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Golden formula for time management in UPSC CSE MAINS:   RECOMMENDED BY TOPPERS  Ist Essay : 95 mins (25 mins for structure + 70 mins for writing) IInd Essay : 85 mins (20 mins for structure + 65 mins for writing) 10 marker: 7 mins 15 marker: 11 mins 20 marker: 14 mins Jump to next question whenever you breach the time limit.  All the best!

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Finance Commission (FC) is a constitutional authority, constituted under Article 280, that sets the mechanismnand formula for allocating tax revenues between the Centre and states, as well as among states, in accordancebwith the Constitutional and current needs. Recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission, enabling fiscal position of states: 1. Increased devolution to states from the divisible pool of taxes from 32% to 42%. States would receive a larger volume of untied funds relative to tied funds. This will enhance the states’ autonomy in decidingbtheir expenditure priorities. 2. Recommend eight centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) to be delinked from support from the Centre, thus,nstates sharing a higher fiscal responsibility and autonomy to implement development initiatives. 3. FFC, unlike the past Commissions, has covered the entire revenue account requirements of the States, both plan and non-plan, in its recommendations. Resulting in better allocation of resources even to pancha...

Kartikeya Jaiswal AIR 35, UPSC CSE 2021 Hello Everyone I am Kartikeya Jaiswal (AIR 35, UPSC CSE 2021). This will be my official channel for sharing my strategy, notes and other CSE-related stuff. My strategy may not be the best one or the most suitable for you. So, as the description says, Critically Analyse before Consumption. Hope to help some of you.  I graduated from St. Stephen's College (University of Delhi) in 2020, with B. Sc. (H) in Mathematics. My Optional was also Mathematics. This was my first attempt. I have created this channel to be a one-stop solution for the queries people had regarding my strategy. Adopt what suits you, if at all, discard the rest. Coaching Institutes I was associated with : Took VisionIAS GS test series for Mains (in Feb., 2021) Took IMS Maths test series for my Optional, i.e. Maths (in Feb., 2021 and Oct., 2021 Took Mock Interviews at Byju's, Chahal Academy-cum-Dikshant, KSG, Vajirao and Reddy, Unacademy, Vision, Rau's and Sankalp.  Note...

Arpit Chauhan AIR-20 UPSC CSE 2021 PSIR Strategy.  Hello everyone. I have given a TOPPERS TALK at Vision IAS that has now been released. In this 3hr 20min long video, I have tried to share my strategy for various stages of the exam as well as different GS/optional papers along with taking certain doubts from the students. Essay, GS, optional, prelims, notes making, answer writing have been comprehensively covered. This is the closest assessment of my strategy on my own and a better way of giving back to the aspirant community in both practical and motivational terms. I hope any aspirant preparing for the exam would be able to draw certain DOs & DONTs from this that would take them a step closer to their destination. Thank you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsM3Z5HgrA&t=7737s PSIR (POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)  Hello Everyone!! Many of you have asked me regarding my optional strategy. So, here is something. My optional subject was PSIR (POLITICAL ...

Aishwarya Verma AIR 4 UPSC CSE 2021 Hello everyone. This is Aishwarya Verma UPSC CSE'21 AIR 4 this year. Contrary to the common perception i am a boy😂(Sorry to those who got disappointed). Many students have asked me for the strategy, notes and experience regarding the upsc journey. As it becomes difficult to respond individually i have created this channel so that i can share the respective things and it can reach a larger pool of aspirants. This is my scorecard. As you can see that a greater share in the GS papers with uniformity can help you get through. This is one specific area that i focussed this year compared to earlier years.   COACHING: Is it necessary? UPSC is a long journey and the strategy is unique for everyone. Since it is a long journey, sometimes we tend to divert from the right strategy and path that can cost us our attempts. Hence some or the other guidance is needed to motivate us from time to time and steer our journey along the right direction so that we...

Chaitanya Reddy AIR-161 UPSC CSE 2021 Complete STRATEGY with Anthropology Optional  Hello everyone,  I am Bokka Chaitanya Reddy, secured AIR 161 in CSE 2021. 6 years of journey, 6 attempts, 3 mains, and 1 personality Test - It was a long journey of ups and downs, trial and errors, mistakes and corrective actions, and most importantly a journey of patience and persistence. Also a risky task of managing preparation along with job (as Assistant Engineer under Telangana Irrigation dept from past 6 years) I am here to share my long journey, especially my mistakes, and my learnings so that it helps the aspirants, more specifically boosts the confidence of multiple attempters. In my preparation journey, I have relied heavily on toppers' copies, their notes, talks, etc. So this, I feel, is a part of the giving back mechanism.  My Preparation Journey: Few imp points: 1). The 3 important guides: PYQP - helps understand what topics we need to focus on based on the cost-benefit rati...

Abhijit Ray IAS AIR 50 UPSC CSE 2021 This was my fourth attempt, second serious attempt.Optional was Anthropology. I belong to West Bengal originally, and I've worked in Bangalore (Texas Instruments) Hi all, Hope you all are fully into preparation. Many have asked me for my test copies, here i am sharing drive link which has my copies of all subjects of all the years of my preparation.i have categorised the folders so that it's easy for you to segregate My copies drive link is : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cNSc4yXGGAVqVJiLMzrxJSli4KkQeL24?usp=sharing Note the value additions that i have done, but most importantly notice the changes, how with time I've improved in answer writing ...see the feedback i got on my answers and why such a feedback was given....all this will help you analyse what exactly is needed for a good answer In case you want to see my most advanced stage of answers (closest to how I wrote in mains 2021), this is the link to the pdf (this pdf is a...

Hi, I’m Mourya Bharadwaj. I’m fortunate to secure AIR 28 in recent CSE 2021. This is my 5th attempt and in my 4th attempt I missed the cutoff by 2 marks (got into reserve list). Writing has been my problem throughout this process, which reflected in my poor GS as well as optional scores. My Anthropology Journey My name is Mourya Bharadwaj. I secured AIR 28 this year with anthropology. This is my 5th attempt and 5th mains and I gave all my mains with anthropology optional. I’ll share my score cards which gives an overview of my journey. 1st Attempt   Couldn’t clear mains. Less than 60 marks from mains cutoff Prepared optional between pre and mains No proper answer writing practice 2nd Attempt Barely cleared mains. +5 from cutoff. Missed final list by 50 marks Average scores in GS and optional and a poor interview killed my chances 3rd Attempt Missed mains cutoff by 15 marks Average GS scores Anthro is a disaster. Never could understand the reason for low scores till date. Mark list ...