tax (18%) > GST (15%) > Non Tax Revenue (10%) > Excise (6%) > Customs (4%) > Non debt capital receipts (2%)

PrelimsTips#4 In the hall, when you get the paper, the first thing that you should do is to skim through the paper, assess the difficulty of the paper and DETERMINE how many questions you are going to attempt . Just write down the difficulty - easy medium complex on the top margin after skimming through the paper. Reason is, if you attempt too much in a difficult paper, you are going to get a lot of negatives. If you attempt too less in an easy paper then also it hampers your chances as your competitors would attempt maximum possible. In my personal opinion,the sweet spot to attempt the the paper is between 80 to 85 in a hard paper like 2021/2023 . If the paper is moderate like 2022/2024 then 85 to 90 and if the paper is easy, then 90+. Now these brackets might vary - and we highly recommend you calibrate them through the FLTs etc you are solving. Most importantly, after you have solved the paper for 45 minutes to 1 hour - YOU SHOULD RE-CALIBRATE the paper's difficulty and decide the final number you are going to attempt. Sometimes the earlier assessment might be wrong because you started in a patch of difficult questions, didn't skim the paper fully. But solving for 1 hour should give you a much better idea. This re-assessment will come handy in your final passes and stop your urge of marking questions carelessely. You should decide this number and this thinking on your feet will probably a very important decision you make in those two hours. Happy Studying !! PG @upscseeproanalytics @upscproanalytics

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People are running after test series - asking incessently for jabhyaas, demulators , atrangi FLTs of satrangi institutes. But most of the veterans here and in other groups will agree, these are worthless. (but don't burn them yet) Serious aspirants on other hand are solving PYQs consistently - and... honestly at a mindblowing rate - almost 180PYQs per day/person on Prelims Playground. This is what real preparation looks like. If you haven't, checkout PYQ Playground to practice dedicated PYQs. You can apply your own subject wise/topicwise and even exam wise custom filters. If you face issues, reach out to admins or flag inaccuracies on website itself - we will reach out. Thank you to everyone for the positive feedback !! Happy Studying !! #prelimsplayground

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In coming days - you will see many channels spewing XYZ days to prelims. Hurry up. The timers are running. Pralay aa jayegi - blah blah blah. Honestly, its all BS. Days don't matter. What matters is how much you are able to get out of a single day. People have many a times cleared prelims in 2 - 3 weeks - after revising basics and getting into mcq mode. A lot of interview appeared/selected candidates intending to improve rank- don't have a lot of time after FR to prepare for prelims. Still they consistently clear it. Nobody can study everything. No one can complete entire syllabus - this goes even more so for mains. For prelims, Pareto principle holds true : 20% of topics will let you cover 80% prelims weightage. Focussing on these will help. (hint : see themes of past papers). What matters is getting into prelims mode and revising basics/high weightage topics. And lastly maybe, its time to shut down the manufactured panic and chill a bit. Its doable. Happy Studying !! @upscproanalytics.

We do not study Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Theta books. We stick to Spectrum and/or our basic material. We do not get whatever is written in our base material and whatever we have read and revised wrong. (Prelims Tip #2) Answer to the question given verbatim in Spectrum.

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Sometimes it is not about not knowing what the correct answer is but about knowing what the least incorrect answer could be. (Prelims tip #1) Except for the first one, all the other three are generic and seem largely correct.