History (14 Q.): Modern India played very significant role;
much more than any time recently; some questions were very testing
Art (5 Q.): Didn’t damage as much as it can in our opinion
Polity (13 Q.): Last year’s trend continues – understanding based
questions were there as well as few straight from Bible (Laxmikant); weightage
of polity declined as compared to last year when 18 Questions appeared.
Economics (14 Q.): Importance increased; understanding based
as well as GK based questions appeared – these questions must have challenged
almost all aspirants.
GK (30 Q.): Schemes,
initiatives and other questions appeared in good numbers just like last time;
UPSC seems to have decided that they will put minimum 30 GK questions – a trend
of last 3-4 years
Ecology & Geography (9 + 8 Q.): Some questions were straight
forward; others appeared from nook and corner of NCERTs; some others were
tricky. Map based questions (Crimea one and cities one) shows that places in
news must always be noted.
Science (7): Most had roots in GK – could have been solved
by those who are comfortable with S&T in general
Difficulty level: Between moderately and very difficult;
Reason: Traditionally scoring area (Ex. Polity) had less questions; almost all
major subject heads had at least half questions which were tricky.
Cut-Off Expectation: 110-115 for General Category; 107-110
for OBC; 90-95 for SC/ST. We expect cut-offs nearer to the higher side of this
range as the seats are lesser this time.
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