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Read what UPSC Toppers Did
Not sure, how to begin? You can visit our Toppers Section where Toppers have listed how they prepared for Civil Services Examination and got into IAS, IPS and other Services.
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IAS Rank 43: 413 Marks in General Studies, Harsh shares his GS Strategy – Harsh scored 413 marks in GS and cracked IAS in the first attempt. He shares his strategy for GS. He totally relied on study material posted on ForumIAS for his entire preparation. He was an active participant of Anwer writing threads amd told us – I only practised answer writing from ForumIAS
IAS RANK 60: Atul Vats, 1st Attempt, Sociology Optional, Detailed GS and Optional Strategy
IAS RANK 145: Preeti Yadav, 3rd Attempt, Public Administration Optional : Preeti did it in her third attempt , with Public Administration Optional
IAS RANK 38: Abhimanyu Gahlaut, 1st Attempt, Economics Optional : Abhimanyu told us he religiously followed ForumIAS member @crazyphoton Gaurav Agrawal ( IAS Rank 1) strategy for doing his economics optional.
IAS RANK 36: Abhinav Goel, 3rd Attempt, Public Administration Optional : Abhinav has shared his story with us.
IAS RANK 107: Nikhil Pathak, 1st attempt, Sociology Optional – ForumIAS member secured 107 rank with Sociology Optional and shared his stargey with us.
IAS RANK 156: Saurabh Kumar Agrawal, 3rd Attempt, Geography Optional – Saurabh secured Rank 156 with Geography as an optional at a time, when geography was supposed to be not scoring. Saurabh is an ardent forumias follower and a very active member.
IAS RANK 198: Shilpi, 2nd Attempt, Mathematics Optional – Shilpi has secured 198 rank with Mathematics Optional. She shares her preparation story with us. She is also a student of our Mains Test Series.
IAS RANK 103: J Snehaja, Hyderabad Girl , 206 Marks in Interview – An ardent follower of forumias intiatives, Snehaja has joined the Indian Foreign Service.
RANK 275: Vikas Jakhar, 3rd Attempt, History Optional – Vikas cleared with History Optional. Here is his story.
RANK 87: Mukul Kumar Gupta, 3rd Attempt, Public Administration Optional – One of our most ardent followers, Mukul secured it in his third attempt. Mukul will be joining IAS in Bihar Cadre this year with his stellar performance.
RANK 91: Rakesh Kumar Minhas , 2nd Attempt, Medical Science Optional – With Medical Science Optional, Dr Minhas shares his story.
Rank 12 – IFoS Topper Neha Srivastava’s Success Story – Neha only followed ForumIAS throughout her preparation and used to spend 10 hours a day on ForumIAS before she became IFoS. When we called her, she was very delighted to hear from ForumIAS, which had been a mentor in her preparation. Here is her story. She is popularly known as msnocturnal91 on ForumIAS.com
Rank 49 – IFoS Topper From ForumIAS Vipul Pandey’s Success Story – Vipul is a very active follower of ForumIAS.com. Here is his story.
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