 Hello, my name is Meera Ke, I secured all India ranked 6th in civil service examination 2020, that is this year. My education background is I am a Vita graduate in mechanical engineering from Government Engineering College Trishur, thereafter I worked with Lassen and Tubro for a year. Now coming to the role of Shankara is in my preparation journey, Shankara has always been a go-to place for my preparation because I found a very robust group of people there who are ready to help you at every stage of your preparation. Be it the Trivandrum branch at Leena Ma'am or my sociology mentor Rajidha Ma'am, everyone were very helpful throughout my journey. So coming to my prelims experience at Shankars, I did prelims test series at Shankar and I used to evaluate myself in the Shankar national ranking so that I know where I am standing and through this I knew where I had to improve and similarly for the main I had a lot of people in Shankar who helped me out with my answer writing and especially in my sociology Rajidha Ma'am, I did my first test series with Rajidha Ma'am, she has been instrumental in molding my sociology answers to UPSC level answers and also Leena Ma'am, coming to Leena Ma'am she opened the institute for me, she said I am welcome there anytime and this has been tremendously helpful during the Corona year when I didn't have a place to go and sit and study and maybe if she had not done that I don't know if I would have secured such a good rank. So all thanks to Leena Ma'am there and similarly during the interview also Rajidha Ma'am she exclusively prepared a sociology questionnaire for me and even gave some model answers so that I can think about it and build perspectives. Similarly the Shankar DAF analysis was also very helpful and there were also a lot of sessions by Shankar which gave a lot of understanding about many current issues etc. and more than the subject I would say the people there, all the staff there, all the faculties and even the students, everyone was so helpful that once you get into that building you will feel some lightness and all the stress of your preparation kind of eases away. So all thanks to Shankar, I express my immense gratitude to everyone there, thank you, thanks a lot.