yes, there is a hope...

In life we sometimes meet few people who though meet you by chance and yet left indelible impact on your life journey and have positive impact on your thought process. I consider myself one of the fortunate man who has been provided such an opportunity to meet several such personalities. One  such personality  is our teacher  Upendra sir , away from coaching  “mandi” of Rajendra  nagar who make students love sociology. I have used word love rather than teaching, because this is what seems a fit and anybody whom I met has same thing to say, if he ever met Sir . Though, I must confess that I wasn’t lucky enough to attend his lectures due to my official duties but yes, due to his kind gestures, I had few interactions with him in the course of preparation for mains 2011 and following discussions on tests. When I first met him, my voice was almost blocked and I thought of him as some colonel of NDA.  So followed the discussion which started by lambasting aspirants who wrote previous tes

         When UPSC  announced for introduction of CSAT in November 2009, there was   widespread   anticipation about its structure and  content until it finally conducted the CSAT prelims on 12 June 2011. What perhaps UPSC has thought about its introduction was that it would lead to reduced dependency of aspirants on coaching. But we saw that with its introduction, a new range of market players emerged who boasted about being 100 percentiles or 10 times CAT qualifier. Sometimes it creates confusion in my mind and any other aspirant preparing CSAT for first time that why they are showing their Management aptitude credentials for CSAT as business and administration require entirely different aptitude which is rooted in their basic concept of profit and public service respectively. So, straight forwardly those of us who are preparing for CSAT, please make it clear that this is CSAT  and not  CAT and don’t get carried away with CAT scorers. So we find that  quantitative aptitud