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Which optional has got highest marks in UPSC?

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https://commonsenseismine.blogspot.com/2018/10/which-optional-has-got-highest-marks-in.html Which optional has got highest marks in UPSC? Historically, mathematics has been the subject in which people gave got the highest marks in most years. In 2014 Nitish K scored 346/500 and got rank 8 In 2015 VALLURU KRANTHI scored 326/500 and got rank 65 In 2016 Utsav Kaushal scored 356/500 and got rank 14 In 2017 Anubhav Singh scored 375/500 and got rank 8 Hardly any optional has ever come close to mathematics in scoring capacity and the major reason behind it is that math is the subject which has least theoretical questions and most of the questions are numerical type, where examiner has to award almost full marks if the answer is correct.
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How are fuel prices calculated in India and why are they sky high?

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WHY PRICES ARE SO HIGH IN INDIA Although the crude oil prices are at $70 per barrel as opposed to $107 per barrel in 2013-14, the petrol prices are at all-time high. Prices of petrol and diesel in India have witnessed a steady increase in the past four years as the government has hiked excise duties on fuels a dozen times in this period. As a result, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government gets Rs 10 per litre excise duty more on petrol than what the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government got in 2014. For diesel, the government gets almost Rs 11 per litre more than the previous government. Excise duty on petrol has gone up by 105.49 per cent (including the only time when duties were cut by Rs 2 per litre last October in the run-up to the assembly elections in Gujarat), while on diesel it has shot up by over 240 per cent during the time. Currently, diesel is taxed at 66.82 per cent but UPA collected 22.5 per cent tax back in FY2014. Aside from slight variations in the price due to...
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