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Mrunal Download UPSC Mains 2014 General Studies Paper 3 (GS3)
Mrunal Download UPSC Mains 2014 General Studies Paper 3 (GS3)
Mrunal Download UPSC Mains 2014 General Studies Paper 3 (GS3)
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Easy: You just have to reproduce the mugged up bullet points on the
answersheet.
Moderate: you have to brainstorm for ideas and invent points to fillup the
gaps.
Difficult: when hardly 1-2 points can be recalled or invented.
2013 vs 2014
Some continuity while lots of changes
2013 2014
20 questions, 200 words each. Length reduced,
25 questions, 250 words each
at least in theory.
Economy question less Required broad grasp and brain-storming for
complicated. Just have to points. e.g. strategies for urban transport,
rewrite the mugged up points for using technology for agriculture finance and
FRBM, GST, Companies act etc. so on.
two questions related to
economy laws: companies bill, Just one- land acquisition act.
and FRBM
Questions on budget and
taxation worth 30 marks. nothing
impact of liberalization asked Ignored.
FDI in multibrand retail asked
FDI in defense asked for 12.5 marks
for 10 marks
Public health: Fixed drug Public health: Antibiotic resistance. Although
combination, Glivec. Ebola not asked.
Science tech portion focused on
Essay-ish questions asked this time.
factual awareness such as 3D
Nothing from ISRO-MARS, IRNSS-C and
printing, FRP composite
truckload of other inventions and
material, Umpire decision review
gadgets.
system.
Agriculture (2 Qs | 25 marks)
1. Should the pursuit of carbon credit and clean development mechanism set up
under UNFCCC be maintained even through there has been a massive slide in
the value of carbon credit? Discuss with respect to India’s energy needs for
economic growth. Issue discussed in Business world 21st January 2014, and
sufficient bullets available
2. Drought has been recognized as a disaster in view of its party expense,
temporal duration, slow onset and lasting effect on various vulnerable
sections. With a focus on the September 2010 guidelines from the National
disaster management authority, discuss the mechanism for preparedness to
deal with the El Nino and La Nina fallouts in India.
3. Environmental impact assessment studies are increasingly undertaken
before project is cleared by the government. Discuss the environmental
impacts of coal-fired thermal plants located at Pitheads.
Since UPSC did not ask straightforward questions such as salient features of
agro-forestry, Mars missions, IRNSS-C, cyclone hudhud, biotechnology,
tonnes of stupid IT-electronics and space inventions. Hence a Lot of hard-
labour gone to waste from my side in writing, and from your side in
memorizing them.
But in economy-agriculture-security portion, there was good amount of
material scattered around.
Sr Topic utility
first question has two sub-questions:
8/12.5
1. Why services fare better than (mfg) industries. because
2. Can India become developed without focusing on scattered
1 industries? and have to
invent points
Random points scattered here and there in the summaries of to fillup the
economic survey and make in India revision note. gaps.