PYQ Series continued

[Class 7]: Geography 1979-1980 PYQs

Abki baar, 110 paar :)

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https://youtu.be/UfeZm8fYO18

🚨 5 March 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre related 📄

1. Parliamentary privilege

• SC declared that parliamentary privilege will not protect legislators who take bribes to vote/speak from criminal prosecution.
• They are special rights enjoyed by the legislators.
• Related case: JMM Case 1998

Note: Read more about Parliamentary privileges

2. BHAVINI

• India's 1st Indigenous Fast Breeder Reactor (500 MWe) at Kalpakkam
• 2nd in world after Russia
• 3rd generation with inherent passive safety features.

Note: Revise important nuclear power plants for Pre2024 here

3. Chakshu

• a platform for telecom users to report fraud or spam callers.
• Under Dept of Telecom

PS: Hit ❤️ if you’re reading newspaper daily!

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Why Minerals are critical
(GS3, Economy, Critical minerals, Importance, Net zero goal challenges and way forward)

2. When lawmakers take bribes
(GS2, Polity, Parliamentary privileges, Important SC Judgement)

TH

1.A vaccine that prevents six cancers
(GS3, S&T, HPV Vaccine, prevention strategies, and best practices)

2. The status of India’s nuclear programme
(GS3, S&T, PFBR and it's working, challenges and importance)

3.A case to reform bail law and guidelines, but make the right diagnosis first
(GS2,Polity, bail reforms, challenges)

🚨 IMPORTANT

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Special thanks to UPSC for considering requests

CSEWhy 45 Year PYQ Series

Today’s classes 👇🏼

1981-1988 | Geography

1. 1981-1983
https://youtu.be/g7SZ537mRXw

2. 1984-1988
https://youtu.be/v6gDsTV1htw


Routine bana lo, Abki baar 110 paar 💪🏻

Watch these videos on 1.5x to 2x at dinner, lunch, evening walk, in the gym, first thing in morning

YOUR Choice 🥰💪🏻

Note: Read about Kut festival for Pre2024 here

🚨 6 March 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Green Jobs
• Class of jobs w/ direct positive impact on planet
• Contribute to overall environmental welfare
(GS3, Economy)


Pre related 📄

1. Shreenath Veer Mhaskoba festival

• in Veer Vilage, Pune, MH
• Worships Kaal Bhairav (avatar of Lord Shiva)
• on Magh Poornima
• 10 days long festival

2. MethaneSAT

• A satellite which will track and measure methane emissions globally
• launched from SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket
• by Environmental defence Fund, US
• Data will be displayed on Google’s earth engine platform

3. Bulletproof glass

• Made up of High strength ceramics
• Like Silicon nitride, dual hardness steel, layers of Nylon fabric
• Stops the bullet abruptly, dissipating its energy as it destroys the 1st layer of glass

4. Mass Coral reef bleaching

• Events when several kilometers of coral ecosystem affected
• Due to rise in sea temperature & climate change
• Deemed global when occurs in 3 ocean basins (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian)
• Last happened during 2014-17, Great barrier reef lost 1/3rd of its corals
• Context: 4th Mass Coral reef bleaching event is coming soon (US NOAA)

5. Places in News

A) South China Sea

• Context: Philippine & Chinese vessels collided here

B) Nitzana border crossing

• International border crossing b/w El Ouga in Egypt and Nitzana in Israel
• Context: Protests a/g delivery of aid to Gaza


Stats 📈

1. Unemployment rate:
• 2023: 3.1%
• 2022: 3.6%
• 2021: 4.2%
(NSSO's PLFS report)


PS: Need any help wrt UPSC prep? Talk to me directly at whycse@gmail.com

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. For the Gaya Lals of today
(GS2, Polity, Speaker, Anti defection law, Issues)

2. Decision is hers
(GS2, Polity, France, Women abortion as constitutional right)

3. Why Lakshdweep base INS Jatayu matters
(GS2, IR, Important strategic points)

4. Story of Indian workers in Israel
(GS2, IR, Israel-Palestine war and impacts, Status of Indian migrants in Israel)

TH

1.Maharashtra’s latest Maratha quota law
(GS2, Polity, Reservation quota for locals, case and timeline)

2.Heady electoral rhetoric with a hegemonic ring to it
(GS2,Polity, elections, hegemonic strategy)

3. Have India’s health centres really ‘collapsed’?
(GS3, Health sector, Importance, challenges, way forward)

4. Green jobs and the problem of gender disparity
(GS3, Economy, Green jobs, Women labor force participation, Issues and way forward)

PYQs Class 10 & 11 of Geography went live today

1. Geography | 1988-1990
https://youtu.be/vttNhfzEIjg

2. Geography | 1991-1992
https://youtu.be/Y4ctMW2er-g

Revise kar raho ho daily?

❤️ react karke batao

🚨 7 March 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Matilda Effect

• It is the work that women have done throughout history that has never reached posterity. 
(GS1, Society, Women)


Pre related 📄

1. Human wildlife conflict

• KL cabinet declared it as state specific disaster
• Reason: Rise in cases of deaths, injuries, and crop and property loss caused by recurrent wildlife incursions in human habitation

2. Semaglutide

• Drug used in weight loss injections
• Class of incretin mimetics
• It works by decreasing appetite, increases insulin levels in body and decreases glucose levels.

3. INS Jatayu

• Commissioned by Indian navy
• at Minicoy island, 2nd base in Lakshdweep
• Mainly for 9 degree channel

4. MH-60R helicopter squadron

• Navy's 1st; Seahawks
• at Kochi

5. Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

• Presented by President
• 1st in 1952
• 3L cash prize (fellows) and 1L for awardees
• Highest Indian recognition for people in field of performing arts.
Read more about the 2022-23 awards here


Stats 📈

1. 2023: Deadliest year in a decade for migrants: IOM, UN
• More than 8000 people died


PS: Hit ❤️ to appreciate my consistent efforts

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Thin Fat Indian
(GS3, Health, Obesity, Diabetes, Adolescent girls health, Way forward)

2. An Assessment Paradigm shift
(GS1, Society, Education, NEP, NCrF)

3. Ladakh, Article 371, The 6th Schedule of the constitution
(GS2, Polity, A371, 6th Schedule, protections)

4. Why India is building 2nd rocket launch port in TN
(GS3, S&T, ISRO projects, Importance and status)

TH

1.The tale of ‘have money, buy miracle drug’
(GS3, S&T, weight loss treatment, trials, concerns)

2. What makes ASML’s chip-making machine a scientific marvel?
(GS3,S&T, Semiconductors, Rayleigh scattering criterion, EUV light)

3. The Italian top court’s ruling on sea migrants from Libya
(GS2, IR, Libya issue, legalities of sea rescue, importance of ruling)

4. Remembering the forgotten women of science in India
(GS3, S&T, Women in science, Matilda effect)

Correction window opens today till March 13

Here’s my open letter to everyone who’s serious about cracking the exam in 2024! 😁💪🏻

1979-1994 Geography PYQs

6 Classes to help you revise them all!

1. 1979-1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfeZm8fYO18

2. 1981-1983: https://youtu.be/g7SZ537mRXw?si=AWlZ8sXYssz0k0I6

3. 1984-1988: https://youtu.be/v6gDsTV1htw?si=uE0qbIG2X5CcDFT9

4. 1989-1990: https://youtu.be/vttNhfzEIjg?si=9mBeo6EY3Zv07JYt

5. 1991-1992: https://youtu.be/Y4ctMW2er-g?si=nEm3csM6hw3CLj1X

6. 1993-1994: https://youtu.be/fqVp_0kddAk?si=o5IwPKUb9m97PhNd

Make it a habit to watch these videos at 1.5x-2x on lunch/dinner, at evening walk, in the gym etc.

Download PDF of Q Papers of 1979-1994 PYQs here

🚨 8 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Sinicisation
• Process of making something more Chinese in character
(GS1, Society)

2. Caste Ferocity
• Caste based violent actions
(GS1, Society)


Pre Related 📄

1. CSpace

• KL launched govt owned OTT platform
• managed by KL state film development corporation

2. V-SAT

• ISRO's pilot project to provide Internet in 80 tribal Remote villages
• V-SAT is very small aperture terminal
• in JHK, MP, OD, MH

3. INS Kolkata

• Its a Kolkata class destroyer
• constructed by Mazgoan dock ship builders
• Context: It assisted hit vessels in Gulf of Aden

4. Penicillin G

• It is active pharmaceutical ingredient used in antibiotics
• Mainly used in Antibiotics
• Founder: Alexander Fleming


PS: Need any help wrt UPSC prep? Talk to me directly at whycse@gmail.com

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. India to manufacture Penicillin G again
(GS3, S&T, Penicillin, reasons of pause )

2. The Work of Pritzker laureate Yamamoto: a mission to defeat isolation
(GS1, Society, Housing, his works and speciality)

3. Banking for net zero
(GS3, Environment, Economy, green transition)

4. Opening doors
(GS3, Economy, job migration, Issues and way forward )

TH

1. A bold step towards a cervical cancer free future
(GS3, Health, Cervical cancer, 90-70-90 targets, challenges, Sikkim model)

Note: Read more about Cervical cancer here from UPSC perspective

2. The determinant in "more women in the job market"
(GS3, Economy, Women LFPR, Factors, challenges & way forward)

3. For India’s homeless women, TB care is shaped by gender norms and economic precarity
(GS3, Health, TB and Women status, challenges, way forward)

4. Bridging the gender gap in Health research
(GS3, Health, Women's Health challenges and way forward)

Note: Revise Mapping for Pre2024 here

🚨 9 March 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. EFTA bloc

• The European Free Trade Association.
• It is the intergovernmental organisation.
• Set up in 1960 by 7 member states
• Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are members
• Aim: Promotion of free trade and economic integration between its members.
• Context: India to sign Agreement with EFTA bloc

2. Cacao

• Theobroma cacao
• Evergreen tree in family Malvaceae
• widely in SE Mexico to the Amazon basin
• Its bean like seeds are used to make chocolate, cocoa butter etc
• Context: In ceramics from south, central America, a cocoa origin story


Stats 📈

1. Over half of Ayushman beneficiaries opt for private hospitals: RTI data
• 53% of them from Southern states


PS: Need any help wrt UPSC prep? Talk to me directly at whycse@gmail.com

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Change in the valley
(GS3, Internal security, J&K, development)

2. Everyone gets a voice
(GS2, Polity, LS Elections campaign, Mera pehla vote desh ke liye)

3. Filling in the diet chart
(GS3, Economy, HCES survey, Nutrition literacy)

4. India's AI Mission
(GS3, S&T, AI, proposals, regulations)

5. Aadhar and Voter ID: Why EC wants to amend election laws
(GS2, Polity, Elections, ECI, aadhar linking )

TH

1. India’s Suboptimal use of its labour power
(GS3, Economy, PLFS, Demographic dividend)

2. Gender equality as the plank of sustainable development
(GS3, Economy, Gender gap, challenges, way forward)

History & Geography PYQs from 1979-1994 👇🏼

Revise them here & download the Questions papers from the quoted message

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnwddqxjRXfg9TkfWiN4cA5B1l1iInMwZ&si=fNzJGLm-uGQZEspv

We start with Science & Tech classes tomorrow 💪🏻