IAS Mock Test

 

Benefits of Solving UPSC Mock Tests 

• The immediate benefit that you’d notice after solving the UPSC mock tests and previous years’ papers is that you’d be able to commit the exam structure to your memory.That would in turn facilitate your understanding of things such as the sections to attempt first and the ones to leave out for later, based on your strengths and weaknesses.


• The next benefit is an obvious one. More practice would mean better speed of comprehension and the ability to solve more in littler time


• The next one is that with greater practice you’d be able to tell the questions that would be asked in the actual exam, from the ones that are not as likely to be asked.


• One important benefit would be that you’d be able to easily decipher questions on the basis of their difficulty levels and the topics they encapsulate.


• With greater practice, it would become easier for you to gauge your performances segment-wise, subject-wise, and level of difficulty-wise. You’d also get to clearly compartmentalize your strong and weak points according to the topics and segments.


• Solving more and more UPSC mock tests and previous years papers would make your moves more instinctive while marking the right answers while attempting the objective-type questions.

Now that you know the benefits of solving UPSC mock tests, it should be further noted that the UPSC mock tests and the previous year’s papers are best solved after you have already finished with your UPSC preparation at least once. That way after solving the UPSC mock tests you’d know which portions of the UPSC syllabus you still need to work on.

Anyway, to elaborate on how to solve IAS mock test, you can go through the next section.

Tips on Solving UPSC Mock Tests

As I have mentioned above, one of the key advantages of solving mock tests is to be able to maintain your focus, accuracy, and speed for the duration of the exams, may it be the Prelims or the Mains.  

One thing that you should have an adequate practice of, is to sit and take your exams for 2 hours straight in the case of the prelims, and 3 hours straight, in the case of the Mains. For that, solving UPSC mocks will be absolutely imperative. 

I have mentioned some very effective tips and tricks that you can keep in mind while solving your UPSC mock test papers:  

Tips to solve Mocks:

1. Take your Prelims to mock papers sincerely, giving 2 hours each for the GS and CSAT papers. And also, while taking your mock mains papers, take the papers using the official time duration of 3 hours for each.  


2. While solving the UPSC mocks make sure to solve your papers with a calm mind. The objective shouldn’t be just to solve it in the given time. You should make sure that your answers are right, and also of good quality (in the case of the mains papers). Therefore, 15 minutes here and there above the given time limit can be considered okay, but remember to not take any more time than that.  


3. Once you are done with a mock, do not consider your job done yet, you’d now have to analyze the questions in the mock thoroughly and also the answers you have written for each. That way you’ll be able to identify the concepts that you are weak at.  


4. After analyzing a mock answer sheet, do not move over to solving another one without first clearing your weak points.


5. After clearing your weak points, go over to solve another mock, and do the same again, that is identify your weak points again. For this, you can take help from a mentor as well. You do not have to do this alone.


6. Keep repeating this process till the very end. 


7. Also, remember to not spend too much time on one question while solving the mocks. Move on to the next question if you are not sure about the answer to the question you are stuck at. 


8. If you follow the process I have mentioned in the above points, you will start noticing improvement in your scores within a short span of time.

Source by: https://www.anujjindal.in/upsc-books-and-mock-tests-for-ias-exam/

The CSE is one of the toughest exams in the country. It is an exam held every year to recruit officers to the various services of the Central Government of India, and is organised by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Click here to read more about IAS Exam.