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🟢 Geography Optional – Prelims Level

Final Revision • UPSC Traps • One-Liners

Page – 15 (Last & Most Important)

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🔥 HIGH-YIELD ONE-LINERS

• ➤ Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 Indian states.
• ➤ The Indian Plate is moving northwards at ~5 cm/year.
• ➤ Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas.
• ➤ El Niño generally weakens Indian monsoon.
• ➤ La Niña strengthens monsoon rainfall in India.
• ➤ Black soil is also known as Regur soil.
• ➤ Gulf Stream is the warmest Atlantic current.
• ➤ Kaziranga hosts one-horned rhinoceros.
• ➤ Brahmaputra has braided channels.
• ➤ Arunachal Pradesh has maximum forest cover.

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⚠️ COMMON UPSC TRAPS

• ❌ Cyclones occur mostly in peak monsoon → Wrong
• ❌ All deserts are hot → Wrong
• ❌ All earthquakes are plate boundary related → Wrong
• ❌ High rainfall always means dense population → Wrong
• ❌ All mangroves are freshwater → Wrong

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⏱️ 10-MINUTE RAPID REVISION LIST

• ✔ Pressure belts & winds
• ✔ Ocean currents (warm vs cold)
• ✔ Soil–crop matching
• ✔ River systems & flood zones
• ✔ Biodiversity hotspots
• ✔ Earthquake zones of India
• ✔ Cyclone-prone states
• ✔ Straits, seas & passes

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🏁 FINAL PRELIMS STRATEGY

✔ Read maps before sleeping
✔ Eliminate options first, then think
✔ Trust basic geography over extreme facts
✔ Do NOT overthink simple questions

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📌 If you revise these 15 pages twice, Geography will become your safest Prelims section.

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End of Prelims Geography – Complete (Pages 1–15)
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