Civil Services Mains 2020 Results: In or Out ? Way ahead, gratitude and Pain
The Civils Mains result has been declared. This thread is for sharing your grief , joy , mixed feelings - absolutely anything and everything.
I have few queries regarding Mains preparation and overall preparation in general
1. Have given 4 prelims till now, couldn't clear, missed by 1-2 marks in last two attempts. I am working now, and doing well financially as well. But the dream to become a civil servant is still there and hence mustered the courage to give one more attempt. Prelims has become a huge mental block for me, I am not sure how to go about it. I was doing good preparation keeping May 31st in mind, but suddenly this delay of 3.5 months has again got me into a fix.
How should I go about the preparation now, should I focus on prelims and mains simultaneously or should I do optional now, this conundrum about formulating an ideal preparation strategy is taking a toll on me. It's making me very anxious everyday. I think about equal weightage to Prelims, Optional and little bit Mains, but again it becomes too much in a day. If I do only optional, then the thought of 4 failed prelims mocks at me.
A brief background - I started my prep in 2016 quitting job as a business analyst. Failed in 2017 prelims, immediately realized UPSC is very uncertain and wrote other exams - IRDAI and NABARD and others. Presently working at IRDAI (Since 2018 Jan). Got married in 2018, we had a beautiful baby in 2020 and life is a bliss now.
Sometimes I wonder why am I preparing for this stupid exam, and then I feel it's really worth it, I should give one more shot. I wish, I should have been blissfully unaware of this exam like I was till 2015-16. I was 25 then and happily working in a corporate job with good onsite opportunities.
Even last year, when prelims got postponed, I was very relieved. Thought I will do optional thoroughly, prepare for mains and then at the end of day, didn't clear prelims itself. Last year after prelims debacle, I enrolled in a CA program of levelup IAS and been following them regularly.
Anyone in similar situation - How to get rid of this prelims blockage from mind, what to do for mains ideally.
Congratulations on being gifted with a baby :)
Is it a boy or a girl?
As a thumb rule, if you have not cleared Prelims three times in a row, 99% chances are that you will not clear it the fourth time, unless you have donesomethingradical about it . ( Or unless you have done at least CA, and you get a CA wala paper ).
Identify the known bottlenecks. There are four major reasons why people dont clear Prelims 3+ times.
#1 They think they have read basic books, but they havent. Basic books are to be read, chewed and digested. No questions can be gotten wrong from them.
#2 They have an obsession of Optional Subject. I annually see people take up PSIR Test Series and crash course and studying it 2 -3 months before the Mains. If 2 months before thePrelims, you are doing anything else except Prelims, you are a risk taker. Risk takers come in two varieties - and one of them are the reckless ones, who dont calculate risks, and fail, and the probability of failure was 100% for any third observer execept the risk-taker who simply is not aware of it.
#3 They fail to understand that competitive examination requires revision. How many times? As many times as you can. A good number for revision is 5-7-9 times. Its not college exam. Keep sources minimum and revisions maximum. Most of the times candidates I have met say that "I have read the book" but can't answer questions from there. If you say you have read a book, you should answer any questions from there. The good news is that it is not only possible, but actually easy once you set the goal of maximum revisions.
#4 Taking Guidance from a senior / or being demotivated by a senior who has not cleared Prelims. This can be fatal. The Civils exam makes you wiser by all means.
But flunking prelims gives youverywrong notions about the exam. I means its terrible. The people who have written even one Mains vs people who have written 0 mains have very different perception of the exam. Failure is a great teacher, but Prelims failure more often that not teaches you some very wrong lessons.
My suggestion to you would be that with all might focus on clearing prelims. You may do Mains stuff till 2 weeks of July at max - and there also please do GS. Dont be seduced by Optional. Toppers / Interview Appeared students who tell you to do Optional. They may tell you to do optional because they cannot bring themselves down to your position, and give you the suggestions fromtheirperspective.
Last but not the least, listen to all people, but follow only one, or best is to follow yourself. Onlyyouexactly know your true position. Not even your spouse. In fact least of all the spouse.
Remember that while other people may be the reasons for the screw ups in your life, but the responsibility to clean up the mess is exclusively yours. In the end take a good decision.
And there are no good or bad decisions, for that matter. Decisions have to be made good by dint of hard work.
Decisions are good or bad in the hindsight.
Also, please do not be offended if this sounds rude, but paucity of time forbids me from sprinkling niceties after every sentence. Also, kindly know that we /community people have your best interest in mind when we / community members are offering you an advice - as per our understanding of your situation.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir
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ssver2,
I don't want it to happen, but how many of you think that there is a possibility that Prelims is not happening on 10th Oct. 3rd wave is likely to occur in between and then interviews postpone and then cycle to continue.
2019 mains results delay due to EWS case, still have after effects
@Patootie said "I don’t know if it’s all the doomsday scrolling, but I somehow don’t feel like the prospect of Prelims on October 10 is real", "I hope things get much better well before October 10 and that there isn’t a third wave as catastrophic as the last two".
ssver2,SergioRamos
sjerngal,
@Anduin I think UPSC really commits to the revised exam date. They've organised it once as the wave was ascending. So, they won't postpone it again, until situations are equal to or worse than the second wave.
Had they been so much committed. Exam calendar would have been out by now.
Jai Shree Ram !
Purplesunbird,
I don't want it to happen, but how many of you think that there is a possibility that Prelims is not happening on 10th Oct. 3rd wave is likely to occur in between and then interviews postpone and then cycle to continue.
2019 mains results delay due to EWS case, still have after effects
@Patootie said "I don’t know if it’s all the doomsday scrolling, but I somehow don’t feel like the prospect of Prelims on October 10 is real", "I hope things get much better well before October 10 and that there isn’t a third wave as catastrophic as the last two".
A friend once told me that I’m right exactly 50% of the time. When I’m right, I’m really right and when I’m wrong, I’m really really wrong. :P
By that logic, only one of those things will come true. I hope it’s the second. :)
I have few queries regarding Mains preparation and overall preparation in general
1. Have given 4 prelims till now, couldn't clear, missed by 1-2 marks in last two attempts. I am working now, and doing well financially as well. But the dream to become a civil servant is still there and hence mustered the courage to give one more attempt. Prelims has become a huge mental block for me, I am not sure how to go about it. I was doing good preparation keeping May 31st in mind, but suddenly this delay of 3.5 months has again got me into a fix.
How should I go about the preparation now, should I focus on prelims and mains simultaneously or should I do optional now, this conundrum about formulating an ideal preparation strategy is taking a toll on me. It's making me very anxious everyday. I think about equal weightage to Prelims, Optional and little bit Mains, but again it becomes too much in a day. If I do only optional, then the thought of 4 failed prelims mocks at me.
A brief background - I started my prep in 2016 quitting job as a business analyst. Failed in 2017 prelims, immediately realized UPSC is very uncertain and wrote other exams - IRDAI and NABARD and others. Presently working at IRDAI (Since 2018 Jan). Got married in 2018, we had a beautiful baby in 2020 and life is a bliss now.
Sometimes I wonder why am I preparing for this stupid exam, and then I feel it's really worth it, I should give one more shot. I wish, I should have been blissfully unaware of this exam like I was till 2015-16. I was 25 then and happily working in a corporate job with good onsite opportunities.
Even last year, when prelims got postponed, I was very relieved. Thought I will do optional thoroughly, prepare for mains and then at the end of day, didn't clear prelims itself. Last year after prelims debacle, I enrolled in a CA program of levelup IAS and been following them regularly.
Anyone in similar situation - How to get rid of this prelims blockage from mind, what to do for mains ideally.
Bhai, if you do not do anything from July to 10th Oct barring prelims, I am pretty sure you'll clear it. Ap mains kaafi kar chuke hain. Is baar keval Pre karke dekhiye July see Oct.
Neyawn,Kasturi22
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