 So in top 100, there are more than 20 students from Shankarayas Academy. So we have given around 25% of the total results of the overall UPIC recommended candidates. So this is about the results of Shankarayas Academy in the 2019 CSE results. So like about the Academy, we are in this particular arena for like 15 years, more than 15 years. We have started Academy in the year 2004 and from then on we have produced more than 1000 civil servants. We are in Chennai, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Delhi, Pima 2, Trichy, Madurai and Intravaro also. So our coaching will be like from the basics, from the basics. We will start the coaching from NCRTs, from how to read newspapers, how to take notes from the newspapers. So like each and every stage will be like very comprehensive and the entire process of the course will be around like one year. It will cover each and every subjects of the preliminary mains and we will also give free guidance to the interview students. And like we will be having a lot of guest lectures from the IPS, IPS officers, environmentalists, social service activists. And you will have particular classes on current affairs and also I think the guest is online. I think the guest is online. We will start the session and after the guest we will have a question and answer session. Good evening to all of you and it is my pleasure and privilege to be a part of this seminar today. Being a student of Shankarayesh Academy and I look back to my days as a student of UPSC preparing for civil services examination. Shankarayesh Academy, I took my general studies and sociology classes through Shankarayesh Academy and it was very much helpful in clearing my UPSC exams. I should say it was a wonderful opportunity and the guidance and the materials they provided was very helpful. In fact, I when I speak it is nearly 12, 10, 12 years back and a phase where still the coaching institutes was very nascent and very preliminary phase in Tamil Nadu. But still Shankarayesh Academy provided the cutting edge for me in clearing the UPSC exams in my first attempt. Clearing the exam is every aspirants dream but again clearing it in their first made an attempt is like icing on the cake. So I should very much place thanks for the faculty and all members especially our beloved Shankar sir for providing me a platform. For clearing the civil service examination and guiding me through my preparation. I'm sorry for a few glitches. This is my official number so calls would be dropping and anyway I'll try to cut it as maximum as possible. So starting the talk on the topic that you two can become an IPS officer. First of all I would like to place a few concerns. I should not say it as concerns. I should say a few things every aspirants should contemplate or should like introspect within himself as to before applying for UPSC especially choosing IPS as a candidate. Fortunately or unfortunately UPSC civil services examination Indian police service is part of the same exam for the other services like Indian administrative services, revenue services, foreign services and other services. But I would like to say at this juncture that the Indian police service is very very different from the other services. It has a lot of facets. What we generally see in media or the movies or the other forms of entertainment industry is quite contrasting and it's quite different from the real picture and the real work of a police officer especially an IPS officer. So the few issues are the three basic things I would like to highlight for any candidate who would like to choose IPS as his first option in the civil service examination would be number one that first of all whether will be able to take up the police as a carrier because police as a carrier is very very different from the other services of government. I would rather say it is not as a carrier. It is as a service because the public and the media and all the other pillars of the government and our democracy expects a huge a huge paradigm change in the way police operates in India. So police as a carrier and as a service is very tough. So first of all, every person should be able to identify whether the police pursuing police as police service as a carrier is within him, whether he is able to take it up or whether his mindset and his orientation is able to be taking a police as a carrier. Number two, police is speaking. There are a lot of myths like how it is connected to civil services. There is a lot of myth connected to police as a service also. For example, people think police is a very very physically challenging. Of course, it is a physically challenging profession. But I would say more than physically challenging, it's a mentally challenging profession because you have to manage a lot of pressure, a lot of deadlines, a lot of tasks, a lot of targets, which is generally not achievable in the general standards. For example, the always the standards and the results, what we need would not be matching with the resources. So mentally, police is a very tough career. So first of all, the candidate should be able to think whether police as an option as a carrier would be mentally suitable for that profession. Number three, which again comes back to my first point, police as a professional option in civil services. Basically, the paradigm has shifted. If you take the two eras, like during British and after independence, after independence, we are slowly moving towards service oriented policing. Because when British were ruling the nation, they had the single agenda of making the most of the economy, and they used police as a form of a repressive force for implementing their agenda. Even the laws, everything is mostly suited for their operation. But after the independence of our nation, we started moving towards policing as a service, policing as a field where we can contribute for the betterment of the lives of the citizen. And policing as such is a very important part of our internal security paradigm of our nation, because for any developmental activity to take place, the most important thing is the regulation, the implementation and the maintenance of law and order. Because if you take the case of any state, for example, case state of Tamil Nadu, which is number one in the implementation on the maintenance of law and order in the country, we recently ranked first according to a study. The growth opportunities and the development opportunities and the environment is very conducive for business and the other activities to try. So policing is a very important aspect. And we are the first responders to take the case of a terrorist attack or anything, anything. There might be so many organizations, there is NISG, there is so many other organizations, but still, police is the first responder for any crisis, whether it is a natural calamity or a terrorist attack. So the expectations of the public and the standards of service, which is we as a service, we as a department to provide the public is very, very challenging. It is very, very tough and the expectations of public daily grows day by day. But so when we come back to the aspect of good governance, the most important thing of good governance is transparency, accountability and ownership. When there is these three things involved in the actions of any government agency, then the aspect of good governance comes over there. So policing as a service, as a career, again, whether the orientation of some public service is very, very important. Many times we have to keep our service before selling. I should say not many times, most of the times impact. So I would like to say that these three things, every candidate or every aspirant should have these three things in mind before choosing police as a career or a profession in civil services. All this certain that I'm not intimidating and it's not a very serious thing because everything is developed over a period of time and the mindset is what we set. And it's rather, it's like, it's like, it's like how you exercise. Mind is the biggest muscle I feel in our body, maybe not in size, but in the power. So the more you exercise your muscle and keep it under control, the more healthier you are and the more better you can contribute towards any function. Maybe whether it's your preparation or later, once you get selected in the civil services, performing in the field, providing the public the much needed good governance, what we expect. Because most of the world's best organization, including the United Nations, they are already moving towards good governance and any government which operates on the paradigm of good governance, will be able to contribute and be able to satisfy the needs of the citizens in a better way. So coming back to again, police as a profession, I would like to touch upon areas I would not talk about the exam pattern or the other aspects of preparation. Maybe I would like to answer those questions during my question and answer session. Right now, I would like to talk about policing, how it is different from the other profession or other services of the government. IPS was my first choice. Maybe I started my civil services preparation with the note that I should become a police officer because I was very much interested and I was very much fascinated towards uniform. Uniform always meant two things to me. One is responsibility and number two is providing the much needed justice to the people who for whom they feel their justice is not provided. As we say justice delayed is justice denied. So I feel these two things have always fascinated me and I feel as a responsible citizen, policing is one way where we can contribute for the betterment of the society. So in my careers of spanning nearly 10 years, I got selected in 2010 and I was first allotted to Manipur Kada. Then due to some personal compulsions and also some reasons of my own, I wrote the civil services again and I got selected in 2014 and I joined my home Kada Tamil Nadu. So nearly in the 10 years of my service, there have been a lot of moments which has made me very satisfied, very happening, I should say. There was an instance, I had told it in a previous video also. I was able to save an elderly man who was kidnapped within four hours. It was a real hot chase compared to any movie scene. So I was glad that we were able to save him within four hours and that old man when I met him back again, he was telling that I am a very fierce person. I used to pray to God but right now the only God I feel alive before me is your police team and your police officers. So likewise in any police officer's career, there will be a lot of moments which will make you really worthwhile and really meaningful. Police is not like what you see in the movies. Actually, there is a lot of paperwork involved in the police, starting from the police station up to the rank of the top most police officer in the state like DGP, what we call Director General of Police. There is a lot of paperwork, a lot of document work involved and we have to involve ourselves in a lot of policy making issues and a lot of implementation of laws and other things. So it is not as black and white as what is shown in movies. It's not like a good cop or a bad cop. There are a lot of areas which is not shown to me. But I would certainly say this that being a police officer, that sense of working for the betterment of your country and your nation and your society is huge. There are a lot of instances and a lot of situations where you will directly feel that you will be doing anything which will be promoting the betterment of the lives of the people. So policing as a career is really very, very, very fascinating I would say. And there are a lot of opportunities. Policing is not only about law and order. Right now I am superintendent of police of Nagapatnam district. Right now this is a law and order post. But there are other wings of police. Police basically is a very functional and professional organization. There are a lot of wings in police like intelligence, law and order, training, armed police. There are many traffic planning cell, technical cell in fact. There are a lot of police in the very, very professional organization. Tamil Nadu police is a premier police organization in the country, which is leading the other state police forces. A lot of people take lessons from us and implement their own mechanism. So policing is a very professional and a very functional aspect and you can also take up assignments like UN, Interpol and other foreign based organizations also as you grow up in the carrier. Again you can also work for organizations like CBI, IB, R&W, then also central police organizations like CRPF, BSF etc. So policing is a very diverse carrier. It's not only related to law and order or what they show in movies. There are a lot of opportunities for you to work. You can even work in civil aviation security, bureau of civil aviation security. Like there is multiple choices you have and it gives you a very good choices of carrier. Then coming back to the work of a police officer. The work of a police officer is not as simple as what is shown in movies. Again I am coming back to the same point. Here it is involved mostly with respect to implementation of laws, following of procedures. The three main acts which police follows is Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Indian Evidence Act. Of course there are other pre-through-off laws but these are the main brain and part of the police force. So police force is basically a very professional force and it involves a lot of documentation work. It's also a very meticulous work and it's not like fruitless work what is shown in movies or something. And policing is challenging also like what I said before in the sense that policing is very undefined. There is not scheduled tasks like some departments for example take case of a health department or if you take case of education department. Schools have a policy, they have a syllabus, teachers have to teach, exams have to be conducted. But police is very uncertain. The daily routine of a police officer is not the same. You get to have law and order issues, you have to handle agitations, you have to handle public, sometimes there is to be road road course, rail road course. There might be heinous crimes like murder cases, decoy, rape or something. There might be agitation by the public for electricity or water. So police work is very very uncertain. So that is the real challenging aspect because there is no standard operating procedure for these instances. Everything has to be tailored according to the situation. For example, recently I had to handle a crowd of 500, nearly each side 500 fishermen people due to some issue between two fishermen villages. So there is no cut short procedure or there is no simple answer or simple solutions for these kind of problems is what innovatively you think and you handle the situation. And how well you are able to address the crowd and satisfy their aspirations. So challenging wise and opportunities wise, policing is very very good and it gives you a lot of opportunities to prove your metal. And it gives you a lot of opportunities that satisfaction. Most of the friends I would say that most importantly, the satisfaction is the most important thing. Whether you are a police officer or a civil servant or you are an entrepreneur or you are whatever you are, whatever field you are. The satisfaction which comes directly from the your work or from your mind like how you perceive the work you do is very much very much. Important and policing gives you a real, real that pleasure. So many days when I go back to my home and when I share to my mother or my family that today this thing happened and you are able to say do this and we are able to help a lot of people. The look are the are the happiness I see in my family members face or the the effect what it brings in them. It's very good. So it's like a mutually satisfying thing. So policing as a career provides opportunities where you will really feel satisfied and really feel happy to be wearing the uniform. Then again recently some days sometime back when I joined the police service, I was told by a veteran officer veteran officer that policing how it is going to be important in the coming days. Like I said before the as a service policing is becoming tough is becoming heavily loaded. But the other aspect where the real policing the hardcore policing is there to tackle crime to tackle issues to maintain the law and order in the society or to keep the internal security aspect of our country safe and the frame intact. It's very, very important that we have a sound and a very strong and a very professional police force. So my friends I will say it's very, very challenging. For example, everybody would be seeing had would have seen rainbow rainbow. So the seven colors. You must be knowing so every color symbolizes a bird. So if you take that acronym and put it like these for violet. So while it what we take while it is violent violent crimes like gangs organized crime where they do this murder decoy tea and robbery. So the tendency is to involve in this crimes are day by day increasing so that becomes a very challenging aspect. Then again, take the case of I Indigo the Indigo color, which represents blue collar crimes basically basically build economy related crimes like the scams. You must be you must have seen in the past like Satyam scam or the big multi-level companies or the IMNC scam, which is a very big threat for our economy because when the economy faces the crisis again becomes a very big problem for the investors and other shareholders. Then again, similarly, if you go take the case of blue, blue is basically the crime which is respected blue collar blue collar is the lower level crimes or crimes happening with the bottom run of the society. The green G G stands for green green is like demonstrations, protests against the government projects. Recently was missing there is a lot of land acquisition issues are coming a lot of schemes which is the projects of the government directly affecting the environment that also becomes an issue. Then why why is a stands for yellow, which we call the yellow pornography or the dose related crime where child pornography or any kind of sexual activities if all like folks or related cases or a or then orange, orange is for basically the terrorist related activities. And the other what we call the fundamentalistic activities, which are threatened basically the public's survival, because any terrorist activities basically attacking the sovereignty of the nation, whereby they put the public in a threat. Then again, our comes back to our red, where we talk about this moist and insurgent and insurgency related crime. So, all these crimes are very relevant with our rather than direct, I'd like to put the point in a macro context that all these crimes are existing, have been existing, but the scale or the measure in which right now it is coming back to threat. And the social and economic fabric of our nation is so huge. Cyber crime. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good question. Cyber crime. We can put it in this, the Indigo where it is related to economic cyber related activities. So broad scale, what I will say is that the challenges before the police is so huge, so huge, my friends, and we need responsible police officers. We need police, police officers who is having that passion, who is having that courage and conviction and the ability to stand up to this challenge. Because my friends, this is our nation. We have to stand up to it. We have to protect it and we have to safeguard it at any cost. Because the whole, the country is threatened by all these kind of criminal activities at various levels. There is a lot of organized crime happening. Mafia, car bills. So we need a sound police force. We need a police force, which is very responsive, which is very proactive, which is very professional coming back to my first point. So the challenges before the police force is very, very huge. So I would like to, at this point, I'd like to stress all of you, please, who is having that conviction that yes, police is a good option. Please, please make it as a first priority in your civil services exam. We need good police officers, we need good policemen and especially very good police. Both to counter these challenges and also to provide service related aspects to our citizens. The citizens, especially the lower ranks of the society who are socially and economically and otherwise backward socialization, who doesn't have much voice. They need a good response of police force. That is what we, I, as a five years officer, I try to train my men. I try to train my officers. Recently, we started a six months, seven months back, we started a program called V3. She put it in English. It's called be abad or be vigilant. He basically started it in three phases. I had done a training course. I went back to my National Police Academy. I had a course on missing and victimized children, which really opened my eyes and I felt a lot of children are being trafficked and a lot of children are losing their livelihood. And friends, again, I'd like to put a point here that the biggest resource of India is our demographic. I always feel this. India is powerful. Even Dr. Abdul Kalam lays on our main strength as our youth, the human resource of our country. So children form a very big aspect of our country. So we need to protect our children. We need to give them a safe environment. We need to keep them safeguarded from sexual predators, pseudophiles and other kind of things. So we started the program where as a pilot phase, we were able to do the program in nearly 100 spoons where we installed banners and posters telling about various crime against children and how they can report and what are the laws. We gave them a lot of psychological counseling. Not only about good touch and bad touch, of course, in fact, we told that there is no touch because every child has a body as a private area. Nobody is allowed to touch that. So we were able to do the program with the help of all the stakeholders. There are around 15-16 stakeholders, child protection, child welfare committee, education department. So we brought in all the people. We wrote in a lot of NGOs. We wrote in a lot of psychological counsellors. So we made a program and the first phase was completed and the second phase got delayed due to this corona issue. Since most of the children are at home, we took up the second phase. We are now going to every village, every Panchayat and we are doing a program there. It's like a 2-3 hour program where we show a lot of videos. We talk about instances where the children have been exploited in their own. So that way a lot of things can be done, a lot of initiatives, a lot of improvements, a lot of good work can be done, certainly by police officers if we have that bill and bent of mind. So policing again is very, very humanizing. It's very humanizing and it's a very, very humbling experience I should say. I have been talking to a lot of children, talking to a lot of human folk. When we speak very frankly about all these issues, they get a sense of security. They get a sense of that, yes, they are our police. They are for us. So we are able to make that connection. Basically that connection is very much needed because when India was ruled by British 1830s, 1850s where the police was reorganized. Once the British took the full control of our nation, they were reorganizing the police force and they wanted a very repressive police force I should say. But same time in Britain, in London, the Metropolitan Police was reorganized. And it was done by a commissioner of that time. His name was George Peel. If you take the case of George Peel, he had laid 10 principles of policing. And it would be astonishing and surprising for all of us. The same time when they wanted a repressive and a very violent police force in India, they wanted a public and a citizen based police force in their own London. He says, the most important tenet of police function and success of police work can be obtained by only the main principle of public cooperation and support. So he had always told him that when you get time, please go through George Peel's principles of policing, P-E-L George Peel's principles of policing. So he wanted a police who is oriented and who is the main orientation should be community oriented policy. And whose main tenet lies on public cooperation support. And he says, the more effective the police is, the less the force they use on the public. So I would say that police is a very responsible job, my friend. It's not like what people think. Me, at least in my 10 years of career, I would say I was very happy that I became a police officer. I would always say my friends that I would become a teacher if I had not been a police officer or maybe I would have taken up teaching as a profession. But I would say friends, police officer is also a teacher. He has to create a lot of awareness and he has to create a lot of bonding with the community. So I feel overall as a police, as a career is very, very good and it's a very, very unique and it's a very, very charming experience, I would say. And again, on a personal account, I would say, I would say it has even a bad I can post about myself. I come from a very humble background. I lost my dad when I was just 10 years old. And my mom, my mother, though she is a doctor, she was my only source of hope. And all she wanted me was to become a good responsible person. So now I think I have made my mother proud every time when I meet any of my family members or relatives. The way they greet me is very something which very, very, it's a very, very different experience. What I had never encountered before when I entered this career. So I would certainly say the respect and the command and the level of admiration what you get from your friends, family, relatives of the society is very, very good. It's very, very satisfying and the respect what you command from the society is very, very huge. It reinforces my conviction and my responsibility in wearing this uniform. So as a personal friend, I would say that it will certainly boost your career. It will certainly boost your economic aspects. You get a very good salary in Indian policy service. And the other perks and the privileges accompanying this is very, very good. So both economically also it is a very, very good opportunity. The entry level salary of an IPS probationer when he joins training after passing civil service examination, right now is around 65,000 plus nearly. So I suppose no, even not even I don't think even a private job would pay you that much just to attend training and just become a new entrant to service. I don't think any, any career would be providing you that much salary except for the top MNCs of the world. So financially also it's a very, very good career. IPS is a very, very good option. Personally, I would feel that I like the theory of Maslow. So when you grow as per the needs and the need hierarchy, he goes like physiological safety, social self esteem and self actualization. Policing as an option as a carrier would certainly provide you an option to progress through the career. And it really gives you an opportunity to both self improvement in your lifestyle and in your social mobility. And also it gives you the unique opportunity of contributing to the society and your nation. And it's a very long career, my friends. It's not, it's not like five years, it's like 35, 35, 30, 30 years plus carry on. I joined when I was very young, when I was 23, 23, 24. So I have nearly completed 10 years. So again, I have more than 25 years of service left over. So a lot of IPS offices also later stages become governor of the states and end up in other positions also after a requirement. So it gives you an opportunity at a pan India. It's not just a job, what you do, you get great opportunities to become even a governor of a state. There are a lot of governors of the state are rated IPS officers. So it's a wholesome experience. It's a great experience and rather than all these things again coming back to the point of the service, what you do to the public. Certainly that touch, the daily connection, what you make with public, like I daily meet my practitioners, I daily meet a lot of public. So that public contact is very, very, very, very humbling. It's very soothing and it's very nice. It's a very great experience to help people to know that yes, such things exist in the society, which either to before I never heard in my life. So policing is a very wholesome experience, my friends. And there are a lot of things to say, but maybe I would like to answer questions rather than me telling again and again about policing as an option or a career or a service. I would like to again say now, maybe answer your questions. So if there is any questions I can answer. So student name is Girisha. Yeah. Her question is, I'm a college student. How can I manage my time both in college studies as well as library for rupees? Yeah, okay. So what I should answer is that I started my preparation only after my college. I did engineering in aeronautics. So after my engineering, I started my preparation. So during my college, I was not into preparation. Only thing what I used to do is I used to read newspapers and I used to check the current affairs. So, but you're going to actually prepare. I would say that maybe you can study NCR please. Maybe you can study. First of all, you can see the syllabus for your general studies and optional. I think your optional has to be chosen by you. So maybe optional. I think studying during college would not be much possible because you need a professional guidance. That is what I see from my point of view. But general studies, yes, geography, history or economics. The school, CVC, NCR and other books are portrayed by a lot of people. I am sure that you will be able to read all those things and please follow current affairs. Please follow what is the current day-to-day happens. The biggest problem now among students is that you live in an information era. Ten, twelve years back, I would say that was the starting of the information era. We were not trusted with information and mostly information which will distract us. But right now you are in a stage where you get a lot of information which will directly disturb you or distract you. So please don't spend time in all those other things. Focus on your career and prioritize. The most important three things what you should have as a candidate for civil service is that three Cs. I always go for acronyms so that it is better to talk. Three Cs. Number one, you should have a commitment. See if you are going to take UPSC as a career and if you want to prepare for UPSC examinations, it is good that you are starting at this stage. But the most important thing is that you should be committed to your goal. Start that after some time you are thinking that okay, I will give an attempt or I will give an attempt. It should be that you should be able to prioritize and keep the commitment intact and it should be that you should be able to keep it as your first priority along with your studies. Number two is that you should be able to concentrate. You should be able to focus on what is needed. See for example, right now in MAINs, if you take just the case of MAINs, the number of marks for MAINs examination, its huge contribution is gone towards the general studies. You have four papers including ethics papers, so nearly 1000 marks and also the 250 marks for the SC. That is also a part of your general studies because you will be quoting a lot of anecdotes or facts or figures or statistics from what you have learned through your general studies. So nearly if you take two by third of the marks comes from the general studies and your general knowledge and what is your opinion and what is your perspective about this thing. So it is better to concentrate on the general studies aspect now and maybe hardly you can spend a couple of hours. Right now most of us would be spending time in watching Netflix or maybe Instagram or Facebook or WhatsApp or something. Use those types constructively or these things. And the third C would be to be consistent. Consistent is very important because in the civil services preparation, the thing which separates the winners and the losers, rather I would say the successful candidates and the unsuccessful candidates the ex, is consistency. See most of the people, they don't be consistent. Consistent what I say is you should have a plan, you should prioritize and you should have a plan. Like I'm going to cover this subject in this one week. This week and next week I'm going to cover this subject and this week and every day you should make a plan. Like if you get the time of two hours in the evening, I'll spend this time. Morning I'll spend this time like that you have to prioritize you have to be consistent. So these three C's concentration, commitment and consistency is very much needed in the managing the time on the studies. And of course it's doable. But again, coming back to the point, don't stress yourself. Don't over-trust yourself. The preparation should be an enjoyable process. Friends, I would say that when I joined the preparation, everybody was, I was very new. In fact, I would now I never had any idea of civil services, except for the exam pattern or something. So when I joined coaching a lot of people who will intimidate you, they will say that I used to study 15 hours a day, 16 hours a day. I will not be able to clear in the first attempt or the second attempt or third attempt. But always make sure one thing in your life that you are your example. Don't compare yourself with anybody else. So you have a plan, you have your ambition, you have your commitment, you have your concentrated plan, you have your consistent way of working out things. So number two is that don't get stressed or depressed or don't over-trust yourself. Have a good hobby. Try to manage. Like my hobby, I used to go, I used to work out every day and hour. So where I used to get these stress myself. Then after studies, every day I used to read a book. Like when I since I was my first option, I used to read autobiographies of IPS officers. I used to, I read the book of Mr. Vijay Kumar. I read the book of the autobiography of Paramount Cop of Mr. KPS Gill. I read the book of Mr. Rivera, bullet for bullet. So I used to read about police officers because that used to inspire me. That used to make me more committed towards the world. So always have a hobby or how I do a thing, which actually resonates you and also pushes you towards your goal. Don't compare yourself and don't try to focus things which will distract you. Like if you have friends maybe in IT sector or somewhere, don't try to compare yourself with them and don't try to put your goals or your plan commensurating with them. So you should have your own plan. Next question. So next is interesting question. What was the proudest moment? Proudest moment of my career. Like when I was serving in Manipur, I was ASP. After your training, you had posted as assistant superintendent of police. So I was involved in operations. I was for a long time in operations and Manipur is an insurgency prone state. So there used to be a lot of economic blockades. So we used to run a lot of convoy operations. And we used to run a lot of protecting the convoys which comes through the two highways. And we did a lot of operations also for which in my first year of my service as assistant superintendent of police, I was awarded this commendation disc. And there was an encounter where we lost one of our police brethren also and we were able to eliminate few terrorists. So I got this commendation disc from my DGP, director general of police. So it was in my first year of my ASP. It was in 2012, 2013. So that was my proudest moment of my career. There have been a lot of other, a lot of moments, but since this was my first, always first is the most important and the most highlighted aspect of your career. So that way, this is my proud moment I would say. The next one is very interesting. Who are what inspired you to choose IPS? Yeah, what inspired me to choose IPS as a career? Like I said before, uniform was my motivating factor. Whenever I see, I see uniform as two things. As I said before, responsibility and also serving the society and protecting the country. So I always wanted to be an Air Force pilot. That's why I chose aeronautical engineering. So when I was not able to make it to the Air Force, then I landed up for civil services preparation as I wanted to become IPS officer. But before that, I would say when I was in my higher secondary during my school, it was in 2002, 2003. That time, the commission of police of Chennai, I belong to Chennai. So the commission of police was Mr. Vijay Kumar. Everybody must be knowing Mr. Vijay Kumar. He's a legendary IPS officer. So he was the commission of police. He did a lot of things for Chennai. He revamped the Chennai city's patrolling scheme. He changed the orientation of police. He made police more people friendly, responsive and also subsequently he was posted as additional director of police of special task force where he was successfully eliminated the Brigand Virappan. So he's an inspiration for me and there are a lot of IPS officers. There are a lot of IPS officers. But the first point I would say that he inspired me very much. And subsequently, when I started to follow police officers, there are a lot of police officers. Dr. Sailendra Babu sir is also an inspiration in many ways for me. And there are a lot of IPS officers who VIP, ADO, KPS Gill, the man who single-handedly took the Sikh extremism in Punjab. The only police force in the country to wither away any kind of extremism. And of course, Mr. Walter Devaram, I should say, is a very legendary join. And in fact, I should say he was the first ASP of Tuthukudi Stone Subdivision where I was ASP after 50 years. He was ASP there in 1966. I was ASP there in 2016. So again, now Nagapatnam, he's the first ASP of Nagapatnam district. And now again, I am the second ASP. So Mr. Devaram was very successful in dismantling the Naxalism in Tamil Nadu. So there have been a lot of inspirations in police. Next question. To crack the civil service exam, should we join in coaching centre or can we prepare by ourselves at home? Yeah, that's a good question. See, friends, I would like to say this. If you take a case of a competitive race, if you take a 100-meter race or a 200-meter, you have the option of wearing your spikes, your shoes, or you can run barefoot. So I would like to compare this example. If you prefer by yourself, it's like a barefoot. If you take up some coaching centre, it's like running with the spiked shoes. If you're a runner, if you're an athlete, you'll understand that running with the spiked shoes gives you an advantage. It gives you a soothing effect. It gives you that cushion effect. It gives you that comfort. Likewise, if you join a coaching institute, you will be able to focus your priorities. Again, I would say that information thing, what I was mentioning just before, there are a lot of information. Even if you take the case of UPC examinations, there are a lot of books. There are a lot of sources. There are a lot of materials. Even if you take case of an option like geography or sociology or public administration, there are n number of books. If you take the case of public administration, when I took public administration, there were like 25-30 books, which you will study. So that cushioning effect of making you feel confident and making you focus, making you guide properly. Yes, this is a good source and making you relevant to the present standards of preparation, present that examination pattern and how questions are asked. That way, I would say that focus and that thing and that proper approach and the proper perspective is given by a coaching institute. So it will be very, very easy in making you oriented towards civil services. So I feel that cushioning effect and that effect of what a spike does to a runner, the academic gives you, the coaching center gives you. The next is also another interesting and informative question. After entering into Indian police series, how to get into CBA or as you mentioned, resistance analysis ring, R&DW and Interpol? Yeah. So see, I-PACE officer's career is years based and your promotions are as per the scale. For example, you join as probationer in the National Police Academy, Hyderabad, you get trained, then you are sent to a respective CARDAS. CARDAS means the state you are allowed to do, then there you go to district training, then you go back to the academy for phase 2 training, then you come back and you become assistant superintendent of police where they put you in charge of a subdivision. Then after two years, so two years training, training time, including your foundation course at Masuri Labasna. It's about two years. Then the next two years you work as assistant superintendent of police. So on completion of four years, you become superintendent of police where you will be given a district charge, you will be superintendent of police of a district. Then after 10 years, so 14 years you become DIG, 18 years you become inspector general IG, then 25 years you become ADGP and 30 years you become director general of police rank. So the number of years to get into deputation and other fields like CBI ID or other organizations are number of years of service based. So it is basically nine years. So after you get your SP, you have to work for five years in your CARDAS, your state. So on completion of nine years, you can, you are eligible for deputation to CBI or IB or RAW or any central government organization. But some states they are given exemption like for example, Jamun Kashmir and northeastern states after five or six years of service, you are eligible for getting into CBI and IB and RAW. For organizations like CRP or BSF, you should be minimum a DIG or SSP. So you need at least 13 or 14 years of service. Even to get into Interpol or UN peacekeeping or missions like that, you need to become a DIG. Next question is, other than UPSC, what are the other ways to enter into police force? Yeah, police force is a very simple force. Most of the states has only three layers of recruitment other than the IPS officers who is recruited by Union Public Service Commission. Generally, every state police are three levels of recruitment. Number one is DSP, Group 1 DSP. It is like IPS officers, but it is at the state level. For example, Tamil Nadu Police Service Commission is there, Public Service Commission is there. They conduct exams for a depth collector and other posts in which DSP is also there. So DSPs after 13 or 14 years of service, they get conferred into IPS and they become a Kanpur IPS. Then next to that is Sub Inspector, which is the most important level of police force. Sub inspectors are the people who work two stars and that red and blue ribbon. They are basically the SHO of the police station. In some states, it is conducted by the Public Service Commission. But in Tamil Nadu, it is conducted by Tamil Nadu Police Uniform Service Recruitment Board, TNUSRP, which is a part of our Tamil Order Police. Then the last level is Constable, for which the exam is again conducted by TNUSRP, a part of our Tamil Order Police. So this is the three levels of entry, Constable, Sub Inspector and Group 1 DSP. Other than that, IPS officers are there. So these are the four levels of this thing. Other than that, there is direct recruitment into central police forces. Like Group 1 DSP, they call it Assisted Commandment in CRPL, BSF, SSB, CASF and the other one more, ITPP. All these five things you can become. Next is another very good question. How to read a newspaper for UPSC? Sorry, come again. How to? Read the newspapers for UPSC examinations. Yeah. See, newspaper, people have different opinions and perspectives. I would say newspaper is a tool of information. It's not a tool of learning because every newspaper will have a perspective because the news item is written by an author. He is written by a journalist. He will have his own perspective. So you can take newspaper as a source of information. For example, I used to follow Hindu. Hindu used to give a little bit leftist oriented perspective, which is needed for a civil servant because if you want to focus on the economically weaker sections, you want to know the problems of the society, it is better to know the problem of the marginalized sections. So in that, what I generally used to do is I used to follow the main page, the front page, editorial columns, if there are some good articles related to government policies or government schemes or some international affairs or some foreign policy. Then I used to read the foreign affairs column, sports column or science and technology. Every column, when there is a news which I feel might be asked in the exam or which is very important as a person, as a citizen to know. I should read that. Some people have the habit of reading line by line. It is up to you. But I would say don't spend more than an hour or 90 minutes in the newspaper. More than 90 minutes is not so effective because whatever information or what are the facts, you are going to gather from the newspaper. Even Shankara Academy's Current Affairs is a very, very good book. I have seen that they give a very good journal, very concise, very up to the point, very crisp. Many people do that. There are many websites also. So don't spend a lot of time in newspapers. Just make it a habit so that you'll be able to know what is happening in the country or what is happening in the state, what is happening in the nation, what is happening in the world. Otherwise, to get the example, as I said, Shankara Academy or any other academy will give you a very good concise Current Affairs book which you can go. Okay. The next is another question by a student called Vidya. I'm doing BSc Chemistry. I'm going to take geography as optional. Will I be having any problem in that? That is from chemistry to geography. No Vidya. Certainly it will not be. In fact, what I will say is that coming to optionals, I would like to say this, friends. There is two things. I think it was, it is a very long old concept. There is two things called one is called a scoring optional. Other is called a popular option. See, people used to say some of the options are scoring, but I would say that the scoring is a very, very biased under this thing because every year there are some options is very scoring and some options are not scoring. So you need the scoring or the other option. There are some popular options. What is called popular means the option for which there is a right guidance. There is enough number of materials. There is a good way you can get, you can get trained in that, which is very, which will make you comfortable and number for where you can write a lot of tests and evaluate your performance because optionals is there in mains. It's not there in problems. So mains being a descriptive written type of examination, you need a lot of practice and writing answers. If you want to score more in mains, you have to write a lot of tests. You have to evaluate yourself. So to evaluate the test and that thing, you need a good guidance and somebody to evaluate yourself. Taking all these points into consideration that popular options, there are certain popular options like geography, Tamil literature, public administration, history, psychology, sociology, there are some seven, eight options. There are some other options like engineering, civil engineering, mathematics, biology, economics, Sanskrit literature, Pali, etc. etc. There are a lot of other options. So there is certainly no problem in being a chemistry student or coming to geography. For example, I am an aeronautical engineer. I never had any idea about public administration or sociology before entering the civil services preparation. But in my first attempt, I scored that time, I think 600 was the total marks. I scored 314 public administration and 320 in sociology. I feel both of the scores were very good because at that point of time in the year 2009, 2010, that was a very good score. Anything about 300 out of 600 is a very good score. And me coming from engineering background and having no clue about these two subjects, I feel it's very good. So I don't think anybody can choose any option. Make sure these two things, like I said, the popular option is one thing. The other thing is that the option should be convenient for you. And you should be confident and you should feel connected to that option. See why I chose public administration and sociology is that I feel that there was guidance was better for both these options. And most importantly, I felt connected towards this post subjects. I feel as a public administrator as a police officer, I need to know what as a public servant has to do. So I wanted to know about public administration. And number two, sociology is a very good subject where you learn about society, basically people. Administration is nothing but culture bound. Administration is culture bound and it is administering the society for which you should know who are the people you are administering. What is their lifestyle? What is the demography? What is the background? What is the economics? So I feel both these subjects are very useful in making me a better civil servant. So I chose this option. So I would like to tell you clearing the exam is one part. Choose the option which you feel connected to. Then your options will be studying and preparation and also writing it for examination will be very easy. Last question, please share your interview experience and are you nervous or confident about your preparation? Interview, I think is the pinnacle of UPC preparation and every aspirants dream is to attend the interview. And I know even when we start preparing for problems or mains, we always think of our interview. I attended twice interview. First time I got 220 out of 300. It was Purushotha Magarwal's board. Second time I scored me being in IPS and again I opted for IPS. I scored 217 out of 275. This Madam Kilum Sungla was my board chairman. She was kind enough. Both the interview items, I was not nervous. I was never nervous. Because I knew one thing because this is the best opportunity to show them who am I or why I want to become an IPS officer. If I lose this opportunity because of myself, then I am going to regret it for my lifetime. So I made sure that I will not be nervous. So to not be nervous, I made sure two things. One is that I told to myself I will not lie. If I don't know something, I will say no. Madam, sorry, I don't know. Number two is that I will not answer any question in a premature way. Hearing the question half, I am getting to understand what the interview panelist is asking. So if I am going to answer a question, I am going to make doubly sure I know what is the question. If I don't know the question, I will ask them to repeat. So I took time for every question. For one example, I would say in my first interview, one of my questions was that they asked me, what do you think of Birapan? And why Tamil people consider him as a hero? And why he is a very big star in Tamil Nadu? I just thought for a few seconds that my answer was that, pardon me sir, I am a normal citizen. I am a law abiding citizen of this country. For me, certainly Birapan is not a hero. He is a criminal. He is a brigand. And I will never acknowledge any of his activities. The same is the case for any common citizen or any law abiding citizen of the country. But sir, we should understand one fact that any leader or any gang leader or any brigand or any person has a cult status. And he has a set of followers. Why does he have a set of followers? For those followers or those members, he has done something which has made them very close or which made them affiliated or which made them a follower to him. So maybe for those few fellows who got economically or otherwise some kind of benefits from him, they might think him as a leader or a follower or a person of a great stature. Like how it is there for any leader, any leader you take, any, even if you take case of any bandit or any bad character, even if you take case of this Daoud Ibrahim. He has his gang members. For gang member, he is a hero. But not for the common citizen. So he says that for any citizen of Tamil Nadu, any positive citizen of Tamil Nadu or any law abiding citizen of Tamil Nadu, he is not at all a hero. So sir, the general myth of him being a hero is false. So I think that made the age I feel so. And then in my second interview, there was an edited IPS officer. I know him before because I had attended his training classes. So he was surprised to see me coming back for again to the interview and when I told them clearly that again my IPS is optional. I first proven this IPS and I'm changing the card only because I wanted a better place to work and I wanted different opportunities and I wanted a change for my personal reasons also. So he jokingly asked me, I know that it was a very tricky question. He asked me, so if you want to change a card and if you said you want to work in a place where it gives you a variety of opportunities. So why can't you marry an officer and change a card? I hope everybody knows there is an option of a card based marriage. You can get married to an opposite gender and you can change your card. So I just thought for a second and I replied, I believe in myself. That was the only one line answer I gave. And Madam Kilumsookla started smiling and I felt again I stole the show because when I started the preparation, I believed in myself. Hence I will say strongly that please believe in yourself. It's not only about this preparation at any point in time in life, don't lose hope in yourself. Always believe in yourself. You are the only person you have to satisfy and you are the only person who is the best judge for yourself. Nobody else is so please believe in yourself in any career or any activity or any task to take up. Please believe in yourself if it is achievable. So that was the most satisfying moment. One more thing I would like to say at this point is that when I joined 2008, I met a person. He had already given three attempts and he was casually talking to me and he was asking me how many attempts I have given. I told him, no, I just joined coaching and I have taken up the civil services preparation. So he was telling, okay, so I think how many attempts do you think you'll take three or four or five? I told him, I will clear it in my first attempt. Then he was jokingly saying, no boss, it is not possible. You cannot clear in your first attempt. I have seen so many people. It's very tough boss. You cannot do it. You have to understand the exam for the pattern first. Then I didn't, I didn't speak. Then really something, you have a strategy for yourself. If you feel to plan it means that you're planning to fail. So I have a plan for you. That's what you're going to do in the first attempt. So I started writing in each and every notebook or study book or everything. Every time I opened my book, I used to see that it motivates me and every day when I wake up in front of the mirror, I used to think how I used to do when I don the uniform. It is a small motivating gesture, but I'll say it takes a long run. What Swami Vivekananda says, your thoughts is the most powerful thing. If you have a positive thoughts, it will certainly improve your confidence. It will make you believe. So I was able to clear in my first attempt. I had a plan and I was consistent. I was committed and I had a concentration focused on the exam. So I was able to clear in my first attempt. Later when I was able to give the talk in the institute after clearing the civil service, again that same person was still sitting in the candidate side, aspirant side. Maybe I don't know what he was doing wrong. But one thing is sure that friends, please don't follow others example. Don't get demotivated. Don't think, don't compare other life both either positive or negative with others. You are the master of your own destiny and you are your solely responsible for your career. So work hard, work with a plan. First stay humble and ensure that you are able to put in your best efforts in the preparation and never give an attempt without your confidence of making it. So those are my words for you. I think if there is no other questions, we will be able to close the session. Actually I think there are more than 100 questions. Okay. So friends, I don't know. I have a meeting at 7 again. I have to review certain things and there are certain things coming up. So I am available on Facebook, Instagram and mainly on these two platforms. Twitter, I am not so much active and my email id is selvanthacop. I will just type it in the answer session. So many students ask me about that. I will answer. I will put that in my thing. I don't know how to type. Is there any way of typing it here? In chat box, you can type. Yeah. I will put it in the chat box. So I put it in the chat box. My email id, I will put it there. It's called selvanthacop at gmail.com. So please drop in any queries or So please drop in any queries. So don't leave. Next question can be answered. Please fill this in the career. Please give it. I have a thought. Three questions. And thanks for Shankar Academy for giving this opportunity. And I hope I am able to touch more lives and make more students, officers like what they have done to me happy for them for being a part of my skills as a preparation enriching me as a person and also as an officer. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thanks everyone. Thanks. Thanks all of you and I wish you all the best. Thank you. Thank you sir. Prem sir, there are many questions. We'd like to ask Chandru sir about these questions. Yes, sure. Chandru sir, I'll just read the questions. Can you please answer for us? Participants please stay back. The rest of the questions. Mr. Prem Anand, the branch head of Delhi will be asking my head academics. Mr. Chandrasekhar. You can get all the questions answered by them. That's a question from a student about officers. She is choosing an optional subject. She is having interest in Tamil literature, but she is afraid about taking Tamil literature. Can you just tell what are all the qualities I need to have for choosing Tamil as an optional? See, regarding Tamil literature option, the only thing is you should write Tamil without any grammatical and spelling mistakes. There is a very basic qualification. Apart from that, if you have creativity in literature, you can score very well and easily cross 300. Last year, two candidates got more than 350 in Tamil literature. So definitely you can score very well. Tamil literature is a very promising option. The only thing is you should have interest in it. Yes, sir. The next thing is taking notes from standard books like Lajmikanth or Ramesh Singh. Is it necessary to take notes from the standard books or we should go for iterations of reading? Actually, from standard textbook, my personal session is please don't take any notes. There are a few reasons. For example, if you take notes from standard textbook, while reading first time, you will find out some of the important content that alone will be copied to your note. But other contents, you will not copy in your note. So what will happen? After first reading, you will not take your textbook much. So you will refer only your handwritten notes. So that note will not be sufficient. It will not be qualitative notes. So better you read the textbook itself and you have some kind of markers and highlighters. You highlight whenever you read first time or second time at the same time in different colours. So that you will come to know in first reading what you studied and second reading what you studied and third reading what you studied. So that improper coherently you can understand properly. And taking notes from textbook is actually a waste of time. Yes, sir. The next question is about he is a working graduate. He is a working professional. So you want to prepare for civil service examination. But you don't know how to manage the time and when to start and what to start. Those who are working better, you can plan for two years instead of two years and twenty-one exam. You can plan for two years and twenty-two. And you put your groundwork, I mean the foundation start. Then you can, in first reading you can clear. But you take two years time instead of one year. And you can balance both your profession as well as your profession. So before your preliminary you have to be mastered in your prelims as well as means. So it will be easy for you after your preliminary examination. Just only for examination time you have to take leave. So without taking leave you can prepare and continuously prepare for two years. So in two years twenty-two you can take first attempt. In the first attempt itself you have to get into civil service. You plan for long term. Yes sir. Next question is from a student called Swathi. She has already chosen a geography as her optional and she is working on it. But she is feeling some difficulties in understanding the topics and learning examples. Can you just give some tips for me to understand the subject in a better manner? See geography is kind of semi-same subject. So there are some conceptual areas for the definitely immediate guidance. So first the solution is if you want you can join some coaching. Otherwise you go to YouTube videos. So for all conceptual areas like geomorphology, climatology, oceanography. So all the areas you can get some YouTube videos. For example if it is later to tide and cyclones or earthquake or mountain building. Or any high-speed conceptual areas definitely the YouTube videos will be helpful. But I don't know whether all YouTube videos will be in the line of UPSC. But some of the videos will be like general academic videos. But only with the help of those videos you can get clarity on some concepts. So better you can take some coaching from any individual. Next question is from a student called Girisha. I am a college student. How can I manage the time between the studies of college and... Answer the question. Okay sir. So what are all the... Sofya is asking about choosing optionals as engineering subjects as optionals. Engineering definitely you can take engineering as optionals. Only condition is you should be very confident and you should have proper guidance and material. If you have these two definitely you can go with engineering option. Not a problem I mentioned. And the reason why so many candidates are clearing this examination with engineering option. Yeah sir. Sir then like NCRT books. We need to study like all the books of NCRT or like choose the books. So whether it is important to read the science books or you should go for only like humanities. So regarding NCRT you don't need to read the science. Yes in UPSC they are not asking any questions related to physics, chemistry, biology. Rather than they are asking questions related to recent developments in the field of science and technology. Like robotics or nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, space technology, defense technology. So only the recent developments are asked in examination. So better you refer the Hindu science and technology column every week. That is more than what you see. And in NCRT you have to cover only social science part like history, geography, quality, economics. Yes sir. Next question is from a student called Netra. She is asking question with respect to interview. So she is having a lot of nervous, she is very nervous when she is facing any interview questions. And her confidence level is not so high when she is facing questions from an interviewer. So how to get rid of this issue? See only by practice you can overcome this problem. What you can do is first you start answering questions in front of any mirror. First you observe your body language and your face reaction and all. So in UPSC it is not actually interviewed, it is a personality test. They are not going to check your knowledge and all. Already knowledge is checked in your preliminary examination, main examination. So your personality test is only for testing your personality. So your personality will be assessed within 45 minutes. To some extent it will be correct only. So for non-questions you can answer without any confusion. And for unknown questions, strictly you can say sorry sir I am not aware of this or sorry sir I don't know. So that is not an issue. Even if they are asking 40 questions and for that 30 questions if you don't answer, unfortunately you can say sorry sir I am not aware of this. But the remaining 10 questions if it is well known questions you have to answer very well. So they know while asking questions whether you will answer this question or not. So interview is a very simple process. But only thing is systematic. This question is about the ethics paper of main examination. So like how to prepare for the case studies and like how to prepare for holistic preparation for ethics. So because it is like we don't have proper material for that and like how to prepare for it. See ethics 50% is material and 50% is your character. So ethics is the only paper which will reflect I mean the answers of ethics paper will reflect your character and attitude. So really it is a test of a candidate's character attitude and the integrity and all. So in marker there are multiple materials, there are so many materials available. And the case studies and all there is no standard template for answers. So case studies it depends on situation. Based on your intelligence and your knowledge and your addition making ability you have to answer. So for each and every case study it is unique and it is different. There is no standard template for it. And if you want we can give you guidance. Next question is from the student called Yuvraj. Sir he is telling that he is an average student in my school and in colleges. Can I crack the UPS examination? 100% you can do and mostly only average students are performing very well. So those who are very average like 50% 60% or 71% marks in their schools and colleges. They are doing very well. So see respect to UPSC they will not bother about your post. You have received 10 gold medals or appeared like 10, 15 or years. Both are same. So in UPSC they are going to check whether you are giving proper response to their examination or not. So that's the only thing they are going to see. And they are not bothering about your school or college. So average students definitely they can make it. Provider if they have common sense. Yes sir. The next question is from a student who has actually completed the 12th standard now. He is asking about I am going to choose the college. So which team would be better for me to pursue UPSC in the future? So if there is a single course which is most how to do UPSC. Those who are preparing for UPSC will definitely take only that course. There is one single course which is family for UPSC. All are same. There are few courses. For example, political science or public institution or economics or history. So what are subjects we have? If you read, I mean if you take that courses, apparently there will be over nothing of syllabus. But that alone will not help you to succeed in series exams. There are a lot of other things. So for example in general studies main paper. In preliminary there are 7 subjects and in main there are again more than 10 subjects. So single subject will not help you to do UPSC exams. So my personal suggestion is better you take some professional degree which should help you in case if you are not succeeded in series exams. So you should be in safer zone. Yes sir. Sir, next question is like from a student called Praveen Kumar. He is actually preparing history now but he is not able to like memorize the years and the names of the kings. It keeps on demotivates him. Is there any suggestions for that to do? See in UPSC for history topic asking names and years and all it is over 20-30 years before. So now questions are very trendy and very unique. See one thing is you should understand history. So they are not asking any names or places or years as such. So based on the sequence of events you should know what exactly happened, what are the reasons and what are the consequences. So actually it should be like subjective. And UPSC they are not asking any direct factual questions. See if they are asking 20 questions for history maybe one question are related to chronological event. So other than this mostly conceptual questions and your answer will be based on your understanding not about your memory. Sir most probably this will be the last question. Again student Devraj has asked the question. So is learning government schemes is very important for UPSC? Yes definitely. You will get at least 4-5 questions every year below the examination at least one or two questions remain examination from government schemes. It is very very important. And we have our website IASpartliman.com. Yabu Puri Day we are uploading new items from 5 English Dates. Hindu Times of India Indian Express and Economic Times Business Line. The 5 English Dates we are taking and we are uploading all new items and editions. That is more than sufficient for your preliminary as well as main examination. And in the same website we are uploading some important documents like government schemes, recent development in design technology, international organizations, reports and indices. So many things. So you go through that website you will get a lot of information. So one more question from Kannan actually. He is very big in maths. It will affect the UPSC preparation or not? He is very big in maths right? Mathematics. See definitely it is not going to affect provider if you know some basics of quantitative aptitude. Actually in CSAT civil service aptitude there will be 80 questions in preliminary examination. And among these 80 questions 35 to 40 questions will be from English like reading comprehension. And remaining questions again SF for example remaining questions are 40. After 40 you may have around 20 questions from reasoning and 20 questions from quantitative aptitude. So in that case to clear the civil service aptitude test you need at least 50% of quantitative aptitude. And only you can clear this one. So because you cannot depend only on reading comprehension you cannot depend only on reasoning. So you have to balance all. Yes sir we have done with the question sir. Thank you so much all the best students.