Hyderabad Toppers' Talk | Mr. Avula Saikrishna, AIR 94, UPSC CSE 2022
Mr. Avula Sai Krishna completed his Graduation from NIT Warangal, Telangana. After that he started his preparation. In his third attempt he got All India 728 rank and got the Indian Corporate Law service. In his 7th attempt he secured the All India 94th rank with Political Science and International relations Optional. In this Session he discussed his preparation approach and addressed various student queries.
Time Stamps:
00:00 – 00:43 – Introduction and Felicitation of the Topper.
00:44 – 02:02 – Brief on his preparation and about the exam.
02:03 - 03:55 – Current Affairs for the Prelims and Mains Preparation.
03:56 - 08:35- Consistency in Preparation and dealing with the Stress.
08:36 – 09:52 – Advice for the First attempt Students.
09:53 –12:55 - Patterns and Approaching the current Affairs.
12:56 - 14:01 - Balancing Between Work and Study.
14:02 – 15:10 - Notes making for the Current Affairs.
15:11 - 16:45 - How current Affairs differs for the Prelims and Mains.
16:46 – 18:08 -NCERT's relevance.
18:09 –18:47 - Notes making for Static part of the Syllabus.
18:48 - 19:27 – Scheduling in the Preparation.
19:28 – 20:58– Answer Writing Practice.
20:59 – 24:12 – Importance of the NCERT’s for the Exam.
24:13 - 27:26 – Mock tests For the Interview.
27:27 – 30:33 – Shares his own interview Experience.
30:34 – 31:36 – Views on how many topics to be read.
31:37- 33:06 – Transformation of his personality over these 7 attempts.
33:07 – 35:21 – Reasons for Preparing the Civil Services.
35:22 – 36:42 – How many hours to study.
36:43- 37:23 – Reference books for Environment.
37:24 – 38:14 – Views on Daily Routine.
38:15 – 40:01 – Reasons for Choosing the Political Science.
40:02- 40:57 – Ethics and Essay Preparation.
40:58 –43:15 – Changing Prelims Pattern and Preparation Changes.
43:16 – 46:50 – Suggestions for Working persons, who are preparing.
46:51 – 48:20 – Work Experience in the Indian Corporate Law Service.
48:21 – 49:29 – Views on the Low marks in GS paper 3.
49:30 – 49:44 – Regarding the Test Series.
49:45 – 50:19 – Approaching different Material available.
50:20 - 51:48– Approaching the Laxmikanth and Bare act for polity.
51:49 - 54:56 – Views on this Year Prelims and Option Elimination Techniques.
54:57- 57:10 – Answer Writing for the mains.
57:11 - 1:00:05 – Choosing the questions is Essay paper.
1:00:06 – 1:01:26– Improving the Marks in Optional and GS.
1:01:27 – 1:03:09– What makes the preparation over complicated.
1:03:10 – 1:04:02 – Using the Peer group.
1:04:03- 1:07:40 – Basic book list for various Subjects.