I am Anudeep Durishetty, IAS officer of 2018 batch and All India Rank 1 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2017. I secured this rank in my 5th attempt. Over the course of my long tryst with UPSC, I had learnt a lot from my mistakes and I consciously worked to rectify them. I intend this blog to be a repository of my experience so that you don’t repeat the same errors. You’ll find posts on my journey so far, preparation strategy for GS, essay, optional, answer writing and other peripheral aspects relevant to Civils preparation. Aspirants may post their queries in the comments section.
Apart from these, I also plan to write about topics of general interest that fascinate me. I am a native of Telangana and my hobbies are football, reading and meditation. I love Arsenal, Lionel Messi and Roger Federer.
Sir,
I read the non-fiction books you recommended and they very interesting. Can you suggest more?
Great Initiative Anudeep. You wrote about meditation in the ‘about me’ Section.
We will be very gratefull if we got to read In depth about “Meditation , Preparation and You”.
and a direct Question for you.
Joining Online test series for prelims and mains , has its own pros and cons.
critically evaluate.
No word limit Sir 🙂
Amitkumar.
Gujarat.
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Sir,
Can you suggest which month current affairs are required for prelims and mains?
Congratulations Anudeep & thank you for all your articles, very helpful!
Could you please share your study schedule, it would be very useful for aspirants like me working full-time, to get an idea on how to plan prep and deal time crunch.
Thanks! 🙂
Many will ask you how you clear your exam and strategy but its been 2 weeks since result came out and yet no body talks much about how to deal with failure. How you dealt with your failure constantly. How will you convince yourself that you are not failure even you hit dead end.
Hello Sir,… I know you are definitely busy person but i want to take some more time of your. Please sir share booklist for mains so it will be helpful for me as well as many UPSC Aspirants. I am eagerly waiting for your reply sir…
Hello Sir…, Please tell me how to prepare for Commerce & Accounts as optional subject ?
And from where I can download Optional subjects previous paper …. Please sir help me as i am eagerly waiting for your reply…..
hello sir, please tell me name and writer of standard books for cse pre,qualifying subject,essay, gs.
hello sir, please tell me name and writer of standard books for optional subject agriculture.
Hello Sir, how to start preparation and from where. What is the book list for mains.
Hi Anudeep
This is Rakesh Murarka from RVG Education Foundation Mumbai. We need your contact details urgently.
Hii sir..this is soundarya from adilabad..i have completed my graduation only in English medium. I want to write civils in Telugu language..is materials are available in Telugu medium..is it possible sir…please suggest any name who wrote in Telugu .and their link .
Thank you sir
Sir, how did you get job at google, could you please help me
Hi, sir, cleared my pre. 2018, I never practiced answer writing. I have 40 days, what should I do. I know answers but could not write.
HI, sir you are a big inspiration to me and i love your hole entire beautiful journey
Hi Sir, first of al
Hi Sir, first of all I would my like to extend my heartiest greetings to you for cracking the most prestigious and toughest exam,
Sir can you please recommend me about the detailed strategy and booklist for Maths as an optional subject?
Hello sir,
Good evening
Sir, tell me how to prepare current affairs are required for Exam?
Hi bro,
Hearty congrats to your success.
Can you help me to find somebody who wrote mains with MATHS optional?
Sir help me with Agriculture optional
Hi.. Could you also advise that when you are out of race, but you still have fire for something to do great, but you are unaware of it that what good you can do with it.
Sir do you know anyone who had taken history optional and ranked in top 100?
Thank you sir…
Your blog is very helpful for me.
Hi , Sir have you joined ALS IAS classes for UPSC training , as on their website your name is there so asked . Me too was thinking to join ALS Coaching institute so is it better
sir i have a doubt…. if i want to take a gap in my attempts…..will the gap year be counted as an attempt by upsc. i.e. does 6 attempts means 6 consecutive attempts?
No, if means if you appear in prelims.
Sir right now.i am in B.tech(metallurgy) 1st year. From now onwards ,how should I prepare for UPSC & which optional subject should I take.
Sir I want to be ur blog follower….bt I can’t ….how it could be possible…..plz sir
congratulation sir,
we are proud to say that , to secure 1st rank in upsc from telangana ,my self vamshi from warangal ,present I am working as network engineer , and i am planing to write civils exams while doing job,please can you suggest how to plan ,and how to execute the plan perfectly ,and i want start from zero level,thanks in advance
thanks & regards
N.vamshi
Congratulations sir really ur blog is very useful for zero knowledge aspirants….keep blogging sir thank you
Dear sir,
Congrats and your great anudeep sir you make your parents happy when saw this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYXH3EEhMU) i am very emotional that i wanted to make my parents so happy.After abdul kalam sir and my great dad you are my great role model.
Thanking you,
Regards,
Vaishnavi