Women top Civil Services Exam, again!
The All India Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2011 results are out. The Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) declared the final results of the country's prestigious exam on May 04, 2012. Yet again, for the second consecutive year, the top two positions have been bagged by women; six women are among the 25 toppers. This time, the toppers hail from Punjab and Haryana; strangely, these states have been in the news for discriminating against the girl child, also counted among the states with the worst male-female ratio in the country.
AIIMS alumnus Dr Shena Aggarwal (aged 25 years) topped the CSE examination in her third attempt. It's not a surprise achievement for Shena, who has a bright academic record. She scored 95 per cent marks in Class X and over 92 per cent in Class XII, and went on to become the topper of CBSE Pre Medical Test (PMT) in 2004. Shena had also cleared the 2010 Civil Services Examination with 305th rank. Balancing her training schedule as an IRS (India Revenue Services) probationer in Nagpur, she invested 5-6 hours every day to prepare for the 2011 CSE examination. She attributes her success to meticulous preparation in her CSE subjects - medicine and psychology.
The second position was bagged by Rukmani Riar (24), a Master of Arts (Social Entrepreneurship) gold medalist from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. This was her first attempt at CSE with subjects: political science and sociology. Know more
An IIT gold medalist, Prince Dhawan (22), ranked third in his first attempt at the CSE. Declared the all-round best student of his batch, Prince was the topper in the dual degree B.Tech and M. Tech course in electrical engineering in 2011. The topper had a well planned approach to studies and mapped out short-term and long-term targets to complete his syllabus. He chose electrical engineering and public administration as his subjects for CSE 2011. Read more
Gitanjali Brandon, a law graduate from Bangalore made the cut at the civil services exam achieving the 6th position. The 10th rank holder and the topper in Maharashtra, Amrutesh Aurangabadkar (21) from Pune, is an economics graduate, who aced the prestigious exam in his first attempt. Read more
The CSE 2011 results featured 10 successful candidates from Jammu & Kashmir. Stressing the importance of "quality of studies" over "quantity", the 23rd rank holder Syed Aabid Rashid (30), said that a dedicated eight-hour daily study schedule is sufficient to crack the exam. "It also calls for tremendous faith, perseverance and hard work besides intrinsic motivation to succeed against all odds," Rashid said to media. Rashid had secured the 180th rank in CSE 2010 in his first attempt and was awarded the Indian Police Service. This was his second successful attempt at improving the rank.
"Nothing is impossible," said Sehrish Asghar (26), who studied medicine, topped last year's State civil services exam in J&K, and she has now cracked CSE this year. Five of the six successful candidates from the Kashmir Valley had done their graduation in medicine while there was only one engineer. Read more
2,43,003 candidates appeared in the Civil Services preliminary exam in June last year. 11,984 candidates made it to the Civil Services Main exam, held in Oct-Nov last year. 2,417 candidates were shortlisted for the interview in March-April this year, and out of them, 910 candidates will finally be eligible to enter the Civil Services. Read more
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- All institutes to prepare for Civil Services exam
- Prospects after clearing Civil Services exam
