Test Analysis -
Today we had our first test, on religion. I think it was an eye opener for you all. All the questions were seemingly very simple, still many of you could not score much. The questions seem very familiar but arriving at the exact answer is not that easy. It happens because of not-so-deep reading of NCERTs or inadequate revisions of the NCERTs.
First 35/60 questions were from various examinations conducted by UPSC in last 4 years as well as a few of them were from previous MPSC exams. You had a real test of exam there only. Next 15 questions were only factual. Its important to test factual memory as well.
However the last 10 questions were little complicated as they involved choosing from multiple combinations of the sentences given. This is the newer breed of questions UPSC which is concentrating more on. It takes a lot of time read, understand and analyse them, let alone solving them. I deliberately kept them at last as by that time, your brain has exhausted initial vigour and is either under a pressure of finishing the paper on time or has become a little lax. And if one lacks the exact understanding, it becomes even more confusing. You could have gone for calculated guess here. One additional thing you could do is - in GS, there is no time pressure generally as is in the case of CSAT. So, go through the whole paper in the first five minutes. It helps you prepare your mind as there will be no more surprises. And you can attune your cognitive and psychological energies accordingly.
I will go through the scores shortly and arrive at some conclusions. If time permits, we will discuss the overall performance in the class soon. We will have one more test as a module test sometime next week. It will consist of remaining culture portion as well as modern India. I hope you prepare better this time. All the best.
Today we had our first test, on religion. I think it was an eye opener for you all. All the questions were seemingly very simple, still many of you could not score much. The questions seem very familiar but arriving at the exact answer is not that easy. It happens because of not-so-deep reading of NCERTs or inadequate revisions of the NCERTs.
First 35/60 questions were from various examinations conducted by UPSC in last 4 years as well as a few of them were from previous MPSC exams. You had a real test of exam there only. Next 15 questions were only factual. Its important to test factual memory as well.
However the last 10 questions were little complicated as they involved choosing from multiple combinations of the sentences given. This is the newer breed of questions UPSC which is concentrating more on. It takes a lot of time read, understand and analyse them, let alone solving them. I deliberately kept them at last as by that time, your brain has exhausted initial vigour and is either under a pressure of finishing the paper on time or has become a little lax. And if one lacks the exact understanding, it becomes even more confusing. You could have gone for calculated guess here. One additional thing you could do is - in GS, there is no time pressure generally as is in the case of CSAT. So, go through the whole paper in the first five minutes. It helps you prepare your mind as there will be no more surprises. And you can attune your cognitive and psychological energies accordingly.
I will go through the scores shortly and arrive at some conclusions. If time permits, we will discuss the overall performance in the class soon. We will have one more test as a module test sometime next week. It will consist of remaining culture portion as well as modern India. I hope you prepare better this time. All the best.
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