While you will<\/em> need to focus on where you have scored\nless, do not lose focus on where you have scored fine. In UPSC, you will always\npay a price for losing even a little focus on a subject that you deem to\nbe your strong area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gods do not reward people who do not secure the ground\ngained by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scored 155 in Essay? Don’t write a single essay this year,\nand you will go back to 110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think that Philosophy Optional Paper 2 is good and your\nstrong area and you need to work hard on Paper 1 this time? Do not do what you\ndid last year + more, and this time you will see reversal of marks of Paper 1\nand Paper 2 – ending up with the same total as you end up this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second,<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>to achieve the mains marks \/\u00a0percentile\u00a0that you got this year, you will have to put in extra effort. To score better than that, you may have to put a lot more extra effort than you did previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I met ForumIAS Member Rasalghul last week. He scored a 905\nin Mains, and got some 110s rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “So-did-you-hugely-benefit-from-my-answer-writing-video-that-everyone-who-has-cleared-the-exam-is-talking-about?”\nI asked with an ear-to-ear grin on my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Okay, I wasn’t smiling, but I am imagining the candidates\nside of the story )<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No, Sir I did not benefit from it. I watched the video\nfully and carefully. I was already doing it the way you told in the\nvideo”. He said nonchalantly.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Okay, but here is the thing”, I said, humbled by\nhis curt reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I know you have fairly good marks in the Mains. ( He\nwas a tall-fair-handsome guy who would probably be modeling if he did not do\nCivil Services ), but to get the same marks as you did last year – you will\nhave to work extra hard. That is if you plan to write the exam again.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n My point is -the exam – or the way in which this exam\nrewards candidates – is that it invariably penalizes you the minute you do\nnot focus on any of your subjects \/ Papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you keep see-sawing between the subjects each year,\nyour marks will keep see-sawing too, every year. So between the months between\nPrelims and Mains, focus on everything<\/em><\/strong> – as oxymoronic as it may\nsound – if not in the number of hours spent, then at least on your strategy<\/em><\/strong>\nfor it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three,<\/em><\/strong> find your closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the end of this years examination process – which\nhappens after the marks<\/em> are declared, it is time to find a closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Especially for those of you who are no longer in the\nExamination process – because you are not\/cannot write the exam any more, or\nbecause you got IAS, or because you got IFS ( and that means you dont\nhave to \/ cant write the exam anymore ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may not realize the importance of it – or the\nscarcity of it – just as yet – but a closure is extremely important at this\nstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in case, you plan to not have one, because you want to\nuse it as the starting point<\/em> of your journey. – Just as ForumIAS Member\n@HHH did when he did not find his name in the final list – take a look at this\n– thats an equally good option too – as long as you are not in deep agony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is\nthe link to the video<\/a> he shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of us, we are so<\/em> deep in the preparation, that\nwe do not even know what will give us the closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My inbox is full – not only with people who have not cleared\nthe exam – but with people who have done it<\/em> – gotten into IAS or IFS or\nIPS or IRS or other Allied Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost all of them have one question – Why Me? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Not because they did not<\/em> get what they wanted, but\nbecause they got<\/em> what they wanted.[2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n But they did not score highest in the paper \/ interview in\nwhich they wanted to score and had put in a lot of effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Closures are not personal. They are private<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a difference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday was not so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It ended well for me, with at least one closure that I\nwitnessed, which I will share with you[3]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <private content removed><\/p>\n\n\n\n Closures are important. To begin afresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because lose ends leave cobwebs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was extremely happy[5] to see at least some people find\ntheir closure yesterday – because thats one luxury I never had<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So find your closure, and even if you don’t find it – begin\nafresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2764<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neyawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. Views exressed are personal and do not represent the\nviews of ForumIAS. You can reach me at neyawn@forumias.academy , and while I\nmay not be able to answer all your emails, I will read every one of them. I am\na good listener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ** With a Rank 3 and Rank 4 in the family – and in the IAS –\nhe probably had the best guidance possible, and didnt really need my help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [2] It is man’s insatiable desire that is the source of his\nbiggest strength – like thinking of building a mission to the Mars – as well as\nbiggest weakness – that is the curse of dissatiafcation with whatever one has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [3] Most people would think a person securing Rank 1 would\nnot even look at his marksheet. That is far from truth. Everyone needs a\nclosure. A rank may not get it, but a marksheet can. You get a closure when you\neither get what you want, or have zero chances of getting what you want. The former\nis usually better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [4] Conversations I have with people I work with are\ngenerally casual so that I remain approachable at all times. The use of\nsmileys, winks or a tongue out does not mean I wink, put my tongue out or close\nmy eyes and smile in real life. They are merely representations of an emotion\nas passed over an electronic medium such as Whatsapp, and is part of popular\nculture. Do not be judgemental about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [5] The word for that is vicarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday was an important day for those people who appeared for CSE 2017. The UPSC, albeit reluctantly, came up with the marks-sheet of those who wrote the Civil Services Examination 2017. This is one is for those of you who made it. And those of you who did not. 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