Civil Servants

Mock tests to memory hacks, time management to negative marking — IPS officer Raveena Tyagi reveals key tips to help UPSC CSE aspirants crack prelims with ease.

IAS officer Ashish Kumar cleared the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) Civil Service Examination (CSE) in 2019 and secured an All India Rank (AIR) of 53.

The rare honour is an acknowledgement of her resilience and courage from Captain to Major.

Robin Bansal, an IIT Delhi graduate who quit his high-paying job within a year to prepare for UPSC CSE, secured an AIR 135 in his fourth attempt. He shares his learnings for aspirants trying to crack the exam.

Strap: IAS officer Awanish Sharan's video, in which he details some tips and tricks to pass the UPSC, is going viral on Twitter for all the right reasons.

The stories of Jaykumar Vaidya, Wasima Shaikh and Vishnu Auti are ones of grit and determination. Fighting poverty, stereotypes and fate to educate themselves, today they are changemakers at the grassroot level.

In the span of one year, Dr Jitendra Kumar Soni, District Collector in Nagaur, Rajasthan, ensured that 3,068 schools had a working electricity connection.

Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district has 400 villagers who have doubled their income by turning dry leaves, the source of their forest fires, into briquettes.

Parikipandla Narahari, a 2001-batch IAS officer from Telangana cleared the UPSC with an All-India Rank of 78. All this, despite having limited resources and while juggling a full-time job. He also led Indore as India’s cleanest city, and introduced the Ladli Laxmi Yojana in MP.

Born to specially-abled farm labourers, IRS officer Vishnu Auti from Maharashtra grew up amidst poverty and famine but that did not stop him from cracking UPSC CSE without any coaching.