Marksheet

Roll No. : 074599
Name : D PRASANTH KUMAR REDDY

Civil Services(Main) Examination 2008
Subject		Maximum Marks	Marks Obtained
Essay(Paper III)		200	094
General Studies (Paper-IV)		300	183
General Studies(Paper-V)		300	170
Optional I,Geography	Paper-VI	300	188
	Paper-VII	300	152
Optional II, Public Administration	Paper-VIII	300	189
	Paper-IX	300	157
Penalty Marks			0
Written Total		2000	1133
Interview Marks		300	135
Final Total		2300	1268

Remarks : Recommended.

I have no words to comment on my interview performance. Three interviews same score, 135. This time it was Parveen Talha's board. I worked hard from December. We formed a group, gathered around 300MB of online content, got deeper into many issues and more over worked good bit on personality. So much of discretion that it makes or mars one's chances. I am the last one in the day to be interviewed. It was almost 5:45 PM by the time it started. Meanwhile I gathered profiles of all those who will be interviewed before me by the same board, observed the plan of UPSC, its architecture, surroundings, directions which we are facing and many more to answer what you have done here from afternoon. Quite unlucky after so much of effort, before and during. My Honest feeling is that I deserve a place in top 20 if not 10. I belong to that school of thought which treats IAS as a passion and not just a career. Interestingly, I hold the honours for topping from below the interview score amongst top 100. Please correct me if I am wrong! On the other hand my written score should well be in the top. A Perfect IRONY, something like an oxymoron. Anyways have to accept it as there is no other alternative and move ahead. One guy in the same session got 85. Atleast I should not feel bad after hearing this. Its better if UPSC has some feedback mechanism atleast.

Probables for UPSC Prelims

Topics

Eurozone, new members, Financial crisis
Bluecard
RISAT 2
PSLV s
Indian Ballistic Missile Defense AAD PAD
AGNI system
UMPP
UNFCCC COP Meetings
NATO/OAS/G 20/ ... bakcground and meetings

Hat-trick with UPSC

Its 28th March. Interview was scheduled afternoon. Went with 2 other interview-goer frns to UPSC.
Again I was unlucky to be the last/5th member of the day. I had to wait from 1 30 to 5 30 for my turn but what to do? then chatted with others for a while , they include Deepa, Miss Dubey , Ravi and Zakeer Ahmed. When it was her turn, The first lady was so confident that she got up and said we will meet again in FC. :-) Then we all got engaged in some chitchat as one by one took their turn. It's as if narrated in Mahabharata. Each of the pandavas get out to get water but not to return. We don't know what is happening.

Now lemme brief about the main stuff-----

It was Parveen talha's board, supposed to be one of the good boards.

Brief of the questions.

on hindu , did u see the 50 years that age column ? I might have come across but not recollecting
say yes or no? No madam -- this is the main draw back

y u quit the job
dont u know that a bird in a hand is better than two in a bush?
do u think exit polls are good or bad?
problems of electronic media companies
then y cant they go for staggered news instead of 24 by 7

sebi
any scam which it probed? Yes bank IPO
what did it do ? barred some
name them ? gave up again

cyber security
cert and what does it do?
IT act

agripedia
village knowledge centre


geography:
hawaain Islands
panama canal
baikanur
time difference as we move by 1 longitude
seismic zones in india
where does delhi NE and HP fall
whats the problem ? dam burst
dont u knowabout run off the river scheme? what is its problem? temporary dams
name one such dam ? Pareechu
where is it ?

IPO fPO
IPO valuation? BRLM ? I gave up here

Result : Got 64 rank. Again interview is a dampener, 135. Disgusted coz 3 interviews 3 135s. Atleast I would have been in top 20 with 165.
God ! what does UPSC expect from you?