 Hi, my name is Meera. I'm from Cochin, Kerala. In this year's UPSC civil service examination, I've scored a rank of, all India rank of 160. I hold a bachelor's degree in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and a master's degree in social work from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. A brief background about me, I hold roughly three years of work experience in the social sector. I have worked as a legislative assistant to a member of parliament, fellowship. I have also worked with Reliance Foundation and Niti Ayog. It was after that that I started my civil services preparation. My main motivation or inspiration was definitely my work because as a social worker and as somebody who has always been involved in public policy and in community work, I wanted to explore a very long term and within the system perspective of public service and hence civil service came as a very automatic next step for me in my career. And my preparation was a lot of it was self-study and but I also attended a lot of tests to improve my scores and streamline my preparation and that is how I have been associated with Shankarayesh Academy. I was a student of their main storming program which is their main test series both in general studies as well as sociology and even during the interview phase I have been actively involved in attending all of their different interview sessions as well as their mock interviews that I attended here in Trivandrum as well as in Delhi and I feel throughout my mains and interview preparation Shankarayesh Academy has been of great help because starting from mains giving very targeted and very nuanced feedback on answers by really good experts and faculty and also by people in the services who gave a very comprehensive feedback and constructive feedback on the answers and to sociology I think I'm forever indebted to Rajita ma'am because I think without her test discussion classes and without her constant support I don't think I would have been able to score 292 in sociology and it has been very very good journey which Shankarayesh so far with constant support by all the faculty and all the admin and everybody here and they've really helped me through in this process.