UPSC Hindi Medium 2018 Topper Interview AIR 564 – Jagadish Kumar, How to prepare for UPSC 2020

Myth busting video for  hindi medium aspirants

18 people were selected from 789 whose medium was Hindi.

• Interviewer: Tell us something about family background.

Jagadish: I am from the background of farming  sector and first graduate from my family.

• Interviewer: Why did you choose UPSC?

Jagadish: I wanted to do something for the society at the grassroot level and wanted to uplift depressed society.

• Interviewer: Tell us something about your education background?

Jagadish: In my district the educational facility was not good.

• 2012:Did history honours.
• 2014: With masters cleared JRF.
• 2016: Got 177 rank in Assistant Command
• Now I am also pursuing PhD

Interviewer: How did your school help in achieving your goal of UPSC?

Jagadish: I did not knew anything about UPSC at school. After 8th there was no school in my village.

One of my mentor told me about UPSC in hostel and from then i made UPSC as my goal.

Did hard and faced my challenges.

• Interviewer: What kept you motivated as the pressure would have been more on you this time because vacancies were also low this time?

Jagadish: This time I did not share with anyone that I am writing UPSC.

Whenever I felt demotivated , I used to remember my mom’s face.

My family and friends helped me a lot throughout my preparation.

• Interviewer: What message would you like to give to Hindi medium aspirants?

Jagadish: For me english was the very big task but with time I improved my english a lot.

It is myth that only english medium aspirants will only clear this exam.

Do your studies dedicatedly with target.

Reasons

• Lack of availability of good study material and coaching institutes, paper patterns skewed towards English study material and the evaluators’ lack of proficiency in these languages, are some of the reasons attributed to the poor results.
• There are too many challenges for the students who give the exam in a language other than English. Not only is the question paper made keeping English newspapers in mind, but also papers in regional/local languages fall short of good editorial content.

Shortage Of Study Material

• According to teachers who coach students at IAS coaching centres, books in regional languages are mostly translated from English and hence, most of the times, the context and meaning is lost in the process.
• There are no good test series provided by the coaching institutes for the students taking the exam in other languages and the morale of such students is low since the beginning.

Interviewer: What was your preparation strategy?

Jagadish: I read books continuously for 6 months and gave previous year papers.

Never failed in prelims

For gs 1

2013:100 (failed by 3 marks)

2014: 128

2015:132

2016:150

2017:110

2018: not shown (expectations 110-105)

• Mocks
• Previous year questions
• Current affairs
• Videos of RSTV
• Use less sources , and revise them again and again.
• Use standard books

Interviewer: How did you prepare current affairs?

Jagadish: I personally followed the following things.

• Dainik jagran newspaper
• Vishesh of RSTV.
• Prashant Dhawan sir videos from study iq .
• Strategy is different for mains and prelims in current affairs section.
• In Prelims factual concepts are asked while in mains analytical concepts are asked.

Interviewer: What tips would you like to give for the interview as you have faced it 4 times?

Jagadish:

• Be confident.
• Balance of mind.
• Current affairs
• News around the world.

Interviewer: What would you like to tell about DAF (detailed application form)?

Jagadish: Fill it with honesty because the panel goes into the depth of each and everything written in it.

•  Interviewer: What would you like to do in coaching?

Jagadish: Mentor can be online or offline, its all your choice

But you have to be confident in whatever you choose.

• Interviewer: Would you like to say anything to fellow aspirants?

Jagadish:

• Be dedicated and give your 100% from 10-12 hours.
• Keep your concepts clear.
• You should have proper factual knowledge.
• Revision is the key.
• Keep your target clear.
• Be honest.
• Have patience.
• Be confident in yourselves.
• Interviewer: Would you like to dedicate your success to anyone?

Jagadish: I would like to dedicate thIs success to my father and each and everyone from my family and peer group as they motivated me to give exam this again and again, they had faith in me that  I will clear it one day.