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Unsaid Rules, Tips and Tricks

==Comes secondary to knowledge, common sense/ logic and sometimes intuition.==

2020-08-25 17:43:50


  • Data/Stats/facts mostly wrong like Dates/years/ figures or Numerical values are wrong. Unless it is with an Act.

  • ‘Contemporary’ word is wrong.

  • Greatly influenced/Greatly impacted is wrong.

  • Steadily inc/ dec is wrong.

  • $ words like more than/ less than are right.

  • ! extreme words like all/can’t/any/drastically/ are mostly wrong.

  • Choices with always/Never words are mostly wrong.

  • easy words like ‘some’ are right.

  • S&T question have many times ‘All are correct’.

  • ‘Can’ statements especially in S&T are usually right.

  • Matching question mostly 1 only/ 3 only or odd number correct.

  • answer to some question in some other question.

  • 2 statements have interchanged definitions.

  • best suited and making most sense line in correct esp in Polity and Economy.

  • EoDB, WEF reports are repeated.

  • Vijaynagar, Andaman Nicobar, ASEAN, WTO are repeated and often the answers.

  • Read questions in Hindi.
  • concepts like OMO, Money mulitplier, asset, liability, monetary measures, currency valuation asked.

  • Mandatory/ Recommendations words are wrong esp for internation/ Environmental treaties.

  • Don’t Go in depth.

  • worlds like no/cannot are wrong.

  • Do not leave more than 10 questions, ‘none of these’ (not neither 1 nor 2) is not the answer mostly.

  • statements conflict each other.

  • Break the words/ sandhi vicchedh.

  • Unfamiliar answer choices will be false in most cases.

  • Look for opposite answer choices. One of them can be the right answer.

  • Look for look-alike choices. One of them can be the answer.

  • artificially complicated option is wrong in most cases

  • Similar sounding words are generally right.

  • superlative adjectives like critical, extremely important etc are wrong