Hi All,
Hope, all of you are fine and in good spirits.
Today, I happen to read this thread once again. I felt that it might be misleading for those fellow aspirants who are ready to avail their first chance. So, here is a balancing stroke:
The quoting(sic.) of original references is totally dependent upon your choice of the questions, you can see the kind of questions I picked last year (noted in one of my posts in the same thread); with that kind of questions you can get away with the hazard of quoting original references. But for certain questions that make it to the paper along with the kind of questions I chose, the quoting of the original references is almost indispensable to substantiate your thesis. So, keep it in your mind that you are to memorize a few original references on certain areas, irrespective of what the certain posts in this thread depict.
Noting this I feel pretty relieved that, nobody would suffer because of me now.

Yes, this thread was initiated by me!
Sincere Regards,
Debonair