Tricks, Hacks and Unsaid Rules

Updated 4 Jun 2026·2 min read·0 linked PYQs

Unsaid Rules, Tips and Tricks

Comes secondary to knowledge, common sense/ logic and sometimes intuition.

Data/Stats/facts mostly wrong like Dates/years/ figures or Numerical values are wrong. Unless it is with an Act.
'Contemporary' word is wrong.
Greatly influenced/Greatly impacted is wrong.
Steadily inc/ dec is wrong.
$ words like more than/ less than are right.
! extreme words like all/can't/any/drastically/ are mostly wrong.
Choices with always/Never words are mostly wrong.
easy words like 'some' are right.
S&T question have many times 'All are correct'.
'Can' statements especially in S&T are usually right.
Matching question mostly 1 only/ 3 only or odd number correct.
answer to some question in some other question.
2 statements have interchanged definitions.
best suited and making most sense line in correct esp in Polity and Economy.
EoDB, WEF reports are repeated.
Vijaynagar, Andaman Nicobar, ASEAN, WTO are repeated and often the answers.

Read questions in Hindi.

concepts like OMO, Money mulitplier, asset, liability, monetary measures, currency valuation asked.
Mandatory/ Recommendations words are wrong esp for internation/ Environmental treaties.
Don't Go in depth.
worlds like no/cannot are wrong.
Do not leave more than 10 questions, 'none of these' (not neither 1 nor 2) is not the answer mostly.
statements conflict each other.
Break the words/ sandhi vicchedh.
Unfamiliar answer choices will be false in most cases.
Look for opposite answer choices. One of them can be the right answer.
Look for look-alike choices. One of them can be the answer.
artificially complicated option is wrong in most cases
Similar sounding words are generally right.
superlative adjectives like critical, extremely important etc are wrong

Tricks, Hacks and Unsaid Rules

Updated 4 Jun 2026·2 min read·0 linked PYQs

Comes secondary to knowledge, common sense/ logic and sometimes intuition.

Data/Stats/facts mostly wrong like Dates/years/ figures or Numerical values are wrong. Unless it is with an Act.
'Contemporary' word is wrong.
Greatly influenced/Greatly impacted is wrong.
Steadily inc/ dec is wrong.
$ words like more than/ less than are right.
! extreme words like all/can't/any/drastically/ are mostly wrong.
Choices with always/Never words are mostly wrong.
easy words like 'some' are right.
S&T question have many times 'All are correct'.
'Can' statements especially in S&T are usually right.
Matching question mostly 1 only/ 3 only or odd number correct.
answer to some question in some other question.
2 statements have interchanged definitions.
best suited and making most sense line in correct esp in Polity and Economy.
EoDB, WEF reports are repeated.
Vijaynagar, Andaman Nicobar, ASEAN, WTO are repeated and often the answers.

Read questions in Hindi.

concepts like OMO, Money mulitplier, asset, liability, monetary measures, currency valuation asked.
Mandatory/ Recommendations words are wrong esp for internation/ Environmental treaties.
Don't Go in depth.
worlds like no/cannot are wrong.
Do not leave more than 10 questions, 'none of these' (not neither 1 nor 2) is not the answer mostly.
statements conflict each other.
Break the words/ sandhi vicchedh.
Unfamiliar answer choices will be false in most cases.
Look for opposite answer choices. One of them can be the right answer.
Look for look-alike choices. One of them can be the answer.
artificially complicated option is wrong in most cases
Similar sounding words are generally right.
superlative adjectives like critical, extremely important etc are wrong