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Excel in what you know better, to bag top ranks in the Civil Services examination

You don't need to excel in all the stages and subjects to get top ranks, rather what you need is the recognition of your strength and make it the ultimate weapon to get top ranks. Examples are right in front of you! Read the marks of these candidates and know how they managed to get rank 1. You can be the next one!

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Excel in what you know better, to bag top ranks in the Civil Services examination

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  1. MARKS SECURED BY 1ST RANKERS IN CIVIL SERVICES EXAM & THE SUBJECTS THEY EXCELLED IN Excel in what you know better, to get top ranks. Here’s how You don’t always need to excel in all 3 stages of Civil Services Exam and al the subject given in the subject. Rather, you must recognize your strength areas and should work on enhancing those areas even more, so that you fetch maximum marks from those strength points. Read ahead to understand in detail with live examples of successful candidates Chanakya IAS Academy Nurturing Leaders of Tomorrow

  2. Indian Administrative Services is by far one of the most coveted career choices in India and why not! The prestige and perks an IAS gets to live is unparalleled, while the duties carried out by these officers is at par too. But the tri-staged Civil Services Examination, for the selection of Civil Administrators, comprises of a vast syllabus, with multiple subjects to gain knowledge from. A basic understanding of this entire curriculum in lieu of the UPSC’s syllabus for Civil Services Examination is crucial, and it even makes sense, for, an able administrator must recognise his surroundings in both, the historical and practical depth. But, what if we tell you that it is nowhere a necessity that you must equally excel in every dimension of the given curriculum and it is acceptable if you perform a little weaker in certain paper or stage of the exam, for, it is your strength in other subjects that can balance the entire result. Well, yes, it is a very practical fact! To start off, let us start with the patent line, ‘a dedicated preparation in the right direction will always reap success’ It is true! Civil Services demands an individual, who is capable and intelligent enough to disentangle the wires of a complicated and diverse society like ours. Civil Services Examination tests candidates on the similar lines and hence knowledge of the entire given syllabus is important to understand what all you may have to encounter in your duty as a Civil Servant. Even your answers are not expected to be of school/graduate level but that in an Administrator perspective. So, nothing changes in your preparation pattern! Rather, improve on what you have been preparing until now and let the results shout out the hard- work you’ve put in!

  3. Purpose of writing this article for you people today is to help you all understand that it is not at all important for you to excel in all the subject and all the stages, rather the idea is to make you recognize your strength areas and encourage you work on your strength even more, for eg, if you have good hold on the GS part of the syllabus, or for the matter you are good at only GS paper 2 subject, you must make sure that you fetch maximum marks from that one area, and even if you get average marks in other subjects, you will get edge with that one strength. Let’s have a look at few examples here to help you understand the fact better. Must Read - Inspirational Stories of Civil Servants who lived up to their Jobs We acknowledge that you are working really hard for the Civil Services Exam and being an academy having 25 years of experience with the students of same calibre and interest, we totally understand how tough it is for students to balance between normal life and studying for India’s toughest examination. But honestly, every topper has a weak point! And so even if you lack at something, do not worry, you will still do a great job, only if you are dedicated towards your strengths. If you look at past 5-year IAS exam toppers, and notice the pattern in which they succeeded, you will understand it better. Name Marks Secured in the Mains in the Personality Test Anudeep Durishetty Nandini KR 927 193 Tina Dabi 868 195 Ira Singhal 920 162 Gaurav Agarwal This will seem to be a simple mark sheet of these toppers to you, but this does not depict the entire picture! Marks obtained by Anudeep Durishetty (CSE 2017 topper) in the personality test were 176, which is much lesser than most toppers and yet his aggregate is higher than the most. The real catch is in the marks he had scored in the Civil Services Mains exam, i.e., 950, which clearly state his command over the subjects asked in written paper. Marks Secured Total Marks Secured Rank & Year 950 176 1126 (55.60%) AIR 1, CSE 2017 1120 (55.31%) 1063 (52.49%) 1082 (53.43%) 975 (48.15%) AIR 1, CSE 2016 AIR 1, CSE 2015 AIR 1, CSE 2014 AIR 1, CSE 2013 769 206 Anudeep Durishetty (AIR 1, CSE 2017) Gaurav Agarwal (AIR 1, CSE 2013)

  4. Now if you look at the marks of Gaurav Agarwal (CSE 2013 topper), he had scored 769 in Mains, which is way too lesser than other candidates with rank 1 and his aggregate summed up at 48.15%. However, Gaurav’s confidence and mental preparedness for the Personality Test got him Rank 1 in the Civil Services Exam, where he got maximum marks, i.e., 206. But, do you understand the pattern? It was their individual strength in respective stages of the exam that secured them a dream rank! #Tip – A true mentor at this stage is must to hold your hand throughout the journey of your Civil Services Exam Preparation! Click here for guidance! Now even if you look at their individual scores in different stages and for different year, all these candidates definitely performed better than other contenders, which is why Rank 1 knocked on their doors. Nandini KR’s 55.31% was an unbeaten score in past 4 years, until Anudeep surpassed her with a bare minimum difference. There may be a marginal difference in their individual scores, but it clearly says that where Anudeep had a strong hand on the Mains Papers, Nandini KR, alike Gaurav Agarwal had a stronger hand in the Interviews. If you look at the scores of Tina Dabi (AIR 1, CSE 2015) & Ira Singhal (AIR 1, CSE 2014), they both too have variable strengths in each stage. Hence, it totally depends upon your academic and mental preparedness for the Civil Services, along performance in each stage of the Mains and Interview stage, which gets totalled for an aggregated score. And, as I stated earlier, there is even a chance that you may score well in one paper of the Mains Examination, say GS paper 1 or the Ethics Paper and not equally well in any one of the other 6 papers. Concluding the point, the idea is to help you to understand that you simply cannot rely on a single paper to raise the bars of your final score, for it is a collective score that will increase your final marks, but a little here and there in certain stage or paper will not snatch away the chances of you making it to the top. Strengthen your core’s knowledge base and play with the subjects that you have a stronger hold on, and you will be unstoppable.!! Access your preparation at regular intervals and perfect every inch of it! We believe in you! It’s your turn now! Nandini KR (AIR 1, CSE 2016) with the Tina Dabi (AIR 1, CSE 2015) Ira Singhal (AIR 1, CSE 2014)

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