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IAS Topper Talk Rashmita Panda UPSC 13th Rank 2009 Batch

Rashmita Panda adopted a strategy of giving equal importance to all subjects and consistent hard work with faith in her potential to clear the UPSC civil services exam. Her optional subjects were History and Public Administration. For the preliminary exam, she emphasized exhaustive reading with a focus on current affairs and practicing many questions to build precision in answering. For the main exam, she focused on answer writing practice and preparing a framework for different topics. She took coaching from various institutes for different subjects and selected her optionals based on her interest and availability of material. Her biggest mistake was neglecting statistics in 2007, which affected her GS Paper II score. She advises aspirants to work hard in a smart manner with patience and perseverance

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Rashmita Panda adopted a strategy of giving equal importance to all subjects and consistent hard work with faith in her potential to clear the UPSC civil services exam. Her optional subjects were History and Public Administration. For the preliminary exam, she emphasized exhaustive reading with a focus on current affairs and practicing many questions to build precision in answering. For the main exam, she focused on answer writing practice and preparing a framework for different topics. She took coaching from various institutes for different subjects and selected her optionals based on her interest and availability of material. Her biggest mistake was neglecting statistics in 2007, which affected her GS Paper II score. She advises aspirants to work hard in a smart manner with patience and perseverance

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IAS TOPPER TALK Rashmita Panda - UPSC 13th Rank, 2009 Batch

CSC Rashmita Panda : : What was your strategy for the examination? Give equal importance to all the papers and consistent hard work and the faith on my potential that I will be into civil services one day. What were your optionals? History & Public Administration How did you plan for preliminary examination? For G.S: exhaustive reading with emphasis on current affairs and solve lots of questions and precision is important in negative marking scheme. What about General Studies? Alongwith traditional part, give stress to current event and make opinions. Make cutouts of articles, section wise eg; health, IR as this will make revision easy. What is the best way to prepare current affairs? Hindu, Economic Times, Yojana, Kurukshetra, Civil Services Chronicle & Wizard, Special monthly issues of CSC is valuable What about time management? I used to do GS and both my optionals together as in that way I would be in touch with all my papers. What was your strategy for Mains? Answer writing practice help to score well. One cannot write all answers but at least a framework should be prepared in mind.

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Did you join any coaching institute? What is your opinion about coaching institutes? For GS: Vajiram and Ravi in 2006 and test series in Sriram. For Public admn: Sunil Gupta sirs Inspiration & this helped to refine my answers. For history: Dr. Reddy sir & Baliyan sirs test series. What should be the criteria to select optionals? Interest in the subject and easy availability of material Tell me something about Interview? Be honest to the interview board and give balanced perspective The biggest mistake you made in the examination? Neglecting statistics in 2007 mains for which for which GS Paper II scores was not good. What are your suggestions for the new comers? This exam needs lots of patience and perseverance. Work hard in smart manner & just give your best Your opinion about the Civil Services Chronicle? Since when you have reading CS-Chronicle? Which section of CSC benefited you the most? CSC is quite exhaustive in the coverage of relevant issues. I have been reading CSC since 2006. What is your opinion about self-study? Self study is very crucial as a particular candidate will know his / her weakness and strengths. How important is the length of an answer? Writing a relevant answer with good presentation style is important by sticking to word limit. Page 2

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What do you feel the secret of you success? Patience and hard work in a smart manner. To whom do you refer for the credit success? My parents, my sister Ankita, all my teachers, friends, students & colleagues and especially during preparations sathis, Rahul (IPS 2007), Vikram, Shiva, Anumena, Kislaya, Ajit, Suvidh, Anushree & Rugved. I also thank Nabanita (IFS 2007).

Courtesy: Civil Services Chronicle Leading Magazine for Civil Services Aspirants

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