 So, how was the exam? Good. Bad. Ugly. Difficult. Easy. Good. Great. How many of you felt it is easy? How will others judge me, know? If I raise hands for easy. How many questions did you attempt? 60 out of 60? Anybody who attempted 60 out of 60? Nobody. 50, 50 plus. You are going to be future bureaucrats. 40 plus. 30 plus. 20 plus. 40 plus is obviously 20 plus also, but I am saying 20 to 30 range. Okay. Right. So, first my name is Arjun and I am a faculty of Changrai Academy. I will be teaching Indian Polity and Public Administration Options here in Toronto. So, what we will be doing right now is we will quickly go through certain questions, right? We will get an answer key of all the 60 questions we can go through. Certain questions, I will tell you how we can answer, how we could have answered certain questions from some tricks and tips, right? Some memory you had, you could have used it to answer certain things. I know these things might be a little on the higher side for some of you, right? How many of your engineers? Okay. Non-engineers from humanity's background? Science background? Okay. So, did all the scientists make that quantum question right? Did you know what is quantum mechanics? Scientists or science background students? Physics, how many of your, you know, done physics? Could you get that quantum mechanics question right? So, it is a little difficult. Most of these questions I will say is of UPSC level, like we have taken some questions from the UPSC problems. I will show you one question, actual question from the UPSC problems, right? So, certain questions you might have found it a little difficult. I know, we know, right? Certain questions will be easy for you. You should have solved certain questions from your memory understanding basic school level knowledge because some of these questions are taken from 10th NCRT's. The NCRT is still class 10th, which we studied maybe long time back, 5 years back, 6 years back. Sir, innala paditsa volu aurkan illa. Pinnayana, panju varsam mumbu vaditsa NCRT's, right? So, I understand. Again, you would have prepared something. So, what I will be, as I said, what I will be doing is, I will be going to certain questions which we have set in this question paper. The other questions, if you have any doubts, feel free to ask or we will give you answer key also, right? You can go through the answer key and check your scores. So, the first question I will be dealing is the question number 4. Did you answer that question? How many of you have seen the movie Titanic? All of us have seen Titanic. No, anybody who have not seen Titanic, you start watching movies if you have not seen Titanic, right? So, when you saw the movie Titanic, no, there was a scene when Rose sees first, for the first time, sees USA. Do you remember that scene? No. Sir, I have not seen the movie since I was 2 years old. I have forgotten it. Is it? You don't see that. So, Titanic, this, have you seen the real Titanic? No, only movie Titanic, right? So, there is a scene, if you remember that movie correctly, there is a scene in which Rose for the first time, from where to where Titanic was travelling from Britain, UK to USA, right? It was going from London to New York, right? So, she saw for the first time something in USA. What did she see? Statue of Liberty. Where is Statue of Liberty located? Where is Statue of Liberty located? This is not UPSC knowledge. This is common sensical knowledge. Where is Statue of Liberty located? Where is Taj Mahal located? Agra. Basically Agra. Where is Statue of Liberty located? New York. So, you know this scene, if you have remembered, I think might not have the whole name. So, she is seeing Statue of Liberty, which is in New York. Now, you have to know which side of USA New York is located. Is it on the west coast or east coast? Too difficult? So, this is New York. Where is New York located? East coast, right? So, east coast lay the ocean on a Atlantic ocean on a, right? If you did not know anything about Titanic, that is also fine. Recently, a big tragedy happened. Did you hear? We would be listening to people are dying, are they dying, are they alive, are they dying, are they alive. We would be focusing on that. In which ocean did this submersible titan sink? They went to five people, went to see Titanic and unfortunately this exploded and all the five people died. Where did this happen? Atlantic. Again Atlantic Ocean. So, in this question, see, 1912 RMS Titanic ship sank in Mariana Trench. You don't know about it. Let it be there. Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean. Right? Where did Titanic sink? Titanic sink. That is the first thing you have to know. Titanic sank in Atlantic Ocean. So, if it is in Atlantic Ocean, Mariana Trench will not be in Pacific Ocean. Either Mariana Trench's Pacific Ocean will be correct. Right? Because Titanic sank in Atlantic Ocean. Right? So, what is correct here? Second statement is correct here. Because Mariana Trench in that case should be in Atlantic Ocean. So, what is correct here? Second statement is correct here. First statement is actually wrong. Mariana Trench is a deep trench in the Pacific Ocean. 200 kilometers deep at Loru. Trench on Mariana Trench. Right? Which you will study in your geography classes. So, the answer to that question is? Answer to that question is? So, this is how you solve UPSC questions. Certain questions you need not study. Right? From certain common sense, certain knowledge, you will be able to solve. I will show you one more question. Before that, I will discuss a question from the question paper. Question number 5. Have any of you seen Indian map? Political map? Have any of you travelled through India? How many were there in Kerala? How many were there in Kulumanale trip? How many were there in Kulumanale trip? How many were there in Kulumanale trip? How many were there in Simla? Simla? Kulumanale Simla? None of you have travelled? Kulumanale Simla? No. Himachal. So, where is Simla located? Himachal. So, when you are travelling from Delhi to Simla, you travel through Chandigarh or from Simla to Chandigarh is further north. That is the question you have to answer. You should know. So, if you travel or otherwise, you should identify which states these places are located. Where is Belgam located? Yes, this is the knowledge you should have. Belgam is located in Karnataka, which is in North India or South India? South India. Then Delhi, obviously North. Chandigarh, where is Chandigarh located? Punjab, again North India. Lucknow? Which state? UP. Bhopal? Madhya Pradesh. Mahapur? Maharashtra. So, which is further north? Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh? For this, you have to know the Indian map. Right. Map is an important topic for UPSC. You should know Indian map. So, I will say how you should study Indian map. Imagine that one day you will be travelling to all these places. You will. There is something called Bharat Darshan. Once you clear UPSC, you go to this training institute in Missouri. Labasana. It is called Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. So, from there you will be taken for Bharat Darshan. So, you will be travelling through all these states. Even otherwise you can travel. Bangalore. So, you can go and visit all these places by yourself. Now, see the places where these states are located. Where is Simla located? Where is Chandigarh located? A little south. So, which is the northernmost point here? Simla. Below that, Chandigarh. Where is Delhi located? Further south. Right. These three things is important. Now, you come down. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh which is north. Which is on the upper side. See Uttar Pradesh will be closer to Delhi, you know. Because Agra is in Uttar Pradesh only. Closer to Delhi. Madhya Pradesh is in, sorry, Bhopal is in. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra is further south. So, Nagpur will be further south and Belgam. So, what will be the answer here? Option A. 6, 3, 2, 4, 5, 7, 1. Right. I will show you one actual question from the UPSC paper. This question came in the prelims of 2017. Right. Can you answer this question? Not there in the question paper, but this is an actual UPSC question. Two knowledge in this. I hope all of you know where Cortem is located. You do know where Cortem is located? Right. So, all of us Malayalis would have been happy to see this question. I was especially happy because I belong to Cortem. So, my district's name came in the question paper. I was happy. The second point you should know is where is Kohima located? Where is Kohima located? Kohima is located in Nagaland. Have you seen this movie? No. This is a Malayalam movie called Neela Ghasham Pachak Kadal Chubanna Vumi. Where Dulkal Sarman goes to Nagaland to see his girlfriend. He is not travelling from, Cortem is actually travelling from Kori Kod and he is going to Nagaland. So, if you have seen this movie, if you have observed this movie, he goes to certain places. He goes, first goes to Bangalore. Then he goes to Atru Visakhandra. He reaches Odisha. Then he goes to Kolkata. From there he is going to Nagaland. So, what are the minimum number of states you require? There is only one knowledge you need here. Again from the map. See, there are, we have seven northeastern states. Do you know the name of northeastern states? We have seven northeastern states, Arunajal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Azam, Meghalaya. Right. All the six northeastern states are connected to India through one state, which is called Azam. Right. You can travel from all the other six states only through Azam. Then from Azam, you will enter which state? West Bengal. Otherwise, you can travel to Bangladesh. If Bangladesh allows, that is another route. Else, all the other six states, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunajal Pradesh, you can reach India, West Bengal only through Azam. So, the first state, the question is that including two states, including the origin state and the destination state. Kohima is in Nagaland and the destination state is obviously Kerala. So, from Nagaland, you will first come to Azam. From Azam, you will reach West Bengal. Now, you have to see how you can reach Kerala. So, obviously, the shortest route is this eastern coast. So, Odisha you will take. From Odisha, you can reach Andhra Pradesh. From there, either Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and you will reach Kerala. So, this is a map-based question which actually UPS, you have to go to question number 7. Are you aware? Do you enjoy rain? We all enjoy rain, right? So, Kerala gets two types of monsoons. What are they called? Yes, Malayalam. Kalavarsham. Tum tum. Tulavarsham. So, in northeast monsoon, generally rain happens in the evening time. Thunder will be there. Whereas, in southwest monsoon, it rains throughout the day. So, northeast monsoon, southwest monsoon, which is also called Kalavarsham. We call it Kalavarsham. When does it happen? After onam or before onam? So, the question says, monsoon usually begins three months after the festival of onam. Which is, is it right or wrong? Obviously, wrong. It actually starts three months before. And northeast monsoon is our Tulavarsham, right? Tulavarsham starts, when is Pongal? It is the Pongal. So, three months before that, our northeast monsoon will start. Is it right or wrong? Yes, because northeast monsoon starts somewhere in school. June 1st starts, the next month starts in October. So, this is correct. Two is correct, one is wrong. So, again the answer is B. Two only. Then I will take 14. Question number 14. No. Do you remember this struggle which happened in 1857? What is it called? First war of Indian independence. This is the first organized revolt by Indian secondest British rule. It is also called Sipoy Mutiny. It is also called Sipoy. What is Sipoy Mutiny meaning? It was started by the soldiers and the trigger was by the soldiers. Now you look into the statement. Two statements directly connect with army. Which are the statements? Disparity in salary and British propaganda of spreading Christianity in the army. So, obviously the other two are correct. This is both the army. Then which corruption you can eliminate? Yes. Indian peasantry was actually struggling which was one of the reasons of Sipoy Mutiny. That was the second reason for the struggle. British brought Indian education sorry English education and people were more receptive to it English education. That was not a major reason for the struggle. So, the answer is option A. So, this is Sipoy Mutiny. Then we will go to question number 29. Have you heard about right to education? What is right to education? Have you enjoyed? Do you people get right to education? What is right to education? It is a fundamental right. We all enjoy. Are you people aware of fundamental rights? You people are given certain fundamental rights by a book called Indian Constitution. Which you should be aware of which we will be studying in Indian quality. So, this right to education is a fundamental right which you people enjoy. What is right to education? Is it free education? Yes. Free and compulsory. Free education. Till what age? College poem of free and compulsory education. Till age of 14. That means till the ninth standard you should be given mandatory free education free and compulsory education. So, which among the statements will be wrong? For obviously second statement should be wrong because college education is not a part of right to education. That means second statement is wrong. What about the first statement? So, there are two kinds of rights. One is called a constitutional right. What is a constitutional right? A right given to us by this book called constitution. So, right to education is a part of the constitution also. So, it is a constitutional right. What is a statutory right? Statutory right means parliament. Have you seen parliament? Have you heard about parliament? Similarly, there is a state legislature here. How many of you are from Trivandrum? Right. So, you will be seeing this nemasava every day when you are traveling here there. How many of you are from outside Trivandrum? Yes. So, just see the nemasava it is called state legislature. So, here the state laws are made in that state legislature. National laws are made in the parliament. Statutory right. So, right to education is a constitutional right as well as a statutory right. So, the statement state RTE is only a statute right that is also wrong. So, what is the answer? Both of them are wrong, but the question asks which among the statement is not correct. So, both statements are not correct. The answer is C 1 and 2. Have you heard about this country? No. Is it group of 20 countries? So, what is why it is so important why it keeps coming in news? Yes, India is currently holding the presidency. Next G 20 meeting is going to be conducted in New Delhi right New Delhi. So, the sub meetings of that is happening across the country. One meeting happened in Kovalam another meeting happened in Kumrakam. Small small meetings to discuss all the things about G 20. Now, what is G 20? Which are the countries in G 20? So, this is the logo of the current motto of G 20 is one earth one family one future which is nothing but Vasudeva Kudumbakam. This is the logo or motto of current G 20. Now, which are the countries in G 20? These are the countries in G 20. Once you know the world map it is easy to remember all these things from a map perspective. See, there are three big countries in North America. Which are the three big countries in North America? Canada, USA, Mexico. Come to South America. There are two major countries in South America. Which are the countries? You see football. You are Argentina fan. How many of you are from South America? So, we are version from sports. No sports. Anyway, these are the two football legends also. Two countries from South America is part of G 20. Come to Europe. Which are the major European economies? Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Russia. Africa is one country South Africa. Count. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. Only nineteen countries. Then why it is called G 20? The 20th part of G 20 is a union called European Union. So, which statement will be wrong? G 20 does not comprise of twenty countries. Nineteen countries plus one union called European Union. Which country hosted this conference just before India? It was hosted by a Southeast Asian country called Indonesia. So, which statement will also be wrong? Three will also be wrong. So, the answer is one and two. So, these were the last conference of 2022 happened in Indonesia. Two and three itself. If you can eliminate three itself, you will get the answer. If you know that three is wrong, look into the options. If you know that three is wrong, what is the only option remaining? Only option remaining is A. Jig economy, jig labour. Have you heard jig labour? What is jig labour? Jig labour. You look into the options. Right? Three of them look similar to government civil servants. Which one is going? Which one stands out? Which one stands out? Civil servants. So, answer will be one, two, three. Now, what is the jig economy? Mostly unorganized sector. Temporary jobs which is done by people is called jig economy. So, the answer is a segment where it is flexible temporary freelancing jobs. So, answer here will be option A. Choose max questions also. 53. Could you solve this question? Did you solve max questions? Say again, this max question it is easy to solve. You do not have to think too much. The price of an apple is decreased by 20 percent and the new price is increased by 25 percent. What is the net change in price? How many of you did this question? Okay. So, there are people who did not write. So, this percentage questions it is easy to solve if you start with 100 as the base. So, they are saying price of apple decreased by 20 percent. Imagine the price of apple is 100 rupees. Now, if I am decreasing it by 20 percent what will be the new price? 20 percent means it is reducing by 20. So, it is now 80 rupees. Now, what are we doing? We are increasing the price by 25 percentage means it will increase. What is one-fourth of 80? Easy to divide. One-fourth of 80. 20, 20, 20, 20. So, we are increasing the price by one-fourth of 80. 25 percent is nothing, but again calculation on the math, easily mathematics. One-fourth of 20 is 80. You are increasing the price by 20 rupees. So, the new price will be so, what is the answer? Do you know East-West-South-North? The directions are you aware of it? Which is North? This is North. Delhi is in North. This is South. This is East. India is North-East. Meghalaya, Miss O'Ram, North-East-Trippu is there. North-East-Trippu is there. North-East-Trippu is there. Trippu is there. Yes, at least be aspiring to travel even if you don't travel. This is West. This is North-East-South-West. Now, what is the question saying? Barbie started walking towards East. Barbie started walking towards East. After walking two kilometers, she turns 90 degree clockwise. So, which is East? She is walking towards East. Now, she is turning clockwise. Do you know what is clockwise? What is anti-clockwise? This anti-clockwise is opposite clockwise. Anti-clockwise is anti-clockwise. So, she is turning 90 degree clockwise. She is turning like this. Now, she is walking for one kilometer. Then, she is turning 45 degree counter-clockwise. So, what is counter-clockwise? This direction. So, she is turning like this. 45 degrees she is turning. So, which direction she is walking now? South-East. So, the answer is A. South-East. So, the rest of the questions are time to explain all the questions. If you have any doubts, I would like to introduce our faculty pool who is available here. So, we have Vishnu Sir. Please come to the stage. Vishnu Sir. This is our geography faculty. Srinath Sir is there. Srinath Sir teaches PSR Optional and Economy. Anila Mam is there. Anila Mam. Yes, Anila Mam is the Economics Optional Faculty and she teaches Economics. So, all our faculty is not there because we have branches at multiple places Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi. So, we have faculty, history faculty, Shobhaan Sir is at somewhere else and all other faculty, please come on stage, sir. Yes, and we have Anandu Sir who is our faculty of current affairs and essay. These are the faculty who is available here currently. Today, we have all come to welcome you to the academy to do this test, etc. This is our faculty currently available here. So, Vishnu Sir, geography faculty, Anandu Sir, Anila Mam and Srinath Sir and we have our branched here who is the Lina Mam. You would have seen the beautiful, if you have not seen, you would have at least spoke with her. She is the sweet face and sweet sound of Shankares academy. She is our branch head, Lina Mam. So, Mam has done her Ph.D. from IIT Madras in Development Studies. Right, and then we have the team here, Parvati Shruti. Shruti Sriji Sir, he is our Academic Coordinator. So, all your time tables, class, so all will be coordinated by Sriji Sir. She is our brains. Sriji Sir. And then we have our coordinators, Parvati Mam, Shruti Mam and Unni Sir. So, they will be dealing with all of your academic queries. Okay, if you have any queries in Shankar, some of you will be definitely join Shankar. So, this is Parvati Mam, Shruti Mam. It is available here currently ivent shankariyorum nan ke ICIA కానంవాiy పనళనని మాకె దూ్వి రారం మంట్, ఒని గా youtube క్ంuszక్ అummy ప్కిట్ల ఉంి న౟సేసి టి కంఒస్లల ఆంి విసంయసి మంట్ ప్త్వస్ టి Found how it is conducted etc. and this is the faculty and team of Shangri's academy. So thank you so much for coming to Shangri's academy and giving this test. So you at least somewhere in your mind you thought of studying in Shangri. I hope it happens very soon so all the very best hope to see you all in the classroom. All right thank you so much. Vincent Churchill once mentioned that success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of devotion and commitment. UPSC journey depends on failures and how we overcome it. Today we have Sibillo who through her perseverance and hard work has achieved all India rank 253 CSE 2022. If you perceive MA in industrial psychology and clear UPSC at the age of 23 to note her achievements she is a state level swimmer and CC cadet and an entrepreneur venture in military making. With greatest pleasure we welcome Sibillo who has been a part of Shangri's academy to share her UPSC journey's her experience. Please welcome Sibillo. Will you all here like do you think how many of you think you'll get the scholarship today? Nobody? Sure at least one hand. Okay let's see I'll be announcing the scholarship so we'll get to know. Okay so let's hear a small story. Okay one day this man he was walking and he saw a camp of elephants and he saw that these mighty really huge powerful animals they were not caged rather what do we usually do with elephants like how do we put them like how do we there's a rope a very fragile rope that's tied to a stick. Now don't you think an elephant is so huge they can just break free of this so a person walking by he was very curious and he went and asked the trainer see how is it possible to such a such a mighty elephant is staying tied to that fragile rope so he said when the elephant came in as a baby elephant the baby elephant was not strong enough and then this rope used to hold him but even when the elephant grew the elephant didn't realize the amount of strength and the potential it was gaining as it grew up. So what this shows is that our limiting beliefs or our personal beliefs about ourselves can have a huge impact in the kind of outcomes that finally end up in our lives. It can make it or break it for us so it's very important to understand what is limiting you and to overcome that limitation and that's what the session will be about because what I did is to understand my limitation and then overcome that limitation through my journey and then I went to a path of personal development. Okay how many of you have heard of the successful launch of Chandrayaan 3 thank god at least this all of you have heard because can you think any Indian can miss Chandrayaan 3's launch it gives us goosebumps those are moments when we're so proud that we're an Indian but there are also times long long back when only US and Soviet Union have been front runners in the space exploration even if we said the name India in the race for space exploration people might people would have laughed don't you think so back in 1962 when the space agency was being set up people would have laughed it off India being the fourth nation to do such a such a big exploration to moon but today it's possible why because back in 1962 and we should imagine the situation of India then the economy of India then we should think about you know what is happening after independence the bloodshed that followed it at that point visionaries like Dr. Vikram Sarabhai they saw something right they had a vision which they believed in they had a plan which is why all these years later today India is not just any country in space exploration right when you count I can count in this finger that it's almost a fourth and fifth in most of the explorations yes or no and it makes us immensely proud but did it come without any failure even Chandrayaan what happened to Chandrayaan 2 it failed but when it failed did we all give up on history did we say that okay now don't go to moon this is not meant for us let's do something that we're good at or why is India as a developing country spending so much money why are we exploring so much into space did we question India in such a way no we patiently waited because we believed in India and a lot of people would have criticised us actually could have made us feel like yes as a developing country we shouldn't be spending so much in it right they would have said it but today they are also applauding the success of Chandrayaan 3 and is it just Chandrayaan 3 no there's Gaganian coming up there are so many missions now why am i giving you an example India knows its potential and as officers of the country what we have to do is help it harness that potential right and that is why most of us are here and these things don't come without failures but the failure is just going to teach you how to improve or become better so the first step towards anything in life whether it be UPSC or something else is to dream big dream so so so big that one day when you look back you will not be able to realise that it is you who is standing here you take a moment just think about it most of you here would aspire to be IS officers or IFS officers right or IPS officers correct yeah most of us so imagine just take a moment and imagine that today we look up to IS officers even I used to look up to all these officers today when that rand comes you're looking back and you've become that officer you were looking up to can you all imagine yourself in that position that till yesterday the person you wanted to become or the person used to look up to being so big that other people used to listen to today you've become that same individual is it like are you guys relating to that and that's how big you should dream you dream so so so big that you yourself will not be able to believe that this is me and that is a kind of growth you know the kind of things that dreams do to you dreams would never limit you it should always be more and more like bigger than your potentials so just to help you out with how to deal with these limiting beliefs I also had limiting beliefs okay so when I started UPSC it was a plan B because why I was also not confident that would I ever make it right I'm sure a lot of you have that question with you today so what were my limiting beliefs the first limiting belief was that I did an international curricular I went to an international school so it's a good thing in the way that I got some privilege right but in the other side I didn't know much about the country in general I didn't know the history of India the geography of India the polity of India nothing nothing at all so for somebody like that to jump into an examination like this was a big step will I ever be able to learn all of this right and should I just go abroad you know which is the easy thing for me to do should I really look at this but then what I thought was and at the same time my general awareness right it was very bad I was a big zero not even like you guys I would never even think of attempting a scholarship test for UPSC because all of you sitting here as beginners are so much better than me because I can tell you if any of you give the UPSC exam all of you will come up with around 70 to 80 marks in your prillums the cutoff would be 80 to 90 it's just that 10 marks which is making all of you stay away from the actual preliminary exam now guess how much I got for my first prillums this is just to state that I started from a very different place than all of you so much behind where all of you are right now just because of my background so guess what was my prillum score if I'm saying that all of you an average person would get around 70 what do you think is my prillum score in 2020 I gave my first attempt just guess it's okay even you say 10 also I'll listen to you tell me any guesses yes good it was 51 and 51 is a very low score and I knew then when I was going to give that prillums also I knew that I'm not going to make it but that didn't stop me right that did not stop me so that's what I'm saying my general awareness was a big zero I knew nothing my dad dad will still laugh at the fact that I cleared this exam when he's getting all the applause and when people are going to him actually it's a bigger thing for your parents than for you so you know he jokes with me he's like I still don't know how you cleared this exam okay but I feel great because now everybody's congratulating me and asking me how to do parenting so that's a great thing for him but it was a big zero okay a big zero but my question to myself was I didn't have the knowledge that but I had the attitude I knew that as an individual who wanted like who was working towards something I wanted to make an impact I wanted to make an impact in my life and in the lives of others and if knowledge is what is stopping me from making that impact in touching lives you know in rewriting stories then I will sit and learn that knowledge and I did that and which is why I'm here today so don't make anything so being from an in international curriculum I would have said I know nothing especially I'm not at the ncrt nothing no basic knowledge I had to start from scratch from scratch but I didn't stop and it was hard for me it was not in my first attempt it was not my second attempt it's my third attempt I cleared the examination now apart from these so what we can understand from these limiting factors is that don't let any of these personal beliefs negatively stop you from dreaming big because if I would have not dreamt then what I would have said you know my general awareness is low okay people say that I'm not good enough how will I become an officer let me just go abroad and do a normal job if I did that I would never be here so the first thing is to dream really really really big now how many of you here have faced this deep kind of you know this deep pain in your heart deep pain when you've failed let's say in a relationship or in a friendship or if you've given the examination in the preliminary examination you know that sort of pain it's like somebody is poking into your heart any of you have experienced it just one person be honest guys should talk about pain how many of you have experienced pain in life how many of you have experienced that very weakening moment in life come on can I see a rave of hands yes all of us have so when we look at researchers they say that the pain that failure gives an individual right it's equivalent to physical pain of going through let's say breaking a bone or having a huge cut it's the same level and intensity of pain that we experience mentally and this is the reason why a lot of us fear failure again be honest with me how many of you fear failure here thank you and how many of you did not attempt this year's problems because you were scared to fail thank you this is something we have to change so I'm here going to tell you how I tried to change my attitude or my perspective towards failure to just make my life get here okay so just imagine that you're standing and there's a circle drawn around you all of us we all have different circles and inside the circle there are certain tasks outside the circle also there are certain tasks now when I do the task inside the circle I always succeed from my life I can tell you some examples that I wrote my 10th grade examination I topped I wrote my 11th grade examination again I topped great I wrote my 12th grade examination again same thing then I went to college in college also I got a scholarship I was like great everything is it's not that I'm trying so hard for it it just came then I started an entrepreneurial venture I used to make jewellery so I made jewellery that also started there also I was getting profits so lot of successes and I'm sure most of you sitting here belong to this category right most of you sitting here would have done very well in your school would be very confident in yourself otherwise why would you come for the scholarship exam right unless you're confident why would you be sitting here today so I was succeeding everywhere but you know what happens when you keep succeeding everywhere is that you never realize where your boundary is you'll keep playing within the field but you'll never sort of grow so UPSA for me was a big dream it was a big step for me and in my first attempt when I failed I was very happy because I finally understood the boundary so I would like to can I just use the board here hmm how do you use is there a pen excuse me so let's say this is me okay my name is Sibilu I'm going to call myself Sibi and this is my circle so as I said when I did activities which were I did activities which were here I was always succeeding okay can any so most of you will also be succeeding right in your life in your career paths in your classrooms all of us have successes but when we keep succeeding within without trying very hard that means we're in our comfort zone right but when we fail once right when you feel that pain when you understand that this is where I'm not good enough that moment is when you reach here you understand that now your job is not just to celebrate these successes but to expand your boundary and that's exactly what will happen now when I come to my prelims and you will think another thing is the circle right it's different for different people can I get any volunteer who's willing to tell me their name anybody here who has attempted their prelims exam this year this year you have attempted okay great so let's say I'm going to draw minakshi circle like this okay somebody for whom I'm going to draw a small circle please give me a name I'm going to draw a small circle for you so I'm telling you a disclaimer any names anyone okay so this is vivic vivics is a small circle now when we start preparing for the exam we all have our boundaries drawn right in front of us all our boundaries are unique to us right and we shouldn't be comparing my journey with somebody else's journey but at the end of the day what upsi will do to you is upsi's expectation of an individual would be somewhere here and all of us and minakshi would already be within the expectation vivic would have some more time to get to the expectation what our task is is to ensure that we go from here to here right and once you do that you've reached that aha moment when you've cleared this exam right and that's why all of us are here but that doesn't mean you restrict yourself to that circle yes or no you should be growing further you know why because then upsi will become a cakewalk for you there are different stages of the exam you might not clear all the stages together so let's say you get comfortable in prelims then when you're here in the prelims level then this part becomes very easy for you can just go write the exam that's how you see veterans clearing six seven times their prelims but they might be struggling with their boundaries that they face during their means right okay so now i'll take you through my boundary of which is the eraser in this so coming to my prelims boundary okay we can talk about the mains boundary later so this was me in my prelims off so i'm just gonna share a story with you okay about my journey i got 51 when the cutoff mark was 92 okay look at that pathetic situation people are laughing at me can't believe it guys you shouldn't be this rude now the second attempt i gave i would say i grew and gave now i want you to guess okay how much did i improve when i studied for one year one year what did i get for my second attempt for gs i want guesses oh sure thanks in being so confident but i got one not two when the cutoff was 87 and the forest cutoff was 99 so forest cutoff is 15 marks about the general cutoff and i cleared with flying colors but did i clear the actual exam no i made a mistake so here i made a mistake in gs that's what i'm saying you make a lot of mistakes in this journey okay here i did very well in gs one but unfortunately what did i do in my c sad paper i couldn't clear then again we go to the next stage that is this year 2022 this time i cleared both papers and i can tell you that this time for my c sad people so that's what i'm saying so if earlier we said right there's a boundary so here this was the boundary the boundary was huge that i had to cross 51 is huge but by the time i came here the prelims cutoff was somewhere here i didn't need the forest cutoff you just need like the csc cutoff to get through it so i was here that in my next attempt prelims was a cake walk for me it was very easy i didn't spend a lot of time for prelims but i spent time on c sad because i found my boundary and that's why it's important your boundaries are unique to you you have to identify which one you need to be working on so this time i cleared both now let me tell you a tip okay a pro tip from somebody who has made so many mistakes now to make mistakes and learn from them it's a great thing you have to be very smart to not repeat your mistakes but what is vice to do is to learn from the mistakes of people sitting next to you people who have done this before you so that you don't take so much time to clear the exam right none of us want to spend a lot of time to clear the exam so i'm giving you that pro tip learn from the mistakes of people who've gone through this journey okay keep track of people like me okay who've cleared and look at my mistakes and know that do not neglect c sad this is a learning curve that you need today please never neglect the c sad paper because you might not clear the exam and lose out one year just because of this paper now i couldn't use this this trick of learning being wise and learning from the mistakes of my people around me for prelims but i used it very well for means because this time when i cleared prelims i cleared means i went for interview and i got a rank and i'll also get a service which is one of my top preferences so think about it first i made my own mistake and learned that is one way of learning which all of us should be open to do because we we have the right to make our mistakes otherwise how will we grow but that doesn't mean you keep making mistakes it's not like first problems you didn't clear you made a mistake then c sad you didn't clear then next time me and student clear you made a mistake there are eight papers for eight papers if you wait to you know make a mistake you'll never clear the exam because you have very less number of attempts so what is the take back from this be wise and learn from the mistakes of the people who've gone before you okay and also make sure that you enjoy making these mistakes because if you never make the mistake how will you know your boundary and you know how beautiful this feeling is when you see your score go from 51 to 102 with one year of effort you actually see how much you pushed that boundary and that i think has been the most fulfilling experiences i've had and i've also had a lot of people to help me through all of this i've had guidance especially in this attempt i would say it was a cake walk because i took a lot of tests even in shanka i took tests and i had i had a lot of people around me who were preparing with me i had a lot of people who were prepared before me i had mentors with me so all of that helps us find you now preparation okay so i hope this is clear how many of you want to grow your boundary actually how many of you here want to identify your boundaries how many of you know your boundaries good so the first thing is don't hesitate it's great that you came for the scholarship test today you'll understand where you stand from this exam and after this strategized uniquely like it should be a tailor-made strategy for yourself and once you do that trust me with proper planning you'll be able to crack this examination that's it about the fear of failure so how many of you here will give 2024 without making excuses thank you because it's very important failing ones is not going to define who you are it's only going to define who you are at that particular point of time and the moment you cross the moment you come this side you will be celebrating the fact that you have expanded your boundaries but there's also one thing if you don't work on yourself you can even contract your boundaries and that's why this becomes very important now i have a question to ask most of you you might all be confused how many there's this one thing out of all the things you gain from upsc you lose from upsc there's one thing in upsc that you're risking if you take up this preparation can you tell me what it is what is that one thing that you're risking in your life if you take up upsc time yes because if you look at reports of psychologists the most memorable period of our life the most memorable the the period in which we have most memories from is 20 to 30 you can ask your parents your grandparents they would all tell you that they have all those fond memories of their life from 20 to 30 now by deciding to prepare for this exam what we're doing is we're going to spend that time confined to a lot of reading and a lot of books which is true you have to read otherwise you will not clear so you all know this right and that's why i'm telling you if upsc has ever crossed your mind ever flashed your mind then you have to start now you have to start today because if you don't do that because i'm telling you this from my personal experience okay when i graduated i was around 20 years old and i had a friend so that time i did be my bachelor's in media and communication so i wanted to venture into my media profession at that point being a radio joki so i was very excited to be a radio joki i just wanted to do it part-time and then i would also look at maybe upsc and other things and my friend was telling me no no no so you are smart okay if i was smart i would have done upsc you're smart so you should do upsc and the reason why so he was just you know making fun of me and the reason why he said it to me was he missed two three years during his schooling because of certain personal reasons and i gained one year in schooling because i got promoted when i was in school so although we were in the same class he was around two years older to me so he understood the importance of time and the importance of age so he told me that this is the best time for you to prepare for upsc quite seriously if you wait if you go into this and that and this and come back it's going to be too late and then i said no because at that time at that age no we all want to do a lot of different things we don't want to sit inside because there's so much energy right in your early 20s who wants to sit in a room and study it was so difficult for me every time i used to crib to him like it's because of you and your ideas that i'm sitting here if i don't clear i'll blame you my entire life but today standing here i am so grateful to him because i cleared this exam when i was 23 years old and that's a very prime age to clear this examination so that one tip if i would tell you it's a humble request from my side that if you're thinking of preparing for this exam you have to start now otherwise you will regret it and i'm telling you you will come back and thank me if you make it to the list and you become an officer you will probably find me and thank me and tell me that it's because i started then that today i've reached here by starting i don't mean you start full-fledged but you have to start understanding the exam have to start knowing what possibilities will this exam give me because i did that in around 2019 i started looking at the exam i started hearing about the exam but only in 2020 i decided to actually write the exam but that one or six months was very important in my life because understanding the exam is actually something that is more important than starting to prepare so time is in your hands today most of you will be in your teens right 19 some of you will be in your early 20s so don't wait okay and make sure you come and thank me later because i'll be so happy to see a lot of officers from here from this this room itself okay so that's about the time now in terms of again we we looked at failure from a different perspective right now let's look at time also from a different perspective because in 2021 when i cleared when i didn't clear seasat it was one year wasted for me right i was actually prepared for means when you look at my boundary my boundary was very small in terms of prelims but in terms of means i was pretty okay my boundary was quite strong okay i just had to push a little bit more so i wanted to really write means in that attempt but i couldn't write it so i have one year wasted right that's what most people will think one year wasted but no i wanted to think of it from a positive angle i thought of it as one year gained the good thing about time is time becomes your friend it becomes a boon when you have good habits and it becomes a bane when you have bad habits so i decided to use this time to ensure that remember that circle that i was showing you in that circle we had three circles one was the initial me then there was what upse wanted from me then there was another circle right what i want from myself sorry this is what i wanted from myself right we are not here just to clear upse but also here because we have personal ambitions right to make a difference to have an impact just because you clear upse doesn't mean all your questions are answered right and learning does not stop when you clear the exam it actually starts there so i've worked on this orange thing and if if you will still know me after two years you'll realize that there's a skill that i learned that i started studying when i didn't clear seasat which is actually a sophisticated skill so it's a secret i haven't told anyone but once i get to a peak in that skill i'll be telling people that it's a failure of seasat that actually made me start this new skill so i started to work on a lot of things in my life my exercise i used to go to the gym my diet my sleep i used to just focus on myself just be very happy you know make friends i used to use the shankar reading room i build really good habits and in the reading room it's easy to build good habits because everybody has good habits like i have a lot of role models sitting right there okay actually upstairs right yeah sitting upstairs so many great role models because i used to look at them they come on time they study really well and i was a problem maker actually here i was the one who used to walk around all the time i was the one who used to chat a lot so i used to feel bad you know wasting their time but it's good to have friends you know to have a peer group who's also studying for the exam to look up to the people sitting next to you you know and to learn from those people so all these things help me so these three boundaries are something that you should always remember one is where you're today two is where UPSA wants you to go and three is where you want yourself to be in the future and so that's what i'm saying time it's with you if you have good habits you'll end up reaching here if you have decent habits you'll end up reaching UPSC if you have bad habits you'll probably end up where you are today okay so i think that's uh those are things that i wanted to tell you about the preparation and also about this examination and that it's it's possible so there's this story that i really like there was this man so initially he bought a chinese bamboo and he planted the sapling or not sapling i think it was a seed i don't know how bamboo grows but it's a story so please excuse me okay there was a chinese bamboo first year used to water it nothing happened second year watered it nothing happened till second year they sort of believed okay that something will happen third year nothing happened fourth year that guy gave up that caretaker went away he even forgot about all this fifth year he comes back and somebody told him remember you were taking care of some some spot there in the soil there's there's something coming out of it okay so he went back to sea he looked at it or saved after five years you grow this much he was so disappointed and then within six weeks he saw that that bamboo grew 80 feet now can you imagine how tall 80 feet is you know how tall statue of liberty is any of you close 76 each grew in six weeks 80 feet so what was it doing for five years it was dead no it was actually growing within that's exactly what upsc is done for me upsc gives you a lot of roots not just in your in your professional life but also in your personal life it makes you look at your failures it makes you think more positively it makes you have that ability to have an impact on yourself and a positive impact on the people around you so that way upsc will help you grow roots but nobody trust me nobody will see your growth other than you yourself and nobody will even believe in you to be honest after a point but you should be ready to accept and understand that you are growing inside and one day whether in upsc or in another aspect of life you will be able to showcase whatever growth you've made so i think all the years in upsc that i've spent i'm so grateful that i was able to do it and i was also grateful that i had a lot of supportive people around me during the isolation of covid-19 it was very difficult for me in 21 i got one or two right it was a very good mark but i didn't clearly see sat because i was narrow minded if i had friends around me if i had mentors around me they would have told me i would be able to learn from their mistakes right but i couldn't but after that when i came out after the covid isolation i started to interact more and i started to learn a lot more from their from their mistakes from their lives and in general everything in terms of mentorship in terms of peers etc so that really helps you create the root the roots within you and again i'm repeating nobody in the world will be able to see how much you grow if you decide to take up this examination nobody in the world and you yourself won't believe that three years down the line you will be the one standing here so i think that's it about my journey of upsc i would um if you have any questions you can ask me any questions with respect to upsc or yeah yes thank you that's a good question the consistency i told you right it's about habit formations motivation will stay for the initial one month and if all of you go to college go to school it's very easy to clear exams in school and college you study for two weeks or you study for one month and you end up clearing the examination but that's not the case with upsc upsc is actually not just an exam it's so much more than an exam it's actually a journey of personal development and growth that makes you an officer capable of as i mentioned in the beginning capable of harnessing the potential of the country so you have responsibilities when you get to that position and you have to ensure that you learn to be responsible so what i did is initially when i was in school and all that i see very against discipline okay because i was like you know discipline ruins creativity anybody who believes that okay good found a friend discipline ruins creativity discipline is uh you know it doesn't let me be me etc i used to actually feel those things but upsc changed my opinion about it discipline is something that empowers you discipline ensures that whatever you have to do in your life you get it done with let's say your sleep your exercise your diet there are so many things that you really have to do to ensure a good life so all that is ticked off then the remaining time you have just for your productive development for making an impact for making that boundary grow so before this before the discipline aspect of me i told you i was succeeding everywhere but i was succeeding inside my comfort zone you get it but when i started upsc i had to go outside my comfort zone and to go outside your comfort zone you need discipline in your life you have to build good habits in your life and whenever i used to fall in my preparation in my consistency i used to not make a plan to study but rather i used to make a plan of waking up at the same time eating meals at the right time and exercising every day and once these three are right trust me your life is set you can do anything in the world i don't know how many of you here okay how many of you here for the past one week woke up at the same time good and you said you don't like discipline okay good right that means you do respect discipline right if you go to the gym okay okay see that's what he i think we just changed his opinion also did we a slightly you said you think discipline hinders creativity but you go to the gym and you were disciplined i said i'm not disciplined but at least there's one aspect of discipline that's what i'm saying when i used to get back to studying it is not the study timetable that i used to make i used to make my timetable of gym or workout i used to prefer yoga more than gymming so i used to do yoga in the morning i used to take meals at the same time every day it used to really help me with my concentration and focus and number three was my sleep cycle so anyone here who does all these three things properly wake up at the same time eat at the same time every day and workout every day workout is this but see it's only one out of three and zero out of three for all of you that's what matters so to be consistent you have to have your life in your control to have your life in your control these little little things should be in your control then the exam will automatically come in your control and that is what i call by this orange color circle it's not just the exam that you're targeting in this preparation you're targeting something more yeah any other questions okay yes thank you for the question the first thing is newspaper reading is the most most most important thing in this examination again question how many of you have consistently read the newspaper for the past one week okay please give them a round of applause because reading the newspaper is actually one of the most important things you need as a person and as a upsc aspirant because upsc as i told you are recruiting officers it's not a college exam to give you a distinction it's an exam to pick people who can actually end up doing the job so to do that you need to be aware about yourself so start your newspaper reading it's a mistake that i also did okay a lot of times because i got lazy but again i'm telling you from the other side that please read the newspaper it's the most important thing most most important thing in upsc and you'll only realize that that when you will get to your main examination that every single person mostly i'm not generalizing but most of if you look at the top 10 they go by current affairs and newspaper reading like it's that that that defining factor because everybody will prepare for upsc but you know what they will do they'll read the current affairs magazine they'll go for the easy way out but it doesn't work that way the newspaper is very important in creating that analytical ability it's in understanding different viewpoints and making your own viewpoint okay again understand that this exam is not about mugging up this exam is making you an officer okay so always remember that fact yes so in terms of newspaper i used to not understand anything in the newspaper when i started actually that was one of my first limiting beliefs i was like if i can't understand anything when will i start understanding things i should ask myself it took me around six months and initially i should read the newspaper for around two two and a half hours because it took that much time to comprehend everything that's happening and it's okay if you take around one to two hours to read the newspaper now and about the terms one thing is when you do your static portions that is whatever is in your main syllabus that will really help you understand the newspaper because newspaper has all the current aspects the contemporary aspects but you have to know the static to understand the contemporary without knowing the base how can you know what's happening so first thing is go back to your static do your static really well go through the syllabus for example in economy okay there's something known as reporate so when you first see the word reporate you might not understand what it is but it's a very basic thing that you learn in economy so that's what i would say in newspaper reading you have to go through your static and make it strong to understand how that static is being used in today's world okay in the contemporary affairs and second thing is don't go for a lot of for example in economy also don't go for a lot of these sources like i've heard people talk about i think ramai singh and a lot of these books that they read actually that's not required you have to go through the ncrt the newspaper for economy i went through budget and economic survey not just one year's not just the previous year but two to three years because that's where the trends form right things actually happen very slowly that i think you would already know right things don't happen like this it takes time so you should be aware of the contemporary affairs of two to three years so that's what you should be doing so in terms of newspaper reading to understand the newspaper in a better manner ensure that you start reading up your basic static portion from your ncrt and also from your syllabus now once you do that also remember that don't go to hey why when you're reading for these things don't take too many static books one base book and the newspaper will supplement it that's it and never ever supplement a newspaper for a current affairs magazine okay because that's not going to help you that will help you get through prillams you might get forest cut off also but it will not help you clear means and means is the core of this examination okay so i told you right i i had a mains oriented strategy which is why when i got to clear so this is a joke that i tell people that you know prillams is like the ticket first day first show you might not always get the ticket but it's not like we go back right we come back for the next show and you take the ticket it's like it that's how prillams is so if you're not clearing prillams please please don't be demotivated it's not even a factor to be demotivated prillams has nothing to do with your actual exam your rank your mains or anything it's just a ticket if it had a role to play they would take the marks of prillams okay prillams is important because there's so much competition and so much population that they have to you know sort of what do you say filter out the people who are hardworking so that's what prillams is about but if you don't clear prillams please don't go back please don't turn back write your mains once or twice and that's when you can make your call whether you want to continue or not and i'm sure before that all of you will be in the um see when we read the newspaper we won't always get time to make notes out of the newspaper and even if we do if we don't revise it consistently it will be very difficult for us to remember the things we read in the newspaper right even for people who are reading newspaper consistently it's not very easy if i ask you this news what happened you might not be able to recall it perfectly you might be able to understand if i talk about the news you'll understand it you'll comprehend it but you won't be able to recall it for the exam what do we need we have to recall it we have to show them that we know so you have to actually study the newspaper not read the newspaper and to study the newspaper these magazines can help you they sort of give you what you need to study from that article because an article will have a lot of opinions you don't need to remember all these opinions so read the newspaper and then when you read the current affairs magazine and with that also please go through the previous year questions so from the previous year question you'll understand what kind of questions are coming and once you understand that you can align it with the newspaper and very specific important topics you can do from your current affairs magazine and whatever is given in your magazine make sure you know it with clarity because that will help you okay and yes i think that's the most important thing so with the new and also at the end when we're revising right we will not know what all we've read we'll forget so use the compiled magazines to tick it off have i read this do i know this when you see that term itself you should be able to know okay i know this so don't read it but if you don't know it you can go and revise if you have some lack of clarity you can go and revise it so yes and just like current affairs magazine i had a cheat code for prelims especially and that's how my marks went from 51 to 102 that was testing so i call this identifying packets of information okay so this is so let's say there's a packet of information the aim of this packet of information is to get to the prelims of 2024 just like we want to get to the main list of 2024 the packet of information wants to get to prelims because if it gets to prelims everybody will talk about it right it will get so much attention for the next one year all those hundred questions will get so much attention so as a packet of information i'm just personifying a packet of information you want to get to the prelims but not every packet of information is actually prelims worthy right in main step analysis you might be very fond of it you might read a lot of analysis but how will they ask analysis in prelims i mean it's it's there but it's a bit difficult prelims worthy i mean it's easy to make statements wrong now it's always very hard to lie have you tried lying first level you can lie second level you can lie third question you're gone right it's very difficult it's very difficult to lie it's actually very difficult to set the paper also it's difficult to make statements wrong in the paper so only when it is easy for them to make a statement wrong only that packet of information will have prelims potential you understand what i'm saying not every information that is important for this exam has a prelims potential but the information which are easy to be made wrong for the examiner has a higher prelims potential now we learn a lot of things and we know that ups is so vast i used to tell my dad when i used to start preparing that i'm in mariana trench now i have to climb the Everest that's my task in three years that's the variation okay that's the amount of things it's like swimming through all the oceans in the world that's how you feel when you get in but then how do you streamline it if you swim through all the oceans you will never clear the exam trust me you have to know exactly which route to take and for that you know who are the first people who find these packets of information people who said test series before upse finds it these test series people will find it so let's say you clear prelims for the packet of information level one is successful if they get to a test that packet is very happy at least i got to a test now i have the potential to come in the actual exam and if one test maker thinks it has a potential the next test maker will also think it have a potential two tests we say in the in the circle that it came in two test series when it repeats for the actual prelims we say this question came in three test series this is just a cheat code okay i'm so don't please don't stick to it but use it to create an edge over people sitting next to you so let's say three test series picked it this piece of information is very very happy finally you come to prelims in prelims also this packet of information came now i am going and writing prelims i'm not worried about everything in the ocean i'm only worried about the exact route from mariana trench to avarist that i get from these packets of information that means i'm doing the highest probable materials for prelims and that gives you an edge in prelims not for mails this is only for prelims in mails also you can use this strategy or finding packets of information and creating specific notes on these packets of information because you can't remember everything for your exam a lot of things come naturally so for mails i used to follow the spontaneous answer writing but i used to do the identification of packets of information if it has come in a test let's say fcr a act i would have some pointers of these are the pointers that i can add in my answer factually with respect to fcr a act and that i used to integrate prelims and means because all the value addition that you learn for your prelims you will ultimately be writing that in your means to get an edge over the other candidate yeah so this is a packet of information trick that you can use to you know maximize your prelim score yes any other question personality test difficult question actually my personality test didn't oh it's a funny story okay so i have my age and my background and everything my knowledge basis not very big okay i have a knowledge base which i highly respect but it's not as big as the people let's say who are writing the exam because we know veterans are writing the exam people are working are writing the exam so you can never compare and people in the service are writing the exam so my knowledge base is very small so in most of my interviews i had had to say that i can't recall okay this this is my boundary of knowledge i had to state it and i walked into my actual i walked into the actual examination hall ready to say at least five six i don't know or you know i can't recall sir sorry but i didn't even have to say one that was so surprising because they asked me very generic questions about myself my personality what i've been studying it was more like a you know round table conference i would have with elders in my family and i think that is what they're looking for it would depend different interview is different some people ask for very bizarre facts also but you should know that there are different kinds of interviews for me so i wouldn't say there was a difficult question but there were very interesting questions if you want me to share interesting questions is that so there was this one question about the psychology of terrorism so my optional is psychology and i told him that you know in psychology of terrorism they they create a community they have a bonding a brotherhood and everything that's why most people find it very hard to get out of terrorism and there are other factors also like discipline like you know having certain rigid notions about things and everything so they asked me in a positive way how can we use the principles of terrorism so i was a part of the national catered core for three years to be very honest even in the army or in other disciplined services we use these principles but why for a positive outcome so i was very happy with the fact that i could link a question to my personal life and look at it from that perspective so that was one interesting question another question they asked me was about women entrepreneurship so when i was studying in college i told you about a jewellery thing that i used to do and in that they asked me because that was my plan b in in upsi that's also another topic of discussion plan b but i had a plan b and then they asked me how can you promote women entrepreneurship so most people sort of stick to you know things like education health and everything but i brought in kudumbas tree and about how self-help groups like that are really empowering because when we talk about women a lot of times when we hear it we think of ourselves right or people in our circle but women in general is a huge topic and that's the sort of i think broad approach you need to have at every question so those little things i was very happy with myself i think those are the interesting questions and my board is very excited very excited i don't know why they kept asking me questions about you know principles of psychology they wanted to know more about psychology then at the end so when the fourth person was speaking the first person wanted to ask one more question and the board member it was sattivati ma'am so she said no no you can't ask we don't have time we have one more person but then at the end she allowed him to ask me the last question so his last question was from an interview like this can we assess you know things like emotional intelligence those were the topics in my interview that we were talking about so i gave a genuine answer that from an interview of 25 minutes you can't judge how a person will be for the rest of their 30 years right so you need field work and you need other things which they will do later on but i gave a genuine answer about you know that it's difficult but from our mannerisms from the way we speak from the words we use from a lot of body language you might be able to figure out if a person is genuinely conveying their opinions or fabricating opinions so that was my answer that was my interview experience interview score was also decent it was 184 which is above average any other questions anybody else you can feel free to ask me questions because you will not get this opportunity again uh and i think i've asked so many questions that people here know i've asked so many questions it's only because of my curiosity and this annoying nature of asking questions that i'm here today there are people who come up to me also tell me you cleared because you're curious because you asked me 10 questions on one topic so please if you have any questions please let me know otherwise i'm also tired any questions no okay then i think we'll wrap up little on general reading like you stick to you know i think you've covered books and books and how personality can be molded also in any area personality which is setting provides the time you start a preparation but still certain molding you might be able to do like and just how to work of saturation of preparation once you get to you see one thing is um to listen to yourself a lot of times we know exactly what we need in life but our thoughts get hazy by looking at the people next to us by looking at what our parents are saying by looking at what our friends are doing because trust me when you wake up there's a gut feeling in you that's telling you what is the right thing for you right all of us have that and so just listen to your gut i think that's what's important when you want to take a break take a break you don't have to always push push and push no that's not what you know hard work is about or smart work is about work you know there's a sort of enjoyment that you have to get from the preparation and another quote again he knows this that i say is that what upsi taught me is that happiness is a journey it's not a destination and the more happy you are in the person you're becoming through this journey the better rewarding it would be because i told you if you remember the circles if you become the orange circle right you would automatically clear this examination and i think that is what you should always aim for upsi yes it's a goal in your life but what is a bigger goal is to become a good officer right is to become somebody other people look up to it's to become somebody who can actually bring out some change with the powers that you're going to get in the future am i right yeah so i think to hit with saturation understand that when you're preparing itself you're not just an aspect this is not a school exam this is not a college exam be responsible believe in yourself also keep listening to yourself if you think it's right it's right you don't have to prove anybody and you don't have to you know have people to believe in you also because like the bamboo i told you the growth happens inside people will only see it when there's a platform evaluating it that is your problems your means and your interview and also in other aspects of life if you decide to do something other than upsi so i think that what i would say is with respect to saturation and everything listen to yourself please be you right please be the person you want to become if the person you want to become is aligned with the values of what upsi wants you will clear this exam again so this is general the basic static things are what is important okay again because i make jewelry there's something else that i say that there are a lot of beads on the table okay and different answer requires you to put these beads in different ways okay let's say i have some beads and i've given the beads to the three of them sitting there one person would make a bracelet one person would make an anklet one person would make an earring depending on their requirement of it but just because they're making all these things just because they're making all these things doesn't mean that they are using different different beads they're using the same beads so static basic static in everything is very very important all you need are these beads in your life you can put those beads in whichever way you want in whichever answer you want to convert your knowledge to marks and the exam so for static i would say for psychology specifically i did the ncrt's and after that i did one basic book that's baron there are different options from which you can pick and other than that there was another book called smart x win for applied psychology and i think that's about it and previous your questions always the static is what is going to make you stand here not the bouncers that you hear about you'll all hear about bouncers in prelims this came that came this thing came and because this thing came you have to read this book and you have to read that book this came from this book doesn't matter that even i will get wrong anybody clearing the exam will get it wrong that is not going to stop you from clearing the exam do your static really really well be very confident in your static and then i think all you need to do is learn how to make these different ornaments different answer requires different demands but the content is the same so the skill is to make these so first step is to collect the beads next step is to i would say assemble the beads in the way you want that's exactly what this exam is in means okay that's in psychology also i used to take the beads collect the beads this is my knowledge my knowledge base is small but revise it multiple times and create a lot of inter linking between each of these beads and then finally i'll be able to give the examiner exactly what they want as per the demand of the question and that will fetch you marks yeah anything else okay so thank you and good luck to all of you i'm waiting to see who these scholarship winners is today and trust me that i told you again that that one thing i will tell you is time matters and age matters so if you're planning if UPSC has just crossed your mind you have to start today you have to start right now actually and then finally you'll end up if you want to become an officer you'll hopefully become an officer so thanks a lot to listen to changed okay sorry last thing what has changed before and after clearing UPSC nothing has changed actually but people like you turn up to listen to me that has changed and i hope i was able to add some value thank you thank you sibilu ma'am for your wonderful words um also thank you for sharing your experiences and your UPSC journey and also making us understand the importance of knowing our boundaries thank you so much ma'am it means a really a lot and also an inspiration for all the UPSC aspirants and thank you once again thank you ma'am it's the most awaited time of the day to declare the results so we welcome Arjun sir to publish the results once again i know you all are waiting for this so i will say that the result is more a story of failure than success and this is the beginning of UPSC journey like say as sibilu would have rightly said we have all faced failures she failed the first problems right and the that failure gives you some pain don't worry you are going to be the winners of tomorrow for sure she's handled it very beautifully look there is more things she would like to tell we have done one interview with her in her and a few toppers five other other toppers um it will get She's been uploaded on our Youtube channel in the next two to three days. So do listen to her. I was very amazed by how much she's at an age of... So she was thinking how much she thinks, she has a lot of things to tell. Hot as it is to talk playfully in passing. She keeps on speaking which is actually very interesting and entertaining. That thought process and the maturity actually is amazing If you had been giving advice, you could have done that too. She is giving much better and mature advices than the all the faculty are. Thank you, Sibulu. And that interview is also coming in our YouTube channel with five toppers, including this year's Kerala Topraria, Meera, Sibulu, Nandagoba and Malavika. We have interviewed five of them. It will come in our YouTube channel soon. Now the results. So as I said, don't feel disheartened. I know the disheartened and the pain of failures. We could select only seven people to this list because we announced top seven will get scholarships. I am announcing the people who have today was your day. Today was your day and the questions were in favor of you. You knew a lot better than all the aspirin sitting here. So you are the top seven today and my whole hearted congratulations. You already are winners. Tomorrow will be your day and make use of it. As she rightly pointed out, thank you for making this process very easy for me. Tomorrow will be your day, the circles she drew and how from today, see next year, each time you should be in that position or not next year, it will take you two years once you clear the exam. You should come here and tell me the story of how I failed my Sanger scholarship exam and how I become a UPSC winner, you know UPSC rank holder. So on that note, I am just announcing the 100% scholarship in a stop two. First is for Devnaran and A.S. You can just, yes, Devnaran, hearty, hearty congratulations. So this is the beginning of the UPSC journey for you. And second is for Deepak Sudhir. So again hearty congratulations. Thank you so much. Then 75, please you can sit. 75% scholarship is for the next two. Third rank is for Mohammad Riyaz. Yes Mohammad Riyaz, congratulations. Akosh A.S is the fourth person. Akosh, congratulations. Now the next three ranks, rank 567 will get 50% scholarship. Fifth rank is for Lijin Raj. Lijin, congratulations. Sixth rank is for Vikil V. Vikil, congratulations. And the lone representative of the, you know, women communities this last rank. You should again, next time, see, UPSC rank will be there in a minute. Don't get, because when we took the Kerala list, almost all of them were women. Like we interviewed half of them were male candidates and the other four were ladies candidates. So the plates will turn. So the seventh rank is for Malavika K.C. Yes Malavika, hearty congratulations. So all of you will be getting scholarships. I know you will be feeling a little sad. But all of your performances were really good. The decision that you just took today that you're going to prepare for UPSC is the first major milestone. So to appreciate that gesture, to appreciate that you came here, you prepared for the exam. Our director Vaishnav M.M., she's in Chennai. She has agreed to give a small discount to everyone who's joining the class. So you can contact the office, our staff, they will let you know the scholarship. So that don't be disappointed. Nobody should be disappointed because we all know the pain of failures. You have your expectation already on one another. We are not disappointing any of your expectations. So all of you will be getting, this is something which came as a surprise for me also. From ma'am told, let us not disappoint anybody. Everybody will be getting a small scholarship and you can contact the team for that. So all of you are winners and hearty congratulations to all of you. Thank you so much. Hope to see you all in Shankarayase academy in the classes. Hope to see you standing here and speaking like how Siblu did in the next two years. You should come here and be the future bureaucrats of the country. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming to Shankarayase academy. Thank you sir. Success is final. Failure is not fatal. It just requires the courage to continue till we achieve it. With this cut, we wind up today's program. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all for coming and making this program a great success. And thank you and have a nice day.