Discussion on scaling in UPSC

On January 10, 2012, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

Be assured, UPSC does scaling in the Civil services examination.

There is this extract from a discussion; you can follow the link at bottom for more.

 

NO SCALING IS DONE BY UPSC IN MAINS

Refer to this case in Delhi High Court. Prashant Ramesh Chakkarwar vs Union Public Service Commission & … on 5 October, 2010.
26. From a cumulative reading of the aforesaid decisions, the factual/legal position which emerges can be summarized as under:-
I Moderation and scaling of marks are two different techniques used by examining authorities for achieving common standard of assessment of marks.
II UPSC does not apply the method of scaling of marks in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination and confines the application of the said method in evaluation of answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination.
III The method of moderation of marks propounded by Supreme Court in Sanjay Singh‟s case (supra) is similar to the W.P.(C) No.6586/2010 & Conn. Matters Page 38 of 43 one applied by UPSC in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination.
IV The method of moderation of marks applied by UPSC in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination has been approved by a learned Single Judge and a Division Bench of this Court.

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“ACP Gagan” Exposed on Orkut

On December 18, 2011, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

A guy (or someone selected in Civils?) tried to make easy money by lying through his teeth and luring innocent students on an online forum, providing youtube videos and then charging big money! He has been badly exposed; see below and the link:

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  • I really appreciate your idea of providing video lectures for Public Administration. But, the fees you are extracting is huge (around Rs. 7000-8000). I remember you have promised that the DVDs will cost a bit more, but the online version will be cheaper. Surprisingly, both of your versions cost the same. I was really disheartened to hear this.
  • wtf

    • @ACP gagan.. yaar tum to bahut achhe coaching waale banoge… after all you are lying like them already!!
    Your flash claims that you got 180+ in paper 1 in 2007, 2008, 2009…
    but actually your marks in 2009 were as follows:
    Roll No. : 101628
    Name : GAGAN DEEP SINGH PURBA
    Civil Services (Main) Examination 2009
    Subject Maximum Marks Marks Obtained
    Essay(Paper III) 200 102
    General Studies (Paper-IV) 300 121
    General Studies(Paper-V) 300 115
    Optional I, GEOGRAPHY Paper-VI 300 105
    Paper-VII 300 147
    Optional II, PUBLIC ADMIN.. Paper-VIII 300 151
    Paper-IX 300 129
    Written Total 2000 870
    you got just 151 marks in paper 1 of Public Ad..
    Please dont dupe ppl like this.. SHAME ON YOU!
    And why dont you post your 2010 marks with roll no. and dob for ppl check 

     

    And see the amazing ploy of ACP GAGAN now…He is writing anything eg: n, t , s etc on all threads SO THAT this thread which exposes HIS REALITY goes down – away from the eyes of people!!!
    Please contribute in keeping this thread at the top so that he is EXPOSED!!!

    IF the man is really Gagan Deep Singh Purba then his roll no for cse 2010 is
    37636
    "what "has already provided his marks of 2009….
    and in 2008 he cudnt qualify PT….
    following Gagans qualified PT in 2008
    GAGAN BIHARI
    GAGAN DEEP SINGH
    GAGANDEEP SINGH
    GAGANDEEP SINGLA
    ACP– y dont u provide us with ur dob sothat v can ourselves check ur claims…

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List of Fraud Coaching Institutes for UPSC IAS preparation

On May 21, 2011, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

Mushrooming Coaching institutes loot students and parents more than they help them. In an online discussion, students are helping others by discussing how various coaching institutes cheat and how they are not helping students. Please note that this is only a reproduction of the discussion (see image and link). Visit this link to see the discussion and people who made the comments after their experiences. Please note that most of these coaching institutes are based in Delhi. There are some positive prises too.

 

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  • List all FRAUD COACHING INSTITUTES AND PEOPLE Friends, let’s compile a data here on fraud institutes and people: I say A.K. Mishra of Chanakya and Rau’s IAS top the list. Ramaswamy of Socio is also a bogus guy. Please add more.
  • mohanty also

    synergy by mohanty is also a bogus institute

  • Abhay Thakur of Synchronous is also FRAUD
    • Bogus institute..

    my experience ith CHOKOLINGAM was bad…

    saw hindu ad of mohanty today

    ba—d is quoting great names like Swetha ma’am and 5th ranker. they began their prep in 2005 or so. at tat time. no one was there. minocha sir was growing senile and irrlevant.people helplessly joined him. in 2009 i know some of my friends called him names. subhra ma’am made him nanga.
    he is fraud by any definition.

    ultimate fraudster

    sunil gupta—public ad

    I think there is also a subjective angle .. i.e one’s perception .. i think mohanty sir’s notes were really good … i mean the printed ones … also i think Pathak sir could have done better without his occasional off the course discussions which dragged the entire course ultimately leaving many topics simply untouched … I would not disagree if someone says preparing psyho without classes is possible. One thing i would appreciate is Pathak sir’s test series this time which really helped for paper 2 -i am referring to the class discussions .. the paper correction for paper 2 was horrible which simple involved coloring the scripts red with no significant inputs …
    Thus all in all i feel those established classes just provide the scaffold and one really needs to propel himself alone to leverage the help rendered by these classes.

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    Code for English as medium in CS (Mains)- error in UPSC Preliminary notification

    On March 17, 2011, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

    The UPSC has published a corrigendum according to which it has admitted that the code for English as medium of examination has been mistakenly not printed in Annexure II(B) of the Civil Services Preliminary Examination notification 2011 published in the Employment News. The code for it is 20. The UPSC Corrigendum published on its site reads

    “Reference is invited to this Commission’s Notification for Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2011 published in the Employment News/Rozgar Samachar dated 19.02.2011.
    The candidates, who are applying for the above Examination through Offline mode, i.e. through Paper Application and are opting for ‘English’ as a medium for the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2011 are advised to use Code 20 in Column 21(V) of the Application Form-E. This Code has, inadvertently, not been indicated in the Table under APPENDIX-II (B) at Page 65 of the said Examination Notification appearing in the above issue of the Employment News/Rozgar Samachar.”

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    Is there any proposal for change in the Mains exam pattern as of now?

    On March 13, 2011, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

    This is a question that many are asking but there are no definite answers. The popular opinion is that the two options are likely to go in another 3-4 years but not as of now.

    One person says, quoting a teacher, that “he proposal for changes in mains will take another 2 to 3 yrs i.e 2014-2015 to implement.they are still in preliminary stage”.

    See the pic below taken from a forum discussion-

    orkut - Urgent! Is there any proposal for change in mains-_1299987529545

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    Is clearing the UPSC Civils same as winning a lottery?

    On January 12, 2010, In Must Read, UPSC Interviews, By UPSC Blogger

    The following extracts are from a discussion on the Orkut forum (the page may have been removed if the link gives an error) few days ago. It discusses among other things how the UPSC Civil Services Exam (IAS exam) is unpredictable, the subject score trends etc. Please note that all views below are the views of the UPSC aspirants in the said forum. Follow the link to see the authors if the page exists. Please note that it is a discussion and you may have problems understanding it; follow the link if the page is there.

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    Is UPSC biased against science optionals in the Civil Services Examination?!

    On January 6, 2010, In Must Read, Science Optionals, By UPSC Blogger

    There is a debate among students on this in a forum in the third week of November 2009. These are the excerpts. You can go to the forum link if the page has not expired. Please note that the following points are the views of the experienced students writing on that forum. This post also has a lot of comments on the Science subjects as optionals in the UPSC Civil Services Examination.

    UPSC is completely biased against science optionals esp maths, physics,engg…..last year maths paper 2 was extremely difficult even though heavy scaling was done…..as many as 22 candidates got “zero” in paper 2…… average marks was 143/600….howz that possible….if scaling is for providing level playing field among all subjects then why is that average marks of optionals like pub ad and history were more than 280 while maths and physics optional average was less than 150….i’ll advise newcomers not to take any science optional……

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