Many approach entrance tests without joining coaching
Aspirants must try to study without joining coaching. I agree with Mr Reddy that aspirants for various examinations must try to study without joining coaching institutes. But as I understand, there are very different approaches to school/ college education, competitive exams and entrance tests for MBA etc. While school education gives thorough book knowledge, which is very essential, competitive exams like Civils, etc. tests the knowledge of the candidate as to how he/ she applies the knowledge gained in schools. The next category of MBA entrance tests also tests the same knowledge as is tested in Civil etc exams - but with speed and accuracy. I hope this assessment is correct. At this point, I will disagree with Mr Reddy because applicability of knowledge to tests will need some kind of coaching and guidance, which may come from oneself or parents or coaching institutes. The coaching institutes sharpen the candidates knowledge to apply properly to the subject.
Pradeep
New generation should draw inspiration from 1957 batch IFS officer
Recently, Muchkund Dubey, IFS 57 died at the ripe old age of 90. He was first among all the candidates selected that year (1956 exam). Had he come first today, he would have been hailed all over social media for his feat of topping the exam from conditions of extreme poverty and films might have been made on him. He came from a dirt poor family. As a student, he never had more than one pencil. He bathed at a municipal tap and laid out his only dhoti to dry, wearing just his "gamcha". His Professors at Patna University would provide him with fees and often, a meal. Such was his brilliance that he topped the IAS exam despite the terrible poverty he was mired in. Once in the Indian Foreign Service, he addressed the UN. B K Nehru, ICS is supposed to have remarked that the speech was brilliant but he wished it had been delivered in an Oxbridge accent. Muchkund, the dirt poor Bihari that he had been born as, stuck to his Bihari accent. When he was posted to Bangladesh, he quickly attracted attention. But for that posting, he would never have made it to Foreign Secretary. To all the poor Biharis of that era, he was the example they all would try to emulate. The Civil Services Examination has always attracted talented young men and women from humblest of backgrounds and Muchkund was a very early example of merit defeating extreme poverty.
Vijay Kumar
