‘Patience, hard work crucial for civil services aspirants’

KALABURAGI

“The civil services examinations are very tough. In school and college examinations, you know your competitors and their level of preparedness and you can interact with them and take their help. But, in the civil services examination, you don’t know your competitors and their preparedness. A person who is studying silently at home somewhere in a remote part of the country might be your competitor. You, therefore, need to make maximum preparations for beating the unknown competitors with their unknown preparedness,” D. Roopa Moudgil, a 2000-batch Indian Police Service officer, advised civil services aspirants on Tuesday, advising them to maintain one full 12 months solely for getting ready for the examinations.

She was addressing a webinar titled ‘Train the Brain to be a Civil Servant’ collectively organised by The Puucho and Gnyana Sudha Civil Services Academy – an initiative of Gnyana Sudha Vidyalaya, Bidar.

‘Major distraction’

Terming the social media a serious distraction within the present days, Ms. Roopa suggested the aspirants to be away from it in order that they may give attention to their research.

“In those days when we cleared civil services examinations, we didn’t have this. Now, it is a major distraction. You may go to Facebook thinking that you will spend only five minutes. But, you won’t come back after five minutes. You will scroll down curiously seeing who posted what and spend your valuable time going through the posts and reacting to them. I advise you to avoid social media and television at least for one year and focus on your studies,” she mentioned.

Elucidating the method of UPSC examination and the very long time it could take, Ms. Roopa burdened on the significance of patiently working hard and ready for the unsure consequence.

“The whole process would take around one-and-a-half years to complete. You don’t know whether you will succeed or not. You must continue to work hard staring at the uncertain end. Seeing upon your friends and colleagues settling in some good jobs, you may sometimes feel that you are wasting your time. Some other time, you may get frustrated. You need to continue to work hard with a lot of patience. If you don’t succeed in one attempt, try as many attempts as you are permitted to. The patience you learn and adapt during your preparations would be very helpful when you join the civil services.”

Dismissing the assumption {that a} explicit topic would fetch higher scoring, Ms. Roopa mentioned that the assumption was purely subjective, having no objectivity.

“There is no guarantee that a particular subject would always be scoring. In one year, many candidates from one subject might be successful. In the next year, it might be true with another subject. It is, therefore, better to choose the subject that you are good in,” she mentioned advising the aspirants to get engaged in knowledge-enhancing actions akin to debate and quiz competitions to enhance their common data.

Later, Ms. Roopa, from her personal experiences, answered the questions raised by the members.

Swamy Jyotirmayananda, head of Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashram, Bidar; Poornima George, President of GSV Group of Institutions; and Muneshwara Lakha, Director of Gnyana Sudha Vidyalaya, Bidar spoke on the event.

S.D.T. Rao, Regional Head of The Puucho Group for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, welcomed the members and launched the audio system.

Balaji Manikraj, Programme Director, Gnyana Sudha Civil Services Academy, Bidar, anchored the deliberations.