Thursday, August 10, 2006

Cleared the Prelims

Cleared the Prelims
Yes, the preliminary exam results were announced today.
I entered my roll number 007396 and the message flashed on screen:
Congratulations! your roll no. 007396 figures in the list of successful candidates....
So...what does it mean...for novice, the scheme of civil service exam goes like this:
Stage I : Preliminary exam (in May):
around 200000 students appear for objective type exam(out of more than 300000 who acually fill the form)
Results of preliminary: announced in Aug (aug 10th this time): Around 6000-10000 qualify based on total number of seats available. I am here right now. I am in the qualified list (i.e. in that 6000-10000). This stage separates men from boys. So...UPSC says i am a man....
Stage 2: Mains exam:
The qualified students appear for a 9 paper wide subjective tests spanning over a month from oct to november.
Results of mains arrive in March (the following year). Around 2 times the total requirement is selected for next stage viz. interview. The number expected this time is around 1000 to 1200. Here big shots are separated from men.
Stage 3 : Interview.
Final Result: The final list comes out by first week of May (just before the preliminary of the following year takes place). Here babus are separated from big shots. The selected ones go into babuland....and never come out
So....a long way to go....
it was just the first step....

Wish me luck buddy...see you in babuland....

Tiru

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