TRUE BABE

I met this gal in classes...
But got to know about her today.. she worked in fields, her mom works in Dubai as a maid,
her father doesn't live with them, she lived all her life alone in some or the other hostel! Never had an opportunity to go home after completing exams or when some results are out!
She studied while working as a wage-earner, she made into APRJC residential school, then she went to inter college by earning scholarship, then she completed B.Sc in Agriculture at ANGRAU and she made a job "Assistant Project director" for NREGA. Now she took leave and she is preparing for civils, she cleared prelims without any coaching! That makes me call her true babe!
I need to learn a lot from her!

Success doesn't need comfort. A burning desire is what makes you succeed!

UPSC Prelim result

I cleared :)
I wrote this exam in May and clearing prelims in first attempt is something cool!
Good reason to be happy! Im excited! But my responsibility also increased now... Need to prepare for mains seriously...
Thats in Oct this year.. I already wasted sometime after prelims, something every senior warns you not to do... Yet I did it!
Guess its difficult to follow :(
Now I am feeling happy/sad :) Anyway I'll try my best to utilize these 2 months. :)
First thing first... I did it in first attempt! wowwww!!!!! :D
congratss dear me!

Luv,
Lays

Group I mains

Done with mains...

Prepared for : zuk days before exams
Performance: I think I'm not bad, but examiner may think otherwise
Expectation: At least I deserve last job in the hierarchy :D

(Surprisingly I got first job in the hierarchy! Deputy Collector - June 2009)

Have been ignoring this exam all the time coz of UPSC mains classes.
But on dad's insistence and my second thoughts I took that hall ticket to mains reluctantly.
I got through prelims, so its a chance you should not let go...
Finally the day before exams I bought 3 books - AP History, Economy, Sci &Tech
and started my preparation the same day!

General English: very sac.. If you dont perform well in this paper, you better quit preparing for civils!
General Essay: Managed to guess all the topics few hours before exam n discussed with dad and I could do well.

Then started troubles! Heavy rains in Hyd, the next day for History & polity exam, caught in traffic I almost missed the test. If not for my dad's presence of mind, I would not have gone to exam center in time. We got down the car and almost swam in the flood waters to cross all those strangled vehicles, we ran, we crossed small n big streams, we crossed the road twice n decided that its better to walk on divider... finally we reached Ameerpet and took an auto to exam center.
To my surprise I was only 5 min late.

Exam went well. I know most of questions, I wrote longer answers for the questions I dont know! :P

Group 1 papers were very lengthy. Time was the biggest constraint.

So my strategy: "Write few lines. stop for a second. Think if it makes any sense. Go ahead anyway!" (Fortunately, what I was writing was making sense to me most of the time).

I should say, all my UPSC preparation helped me write these papers. After completing mains I just forgot about this exam..

Let APPSC comment on my performance!