UPSC Elimination Technique Blog

High–quality insights, tricks, and strategy posts to help you score 70–100 marks using logic.

How Elimination Technique Works in UPSC Prelims

Learn how 70% of UPSC questions can be solved even without full knowledge using intelligent elimination.

Absolute words like “always”, “never”, “entirely” are used to mislead you. Learn how to catch them.

UPSC often creates very long incorrect options. Learn why and how to use this trap smartly.

How toppers guess correctly more often using elimination and intuition.

Your brain works against you in Prelims. Learn the biggest psychological traps.

Strategies for solving 2, 3, and 4-statement questions with precision.

UPSC Prelims is a psychometric exam—not a knowledge test. Here’s why.

Polity, Economy, Environment, Geography, S&T—each subject requires different logic.

Understanding why factual memory collapses—and why logic saves you.

A strategy to navigate 100 questions in 120 minutes using topper techniques.

In-depth articles to help aspirants understand UPSC question patterns, elimination strategies, and exam psychology.

Understand how UPSC frames misleading options and how elimination techniques help avoid negative marking.

Learn how elimination-based answering alone can add 10–15 marks to your Prelims score.

Explore psychological biases that silently cause wrong answers in the Prelims examination.

Understand how negative marking impacts attempt strategy and why calculated elimination is essential.

Learn a structured method to analyze mock tests using elimination and behavioral insights.