 I am Amu Jairaj and I have secured rank 141 in the civil services examination of 2019. This had been a very long journey for me because I started my preparation in the year 2014 and my association with Shankar A's academy was also as long as that. I have a very strong rapport with each and every staff of Shankar A's academy and that has helped me in moving ahead with the course of preparation. Coming to the prelims part, I used to attend the all India level mock test being conducted by the academy in the months of April and May just before the UPSA prelims examination and also they used to release the all India level results also soon and that has helped me in analyzing my position and that has also triggered my last minute preparations for the prelims too. And then coming to the mains preparation, I had enrolled in the academy's mains test series which was conducted in the year 2019 and what I had observed the specialty what I had observed is that the papers were corrected not only by the teaching staff of the academy but also the then recently selected candidates so that has really helped me in rectifying my mistakes committed on the papers and also they had suggested me to change my presentation skills also and then coming to the interview part I had appeared before few mock panels being conducted by the academy and that has really helped me in boosting my confidence level to deal with the UPSC personality test. At this moment I am missing Shankar sir a lot because he had always been a strong pillar of support to me and it was because of sir that I did not change my optional subject throughout my course of preparation my optional was geography there were lot of talks and advices to change my optional subject because at certain point of time geography optional was not that high score but it was Shankar sir who instilled my confidence to go ahead with geography itself and I believe that has paid me so it had been a really long journey but at the same time a very wonderful journey and hence I am I would like to take this as a platform to thank each and every staff of frunker academy for making my journey beautiful thank you.