On 30th June, the IES exam finally got over. I had expected it to go better as I was confident (rather overconfident) after going through previous year papers. But what could I expect from 60 days part time preparations while competing with thousands of regular students of Made-Easy and similar coaching institutes. After going through keys given by Made Easy, I could only score something like 270/600 in objective, which is far below my competence. Nonetheless, I do expect call for interview if could manage 130-140 odd marks in subjective papers. But no one knows about vagaries of UPSC, so time will tell.....
My next target is CSE 2014. For the past two days, I have been searching the internet, trying to gather the materials and relevant books for UPSC. I have already ordered two books, India struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra and Indian Polity by Laxmikanth. There are many sites in the web advising civil service aspirants, but none comes closest to http://mrunal.org/ in its comprehensiveness, relevence and selfless service to help aspirants. It provides a detailed analysis on the new pattern of UPSC and gives various "weapons" to tackle civil services examination. Being a beginner, I will start with NCERT's, standard books, newspaper(The Hindu) and will then move on to prepare from reference books for mains.
I have still not figured out my optional subject for the mains examination. Till the IES exam, I was of opinion to go with Mechanical Engineering as option for CSE-2013. But seeing the uncertainty and the depth of questions in the Conventional IES papers, made me think again.
Till Then I have to live with the quote,"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam"
Cheers
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