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You must have noticed that all of us tend to create our comfort zone and love to remain within the precincts of that comfort zone. This is just a human nature. This might be the case with most of you that while preparing for your competitive examination, you are able to concentrate on your studies […]

As you know, life is always full of both high and low moments. Sometimes you feel quite charged from within and at some other times completely dull and dumb, without any drive or passion to go about your usual course of things. More crucial is the fact that we are seldom able to fathom the […]

Have you ever thought that what is the most important instrument that plays a crucial role in your preparation for competitive examinations? No, it’s not books that you choose, nor notes you prepare, nor strategy you devise. It is your mind. Yes, your mind. Whatever you are doing in order to prepare for exam, every […]

One of the most beautiful things about life is that it flows and it flows without a pause. It is never static. It never stands still. Every morning, the Sun rises with new rays. Every evening, the Moon comes in one of its new lunar phases or Chand Ki Kalayen, as they are called in […]

As you might have noticed, most of the toppers of UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) talk about quality of the study you put in to prepare for any competitive examination. Their advice, invariably, is to not to count the number of hours you spend studying but to look at the quality of the hours you […]

The Civil Services Examination results always mesmerise me with their new set of achievers earning their much-coveted success in their own unique ways. The results of  UPSC CSE 2021-22 also came with their own extraordinary success stories and inspiring tales, not only for the future aspirants but everyone out there who wish to make it […]

As you might know, success never comes easy and quick. It comes with hard work, pain, obstacles, failures and much more. It looks always challenging when one starts working on his or her dreams. Most of the times, it gets hard going further, to the extent that one starts thinking of giving up. Sometimes, it […]

As we prepare the content for this issue, I have a distinct feeling that things are getting back to a new normal, if not the normal that we used to know. Educational institutions are already getting into their regular mode. Others too are resuming their normal activities. Some of the cities and states have announced […]

At some or the other point of time in your life, you must have found yourself in such a situation where solution of a stubborn problem comes into sight only when you shift your focus to something that is completely unrelated with the problem at hand. Suppose you are trying to evolve a pattern for […]

Like you, I am also a compulsive optimist. I say so because I know that without being optimistic at heart you cannot put up hard work of so many hours of a precious day and so many years of a young life in your preparations for tough competitive examinations. You do so in the hope […]