Stratergy

On her fifth attempt, Nidhi Bansal cleared the UPSC CSE with an All India Rank of 23. Find out how she balanced her time preparing for GS and her optional paper for the mains.

CSE 2015, AIR 73 Shashank Mani Tripathi shares what strategy he adopted to make notes for his UPSC preparation.

“It all started as an informal ‘Rajni fan group’ on Whatsapp, amongst a bunch of us officers. The intent was to spend some time together outside the office setting in a relaxed manner. It was our very own stress buster. In the course of the conversations, we gathered that each one of us wanted to help aspirants realise their dreams."

“Once I cleared the UPSC, I wanted to try one more, and with each exam, I kept saying that to myself, ultimately ending up writing so many of them.”

“The crossbow is a very silent but powerful weapon”