 Greetings as friends, we have Ms. Kavya here. She secured all India at 38 in the Indian Forest Service examinations. She did her blipscom mainspat, CSAT and even her options and the interview guidance from our academy. So, we are very proud that our student has made it to the list. So, congratulations Kavya. Thank you sir. So, how do you feel right now after taking the exams? It is a feeling of dream come true moment and I feel very great after the results are released. It is like three years of sleepless nights have borne some fruits one day. So, I feel like that. So, this is your third attempt. Yes sir. So, how do you feel after like there is a comment saying that we require lot of perseverance for clearing this exam. So, you failed first two times and you made it to the list saying how do you feel but what how do you feel generally? The feeling I get is that it is like learning from failures. I feel like it is a self-assessment of those two years so that I could correct myself that that rectification has given the results in the third attempt. So, it is like learning from what we have failed and what we didn't do and what we have to do something more than what we have done. It is a feeling of such thing. So, see guys perseverance is the most important requirement for clearing this exam. So, congratulations one second. Thank you. Thank you sir. So, what is the role Shankar A.S academy played in your preparation journey? More than it is like a role it is playing. I have grown up in our academy Shankar A.S academy. Like I have done my foundation courses PCM in 2019 and my CSAT my optional that is agriculture here and even the even the other years after that pre-storming main storming everything I have done in Shankar A.S academy and even the interview guidance program for IFS I have done here. So, it is like Shankar A.S academy have has reared me from what I have been an aspirant to finding my name in the final list. So, very proud that we have produced a successful office. Thank you. So, the next question is relating to women aspirants. So, this is your third attempt. So, what are the difficulties you faced especially as a woman from your family. If the relatives would say something right. So, how you manage them? How you made it to this? So, obviously it is a kind of difference huge difference is there from male aspirants that a women aspirant is clearing the exam that is that is one of the most toughest exams in India. The thing I want to say is that very few aspirants women aspirants could crack it and could travel till the this end. And the thing is that first they get societal pressure and family pressure especially after 22 years the talks of marriage and everything comes there. Second is that the health issues which women aspirants are facing. And third is that they get to have a loss of faith in themselves that they could not be competent to clear the exam and the competent with the male aspirants that they feel to some kind of discomfort there to compete with the male aspirants. That is the thing they are facing. And the thing I also face everything even though I have my family support the societal pressure was there. So, I was in a state that I should ignore every such things and my goal and aim was the only focus so that I could travel towards that. My perseverance streamlined me to achieve that goal. So, to all the women aspirants watching. So, take her as an example and power through it you can definitely make it. And any parents or family members watching please support your child. So, everyone can make it through this examinations. So, let us come to problems. So, you cannot clear first or two times in the problems and in the third time you clear the forest service cutoff. So, what changes did you make? How was the academy helpful? How was everything helpful? What changes you made in your strategy? So, in first problems I had a range of some 10 to 15 marks to the cutoff. And even in second problems it was like that from like 10 marks difference. And the C-set was also only just clearing that type. And in third problems I changed my strategy. I used the COVID lockdown and the postponing of exams as one of the opportunity like blessing in disguise. So, I could cover the grey areas like ancient India, even world history. So, that I will get a confidence that even any area it is asked I could do something justice to that in the question paper. And other thing is our Shankara's academy civil speedier that is daily news analysis was very very helpful. That made me to clear even IFS cutoff in the problems with a comfortable margin. So, I have after checking the official key I have secured a 118 marks which is very much ahead of the cutoff. So, the only one of the changes I have made in my strategy is this following the daily news analysis. I used to take notes from the daily news analysis like before going to bed I will spend half an hour on it just hearing it and writing the notes there. When I get to read monthly compilations I update these things in that so that I could relate to the things. It is like revising multiple times without even deliberately doing. I myself have a subconscious kind of revising themselves while watching and while hearing. So, this is one of the strategies and other strategies I have diversified the sources. I thought that not only books will help us to gain knowledge or have clarity in the subject more than that watching videos having some voice records. I myself read and have a voice record and I will play it when I am going to bed like that or when I am having a walk like that. So, diversifying the sources helped me and third thing is I have used some of the positives of mine. I found that if I am seeing something I can get a image memory. So, I used that in my one of my strategies. So, I can have a thorough reading once so I can get an image memory through that and multiple tests is one of the universal strategies I have followed as that which was which I didn't follow in the previous two attempts. So, multiple because of the covid lockdown and post coding examinations multiple tests also helped me a lot. So, since you mentioned about revision what do you think is the role of revision in the examination of the patient? Not just in problems in mains also how important is revision? Yes sir because revision helps us to regain something we have learnt already. Revision is not like studying newly so we should not have a fear of seeing something new there. We will have a confidence in our mind that it is already read we are just seeing through it. So, revision helps us to pile up something like upgrading our knowledge what we already have. So, only when we revise we could we could get the correct and thorough knowledge even the peripheral areas will also be covered when we revise because once we study we get to know the core areas. When we revise that we could be able to cover the gray areas and the peripheral area so that we could get the elaborate knowledge and diversify knowledge. This various dimensions we are thinking make us to have some doubts out of it and we get to find some of the solutions to the doubts and answers to the doubts that gives connectivity of our brain and our mind to work in a very active way so that when we search things even in Google or standard books we will be able to be having a very active mindset there. So, this kind of chain of reactions can be obtained through this revision process. So, people watching so we have a example here how important revision is there and how revision will help you clear the examination. So, not just watching our videos or still reading books include revision in your process it will be very helpful. So, coming to means how important is answer writing for mains preparation. Sir, I did not clear the civil service mains examinations but I thought that the civil service mains examination is one of the mock test for writing the IFS mains examinations. We have found that when we know that it is both these are different. So, we should change the strategy to clear IFS mains. We had a break of 40 days over there after the civil service mains. I had a one week break for calming and chilling my mind so that I could recook myself and I had an advantage that I needed to study only botany as my new optional. Many of the aspirants will have two optionals as their new one. So, I could invest most of my time in my botany optional so that I could get a edge over others and one third of or 40 percentage of the agriculture syllabus is covered in botany syllabus is covered in agriculture itself. So, I could invest in other areas like general English, general knowledge so that I can give my fullest effort to all the papers. So, this was my main strategy. So, agriculture optional students definitely have edge over other aspirants in forest service. Yes sir, I feel so. So, people's watching who are having agriculture optionals. So, if you make it through the pralence examination you have high chance of clearing the mains examination. Yes sir. What is the role of our academy in your mains preparation? Sir, even though I did not clear 2020 and 2019 pralence, I was a part of main storm in 2019, 2020. So, I could get a broader and peripheral knowledge of what is mains writing. And also, especially our civil speedier daily news analysis, we had not only pralence based questions, but also mains based questions. Daily our academy posed some one or two questions for mains answer writing in the civil speedier that made me to know that oh this is the way the mains questions are asked. Even though we have previous questions in UPSC, this will daily brainstorm or brainstorm or thinking and relate whatever we read about that topic in morning because we read newspaper and based on the newspaper only we have this mains answer writing in civil speedier. So, I could relate something there. So, the brainstorming also helped me in my mains answer writing sir. So, finally coming to the interview part. So, how did you prepare for interview? Sir, we had a group of four to five people and we were dividing our focus areas among us like technical part and our Shankarayase academy environment book is like Bible for IFS interview program personality test. So, we divided ourselves and we discussed about the topic every day without any without any excuses. Even in mains answer, mains IFS mains we had a group discussion of between us. So, every word in the top every word in the syllabus was covered by each and every one of us. We tend to teach others and for that reason we should have prepared something in depth for ourselves also. So, on discussion we get many of the extra things like examples and current affairs schemes. So, this value addition also we got to know from this discussion and this way it was carry forwarder to interview also. So, during the interval preparation we just brushed up what we have already done. So, we could cover every areas and we could confidently approach a personality test there even though in the personality test it was a very new experience because it I am first time I am facing such an interview interview there, but it gave me much confidence that I can do something justice over my three years of preparation. So, what was the Shankarayase academy's interview preparation process? Sir, out of the 12-13 marks I have given four marks from our academy itself. So, weekly once I will give a mark here and I take the valuable comments the panelists give to me and have the transcript as syllabus for the further preparation interview and second thing is the one-on-one staff session with Karthik Ains was immensely helpful because it was both friendly and also formal so that I could gather whatever I have read or have a accumulated knowledge in my mind and the materials provided by our academy later to this interview like current affairs regarding Tamil Nadu and other forestry have also helped me and then our academy also conducted classes which was taught by Karthik Ains and that was also very useful for me and more than these things they had the faculties have given me personal guidance on how to develop my personality ultimately that is the need in this personality test. So, I have I have I was a very big beneficiary from our academy like I got guidance from Karthik Ains, Rajitha Ma'am, Satya Krishnan sir, Kanakaraj sir, Chandru sir and every other faculties also they were very much approachable so that I could contact them at any time and clarify my doubts over there and the other thing is the emotion connector for me with the academy like it was Shankar sir and Vaishnav ma'am they seeded the spirit in me so that emotion connect also pushed me to this level I think so and another emotion connect to me to the academy is that I watch Shankar sir's Kaliyama story that 24 minutes around the world before every exams I faced like even I whenever I am writing an Abad exams or CEPF or CDS that gave me a push up to have a quick revision of traveling around the world the day before the exam exam I used to revise with that so these are the things that I have a connect with our academy so regarding the final interview how was it facing the how are you able to handle your nerves your anxiety everything in the final interview before the world sir I already said I was very confident that we have covered many areas there so only thing is I have to go and speak something and doing justice to my preparation so once I am entering into the once I was entering into the room I left every prejudiced mindset out there and entered into the interview because it will reflect what we what we already have as a personality it is not like what we have prepared and groomed like that and as the same that it was not like a viva voce but like testing my personality testing my positivity and testing whether I am fit for the service or not so I had an open mind there and every and that the board was very friendly so it was reciprocated usually reciprocated that I was also friendly to them so that communication skills developed over that friendliness so this was the reason I could be open minded and answer whatever they ask this so thank you for coming to us and giving this interview before concluding can you view our audience and give some general advice for them to make it to the exam how to perseverant how to give importance to both all the three stages and make it to this can see the ASM first of all I wish all the best for every aspirants who are trying for and who are sacrificing their life and this youth phase for their preparation the the thing we have to keep it in my keep it in our mind is perseverance and self-confidence we have to believe ourselves that we I could clear I could cross this stage so we should have a short term goal first complete it daily and kind of medium term goal like a completed completing something in monthly basis and we have to move forward so I think that for every stage we have to have read about it and practice in the first time itself for like example when we are entering into the first attempt we should not think that I must clear this time itself we have to have a open mind that I have to learn something so that even if I couldn't clear this time if not this time the next time so we should have in mind first visual pressure is ourselves because already society pressures us ourselves and we should not add something to that pressure so we should have confidence in ourselves even this time even I have to prepare something for means I have to improve my personality in the first attempt itself then automatically that will groom ourselves without our knowledge in the consequent attempts and that will bear fruits in the future thank you for the interview once again and heartiest congratulations from both the civil sphere team of Shankaray Sakadami may you achieve greater things in your life also thank you so much I thank Shankaray Sakadami for giving this wonderful opportunity to share something what I have learned from them to the upcoming aspirants and also who are already giving atoms and thank my special thanks to the civil speedia team also that has really made me to clear problems in 2020 on the comfortable margin which I couldn't do in the previous two atoms so thank you much to everybody and especially our civil speedia team and Shankaray Sakadami thank you thank you