Lucknow Toppers' Talk | Animesh Verma AIR 38, UPSC CSE 2023

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Animesh, a resident of Lucknow, completed his schooling at Jaipuria School, Lucknow. He went on
to pursue B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. In his second attempt, he achieved an
impressive All India Rank of 38 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2023.

In this session, Mr. Animesh tried to address holistically all the student issues and doubts. This
session will help the aspirants solving all their queries pertaining to the exam.

01:04- Discussion started by Mr. Animesh
05:02- Discussion of his preparation journey timeline
19:05- Discussion regarding the marks in CSE 2023
22:17- Prelims preparation strategy including the booklist suggestions
32:00- Specific importance of revision, practice, understanding syllabus, etc. for Prelims
53:30- Last month strategy for Prelims
01:01:15- Number of questions attempted in Prelims and strategy for attempting the questions in
Prelims
01:04:24- Strategy for utilizing the gap between Prelims and Mains
01:12:35- Ethics preparation strategy
01:14:32- Daily answer writing strategy
01:25:05- Essay related strategy
01:28:48- Interview related experience and approach
01:34:13- Newspaper and monthly magazine related approach and their relative importance
01:45:40- Time management in mains examination
01:49:25- When to start answer writing?
02:01:40- Importance of Syllabus and PYQs
02:07:05- Technical optional v/s Humanities optional
02:10:13- Mistakes during the preparation journey
02:18:30- Motivational message and last piece of advice by Mr. Animesh
02:20:33- Q and A on miscellaneous aspects