Bhawna Garg is a graduate from IIT Kanpur hailing from Punjab.
For the Civil Services Exam, a very different kind of approach is required. There are three stages in this Exam Preparation-Though, work, then deed, and not anyone of them being less important than other.
What helped her to crack the exam:
Competition Success Review is indeed providing an appropriate guidance to a student aspiring for the civil Services. She admitted that this column has been greatly helpful in ensuring success in that premiere exam.
Preparation strategy:
Bhawna Garg prepared for the exam as, during the Practise Test she tried to complete the paper 10 minutes earlier than the scheduled time (Duration: 2 hours) for in the Exam Hall, in the Hot Summers, one can never be sure of the comfortable conditions. Also signing the Attendance sheets and certain few announcements being made by the invigilators at intervals may be distracting and time-consuming. Prelim is just a qualifying Exam, so her eyes were always directed on the Mains. Still she devoted one full month of May exclusively for it to avoid any risk so that later she can prepare comfortably for the mains without having any apprehensions about her clearing the first stage. The generally accepted strategy for this Exam is that one must have studied the whole syllabus for the Mains before the Prelims or at least before its result is out, i.e. By July end. But I must admit that it wasn’t the case with her.
After Prelims she preferred to take a 3-4 days rest break, she prepared a work plan for the next 5 months. She knew that revision is very important, still it was only by August end that she could finish off syllabus once. With just two months before the Exam, This was a bit demoralising and at times. She says she felt that to be out of the race, but keeping my expectations low, still she was determined not to let the spirit go down.
The next two months, she divided into three slots of 20 days, each for the three subjects. At first, she revised Maths wholly followed by Chemistry and then GS till the General Studies paper on 30th October. She couldn’t do any special study for the Essay paper. However, the high calibre essays for Civil Services published by CSR proved immensely useful in giving an insight of the methodology to attempt the next 15 days for Math Paper exclusively and then the next 10 days for the Chemistry Paper. So a sufficient gap in between the Exam proved really beneficial to her.
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