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2023-01-02 18:21:54 Why is Answer-writing such a challenge for every one? I faced it when i was in your shoes and now my students face it. It is painful to see brilliant mentees not to make it to the interview because of the lack of proper answer-writing guidance.

3 CORE CHALLENGES FOR ANSWER-WRITING WERE IDENTIFIED-
Lack of content and a proper testing schedule
Lack of expert feedback
No Discipline or Accountability
These core challenges were targeted and integrated into the CAWP design forming the 3 PILLARS OF CAWP (Comprehensive Answer-Writing Program)



3 PILLARS OF CAWP (Comprehensive Answer-Writing Program)

***PILLAR 1 : CONTENT & TESTING
CONTENT-
6 Masterclasses for each subject with detailed discussion
Integration with Prelims Preparation for time management
Subject-specific Challenges
Establishing connections between subjects and disciplines according to the current pattern of UPSC
How to use flowcharts and diagrams, create introduction, conclusions and meet the needs of the question.
Deeply analytical Questions with increasing difficulty levels

TESTING-
4 levels of scientifically designed testing progression with increasing difficulty levels
30 tests (12 Sectional Tests, 18 Full-Length Tests)
LEVEL 1 Subject-wise Open Book Untimed Test (SOUT)
LEVEL 2 Subject-wise Open Book Timed Test (SOTT)
LEVEL 3 Composite Open Book Untimed Test (COUT)
LEVEL 4 Timed Exam Simulation Test (TEST)
The questions will be designed in increasing order of difficulty.
The Open-book tests will be designed to make you do the widest possible research to ensure that your learning for Prelims is complimented instead of hindered.
The evaluation will be harsh because perfection in your answer-writing is the goal in this program

***PILLAR 2 : FEEDBACK & EVALUATION
Scientific Evaluation Criterion based on 5 sub-parameters or C.A.S.E.S
Class discussions about model answers
Weekly Peer Review Assignments and Feedback
Use of scientific metrics and content value-adds
UPSC-level strict checking
Connect to a subject expert when needed
Counseling whenever needed

***PILLAR 3 : DISCIPLINE & ACCOUNTABILITY
NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT:
Meeting the deadline is compulsory
Penalty for missing more than 3 deadlines
Missing more than 3 deadlines will be considered a red flag
Constant pushing and nudging whenever required

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT:
Constant reminders and genuine encouragement
Counselling and Nudging
Peer review assignments
ALL STUDENTS OF THIS BATCH WHO CLEAR PRELIMS WILL COME UNDER ONE-TO-ONE PRIVATE MENTORSHIP WITH ME

*The mentors on the UPSC.Education app will push you, nudge you, ask for submissions, give you encouragement when you need it. They will try to understand your particular psychological weak-points, learning styles, motivations and work on them to drive your performance constantly.
These mentors are all people with high emotional intelligence EI and are contributing their time to this effort to help.
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IMPORTANT CAVEAT
SEATS ARE LIMITED - It is not humanly possible for me to do all of the above for more than a few students.
TIME WINDOW IS LIMITED - The enrollment will only open for a few days in the entire year. It is set to open for this year in the next few days.
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HOW TO ENROLL? The program will be conducted on the UPSC.Education app - https://ctdjx.courses.store/210377?utm_source%3Dother%26utm_medium%3Dtutor-course-referral%26utm_campaign%3Dcourse-overview-webapp
THE NEXT EMAIL WILL DISCLOSE THE DATE OF OPENING OF ENROLLMENTS AND FURTHER DETAILS.
ENROLLMENTS WILL BE ON FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS ONLY.
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2023-01-02 14:55:53 UPSC Prelims Syllabus Open / Comment

2023-01-02 11:56:54 #Environment

■ 1.5 degree warmer world looms, but it's not the end-

This year’s climate change conference, COP27, was hailed as ‘historic’ for its decision to create a fund to help developing countries recover from climate-induced disasters.

There was little else in the final outcome of the meeting that can be seen as a half-adequate response to an extremely urgent global climate emergency.

● The 1.5 degree Celsius warmer world:

Global GHG emissions need to be reduced: by at least 43% from 2019 levels by the year 2030.

Higher emissions for 2021: the world has already warmed by more than 1.1 degree Celsius.

Current effort: to restrict the rise in temperatures to as low a level as possible in order to minimize the impacts of climate change.

Lag in efforts: even at the current levels of warming, some important climate tipping points might already have been crossed.

Result: Can lead to uncontrollable, irreversible and self-perpetuating changes in the earth’s climate system, & other tipping points being breached.
Fewer people dying in climate disasters

Increase in climate or weather-related disasters: from 711 incidents in the 1970-79 decade to 3,165 incidents in the 2010-2019 period.

Number of human lives lost: declined by almost 70%, from about 556,000 in the 1970s to just about 185,000 in the previous decade.

Increase in economic losses:
to nearly 1.4 trillion USD in the 2010s - because of the increase in frequency of disasters & in the value of assets & infrastructure.

Deaths from heat waves and cyclones: reduced by about 90% in the past decade because of effective early warning systems and timely response.

More impact of disasters on developing countries: > 90% of all deaths in the climate and weather-related disasters between 1970 and 2019 occurred in the developing countries.

● Early warning coverage for all:

Recent initiative of the WMO: to extend the early warning coverage to all the countries in the next five years.

Very low cost of the warning system: entire programme is likely to cost only about 3.1 billion USD, a relatively small amount in climate change context.

Importance: would save human lives and help avoid losses to the tune of 3 to 16 billion USD every year.

Similar effort: initiated by Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an India-backed international organisation, focusing on strengthening early warning capabilities in the small island
states.

● Conclusion:

Developed countries have a far greater capability to cope with the changes, so most of the adaptation actions would have to happen in the developing world.

This is not to suggest that it is okay to go slow on efforts to reduce GHG emissions. There are limits to adaptation. But in the short term, this is key to the survival of large population groups in developing countries.

● Prelims Takeaway:

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

SOURCE - INDIAN EXPRESS

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