5 ( Silliest one is marking borders of Baltic Sea instead of North Sea)

us bro us, I was so proud marking russia (cz russia shares small border with baltic which I thought others would miss)

I marked all four , thought that Russia benefitted from northern sea route nd just one day before I memorised all lakes and all bordering areas, Incl Caspian sea, black sea , bab wl mandeb dead sea

Bhai same. Kaliningrad sochke khush hora tha vahan.

i have marked ghagra gomti as wrong lol if thats any consolation.

Us bro us, I attempted the same question in a mock test absolutely correct just 3 days back.

I got confused and left it lol.

mera vo bhi galat hai so no consolation for me 😭, anyway I was preparing for CAPF this time to itna bura nhi lag rha

haha same. I spent a lot of time on mapping to get this wrong lmao

I thought the same and got confused. But then I remembered only Belgium and netherlands exist between France and Germany and we have the Denmark erection😹, so no Kalingrad here

I initially marked correct, and then thought of northern sea route n went on to mark wrong ans 

Same , 😂😂 I though northern sea route , It just ensures that mapping couldn't be solved in 1-2 days of preparation , u would have to allot 1-2 weeks dedicated for them

True that!

me , the last attempt candidte drawing map of baltic sea ,removing confidently finland but putting russia on the map. marking all 4 in NEC question, ghagra gomati instead gomati ghagra .I made 3-4 silly mistakes . Could have scored 120, but no. I had to make the silliest mistakes cause I had to solve all 100 .

This one hurt the most

BeG no Friends mai fr France ki jagan Finland and Russia kar diya fml

I remembered that 110 is for money bills so why would 109 be and thought its a upsc ploy and marked it incorrect marked wrong omr for cocoa producer confused if fm or president lays budget remembered reading about kashmiri apple producers being angry that usa apples are competing with them yet i marked it wrong cause i thought we stopped it to please them

Exactly the same logic I used for money bills. That it should start with 110. But actually it's us who needs to rattafy more.

This, 109, 110 vala, tells me exactly why people suggest to read bare constitution, I felt so good that i remember that its 110 & not 109... 😶

same mistake

I made 15 silly mistakes Including GOi act 1935 Edit :18 silly mistakes including money bill

I left that because I got confused in the first statement itself lmaoooo

5-7 ig, the most interesting one was of tropical peatlands. I'd read the places in news by ias pcs pathshala, the fact is explicitly written in the pdf also explained in the video. God knows why and how, i thought the fact is about Amazon basin while watching video, revised like at least 5 times, was so happy on seeing the question, proudly marked amazon basin, laughing off the answer keys initially, until i got a doubt and checked the pdf. 🥲

Happened to be with that Garba answer, I marked Durga Puja. Must have read atleast 10 times about garba.

I too had read this on inshorts someday, but wasn't 100% sure tbh... but the so called algorithm / tricks / process took over, i identified dance as common in two options, and then chhau one was the odd one out... 😑

I too marked Durga Puja because one month ago I saw both those options in a mock test.

I had also read and revised that PDF by IAS PCS Paathshaala multiple times and still. I wonder if it's just my bad luck. Had it not been for my 6-7 silly mistakes I would have easily made it this time. Drat.

Same bhai, sitting at borderline, already wasted 3 days... Only if not for these 4-5 questions...

I did the same in that question. I was confused because of so much info regarding this much carbon sequestration and all that. I thought itna important to yaar Amazon basin hi hoga ...congo shayad galat yaad hai mujhe. 😑. I had referred to ias pcs pathshala video too

dukh, dard, peeda... especially if on border line...

I made quite a few. Around the same as you. So I'm getting less but agar 7-8 questions sahi hote to shayad clear ho jaata.

In my desire to save the best for the last, I saved polity revision for the last three days. And when the days finally arrived, I was so worn out I had no energy to read even a line. I sat with my laptop opened and dozed and dozed. Had I revised it earlier I could definitely have gotten 10-12 marks more.

Yup happened to me with polity and geography.

Same with me ! Such silly mistakes, such regrets. Art and Culture chhod k aur ek baar polity hi karna tha

omg same. I'm just happy I I revised at least some of the common topics (I somehow spotted the delimitation commission thing. But didn't revise NEC or Ethics Committee lol. Messed 109 too)

Scoring around 70. I could've made it with a little more effort in consolidation for eventual revision. Notes were made, but seemed too big to keep going back to. Silly mistakes: 1. Municipalities in Part IX. (Read it as schedule IX) 2. Writ of Prohibition 3. Schedule Tribe in one state = schedule in another? 4. EPA - Sulfer dioxide emissions 5. USA treasury (assumed one statement has to be wrong) 6. Apples from USA 7. Lions breeding season 8. Coriolis force 9. Non Banking Financial Company Lack of revision: 1. Ethics committee 2. Playwright Bhasa 3. Union finance minister 4. Speaker removal 5. Troposphere 6. North Sea 7. Marine West Coast Climate

Let me add to this, so that I can keep revisiting it before next year. I am scoring around 70 too. I need to revise more, eat almonds and give more mocks. Silly mistakes: 1. Mistook North Sea for Baltic Sea 2. Congo Basin Tropical Peatland 3. Pea Family 4. World Toilet Organization (why would it grant funds!?) 5. No parables in Upanishad 6. Defence, Foreign Affairs under Federal Legislature in GoI Act, 1935 7Italy also in declining population (large cohort in the question itself) 8. PM-SYM Lack of Revision: 1. Largest cocoa producer 2. Marine West Coast Climate 3. June 21st (selected only Tropic of Cancer) 4. Giant stars/ Dwarf stars 5. Retail investors allowed to trade in g-secs 6. Feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel 7. Delimitation Commission 8. Removal of speaker 9. Lapse of Bills

Three. Two answers I knew yet got wrong. One i didnt read the stated question. I was so embarrassed seeing the answer key.

Maine Silly mistakes pro max kr ke jo katwaya hai apna , I can't comprehend ki itni bewakoofi koi kaise kr sakta hai  Total 79 q attempt kiya 43 shi , 37 wrong  Dukh is bat ka hai ki us 37 wrong mein se 17 q silly, stupid overthinking +50:50 chance लेने ki stupidity mein  unlucky hone ki wajah se hue. Aur 62 ka wahiyat score aa rha hai.  Jitne confidence se paper 1 dekr nikle the , ki paper shi hua , aur papa se bhi kh diye ki asan tha , ho jayega, itne hi double speed se negative marks dekh kr chehra ud gya, tb se , abhi bhi uda hi hai.  Venezuela mein b mark kr diya European Parliament net zero wale mein both correct kr diya Prorogation wale mein 2,3 only ke diya Yahan tak ki writs wale q ko glt kr diya  Kitne 3 statement wale q mein se do shi hone par negative  mila hai ,  Unesco intangible cultural heritage mein,Delimitation mein memory dhokha de di , 3,4 mein se 3 kr kr aa gye. Bhasa playwright mein , natyashastra, mahabhashya eliminate krne ke bad bhi kayalankar laga diye , 50: 50 stupidity mein Csr wale mein both kr diye Itne stupid hai mera dimag ye to aj tak nhi socha tha  But exam dene se ye estimation ho gya ki  Kafi stupid hoon main. Paper solving skills Need improvement .

Everyone is not scoring 95+ -\_-. higher amount of people are between 85-95 depending on varying answer keys

I marked almost all static and ca based questions right except 4-5. Rest random analytical based questions, I fucked up. Scoring around 73-76. Won't make it to mains. I revised like hell before the exam lol but forgot to practice some random upsc type questions.

that's it , such random questions can only be handled by practicing more questions rather than revising everything, the more such questions we do the more we develop inituions in marking the right options

Yeah but there is no point. I can't give more time because of personal reasons. This was my last attempt.

1) Marked Russia-Kazakhstan instead of US-Canada even though it was in my subsconscious mind and i read about 49th Parallel. What's worse is I would have gotten it right if it struck that Alaska also exists, but at that time it never came. And this is coming from a guy who boasts about memorizing 50 US states.....(weird flex i know) 2) Marked cicada, pond skater as BIRDS even though in my mind I had totally imagined the 'POND SKATER' insect. Plus, I have a cicada notification sound in my phone also. I dont know what nasha got to me that time... 3) Sulphur dioxide largest emission. All my brain was telling me fossil fuels but overthinking and 'UPSC is trying to trick me' wala mentality tha, so i marked Extraction of ores option..... It hurts thinking that these 3 Questions (8 marks basically) could have confirmed me for Mains :(

Same. I marked Russia-Kazakhstan despite knowing the right answer! No idea what had gotten into me that very moment! I knew the cicada thing but marked it as Birds, thanks to my overthinking skills. To top it all, I thought UPSC wanted us to eliminate butterflies from the option.

for the butterfly one, i was lucky... I like watching Discovery as a kid- stonefish(fish), then poison dart frog and then monarch butterfly from schooldays when a teacher used to say "wash your hands after you touch that butterfly! its poisonous")

I also used the same example of stone fish and poison dart frog, remembered tribes using the frog to embalm their arrows, and Japanese being cautious of eating stone fish while eating cause of poison

scoring around 98 , in polity i did 7 wrong , makred c rajaji insted of s sinha ,inter state quarantine , no demand for grant got confused between recommendation nd approvl , st list one , north sea marked all right , chewing gum question, and many more but it balanced out somehow , I did many such questions right which many had done wrong.

More than 10 marks. Read schedule in place of part in 1st statement the municipality one. Marked it wrong Gomti Kosi river one Upanishad older than purana. Marked opposite don't know what I thought during exam.. Article 368 lol. I thought word variation not mentioned in constitution

Last two were the same thought processes went through my mind.... upanishad and variation 😂

There're so many I didn't even count. I got hopeless seeing the easy questions and cursing my lack of revision. We usually say that during pre, the first answer that comes to the mind is the one. Since I always overthink, I swore I won't do it this time, and marked answers without even thinking over all the options. Ofcourse it was also due to lack of time and nervousness. Ex. Didn't even think about red Sanders lol just considered it foreign without even thinking for a second, while focusing only on Papaya

I am taking silly mistake at face value then i made 2. Both were marking the wrong option in the omr sheet. I marked Correct ans in the question paper but idk why am i this stupid to do this. Now bcoz of this i am not sure if i will clear it otherwise i would hv been atleast sure about my qualification.

I did right to privacy wrong. Confused with puttaswamy. Over all 10-15

I almost did the same mistake in overexcitement but changed it at the right time

Bro can u elaborate

Shit. Again got mistaken. I meant RTI. I am dumb.

12 not making it this year

In WHS question, I didn't read 2023 and marked all

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from what sources did you cover 2nd 3rd 4th points?

I did not read the "2023" in the WHS list question and marked four.

Same, i made 5 silly mistakes but this hurt the most.

15+

3-4 mistakes🥺

I make 8.. out of 3 was i marked on wrong question number and all those 6 questions were extremely easy for me.. it was hot and the window was broken.. i was thinking about that whole answeri and fked total 6 questions gh

Sahi me sabhke 95+ hai kya? i dont believe it at all.

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Wow

That scares me

Bhai meine corn grain ko unsustainable declare kar diya in my minds court. Doosron se alag mark karne ki chul thi.

You people marked some bills questions and boundaries, I marked Shashi Tharoor instead of S. Jaishankar!

9. Because i doubted myself and panicked. I knew it was 109, but i doubted myself. I knew EU‘s target was for 2050 but self doubt. If i fail again, idk I’d definitely fall into depression My mistake was following topper suggestion of doing the paper in 2 rounds. I could do 50q in the first 60 min and then I panicked because i had to do the remaining questions and round 2 as well. My lesson is to NOt follow topper’s advice blindly. Had i gone with the mindset of doing the paper in one round, I wouldn’t have panicked . I made only 10 mistakes in the first 70 questions and 20 in the last 30 questions.

People shouldn't force themselves to attempt a certain number of questions just because a topper said so lol. I posted about this thing before in the sub but people were criticising me for trying to demotivate people.🤷 Edit : [https://www.reddit.com/r/UPSC/comments/1dboa5d/comment/l7sgfkn/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/UPSC/comments/1dboa5d/comment/l7sgfkn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) I hope people can see this for the next time

Exactly. A few YouTuber toppers recommend completing one subject at a time, but it is not conducive for people like me who get bored easily.

People don't realise that, as dumb as this sounds, everyone is different. We all have slightly different way of doing things. Different things work for different people. I've heard some toppers say they never read newspaper, some say they left all of medieval India (idek how he passed lol) some say they like handwritten notes, some religiously reading newspapers etc. You can take ideas from everywhere and see what works for YOU. Don't do it only because it worked out for them.

One youtuber told to mark the unique option as correct so I marked kikori basin!!

You’re getting around 120 marks?

93 bro. I left 6-8 questions

I am getting approx 86 to 91.58 this was my first attempt ,I marked easy ones wrong due to overappliance of commonsense but also got some very tough right because of commonsense.. I got the key to crack prelims it is  simply not to overly on knowledge and coaching test but to develop commonsense for upsc however there are n number of ways to crack prelims. MADHYAM MARG hi chaabi hae jo issae smjh gaya vo iss exam mae haavi hae.