Is Tukka making a Art or Just a sheer luck ???.. Those who think IT'S AN ART...Please share here any tip/strategy/standard operating procedure ...IF ANY IN YOUR OPINION.. any gem of Wisdom/Experience you learnt in your Upsc journey.. which you think can help us to make a comparatively BETTER,REASONABLE GUESS !!..Koi Fundaa Koi Trika Koi Vichaar etc which YOU THINK can help All of US or SOME of Us who believes and practice them in last phase ..which can increase even a SINGLE MARK in final exam.. Please do Share here !!! ( If possible explain with 1 or 2 similar kind of Question Examples !!)..
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Try this in examination for tukkebazi even if you know nothing and you still want to attempt question .....it works if day is yours
For me it works most of the time..
CSE is an exam of talent and analytics any thing like guessing should be done in limited questions like 5-10 questions only.
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These are the marks of "No Clue" questions in around 21 tests.
Avg. comes around 3.
In real dilemma, should such questions be attempted in the final exam or not ?
But the issue is twofold: it requires nerves of steel to actually do it in exam and upsc is clever in setting the options to somewhat dent this strategy because of surprise factor i.e. the 100% eliminated option is actually correct in more cases that I am confortable in...
But since you cannot really attempt 60 questions and hope to clear the exam, you really have to make educated guesses.
One more thing, if an option is like all of these, earlier it used to be the correct one in more than its rightful share i.e. 25%, actually going far over it. But it was brutally massacred last year. It hurt some guessers like me.
All in all, apna luck pehen ka chalo, you'll need it.
1. the questions you are almost certain about (80-100% certainity)...lets call them sure shot ones... i will usually get 8 or 9/10 correct in this type( even if one goes attempting questions with 100 per cent certainity one will still get nearly 10 per cent wrong)
2. the questions which you are absolutely blank about.. you dont have any idea at all..either you have left the subject completely or you are hearing about that topic for the first time..
now tukkas in these questions even out if the sample space is large.. i.e. lets say there are 16 such questions.. trust me if you are extremly lucky you will get 6/16 and if extremely unlucky 2/16.. i.e. with negative marking ...it will be a range of nearly (-5 , 5) marks on 16 questions.. thats nearly (-0.33,0.33) marks per question..
3. everything that is not in 1 and 2
the art lies in dealing with type 3... however since the variation in attempting type 2 is very low..one can avoid these completely..there is a pro and con related with that..
pro: you save time.. when you know nothing like john snow.. you tend to make a wierd logic .. what can be.. what should be type.. it takes time.. puts pressure on your mind and eventually half of the time you will end up getting negative marks for the excercise..
con: you are in a hurry to skip the question.. i.e. a question which by applying a little bit pressure on your brain could have been a type 3 question .. you end up leaving it..
now the type 3 ones really pay high dividends..(unless you are really unlucky that day)...there is no art.. perhaps few thumb rules..
1. if there is a option which in the recent past you have come across... and your subconscious is yelling about go for it.. most of the time it will be right..
2. the statement/option which is the most loaded one with information .. has a good probability of being right..
3. in the statement questions unless you know the statement is wrong, assume that the statement is right( except those containing date/year.. upsc has a habit of playing with dates).. in this regard you have to practice with upsc previous year papers for this.. coaching papers tend to tweak 8/10 statements.. so being in that temperament you will end up looking at every statement very suspiciously ..
Disclaimer: i have only shared my experience/analysis.. i am neither discouraging nor encouraging anyone to go for 100 questions or aggressive guess making.. play the game at your own risk
One way of elimination "Can be" to understand the thought process that the guy may have used while he was framing the question..
For example,
With reference to dugong, which of the following is correct?
1. Its a herbivorous marine animal.
2. It is found along the entire coast.
3. It is given legal protection under schedule I of wildlife act 1972.
a. 1 and 2
b. 2 only
c. 1 and 3
d. 3 only
Every year or at least once in two years.. You can see a question or two about important animals in India..
He looks up maybe in the schedules of wild life act or maybe vulnerable or endangered lists or list of animals that have been in the news lately. Once the guy decides to ask a question on dugong, whats the first thing he can do?
He will obviously go through some source to know more about the animal..
1. Its a herbivorous marine animal - Why did he choose this statement? Unlike the questions in various test series, options in upsc are not meant to confuse students but are framed in a way to guage factual/analytical concepts.
For people who know dugong is also called sea cow, it may be easy to guess its a marine animal..
its quite obvious that upsc wont expect the students to know whether the animal is a herbivore or the guy framing the question wont trick on "herbivore" part. I mean i dont know about others but thats the way i feel. So when i see such statements, I feel its picked as it is from the source.
2. It is found along the entire coast.
Usually statements which indicate extreme values are not true. The animal is not commonly heard of, the source would have obviously mentioned some specific places where they are found. If the guy had mentioned some specific places, i would have felt its true, but instead its a statement with extreme value, isiliye i felt it must be false.
3. Legal protection under schedule I - People who have seen the list know how long it is
I cant expect guy to see which animals are not protected under such a long list and therefore make a false statement..Too much of time waste if i was the guy framing the question.. The statement again, is picked up as it is from the source.. Therefore it must be true..
1 and 3 is correct.
You may have noticed this, Tukka cant be made out of thin air.. one should have atleast a little idea(sea cow, the length of the wpa,1972 schedule list) about the question.. Or else tukka will definitely become sukka
in 2015 i just attempted questions which i was sure of.had calculated my score to be around115, and then made 3 tukkas.2 wrong 1 right.
do not make blind tukkas, use only when you are sure only about two choices.