Cleared the Mains

007389.........007393.......007396.....yes...yes...yes...it's there...my number is there....I cleared my mains exams. I got a call for the interview. Thank God...thank everyone...what a feeling! mmm...in fact...what a relief!
The results of mains exam were declared on internet today afternoon around 12.30. Whole of Jia sarai was on roads...discussing the results. Some were happy (those who cleared), some were sad (those who couldn't make it) and some were neutral (those who had not appeared). It is not easy to digest failure as it is one year gone by without anything positive to take home. Some of my good friends couldn't make it. And though I am happy about my result and those who cleared, at the same time, I am at loss of words to talk with those who didn't. I feel sad for them as i know that they too deserved to be there as much as I.
The next step is interviews. And the marks are additive. i.e. the mains marks (out of 2000) will be added to the interview marks (out of 300) and the merit list would be prepared. There are around 600 seats and the number of candidates called for interview is around 1450. Out of these 600 around top 70 will be IAS. That's everyone's dream. Including mine. Here I reproduce the earlier blog I wrote when I cleared my prelims in August to explain the whole selection process for those who don't know:

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 was here in August. I was in the qualified list (i.e. in that 6000-10000). This stage separates men from boys.

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). It came today on March 14th. Around 2.5 times the total requirement is selected for next stage viz. interview. Here big shots are separated from men. I am here right now.

Stage 3 : Interview:
A month long process and each candidate faces a board of eminent people. The interview marks are added to the marks obtained in mains exam. Then the merit list is prepared.

Final Result:
The final list comes out by first week of May (just before the preliminary of the following year). Here babus are separated from big shots. The selected ones go into babuland....and never come out.

So....still some way for me to go....it was just the second hurdle I cleared....

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

Tiru

SHITTY FEELINGS

Shit. A piece of it. A big one. I just feel like a big piece of shit. I am down with cold and cough and mild feverish feeling (not sure whether it is really fever or just the trailer). I float when I walk. Had a coupon of 5 rupees with me to surf Internet. Floated here and writing this blog just to see how the blog comes when one is not fully in elements. The results have not yet come. The engineering services results will come in April (reliable sources in Jia sarai say) and Civil services mains results will come anytime next week. Meanwhile, my roomy went home. He was ill. I guess he passed the virus to me while moving his ass out. Now the virus colony is thriving inside me. Making me dizzy. I see other fellows floating on road. Many are ill. It seems it is viral season in Delhi. Don't know but it is sure one for Jia sarai. If one person gets virus here, it won't take much time to spread to everyone. The lanes and houses are designed that way. Perfectly optimized to spread the micro-organisms.

Read the complete budget speech by PC today morning. Economic times had covered it. I feel it is a better paper than 'the biased Hindu'. I got hooked to ET around two months back. Now, I get a better perspectives of things. I always thought future trading of commodities is bad for people till I read ET. For sure, Power is Knowledge. And yes, ET sprinkles a lot of semi nude photos at all odd places in newspaper making it really spicy. In comparison, the Hindu gives photo of only Paul Krugman in the center page, not too sexy to look at as the first thing in morning. And he blabbers all about America's problems, their taxes, their living standards, their presidential choices, their feelings, their toilet paper costs etc. Who cares!!! We are in India. But anyway, coverage of international affairs is better in 'the Hindu' except for the fact that their international affair starts and ends with Fidel Castro. Even if Fidel farts, it is news for Hindu. "Fidel feels better today", "Fidel's latest video released", these can well be headlines. For other papers, Fidel doesn't exist. I am waiting for a day when I would read "Fidel farts louder than yesterday". Let's see, I hope Hindu won't let me down. And this should happen fast as Fidel has very few days on earth. He is already very old you know. Well about these stuffs sometime later but yes, ET reading is fun. Economy is fun with these fellas. Times group knows how to entertain, though they may be bad at informing.

OK, now i feel better. Blogging is like a tonic. I feel as light as a happy stomach after a mighty burp or the lower intestine after a stinky fart. Whatever!! Will go out and have a gingery chai. These fellows add ginger copiously into tea and though i hate it at other times, it is good when one is in my condition. The fellow in front of me (on the other side of comp) is digging his nose. Rhinothilexomaniac you know. Common problem in India. Many are addicted. Now he is checking his genitals. Scratched it. Gee, he got up. Going out. Went. Saala chutiya.

Anyway, time to move now....don't know what i have written..have to come when in senses and edit...posting it for the time being....excuse for typos and grammos.

tiru