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Sunday, June 3

UPSC PRELIM 2018: Cut-off and other observations


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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