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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

MY JOURNEY OF UPSC : A LIL BIT OF IT

NAME : AJAY PAL


AGE : 25 YEARS

FROM LUDHIANA

GRADUATION : DENTISTRY

AMONG TOP 10 IN STATE IN MATRIC WITH 100% MARKS IN MATHS SCIENCE AND ENGLISH

TOPPER IN LUDHIANA IN +2 MEDICAL

AMONG TOP 3 IN ALL FOUR YEARS OF BDS AS WELL AS INNOVATIVE IN INTERNSHIP..WAS CHOSEN FOR DENTSPLY PROJECT

DURING INTERNSHIP I CAME ACROSS VARIOUS PATIENTS AND FOUND THAT LAPSES ON THE PART OF ADMINISTRATION ARE TO HIGH EXTENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISEASES PREVALENCE AS WELL AS LACK OF AWARENESS ON THE PART OF CITIZENS.

THEN I STARTED THINKING OF JOINING CIVIL SERVICES.THOUGH THIS IDEA WAS NOT YET CONCRETE AND I CONTINUED WITH DENTISTRY.I STARTED LEARNING OTHER WORKS IN DENTISTRY AFTER GRADUATION.BUT IN NOVEMBER 2008 I DECIDED TO BE A CIVIL SERVANT AND AROUNG NOVEMBER 25 I JOINED AN INSTITUTE IN CHANDIGARH.I STAYED THERE FOR AROUND ONE MONTH FOR PUBLIC ADMIN COACHING BUT DIDN’T FIND IT OF MUCH USE AND THEN RETURNED HOME.I SINCERELY STARTED PREPARATION AFTER MY SSC EXAMINATION i.e. 2ND MARCH AND HAD HCS PRELIMS ON 26TH APRIL.DID WORK VERY HARD AND GAINED CONFIDENCE WITH A LOT OF GUIDANCE FROM MY FATHER AND WHEN HCS PRELIMS RESULT WAS DECLARED ON MAY 3 I CLEARED AND GAINED MORE CONFIDENCE.NOW THERE WAS UPS PRELIMS ON 17 MAY AND I HAD WORKED VERY HARD AND PERFORMED GOOD IN PRELIMS AND WAS QUITE SURE OF CLEARING IT.THEN I STARTED PREPARING ZOOLOGY FOR SECOND OPTIONAL AND HAD MY HCS EXAM FROM AUGUST 22 TO SEPT 3.BUT I DIDN’T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH ZOOLOGYU FOR UPSC SO THERE WAS LITTLE MESS ABOUT OPTIONALS FOR MY HCS AS WELL AS UPSC MAINS.I APPEARED IN HCS WITH ZOOLOGY AND PREPARED SOCIOLOGY FOR UPSC MAINS.BOTH EXAMS WENT WELL.IN THE MEAN TIME I MANAGED TO CLEAR LIC AAO (GENERALIST) EXAM AS WELL AND LATER SSC MAINS ALSO.I JOINED LIC AS AAO FOR TRAINING AT AGRA.THEN CAME RESULT OF UPSC MAINS.THOUGH STUDIED SOCIOLOGY FOR MERELY 50 DAYS APPROX BUT MANAGED TO CLEAR CIVIL SERVICES MAINS (WRITTEN) AND GOT INTERVIEW CALL.I WAS INTERVIEWED BY NAIRBHAY SIR’S BOARD.IT WENT WELL BUT CUDNT MAKE TO FINAL LIST.THEN STARTED PREPARING FOR PRELIMS AGAIN AND MANAGED TO CLEAR THAT ALONG WITH JOB IN LIC.ALSO IN MEANTIME CLEARED SSC EXAM AND MADE IT TO FINAL LIST.FOR CSE THIS TIME THOUGHT OF AGAIN CHANGING THE OPTIONAL AND TOOK PUNJABI LITERATURE.ALOT OF HELP GUIDANCE FROM FATHER I MANAGED TO COVER THE SYLLABUS.THEN APPEARED FOR CSE MAINS AND IT WENT QUITE WELL AND WAS VERY MUCH CONFIDENT OF CLEARING THE MAINS.LATER HCS MAINS RESULT WERE ALSO DECLARED IN WHICH I HAD OPTED ZOOLOGY BUT I CLEARED.AND APPEARED FOR INTERVIEW IN DECEMBER..A WEEK LATER WAS PUNJAB PCS PRELIMS WHICH I CLEARED.AND THEN GOT INTERVIEW CALL FROM UPSC FOR CSE AND THIS TIME I HAD K K PAUL BOARD KNOWN FOR NOT VERY LIBERAL MARKING.BUT DUE TO HIGH MARKS IN WRITTEN PART MANAGED TO CLEAR EXAM WITH RANK 160.

SO IT WAS QUITE A COMPLEX JOURNEY WITH LOTS OF TWISTS AND TURNS.MANY HAPPY MOMENTS AND MANY WITH LOTSA DEPRESSION.PERSONAL LIFE AND LEISURE ON BACKTRACK.ALOT OF HARD WORK.BUT IN THIS ATTEMPT AS PLANNING WAS PROPER SO COULD MANAGE WITH A DECENT RANK.

BASIC POINTS TOP BE KEPT IN MIND : HARD WORK ,CONSISTENCY,SELF MOTIVATION AND FAMILY SUPPORT.

2 comments:

  1. hello sir ,
    congratulation for ur achievement .
    my name is amit sharma . and i am civil service aspirant.sir i want to take punjabi literature as optional .there is not much information about study materail of punjabi lit available on net .i want ur help . sir plz contact me as ur contact information is not available on this blog. my email id is amitdnn@gmail.com

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  2. Dear Sir
    As one can see, you recognised a problem in the system and chose Civil Services to correct the system from inside. I come across a lot of Civil Service aspirants in my class, every year, but I find they plan to chose it because it is lucrative, power and money come along with the post; they start coaching while they are still doing B.A., I only wish reading your blog would guide them.

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