Dear All,
There has never been such a program before which is so well-thought-out, taking the aspirants’ strengths and weaknesses into account,and integrating them into the MAINS WRITING program. The time for Generic TOP-DOWN-APPROACH is over. We took a BOTTOM-UP-APPROACH for this program. We asked our students, asked the mentors, asked the successful candidates and asked the graduates who will be preparing now.
With their input in mind and aspirant’s over-all well-being at heart, we are launching our much awaited Writing Program for Mains 2021 and 2022, albeit with some differences in our approach to the exam in order to cater to the evolving nature of the exam and to ensure success of our students.
This initiative targets FOUR papers of General Studies of UPSC-CSE (Civil Service Exam).
WAR -2021 (WRITE-A-RANK INITIATIVE):-
- Every Week, We will conduct a Mini Test (At least 5 and At most 10 Questions will be given)- Check the Schedule below for details.
- Each Submission will be Evaluated.
- Each question will be provided with a Model–Answer
- Video-Strategy on how to approach the important questions when required.
- On-demand Tele-Counselling will be provided as required.
- The question will be mix of both Static and Dynamic ( From Current Events).
- This will be a 6 month long exercise, keeping the tentative exam date as January/February 2022 for Mains 2021 exam.
- A month before Mains 2021, 4 full-length Simulation tests will be conducted for each Subject and will be evaluated comprehensively.
- Total No of Test :- Weekly Test (21) + Full Length Test (04) = 25 Tests
- Schedule :- Click Here
Register for WAR 2021
WAR-2022 (WRITE-A-RANK INITIATIVE):-
- Every Week, We will conduct a Mini Test (At least 5 and At most 10 Questions will be given)- Check the Schedule below for details.
- Each Submission will be Evaluated.
- Each question will be provided with a Model–Answer
- Video-Strategy on how to approach the important questions when required.
- On-demand Tele-Counselling will be provided as required.
- The question will be mix of both Static and Dynamic ( From Current Events).
- This will be a 1 year long exercise or till Mains 2022.
- A month before Mains 2021, 8 full-length Simulation tests will be conducted for each Subject and will be evaluated comprehensively.
- Total No of Test :- Weekly Test (45) + Full Length Test (08) = 53 Tests
- Schedule :- Click Here
Register for WAR 2022
BOTH THE TEST SERIES BEGINS FROM 04 JULY 2021
FAQS
Whats Unique about the WAR Initiative:-
- The Philosophy behind this program is to help students get acquainted with answer-writing practice on a weekly basis.
Why Weekly Basis :-
- Daily basis answer-writing does not work on a long-time frame and creates burn-out among students.
- Writing bulk of Tests just before Mains does not give you the ample time to better your writing skill either. It is essentially “Breathless Writing”.
- Above all, you need constant writing, constant evaluation and constant improvement to excel in your answer.
- And in short, you need both – time and consistency. You have to write in regular intervals and you have to be consistent enough about it.
- None of the above two methods, really help the students in long-run.
- Hence, We have chosen, Weekly Mains Answer writing and Weekly Mini-Test.
- A week gives the student – ample amount of time as well as help you to maintain consistency.
- In our opinion, it will do wonders for your writing skill in particular and help you ace the exam in general.
Why Mini-Test:-
- Our philosophy has always been #Less_is_More (Quality over Quantity)
- It is better to write answer to relevant question which has high probability of appearing in the exam, than writing answers to irrelevant questions.
- Precision is the key to ace this exam. Precision in question prediction is our specialty.
- In Mini-Test, the students gets minimum 5 Questions a Week and have ample time to read, think and write about them.
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The idea is simple- “5 Questions well-prepared is better than 15 Questions ill-prepared”
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- This helps you in the following ways :-
- It stops you from intellectual burn-out (You can understand it if you have written a lengthy test ever)
- It will Keep you Consistent enough.
- The idea here is to :- “Unburden Your Burden” and make things simple yet profoundly valuable for you.
- Writing tests are cumbersome, but writing Mini-tests in fixed regular intervals is not cumbersome.
- Intellectually Rewarding, Attaining Consistency, Enhancing Writing Skills.
What Kind of Questions will be asked :-
- Questions will be a mixture of Static and Dynamic
- Refer the schedule below.
Will there be any full-length test ?
Yes, As mentioned, A month before Mains there will be Full-Length Tests for Each Subject. These will be akin to real-tests.
Will there be review of my answers ?
Yes, There will be review of your submitted answer copies along will model answer in student portal, tele-counselling and Video-Strategy.
Should I join 2021 or 2022 ?
If you are going to appear for both 2021 and 2022, then we suggest go for WAR-2022. You will have more number of questions, more tests and more reviews and more model answers.
I have some other questions ?
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Petrol in India is cheaper than in countries like Hong Kong, Germany and the UK but costlier than in China, Brazil, Japan, the US, Russia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a Bank of Baroda Economics Research report showed.
Rising fuel prices in India have led to considerable debate on which government, state or central, should be lowering their taxes to keep prices under control.
The rise in fuel prices is mainly due to the global price of crude oil (raw material for making petrol and diesel) going up. Further, a stronger dollar has added to the cost of crude oil.
Amongst comparable countries (per capita wise), prices in India are higher than those in Vietnam, Kenya, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. Countries that are major oil producers have much lower prices.
In the report, the Philippines has a comparable petrol price but has a per capita income higher than India by over 50 per cent.
Countries which have a lower per capita income like Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Venezuela have much lower prices of petrol and hence are impacted less than India.
“Therefore there is still a strong case for the government to consider lowering the taxes on fuel to protect the interest of the people,” the report argued.
India is the world’s third-biggest oil consuming and importing nation. It imports 85 per cent of its oil needs and so prices retail fuel at import parity rates.
With the global surge in energy prices, the cost of producing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products also went up for oil companies in India.
They raised petrol and diesel prices by Rs 10 a litre in just over a fortnight beginning March 22 but hit a pause button soon after as the move faced criticism and the opposition parties asked the government to cut taxes instead.
India imports most of its oil from a group of countries called the ‘OPEC +’ (i.e, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Russia, etc), which produces 40% of the world’s crude oil.
As they have the power to dictate fuel supply and prices, their decision of limiting the global supply reduces supply in India, thus raising prices
The government charges about 167% tax (excise) on petrol and 129% on diesel as compared to US (20%), UK (62%), Italy and Germany (65%).
The abominable excise duty is 2/3rd of the cost, and the base price, dealer commission and freight form the rest.
Here is an approximate break-up (in Rs):
a)Base Price | 39 |
b)Freight | 0.34 |
c) Price Charged to Dealers = (a+b) | 39.34 |
d) Excise Duty | 40.17 |
e) Dealer Commission | 4.68 |
f) VAT | 25.35 |
g) Retail Selling Price | 109.54 |
Looked closely, much of the cost of petrol and diesel is due to higher tax rate by govt, specifically excise duty.
So the question is why government is not reducing the prices ?
India, being a developing country, it does require gigantic amount of funding for its infrastructure projects as well as welfare schemes.
However, we as a society is yet to be tax-compliant. Many people evade the direct tax and that’s the reason why govt’s hands are tied. Govt. needs the money to fund various programs and at the same time it is not generating enough revenue from direct taxes.
That’s the reason why, govt is bumping up its revenue through higher indirect taxes such as GST or excise duty as in the case of petrol and diesel.
Direct taxes are progressive as it taxes according to an individuals’ income however indirect tax such as excise duty or GST are regressive in the sense that the poorest of the poor and richest of the rich have to pay the same amount.
Does not matter, if you are an auto-driver or owner of a Mercedes, end of the day both pay the same price for petrol/diesel-that’s why it is regressive in nature.
But unlike direct tax where tax evasion is rampant, indirect tax can not be evaded due to their very nature and as long as huge no of Indians keep evading direct taxes, indirect tax such as excise duty will be difficult for the govt to reduce, because it may reduce the revenue and hamper may programs of the govt.