{"id":46090,"date":"2019-05-03T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=46090"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T05:43:40","slug":"akshay-agrawal-air-43-cse-2018-1st-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/akshay-agrawal-air-43-cse-2018-1st-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Optimism should clearly reflect from your personality in the interview&#8221;-Akshay Agrawal AIR 43 CSE 2018| 1st Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rank 43<\/strong>, Akshay Agrawal has cleared the <strong>Civil Services Examination 2018<\/strong> in his very <strong>first attempt<\/strong>. He belongs to Maharastra and holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Engineering from Pune and a Masters Degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>He started his UPSC journey in 2017 while clearing the exam in the next year. His approach to Prelims was to <strong>stay focussed on one resource<\/strong> and following it religiously rather than going through too many sources for preparation.<\/p>\n<p>Watch his video in which he talks about his <strong>preparation strategy<\/strong>, how was he able to clear the toughest exam of the country in one go and the <strong>sources<\/strong> he referred to during his preparation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akshay Agrawal AIR 43 CSE&#039;18 |Cleared in 1st attempt\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kowgLYIzDaU?start=268&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Download his MGP Copies from <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rank-43-akshay-agrawal-download-mgp-copies\/\">Here.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rank 43, Akshay Agrawal has cleared the Civil Services Examination 2018 in his very first attempt. He belongs to Maharastra and holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Engineering from Pune and a Masters Degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He started his UPSC journey in 2017 while clearing the exam in the next&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/akshay-agrawal-air-43-cse-2018-1st-attempt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Optimism should clearly reflect from your personality in the interview&#8221;-Akshay Agrawal AIR 43 CSE 2018| 1st Attempt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701524600},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090","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=46090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}