{"id":3001,"date":"2019-04-19T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2020-08-08T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T19:39:18","slug":"vaishali-singh-upsc-rank-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/vaishali-singh-upsc-rank-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaishali Singh of Faridabad shines in the UPSC exam with rank 8!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faridabad\u2019s Law Student, Vaishali Singh has made the city and the state proud by securing the 8th rank in the country in the UPSC exam.<\/p>\n<p>Vaishali said, \u201cI am very happy. My father has been the motivating force behind the success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came from Lawyers family, both of parents are lawyers here in Faridabad district court and now younger brother is a lawyer\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Her Study Background<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vaishali did a five-year integrated BA-LLB course from National Law University, New Delhi, where she was a gold medalist. It was her second attempt at the civil services. \u201cI could not clear the prelims in my first attempt as I did not prepare well, but I was sure to clear it in my second attempt,\u201d said the law student. She also mentioned she studied for over 10 hours each day. Besides her father, she thanks her mother Suman Singh and RK Gupta, a joint secretary in the Central Government.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Did she really want to crack this exam?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vaishali worked in a law firm and she felt something missing there. That was the time she realized what could be better than Civil Services to work at a level.<\/p>\n<p>But she also chose to keep NGO as a backup plan in case it did not work out for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took my first attempt with CSE 2017. As I started preparing just 3 months before the examination, I knew I wasn\u2019t fully ready, so I couldn\u2019t clear the exam\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my second attempt with CSE 2018 when I got rank 8\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3003 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-2-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-2-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-2-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Her Mantra for cracking CSE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vaishali is a law student, so the law part of the exam for not that tough for her. Being a focused and determined student that she is, she gave importance to other aspects of the examination.<\/p>\n<p>She says that the number 1 things that students miss while preparing for the exam are \u2013 essays. They are usually neglected by the students but Essay really add up to your final outcome.\u00a0 One must understand the demands of the Essay paper. <strong>I took Essay Course at Triumph IAS under Mentorship of Vikash Ranjan Sir. Vikash Sir Guidance and his Approach immensely helped in improving quality of my answers in General Studies too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Major tips from Vaishali that could help other aspirants are:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading newspapers twice\/ day<\/strong> &#8211; keep prelims in mind while reading. It really helps with current affairs.<\/li>\n<li>Read Year Compilations<\/li>\n<li>Daily quizzes for current affairs<\/li>\n<li>Vaishali prepared her subjects via different sources such as Spectrum for History, Lakshmikant for Politics<\/li>\n<li>Reading the constitution bare act is very important to answer Article based questions<\/li>\n<li>She also read Shankar ias book for environment<\/li>\n<li>Revision through mock test\/ previous year papers is greatly helpful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3004 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vaishali-Singh-UPSC-CSE-rank8-3-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Message for Future Aspirants<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vaishali\u2019s message to all the upcoming CSE aspirants is \u2013 to focus on your weaknesses rather than your strengths and overcome those.<\/p>\n<p>Self-correction can really prevent whatever is holding you b<span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">ack. And the most important thing is hard work<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faridabad\u2019s Law Student, Vaishali Singh has made the city and the state proud by securing the 8th rank in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[890],"tags":[843,857,957,956,855,958],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-story","tag-cse","tag-cse-2018","tag-ias-topper-2018","tag-upsc-2018","tag-vaishali-singh","tag-vaishali-singh-ias-2018"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}