• Chronology of 3 major movements and phases
• Political-Economic-Social impact of British Rule
• Issues, leaders and trends in national movement
• Uprisings - civil/tribal
If they ask questions like Vital vidhvansak then sab Ram bharose.
List of high value topics for UPSC Prelims 2021
General Studies paper 1 specific.
The 20% topics that have 80% impact.
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• Chronology of 3 major movements and phases
• Political-Economic-Social impact of British Rule
• Issues, leaders and trends in national movement
• Uprisings - civil/tribal
If they ask questions like Vital vidhvansak then sab Ram bharose.
• Political-Economic-Social innovations
• Terms – baniyan, mirasidar, jagir, etc.
• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Indian philosophical systems
• Bhakti/sufi movements
• Gupta, Vijayanagara empires
• UNESCO Lists – Cultural heritage, Intangible cultural heritage
• Dance, sculpture, architecture & paintings
• Current - GI tags, etc.
• Monetary policy (repo, RR, SLR, CRR, inflation)
• Banking - PSL norms, NPAs, BASEL III norms
• Taxation – deficits, GST, Fin Comm, data
• Trade – BoP
• Organisations (reports)
• Trends (trading partners)
• Agri+MSME – schemes
UPSC focusing more on theory than specifics.
80% theoretical questions and 20% specific provisions.
Focus on:
• FR – DPSP – FD
• Basic structure
• Separation of powers
• Citizenship
• Constitutional vs legal rights
• Current schemes
• Maps (places in news + general)
• Monsoon (static + current)
• Soil & forest types
• Crop patterns – trends
• Rivers - major only
• Mineral distribution
• Maps (places in news + general)
• Physical - Plate tectonics, mineral distribuition, major rivers and landforms on each continent
• Oceans – currents, island chains
• Coral reefs - location, types
• Climate – regions cyclones, air cells, air masses
• Conventions – latest news
• Laws – WPA, EPA, EIA, NGT provisions etc
• Keystone species - elephant, tiger, Great Bustard etc
• NP/WLS – In news
• India data – water, air, soil, GW pollution
• GM Crops
• Satellite ecosystems - launchers, types, orbits
• Basic science - class X level
Keep on top of latest developments in:
• Cybersecurity
• Internet of things
• Blockchains
• Biotechnology
• AI, big data and data protection
• IR – deals and groups in news
• Agriculture - schemes + data
• Major schemes
This is a nebulous area where it's hard to pinpoint what's important. Because UPSC like to surprise you no matter how much you prepare.
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List of high value topics for UPSC Prelims 2021
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General Studies paper 1 specific.
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Best 5 public APIs you can use to build your next project:
1. Number Verification API
A RESTful JSON API for national and international phone number validation.
🔗 https://t.co/fzBmCMFdIj
2. OpenAI API
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🔗 https://t.co/TVnTciMpML
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Currency Data API provides a simple REST API with real-time and historical exchange rates for 168 world currencies
🔗 https://t.co/TRj35IUUec
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
