{"id":1214,"date":"2016-12-02T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2017-09-07T22:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:22:03","slug":"video-ias-topper-rank-43-harsh-how-to-crack-ias-in-first-attempt-at-age-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/video-ias-topper-rank-43-harsh-how-to-crack-ias-in-first-attempt-at-age-22\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] IAS Topper Rank 43 Harsh General Studies Strategy and How to crack IAS in first attempt at age 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/first-attempt-ias-rank-43-413-marks-in-general-studies-harsh-shares-his-gs-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Previous Article\u00a0of Harsh on GS Strategy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harsh had scored 43rd rank in Civil Services with <strong>413 marks in GS and 145 in the Essay.<\/strong> In this video, Harsh shares his strategy for 400+ marks and 145 in Essay at the ForumIAS Community Meet. He cracked the exam at 22! He did not take any coaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This video is important because for all the serious aspirants, <strong>scoring well in GS is the most strategic thing to achieve<\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 if one wants to get a good rank and final selection.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Hindi ) How to crack IAS in first attempt at age 22 - IAS Topper Rank 43 Harsh shares his strategy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AEC3BHoAuOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"content-box-blue\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Gist of the Speech<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u2022 Use of ForumIAS Threads while preparation &amp; other queries: Both\u00a0for mains and prelims preparation.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Answer\u00a0writing<\/strong> is most important. Just reading books would not help. Start answer writing immediately.<br \/>\n\u2022 Focus more an writing, rather than reading\/studying.<br \/>\n\u2022 Ultimately, you have to go and write the exam. What you finally write in the exam hall is important.<br \/>\n\u2022 GS pattern has become very dynamic.<br \/>\n\u2022 Topics related to <strong>contemporary issues<\/strong> are important.<br \/>\n\u2022 Focus mainly on Currents Affairs for mains, especially for the dynamic part. GS &#8211; 2 and GS &#8211; 3 is mainly dynamic.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Aim should be to complete a topic in minimum time with maximum output, so that one can solve most of the questions\u00a0from the topic.<br \/>\n\u2022 ForumIAS Sharing Notes Thread helped a lot.<br \/>\n\u2022 Get a general idea on most relevant topics.<br \/>\n\u2022 Think in different dimensions while writing the answers.<br \/>\n\u2022 Try to know at least 3-4 important points on every topic \u2013 current or dynamic.<br \/>\n\u2022 Watch Rajya Sabha TV debates(if possible). As it is a visual medium . it helps remember better.<br \/>\n\u2022 Don&#8217;t become\u00a0an academician or do PhD on a topic.<br \/>\n\u2022 &#8216;<strong>Keywords<\/strong>&#8216; are important. Expand the keywords in exam.<br \/>\n\u2022 Try to put maximum number of points in answers.<br \/>\n\u2022 Always put a <strong>positive conclusion<\/strong>. Have an optimistic outlook and end the answers on a positive note.<br \/>\n\u2022 Start answer writing. Now! <strong>Start immediately.<\/strong> Answer writing is very important.<br \/>\n\u2022 Try to get hold of the structure of an answer. It comes with answer writing practice.<br \/>\n\u2022 Write on different dimensions.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Write answers regularly. Post\/ upload them in ForumIAS.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Forget the past!<\/strong> Do not think about the future. And, start\u00a0preparing seriously. Present.\u00a0Now is very important.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<em>ForumIAS was the only website I referred to during my preparation time<\/em>&#8220;, says the Topper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ultimately, while practicing answers or writing test series, it comes down to writing those answers about which we haven\u2019t heard.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marksheet of Harsh<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21765 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Capture.png?resize=404%2C328\" alt=\"capture\" width=\"404\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Previous Article\u00a0of Harsh on GS Strategy Harsh had scored 43rd rank in Civil Services with 413 marks in GS and 145 in the Essay. In this video, Harsh shares his strategy for 400+ marks and 145 in Essay at the ForumIAS Community Meet. He cracked the exam at 22! He did not take any&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/video-ias-topper-rank-43-harsh-how-to-crack-ias-in-first-attempt-at-age-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Video] IAS Topper Rank 43 Harsh General Studies Strategy and How to crack IAS in first attempt at age 22<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-public","category-toppers-story","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/harsh-topper.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":478,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}