 Hi friends. Today we have Vaishali. She secured R&D rank 37 in the Indian Forestry Examination 2022. She is also working as an Agritian Officer in Tamil Nadu Government. And today she will provide her valuable inputs for the preparation of Agritian Botany for the Indian Forestry Examination. Welcome Vaishali. Good evening sir. Yeah. Actually you are one of the great inspiration for those who are preparing for the examination while working in your job, right? So I know that in Tamil Nadu Government, especially in Agritian Department, it's very difficult to get leave. But how do you manage that? Well, preparing for examination, you are also attending for a job. So how do you manage that? Sir, it was a long struggle to be honest, very honest. And that is why it took even more years to get to this position. So if I am preparing full time, maybe I would have got it even before. But preparing time, you have to squeeze in times that after the work hours or I have to complete my targets early. Or I have to work for more hours and then do with my preparation. Correct. But it is not impossible, sir. It is definitely manageable. You can do it. But with the shared grit and determination, you can do anything. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Okay, Vaishali. Yeah, first, let's start with the interview experience. So in AFS Entry, mostly it's a specialist examination. So in the interview, mostly they ask questions about the technical area and the factual questions. So what are the some of the questions that you face in the interview? Sir, with regard to Forest Service interview, there were four Charmaine and three members, which is in contrast to the Civil Service interview. And Charmaine was focusing on the general questions like the place I was born in and generalist my hobby section and things. And there was another member who was entirely focused on international relations. And the other member was for a technical person who asked me questions regarding agroforestry, clash and burn type of agriculture and all the other things. And another member was full on the agriculture and botany technical aspects. They asked me two questions regarding I was like two Marcus questions at the right and exams. Like what is the difference between embryo endostom and leek acetone seeds. And what is the difference between fertilization and pollination. And they asked me, what is the upper mixes. So most of the questions I was not able to remember there. And I told them that I'm aware of this. I did not deny it outrightly that I don't know sir. I just used some other way of expressing like I present and not able to remember sir. And I have heard of this term and I've read this term, but I'll definitely look back into it. The way you approach the entry board, I think you got very good mark in the interview. You can start with the conventional question. So how to prepare for an aggregated botany, whether it's manageable or we need any exclusive preparation for IO5s or is it sufficient to the CSC preparation alone sufficient to prepare for IO5s also. So with regard to agriculture, I just went on with the same preparation that I had with my CSC. I just devised it once and then I went with. So it is manageable for agriculture sir. We have to just put in more efforts for botany. So I concentrated the literary time that I had entirely on botany. So as you all know, botany was two papers and first paper is entirely different and has a very vast syllabus. And paper two is like overlap with agriculture paper two, which we know just in depth understanding in certain topics. So I just took some five days for paper two in botany and I did score well in that for the first paper. It took me so long time sir to cover all the areas, but it was very difficult to manage it and the question is also questions are also very tough. So what are the references you refer to from what the reference books are in internet sources? So as I had very less time, I just focused mainly on PYQ. I just took it from the online sources and the compilations of PYQs. I got to my friends and I used it solely as the base of my preparation and also I just to simplify and understand the complex terms I effort to Tamil Nadu, which is the state board books, 11th and 12th botany books entirely. And there is also a book which is mostly referred to by many other aspirants are Gupta, which is given in a detailed manner, but many of the questions and answers are missing out in that. So one cannot entirely depend on that book. And one should also extensively refer internet and the PYQs is more than enough is what I feel. There might be some questions here and there away from the PYQs, but you can manage it as we have option options. Whether the treatment is sufficient to cover what? I also refer to Pawan Kumar Jong sir's note. He was a talker in previous year and he has a crisp material which is not covering in PYQs alone. He is the overall subject. He has a Pawan Kumar Jong which is available on Telegram channel. Okay, good. So whether the three months time is enough to prepare for IO4 is between the CSC names and IO4's names? So many people think it is very difficult to manage the limited amount of time, but for agricultural optional people it is very easy is what I feel because then I can do it with full-time job and doing all the preparation. Anyone with a full-time preparation can definitely do it. One can just devote time for, especially when someone is giving TSE names and forestry names. Already the GKK paper and the agriculture paper would be taken care of. So one has to just take care of the English part which the grammar and idioms phrases part and that will be more sufficient. And they bought me the first paper alone sir. So second paper it is not an issue at all. So we can definitely manage it. So what are the books for general English paper? Because you scored very high marks in the general English also. So what are the books you are offered for general English? Any single material for general English? Sir I asked a few seniors and they just told me to go with Ren and Martin. I did not get that book. I just went on with there is a channel on Telegram, Apoor Sir who got ranked 11 in the last year. So he just compiled every notes and it is everything is available on his channel. And idioms phrases and YouTube channels and every reference he has given a detailed strategy. I just completely relied on what he gave. So it was a high benefit to cost ratio when compared to reading some very big books. So it is about smart work and not hard work is what it is. Okay. So how agree it is useful for your botany preparation? Sir as we already discussed I told you that second paper is overlapping. Most of the rate covers nearly 75% of agriculture second paper covers 75% of botany second paper. So one doesn't have to devote more time. Even if one is struggling with paper one, the other three papers of agriculture one and two and botany second paper, you can score well and compensate for the loss of the bare botany paper one. So that is how agriculture will be useful in botany. Regarding the notes making and so how the diagrams notes making, they are useful in our preparation. Because both are a science subject. So how important these are the diagrams, notes making, value addition. So what are the things you do in your preparation? Sir notes making I felt it to be very important in botany rather than in agriculture. In botany there are so many diagrams especially with respect to gymnosperms and angiosperms section. One has to draw so many diagrams. So it is very confusing also between the species and the family. So if one is trying to also there is no one single note notes for source for botany things. So it's better if we take our own notes based on the pyqs and cover it, especially the diagram parts if someone makes it small, small diagrams. It will be very useful and come in handy. In botany paper one mostly it deals with diagrams in paper two, it comes with cycles. So with regard to cycles, I did not go with the complex cycles and things that I just refer to come along to textbooks. It's just simple and it is very simple cycles and I took notes of those and I just went with them because revising those notes is very, very important at this time of preparation. So many students are recently they are clearing aggregation and botany option and recently last year also there are so many students are cleared with aggregation option. It's getting popular recently but still many students are hesitant to take aggregation option. But students like you they are your inspiration for the encouraging factor for other students to take this aggregation and botany combination. So thank you for this video Reshelim. I hope actually you are appearing names also these are CSC names also. So I show all success in your CSC names. Thank you sir. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity sir.