How Shruti Sharma Secured AIR 1?

Shruti Sharma, has achieved rank 1 as a result of her hard work and perseverance. Her story should serve as motivation to anyone who has failed this exam. She also failed in her first attempt, but later came back strong in her second attempt and secured Rank 1. In her first attempt, she had taken the mains exam in Hindi medium and she missed the interview call by just 1 mark which served as a motivation to work even harder. She learned from her mistakes and achieved the feat of all India topper in the UPSC CSE 2021 exam.

During her preparation, her strategy followed

Focus on NCERTS: Shruti Sharma began her IAS preparation 4 years ago by reading and understanding NCERTs.

Strong hold on Current Affairs: Her strategy was to focus on current affairs which she covered by reading newspapers and making her own notes.

Answer writing practice: She gave equal importance to answer writing, which is the most important aspect to clear the IAS exam.

Judicious use of the Internet: She extensively used the internet to enrich her notes while seldom using social media.

Not limit herself with study hours: She did not believe in counting the number of hours while studying but rather focused on the quality of her studies.

Limited resources with multiple revisions: She stressed on having limited study resources, maximum revision, practice tests, and solving-analyzing previous year’s question papers.