UPSC CSE: What to do if you’re repeatedly failing in UPSC, the officer who grew to become IRS for the fourth time advised

Yearly round 9 to 10 lakh youth seem for the UPSC Civil Companies Examination with the dream of changing into IAS, IPS, IRS and IFS officers, however solely round 15 thousand of them are in a position to qualify for the primary examination. Many don’t even crack Prelims even after giving a number of makes an attempt. Whereas there are numerous candidates who fail in Prelims regardless of reaching Interview and Mains in earlier makes an attempt. IRS officer Anjani Kumar Pandey has tried to resolve the confusion of such candidates who’re repeatedly failing of their preliminary makes an attempt. Anjani Kumar grew to become an IRS officer by securing 314th rank within the UPSC Civil Companies Examination 2009.

IRS officer Anjani Kumar shared a submit on social media platform X and mentioned, ‘I had failed in my first try as a result of I didn’t give my greatest. I failed in my second try although I had studied very properly. I had failed in my third try additionally although I used to be anticipating a rank within the examination. After studying one thing from my earlier three makes an attempt, I succeeded within the fourth try. It’s okay to fail in UPSC or any examination of life. Many of the candidates who’re lastly chosen fail within the first try or in any of their makes an attempt. In reality, greater than 50 % take 3 to 4 makes an attempt to clear UPSC.

The query is what must be achieved after failure….

1. Marks Evaluation – Marks in UPSC inform you about your standing and progress. Analyze the marks obtained within the earlier try and give attention to the areas during which you bought much less marks. For instance, I used to be getting low marks/common rating in Common Research, so I labored on Common Research. I all the time obtained good marks in essay with much less effort, so I considered scoring extra marks in essay because it was my sturdy space. Concentrate on all these sturdy areas the place you possibly can rating quite a lot of factors with little or no effort. I scored very properly on the historical past optionally available and the essay, so I aimed to attain the very best in my strongest areas.

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2. Mains Examination Collection and Reply Observe – A very good take a look at sequence is crucial for Mains to grasp your precise progress. A proper checking guru and take a look at copy with proper suggestions is essential in order that one can actually work actually on their solutions and enhance the solutions. So, apply properly and write properly earlier than showing within the mains examination. There isn’t a level in simply learning once you can’t repeat it within the precise examination.

3. Presentation of your solutions – No matter you write in the primary examination must be introduced properly. In UPAC you not solely need to cowl all of the factors properly but additionally see that you just current all of the factors properly. Even in the event you write basic solutions it’s good to cowl all of the factors. Presenting the solutions in teams or factors or paragraphs or diagrams can enrich the standard of the solutions. An examiner ought to be capable of clearly see that the reply covers all of the factors.

4. Remember the fact that fortune favors the courageous – UPSC examination is sort of a gamble. I personally imagine that there’s hardly any distinction between a topper and an individual who appeared for Mains or Interview however did not make it to the ultimate checklist.

The luck issue issues rather a lot due to subjectivity. However it is usually true that efforts are many and if one retains working laborious, often in the future one will get chosen or will get success in another discipline of life.

UPSC is rather like every other examination, and let or not it’s that approach. Life is greater than UPSC. In case you don’t make UPSC then one thing higher is ready for you

…If winter comes, might spring be far behind…

In one other tweet, the IRS officer wrote, ‘UPSC examination can by no means be cleared in 3/6/9 months….

1. This examination requires at the very least 2 to three years, even for the brightest minds on the planet to crack this examination.

2. Many toppers, within the need of publicity and a spotlight, say that “I studied solely 6 months in the past.” After choice, typically toppers say such issues in pleasure which is a human nature, don’t imagine such issues in any respect.

3. It’s a extremely aggressive examination. There isn’t a substitute for laborious work right here or anyplace in life. By no means assume that simply 5-6 hours of research will assist you clear UPSC. One must research for 8-10 hours a day from June to February, 10-12 hours a day from March until the preliminary examination, and 12-14 hours a day until the primary examination.