 Namaskaram. Success stories with Sankhavathalekkar Swagadham. Innamukku puladhar, ithamantai UTSC civil service examination. 310 rangodhukudi pasaya, Mr. Vivek Kaviyakkar. Vivek Swagadham in programileka and hearty congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you feeling now? 2nd Thavanayana civil service clearing. What are your feeling and thoughts? To be honest, to be honest, to be honest to be honest, First I came here, so I was just gonna scroll down, so then I scrolled to my name. No words came up, just the type of person. So type that I got the number I got, I got my rank, immediately I saw it was the 301, the first thing you have is done, like done. I know I'm through. It's not happy. It's a emotion that is a part of happiness. It's a part of your relief. You are not a cyclist. It's a relief. It's a part of happiness. It's a relief. It's not a part of happiness. It's a relief. I am gradually happy. I am much more happy. That's what I thought. Great. Let's talk about your preparation journey. We have been talking about it. Where you describe the humble background from which you have come. There was a small house, there was no bathroom. In that humble background, there was almost potential IAS service allocation. But mostly till I have reached the pinnacle of professional service. What is your preparation journey or your life journey? I am from a backward space. Both are kind of caste based. All are from a class based. We had money. We are from a backward caste. Actually, my father had a same. I was coming from that community. There was no education there. Now it's pretty much educated. I am from a village in Kasapur called Kutikol. My mother had an education there. I started from that. My mother left Kasapur to Kutikol. I came from Thalassery. We studied for education. My school was about 8 kms away. I used to go by train. I used to go by train from Thalassery to Kannur. I used to study by train. I used to study by train and movies. I used to study by time manager. After that, I went by train. I cracked the air triple. I cracked the air triple. I was in Ritchie. After that, I got a job. Which was not great. I was in CTS. At that time, I wanted to try UTSC. My friend was preparing for that. I think he was in 2013. You might know. He was in Arvindvibha. He was preparing for that. There was a lot of investment. It was also high. He had to take a risk. There was a binary thing. We created an economic system. We talked about it. I got KAT at the time. I got around 97% to 98%. And I got into I.N. Calcutta. So in I.N. Calcutta, I.N. Calcutta was a huge impact on me. I was a sociologist. I got into economics. I came up with an idea. I reflected in the background. My father was an alcoholic. My elder brother was an alcoholic. Why this alcoholism is seen in our community. My father died by repairing the last last year's films. So I was buried in the dirt. I was at the cemetery. So there is a systematic addiction that is driven. So the problems are reflected in that. So I am trying to develop a social consciousness. So I have an idea. I can work in the corporate. I don't do that. Now corporate is in the distral. I work in the distral. But at the end of the day, I belong. That is somewhere where I have some amount of public service. So I am a sociologist. I work in the place. I work as a product manager. So I work as a product manager for 2 years. First, I work in the place. So I am a work manager. So now, I work as a product manager. So the rest of the time I work as a product manager. So by the time I quit the job, I saved my money and started working for more than 170 years. So, this is the kind of journey I have had. It is truly inspirational. It is an inspiration for me to come to this cycle. It is very interesting to take a career graph of an educational graph of a student. So, first you crack the idea, repeat it again, and then you catch the idea of an MP, and finally you clear the civil service. So, what is your inspiration? So, what inspired you for this journey? Let me tell you something. Yes. When it comes to inspiration, my mother was an inspiration for me. She was a single mother. So, she has experienced many things. So, her idea was like a public service, a post office service. So, it is her inspiration. It is the initial part of my life. So, when I was in high school, I had a friend. He was my father's friend. So, when he came, like me, he came from a backward space. He was an NIT, then an IIM Calcutta, then an IAS. So, I understood that this kind of a journey is actually possible. Because I was there in NIM Calcutta, and NIM Calcutta was not there. So, when I came here, I came to know that it was an inspiration for me. So, I heard the story of my mother. So, I came to know that it was an inspiration for me. So, when it comes to inspiration, it is the most important thing. I decide something, I will do it. There is no way that it can be. We decide something, we decide what kind of effort it takes to decide. So, I decided first in NIT and IIT. I decided to go to IIM Calcutta ABC. After that, I studied in Chennai. I decided to go to IAS. By the end of the day, I did not get any relief. I would enjoy it. Vsatra, good Mandara for you. So, seriously it is a good success mantra. Just to ask about an aspect of it, were there any heroes in your childhood or your life? Were there any people who motivated you in your civil service? Apart from a few families that take place there, It is in our country, in our space, in our social culture. In our society, it is about a career path. It is about a career path. It is about a career project and an achievement. When we see it, we think that it is nothing. It is nothing. There is no pain or intensity for such people. It is nothing. But, there has been a huge, huge, huge impact. Another person is Roger Federer. I have seen him for years. He is a big Federer fan. I am not a slump guy in the career. Around 2010 or 2011, I think. I have not got any grand slam. I am still not getting anything. I am not getting anything. Age has nothing to do with your achievements. I am pretty much old. I am 28 years old. But, I am a Federer. Federer is 34 or something. And then, I am getting grand slam. So, these two people have actually impacted me, Federer and Ambedar. Great sources of inspiration, actually. Now, we are going to talk about the preparation of the job. There are a lot of people outside. But, the security of the job is something that the civil service has to do. They have to learn how to do the job, how to do the job, how to do the time tag. There are a lot of conclusions. So, they have to prepare for the job. What is the advice they have to give to them? The preparation along with the job. See, this is very honest. My major chunk. This might come as a surprise for some people. But, it is not. It can be done. And, the major chunk of nodes is the job itself. Yes. So, I will just explain what I did. Monday-Friday job. Saturday-Sunday, I am meeting class job. All Saturday, 8 hours, 9 hours meeting classes. Saturday and Sunday, and coming back, again, the job next day. I will come back from the job, come back from the job, come back at 5, and I will start at 6. So, I had a job till 5.30. I came back at 7. It is the closest place. I got the closest place to the office. I came back at 7. I will come back around 12. Then, I will come back at 6.30. This I did for one and a half hours. I will complete the G.S. round with the preparation. Optionally, the preparation is complete. The basic coaching is ready. I will start the job. So, it is very much possible with the job. Now, if you ask me the question, what is the job I assigned you? See, I am 28. I was 28 when I started the preparation. So, it is not the same as before. But, the job I assigned you was 0.6 marks. I couldn't get through because it was 0.6 marks less. If I did not answer the question incorrectly, that is what it is, 0.6 marks. So, that is why I quit. There is no reason to quit. I was 28 already. The next attempt is 1 HM. That is why I quit. If I was 24 or 25, I would still continue my job. And I would not have any questions. That is why I also want to say, So, if you are a working professional, A small institution, Shankar has a working professional, Shankar has a working professional. Either Shankar, do what someone says or something. Whatever you prefer. Join a week-end class, a quality institution. Join a week-end class. But it is difficult, a bit more difficult than other people. We do not have much time. So, if you do not have time, if you do not have time, if you do not have time, you will lose your job. If you do not have time, you really know the value of time. Effective studying has happened for me the most, very close to 10 hours of working. That is what I did. Effectively, I did not have time to work. So, if you do not have time, you will lose your job. That is something I wanted to say. So, it is quite possible. If you want to study, do it. Definitely. I do not know whether it is a mix or not. I have been listening to UPSC for 14-15 hours. I spent a lot of time preparing. I have been studying UPSC for 14-15 hours. I have been studying UPSC for 14-15 hours. While I was doing a career, I had an NIT IIM background in Divyaikanth. We do not study education institutions. That is relevant. I did not pay the exam. I studied for a long time. How much time is it? How much time is it? I will tell you one thing. How much time should we study for the next one? This is a myth. You studied for 12 hours. You studied for the next one. You studied for the next one. You studied for the next one. I have said that 6-7 hours are very active, very intense. That is a question. Very effective, very intense 6-7 hours. You have to close your doors. Close your doors. You have to close your doors. You have to remain silent. When you study, you have to write. You have to write what you read. You have to do a short note. When you write, you are involved in what we are doing. We are much more involved. We just don't do a secret. We write actively. We have an idea in it. You have to examine it. Exactly. Take it very important. Second, this is a bit of a radical method. So isolate this thing and keep it on my table. So it takes. Some peoplealley are taking it from the tension. For me, a person like me, Vocês should have been the push for it. If I think it is physically it takes time It makes a lot of stick So if it isander correctly, you know how I am, I mentioned this earlier. I can't keep it but when I put it on and put it back, I have to do that kind of this thing. So that kind of policy. It's exactly easy, I can tell you some. But in gym, we have to work out. Our intense work out is a similar intellectual thing. In intellectual, there is a gymnasium. Correctly, this is how intense it is. So in the gym, people who have been in the gym for a long time, the intense work out is a similar. You ask any gym person or any person who is into physical fitness, they would tell you intensely one hour. That's it. One day is enough. Exactly the same thing. The other thing you ask is the background. No. Not at all. This is the most democratic exam I have seen. See, background is mattered in CAT. In CAT interviews course, where are you now? You are in IT or NIT. So they ask for extra marks for that background. But this is an exam. That's something very great about this exam also. Any background, wherever you are equal. Even then, 50 marks are more than 50 marks. I forgot. 50 marks are more than 50 marks. Here in the local engineering college, there is a major engineering degree. I have done NIT engineering. 50 marks are less. What I am telling you is that the board is not biased in any form. They see how your interview performance is and then not. Your previous this thing does not matter. Any background, anywhere but one thing. Hard work. Very, very hard working for people. Only this. No question. Anybody can crack it with some intellectual work outs. Something like imagination within you. Great message actually. So you were telling about note making. Not making is important. How do you prepare for exam? How do you prepare for NCRDs? How do you make newspaper notes? How do you make any books? So not making is a confusing area. So what is your advice on note making? Yeah. See. Like under preparation, I am not going to do anything without note making. I am not going to do anything without note making. I am going to do a freelance test. Let's say any test series. One section wise freelance test. History is a freelance test channel. I am going to do that. So which book is correct for that? I prefer Spectrum for History. So you can refer to any book which you are comfortable with. I don't push any book here. So what are the notes for that chapter? Very freelance based factual note making. I am going to do exam days. So Asit was one of the major people who helped me. Who helped me crack this. So I joined the test series. So I am going to do test series. So I get all things which are related to all material. I will get those material, get the particular notes. Each issue I will cover in a systematic comprehensive manner and make a main page of it. And cover with notes. That's the one. This is the initial set of notes. This might be long. So the second iteration is very important. It is very specific to bullet point wise notes. That is the final revision. You have to do at least 3-4 multiple revisions. So this is the second note. It is brief. It is the second iteration. That's very important. That's why our memory is very important. So the second iteration is very important. There are just a few notes. So notes are very important. Next I want to ask you about the option. You have studied engineering in the background. You have studied management. The option you have taken is sociology. So what is the reason behind this management and engineering? What is the suggestion while deciding the option? What should be considered as the suggestion? There is management in engineering. That's true. In my degrees. So I have studied management clearly. So I want to be a strategist. I am working at that time. When working, a compacted option is very important. So I am looking at something and the syllabus is compacted. Secondly, this institutional help is very important. If you get a coaching, that's the best option. That's why I am working. I have not decided on my work. So that's the second option. Thirdly, I have studied as an expert. I don't have time to study. So this option is very important. This is how I end up in sociology. So sociology has a compact syllabus. It has institutions across the country which provide sociology classes and textbooks. Third, finally, it has a huge intersection with GS1. And to an extent, even in GS2. Okay, good. So these are the two interviews, the UPS interview last year and this year. How is the experience of the UPS interview? In the interview, there are some interesting questions. And the two interviews, if I can say something about that interview, I think it's the MAMIRA tensed up. Sridhanagraj was the person who interviewed me. So I was very tensed up at that time. When I told them about the carry-up, they didn't want me to be tensed up. So I was very tensed up at that time. In that sense, the board is very convivial. These are not very tensed up at all. The interview is still good. What's my interest in the interview score? As of now, I am going to score 153. For a profile which I have, I cannot score. That's all right. 153 is not a bad score. But some people don't even care about profiling. If I score one, it's a bad score. I have done nothing like that. If I don't understand anything, I will sit at that point and do a regel. Is also available, so that's how you're going to do it. You can also do it, as well as your research about it. Yes, that is not 발� colony placement, at the time, so I had worked with a group of the platics, groups for toutoans and crew, like that group of people, a split group for every single eyebrow. We have different outzyka. You can see how we have different groups, Chase them and�ro Monsieur那么. Just about on-site 엉e 1983. Just to add to have that of an events... Next... I have that control. The only thing I am not doing is a smile. So I smiled a lot and I entered. If you are interested in this, you will not be able to see the types of cuts. So just to destabilize you and your confidence initially, I sat and just pushed back. It was a role that I had to play. It was a role that I had to play. That is the fun they want to have. So then you reach there. The second interview was done by Mr. T.C. He was the head set decision of India retired and then he is the U.K.'s member. He asked me about the L and Dab base of the interview. He asked me about the Dab base of the interview. So I was very impressed. My answers were very confident. I had the pause. I did not want to talk to anyone. Even if you do not want to pause, you have to pause. It is not possible to make people think that you are thinking or someone with a restrain. I was very excited to hear that. I was very excited. I had a pause. I wanted to ask you something. I asked you a question. I did not know where you had the pause. I had a pause. I did not know how it was. It was something that was well coming in this. I hope it has worked with Mark. Any interesting questions you would like to share? You can ask in the interview. I think it was a quote on net. I have not read it. I have not read it. I think it was a quote on net. I know you want IAS and ITS and maybe a bit of IAS. He just asked me one service about IAS. When service is this close, it is very difficult for you to differentiate between one and the other. If someone is there in some service like this, I expect that question to find an answer. This journey is a part of the IAS academy. We are doing mock interviews there. We will give you a small part of the mock interview. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. We are doing mock interviews there. 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