Friends, 2022 Prelims saw questions w/ options like “Only 1/2/3/4 correct,”

To deal with it, it’s essential for you to develop strong Map based visual memory for Prelims 2023 on topics like👇🏼

- National Parks, Tiger Reserves
- UNESCO Sites, Ramsar Sites
- Global rivers, Straits, Mountains, Deserts etc
- Lakes, Ports etc.

If you haven’t done this already, collect such maps asap and revise

If you want to save time on making such maps, get my visual notes from point no. 1 of the Pinned Message.

Every questions counts, every mark is important. Prepare smart in advance! 💪🏻

An updated copy of CDS 2023 Notes is now live for all to download from Point No. 4 of the quoted message

Have added fresh pointers. Pls download to revise :)

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🚨May 21 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre related
1. Revise NSTC here

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. New technique welcomes Ca-41 to radiometric dating (understand why it's better than C dating)
2. WHO's guideline on non-sugar sweeteners
3. How was SC validated TN stand on Jallikattu?
4. Will all overseas spends come under tax net?


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It’s tough to use mnemonics to remember all countries of G20.

How to remember instead?
Visual memory.

Think of a continent and see which country from it is a member. I wrote a blog sharing exactly this.

Revise for Free 👇🏼

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/89-how-to-remember-all-g20-members

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🚨May 22 2023 | Monday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. As DK Shivakumar becomes KA Dy CM, recalling history of post [Read for Article & GK of Dy PMs]

TH
1. What's ONDC (read for Basics)
2. Understanding a human pangenome map [Imp for SnT]
3. After sugar, it's time to regulate how much salt is being consumed [Imp for UPSC and personal health]


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🚨May 23 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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De-risking
- The phenomenon of financial institutions terminating/restricting business relationships with clients to avoid rather than manage risk
- De risking fundamentally means having resilient, effective supply chains and ensuring no coercion of any other country

Pre related

1. Indian yellow
- Color seen in Van Gogh's The Starry Night
- Color sees origin in Bengal where the cows were fed special diet of mango leave, water and mixed with turmeric to get bright yellow urine
- This urine collected in earthen pots over fire overnight for concentrated liquid
- Strained, hard pressed to sediment balls and dried in heat
- This pigment reached Europe via merchants and used as yellow in paintings

2. FIPIC: Forum for India Pacific Islands Cooperation
- estd. 2014 with efforts of PM Modi
- Includes 14 Pacific Island nations
- First Meet: 2014 Fiji, Second 2015 Jaipur, Third 2023 Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)
- PM Modi referred to them as large ocean states and not island nations. Understand the meaning of this. Small islands with large EEZs😉
- Papua New Guinea is largest trade partner of India in FIPIC

3. World Meteorological Organization
- 192 countries, India member
- HQ Geneva, Switzerland
- Since 1950

4. Revise South Asia Gas Enterprise (SAGE) here

Stat
By 2050, India projected to have have 319 million elderly (3x from 2011 census)

Quotes
On Alcohol
- When it comes to alcohol consumption, there's no safe amount that does not affect health- WHO
- Alcohol is one of the most socially accepted poisons - Dr Sarin

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. No Way Out [GS 1 Society, Role of Women]
2. Bare new world [GS2: IR]
3. Economics of climate change [don't lose sleep over stats much, focus on trend]

TH
1. The tussle over services in Delhi [will make a blog post after Pre on ordinance and judgement]
2. Do sons contribute more toward elderly care? [Interesting read]


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Results out.

The people who did not give interview or Mains find themselves anxious when opening the 'holy' PDF.

You can contemplate your career choices after 28th. For now, just stick to the game.

If you have it in you, fight harder.
If you don't, it's a big world! :)

Friends, I have received 5 such emails in last 2 hours💪🏻

If you have same determination and want PYQ Notes for last minute revision for Pre23, I’ve opened a new window for 18 hours😄

Follow details below to get the PYQ Notes asap today👇🏻
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kmW5l32lKM7hKT2Snbknf2T4_cReU3tn/view?usp=sharing

2022 CUT OFF for Pre, Mains and Interview

Don’t stress with tough paper on 28th. Focus on getting basics right 💪🏻

Friends, my current affairs blog for UPSC has high value revision material for you before April 28.

Every post is under 3 mins of read and easy to revise

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🚨May 24 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Forum Hunting
A practice where lawyers list their petitions in front of a forum which, in their opinion, will give a favourable judgement

Carbon Leakage
A phenomenon where manufacturer moves carbon-intensive production to countries with less stringent climate policies

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
An EU tool to
- put fair price on carbon emitted during production of carbon intensive goods entering EU
- encourage cleaner industrial production in non-EU countries

Pre related

Bit on census
- Constitutionally mandated; multiple references in delimitation context
- No word by Constitution on when it has to be carried out
- Census Act of India 1948 offers legal framework for carrying out census
- First one 1872, regularly happening every 10 years since 1881

UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- estd. 1964 to promote development friendly integration of developing countries in the global eco
- HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
- Publishes trade related reports

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. India's multipolar myths
2. The missing census
3. Govt's power to promulgate, repromulgate ordinances - why, how

TH
1. The paradox of BRICS, its new pathway [Imp]
2. The TS-AP water dispute
3. What's EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism? [Imp]


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Check your 2022 prelims score here 👇🏼

https://upsconline.nic.in/marksheet/exam/marksheet_system/

I had left this Q in Pre 2022.

Just go through options and details once.

(Edit: Be-shara (बे शारा) i.e. against sharia law for Qalandars)

Note: Stay fit, be lit. Prelims is yours to win! :)

🚨May 25 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Sengol
- Derived from the Tamil word 'Semmai' meaning righteousness
- Description: 5 foot long, silver made gold plated
- Considered sacred symbol of authority during Chola period
- Commissioned from Thiruvavaduthura math, Mayiladuthurai district of TN
- Nandi on top symbolizes justice and strength, Sengol has carvings in Tamil language
- Handed over to PM Nehru on night of Aug 14 1947 marking independence
- It was efforts of C. Rajagopalachari that Sengol found prominence at important date

Note: Song of Tirugnana Sambandar, a 7th century Nayanar saint from TN, was rendered during event of Sengol transfer to Pt. Nehru.

Narco Test
- Sodium Pentothal (or Thiopental) injected in body which is fast acting, short duration, anaesthetic
- aka Truth Serum and acts on the central nervous system as depressant
- Used in Gujarat riot case 2002, Nithari killings 2007, 26/11 Kasab
- In Selvi v/s Karnataka 2010 SC rules on legality and admissibility of narco tests

Polygraph Test
- Works on assumption: Physiological responses are diff when one is lying and when one is not
- No drugs injected but cardio-cuffs, sensitive electrodes attached to measure BP, Pulse, sweat gland, etc.

Paris Principles
- Related to UN principles on status of national institutions
- Set out 6 main criteria
- In news due to NHRC accreditation

Quote
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception- RB Ginsburg

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. How to meet a disaster [Imp, read after Pre]
2. Legal questions in narco tests [Read today]

TH
1. On copyright infringement and AI [Imp, read after pre to understand ideas behind copyright laws]


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Revise Writs here :)

A bit on butterflies from my handwritten notes (inspired by IFS Praveen Kaswan Sir’s tweets)

Looking at 2022 Pre questions like ‘Guchi mushroom, How many rightly matched’; both of these become important.

Take a rough look here. 💪🏻