10 PRECIOUS UPSC TOPPERS' TIPS TO KEEP YOU MOTIVATED THROUGHOUT YOUR JOURNEY - Examarly Blog
UPSC aspirants seek UPSC Toppers’ Tips to head start their preparation in the right direction. Preparing for Civil Services Exam is a long journey filled with obstacles from time to time. There is no shortcut formula/rule to make your effort count in this UPSC exam.
Think of yourself why lakhs of candidates appear for this exam and only a handful of them are able to clear the UPSC exam. What makes the difference in appearing and clearing percentage? How to be in a safer zone? How to approach rightly to clear UPSC Exam? What specific plan/strategy should be followed? Where do non-achiever’s lag and achievers make? What mistakes did non-achievers do? When every aspirant’s dream is to clear the most prestigious UPSC Exam, then why many of them are unable to look into the eye of fish, like Eklavya did?
Here, this article will clear all your doubts and will take you to some of the important UPSC toppers’ tips so that you can start your preparation with the right approach. With some of these precious tips, you are able to follow your study schedule without any failure.
BEING THOROUGH WITH THE UPSC CSE SYLLABUS
“Knowing the syllabus word to word is very important. Whenever you’ll come across an editorial or any resource you’ll know it is important or not by relating it to the syllabus.”
– Tina Dabi (UPSC CSE AIR – 01, 2015)
“Strategy and target is the first and foremost thing while beginning the preparation for UPSC. Every morning when you wake up the first thing that should come to your mind is what is your target for today. The syllabus of UPSC is very vast so it is important to break it down into sub-topics and keep a track of the progress. It was one of the most important steps that helped me in cracking UPSC Mains”
– Ashima Mittal (UPSC CSE AIR 12, 2017)
LIMIT YOUR SOURCES
“Figure out what you want to study and from where and know it page to page. Stick to it and revise thoroughly and focus on the mock tests. I used to do a mock a day.”
– Pujya Priyadarshni, (UPSC CSE AIR – 11, 2018)
NEWSPAPER AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
“60% of the questions in UPSC exams come from current affairs and often students think that newspapers and current affairs materials consume a lot of time and hence let them pile up. These are the sources of the majority of questions so you have to be the master of it and you have to give it ample time.”
– Tina Dabi (UPSC CSE AIR – 01, 2015)
ANSWER WRITING
“Being from an Engineering background I was quite scared regarding answer writing but I realized that it is one of the most important things. So I tried overcoming this fear and developed a habit of writing 1-2 answers every day. Although I did not write very well in the beginning with practice I understood the standard of the questions in UPSC Exams and improved”
– Srushti Jayant Deshmukh (UPSC CSE AIR – 05, 2018)
REVISION
“Whatever you read today, after five or ten days only 10-20% will be there in your mind so it is very important to revise things periodically. For this, note-making is very helpful. If you don’t revise things before the exam then in the hall you won’t get time to recall or to think. So it is very important to revise and also make a revision plan.”
– Athar Aamir (UPSC CSE AIR – 02, 2015-16)
CONSISTENCY
“It does not matter whether you study for one hour or two hours daily, the most important thing is that you should do it consistently. The continuity should not break and one should not force oneself to focus even if you are not understanding a thing of what you are reading. Instead, look for resources that would help you in understanding it better. One should be aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses and make a consistent strategy accordingly.”
– Himanshu Nagpal (UPSC CSE AIR – 26, 2019)
OWNING UP TO FAILURES
“There is not much difference between successful and unsuccessful people except for the fact that successful people do not give up. This is their biggest quality. Life is full of failures but how you look at those failures makes the difference. You have two options either to learn from them and move ahead or consider it as the end of the road and stop. Your perspective towards failure determines your success.”
– Junaid Ahmad (UPSC CSE AIR – 03, 2020)
RUTHLESS DETERMINATION
“What you need is not just determination but ruthless determination. If you have an aim in your life you should be focused on how you are going to achieve it. You should make it your number one priority and leave behind anything and everything that distracts you. I had also made a keyword to motivate myself during exam ‘T.L.A.M’ – Talk less, act more.”
– Pradeep Singh (UPSC CSE AIR – 93, 2018)
PATIENCE
“It (UPSC EXAM) is a marathon in which you have to run every day and in the right direction and you won’t get the result in just one day. You have to be patient. There will be days when you would feel like you cannot do this, I had them too. But I remained patient.”
– Himanshu Kaushik, (UPSC CSE AIR – 77, 2018)
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