Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CONTENTS
History ......................................................................................................................................................................2
Science .....................................................................................................................................................................2
Subjectwise...........................................................................................................................................................3
Questionwise ........................................................................................................................................................3
Geography................................................................................................................................................................4
Polity.........................................................................................................................................................................5
Economy...................................................................................................................................................................6
Mental ability............................................................................................................................................................7
Broad analysis...........................................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion................................................................................................................................................................9
HISTORY
Ancient 0 0
Medieval Gupta Cave paintain 1
Bhakti Cult 1
Third Battle of Panipat 1
Buddhism's decline 1
Modern Pondichery's 1
occupation
Karachi session 93 1
Bombay Menifesto 1
Simon Commission 1
Moderate vs Extremist 1
Bengal partion & 1
Swadeshi
Quit India movement 1
Cripps mission 1
Gandhi & Champaran 1
Lord Cornwallis 2
Total 15
SCIENCE
SUBJECTWISE
Physics 3
Biology-disease 8
Chemistry 3
Agriculture & 8
biotech
Space research 3
IT 2
Zoology 3
Total 30
QUESTIONWISE
GEOGRAPHY
BROAD BREAKUP
Indian geography 17
Environment related 12
Total 29
Pepper temprature 1
requirement
Forest/climat types 3
Minerals in India 1
Rivers of India 3
(Luni/Himachal/Lake)
Soil conservation methods 1
TN cotton yarns 1
World map Strait of malaca 1
Environment –wildlife related El nino Modoki 1
Wild life sanctuary etc 3
Fresh water 1
Acid Rain 1
Taxol tree-Parkinson 1
Atmosphere pollution 1
Rice cultivation and global 1
warming
Greendex 2009 meaning 1
Global warming - limitation of 1
India
RAMSAR 1
Total 30
POLITY
Finance Commission 1
State finance 1
Commission
SC advice President 1
Taxes levied by union 1
Misc. (DPSP etc) 3
Total 7
ECONOMY
SLR 1
Interest rates of Nationalized banks 1
Non banking Financial Companies(NBFC) 1
Inflation/recession-(basic concepts) 2
WPI 1
CRR 1
PSU deficit 1
PSU's share in GDP declined 1
Budget and finance ministry 1
WTO codex 2
SEZ 1
FRBM Act 1
Banking ombudsman 1
Commericial banking function 1
Rural banking financial inclusion 1
Excise duty declined in 5 years 1
Fiscal stimulus concept 1
Bulls & bears definition 1
Forward market Commission 1
Limited Liability Partnership 1
Five Year plans (11th & trend) 2
National investment fund 1
Double Taxation avoidence agreement 1
Total 26
MENTAL ABILITY
Percentages / ratio/progression 5
Shapes/colors 1
Books or sitting arrangement 4
Permutation /combination/probability 7
Speed-circular movement 5
Verbal logic 2
24
BROAD ANALYSIS
Table
History 15
Science 30
Geography 30
Polity 7
Yearbook 4
Economy 26
International
14
Agencies
Mental Ability 24
Total 150
Ancient history 0
Persons in news 0
Awards 0
Sports 0
Total 0 !!
CONCLUSION
On the first hand, during the exam most of us found the 2010’s prelim GS paper very ‘tough’, but after doing
the breakup and analysis myself, I find that this paper looked ‘tough’ only because we are following a study-
pattern based on previous years’ trends (like cramming the Constitution article numbers, history, geography-
location, current affairs, sports etc.). This prelim General Studies paper is both a trend breaker and a trend
setter (for upcoming CSAT), just like the Mains GS paper of 2009.
Now it’s more about understanding than just blind cramming.
( These are my personal conclusions and I’m not inviting anyone to debate it ;-) )
I’m talking about ‘cost benefit ratio’: how much energy should you give to a topic or a book to gain each mark.
India Yearbook Safe to skip entire book (4 marks worth stuff, no meaning of doing Ph.D on that 1000 page
book, like we had to do 4 years back when they used to ask 20+ marks worth questions
from it.)
Ancient and Safe to skip ancient and medival (No meaning of mugging up 1 million names,dates and
medival history events for 4 marks when you can pump all energy for other easy to understand things.)
Five Year Plans No meaning of mugging up all data for 2 marks.
International 1. Most stuff was from UN and its agencies since they’ve direct relevance to
affairs poverty,Development and climate change. And wasn’t from the ‘cramming part’ like
WHO was established in ***** year and its headquater is @ xyz place
2. Bilateral visits, international summits ignored. (magz put lot emphasis on this)
Science No point in cramming all those chemical formulas, periodical table, and numbers like 1
joule=how much kilowatt etc.
Space No cramming of all those planets, PSLV date-line etc stuff.
Current affairs LIKE tonnes of film and social service awards, 500 sports events, national ‘summits’ and all
those things on which the magazines put too much emphasis but who have no practical