Prelims Ai

Correct answer: (a) Argentina, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey ✔️ Explanation: All four countries in option (a) are members of the G20. ⸻ ❌ Why others are wrong: (b) * Australia ✔️ * Canada ✔️ * Malaysia ❌ (Not in G20) * New Zealand ❌ ⸻ (c) * Brazil ✔️ * Saudi Arabia ✔️ * Iran ❌ * Vietnam ❌ ⸻ (d) * Indonesia ✔️ * Japan ✔️ * South Korea ✔️ * Singapore ❌ ⸻ 🧠 UPSC Trick: If even one country is not a G20 member → eliminate the option immediately.

US will host the 2026 G20 Summit in Miami. Can you name all 20 member countries? 🌍

NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE PART 1

India’s maritime limits are defined under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and Indian laws like the Maritime Zones Act. 🇮🇳 India’s Sea Territorial Limits Territorial Sea → 12 nautical miles from the baseline 👉 Full sovereignty (just like land territory) Contiguous Zone → 24 nautical miles 👉 Control for security, customs, immigration Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) → 200 nautical miles 👉 Rights for resources (fishing, oil, minerals) Continental Shelf → Up to 200–350 nautical miles (in some cases) 👉 Rights over seabed resources

@UPSC_EDU REVISE GLOBAL COUNTRIES WITH CURRENCY

Q. The currency of Russia is: A) Rouble B) Krona C) Lira D) Dinar

✅ Correct Answer: Tundra ⸻ 🧠 Why Tundra? * Yakuts (Sakha people) live in Siberia, especially the Sakha Republic * This region falls under the tundra (subarctic/polar) climatic zone * Extreme cold, permafrost, short summers → typical tundra features ⸻ ⚠️ Elimination Trick (UPSC Gold 🔥) * Gobi → Mongolia/China → camel herders * Sahara → North Africa → Bedouins/Tuaregs * Kalahari → Southern Africa → San/Bushmen * Tundra → Arctic/Siberia → Yakuts ✔️ ⸻ 📝 One-liner Yakuts are nomadic pastoralists of the Tundra region of Siberia. Practise more at prelims.ai

✅ Correct Answer: (b) Entamoeba histolytica 🔍 Explanation (UPSC-oriented) Amoebic dysentery (Amoebiasis) is caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica ✔️ It spreads through contaminated food and water (fecal-oral route). ❌ Why others are wrong: (a) Plasmodium vivax → causes Malaria (c) Trypanosoma gambiense → causes Sleeping sickness (d) Leishmania donovani → causes Kala-azar (Visceral leishmaniasis) 🎯 UPSC Trap Insight UPSC frequently asks disease → causative organism matching Focus on protozoan diseases (very high frequency area)

✅ Correct Answer: C) 1, 2 and 4 only ⚡ Explanation (UPSC-oriented, crisp) GST exempts basic food items → cereal grains, eggs ✔️ Newspapers (even with ads) are exempt ✔️ Processed & canned fish = value addition → taxable ❌

The Difference Between Selection & Rejection Lies in One Statement.

✅ Correct Answer: B) 1 and 3 only 🔍 Explanation (UPSC-oriented) Statement 1 ✔️ Correct Ashokan Pillar Edicts were primarily written in Brahmi script (except in northwest regions where Kharosthi was used). Statement 2 ❌ Incorrect These edicts were not administrative orders to officials. 👉 They were moral and ethical guidelines for the public (Dhamma), not governance instructions. Statement 3 ✔️ Correct The edicts clearly reflect Ashoka’s policy of ‘Dhamma’ — focusing on: Non-violence Compassion Religious tolerance Welfare of people

🔟 FINAL REVISION LINE (SAVE THIS) 👉 “1–4 Structure | 5–6 Tribal | 7 Lists | 8 Language | 9 Shield | 10 Defection | 11 Village | 12 City” ⚡ PRACTICE FROM PRELIMS AI Stop scrolling. Start solving. 👉 prelims.ai

9️⃣ 12th Schedule = Municipalities (Urban) Added by 74th Amendment (1992). Contains 18 subjects like urban planning, sanitation, water supply. 👉 Completes India’s local governance structure (Urban India).

UPSC has asked this multiple times — Schedules of the Constitution Follow 🧵🪡 for detail information