How to Succeed In Civil Services Examination
22 Sep, 2009
Mr. Sridharababu Addanki
IAS Topper 2007-08 (5th position)
"Never-say-die Attitude and willingness to work harder helped me to achieve splendid success" "The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get / Become " - Sridharababu Addanki
There is a saying that when love and skill work together, expect a miracle. We should love what we do, Then only we can work harder with more vigour. Skill means proper planning, discipline, a clear-cut strategy and good guidance. Loving what we do helps us to be more patient, determined and hardworking. I always believe that hardwork will always be rewarded. One may initially fail, because of some reasons. Many people blame the luck for that. I firmly belive that luck constitutes only negligible percentage in one's success. Luck helps only those persons who work harder. " The harder you work, the luckier you get / Become." When our mind dreams / thinks that we can get top position, we are really capable of getting it. It is only the other factors which act on the candidate, for which he may not fare well in this examinations. One should identify the factors and try to minimize those factors, to maximise his chance of succeeding. coming to the actual preparation strategy, one should keep targets for himself. Divide the syllabus into parts so that they occupy their time available ( say one year ). Keep the monthly targets based on the division. A Candidate's main aim therefore should be to complete the target for the day on any given day. It is not the number of hours per day that a candidate devotes to reading, but the question whether the target put for the day is completed to his satisfaction should be the real concern . One can easily evaluate oneself by one single and simple test. At the end of the day, the candidate should put a question to himself as to how many other aspirants have studied / would have studied like him in the whole nation. Will he stand in the first 100 or 50 or 10 should be the answer. In short the question should be Did I give my life and blood today to stand first in the exam ? " Did I work hard today ( the intensity of hardwork should be such that nobody in India should work as hard as me )" should be the question.
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