About me

Hi,
My name is Anshu Kumar Srivastava.
I did my graduation in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 2011.
I worked for one year and then left my job for civil services preparation.
I cleared civil services examination (CSE)-2017. I got AIR 163. It was my 5th attempt. I cleared prelims in all the 5 attempts, appeared in interview in 2015 and 2017 exam. Got a rank in 2017 exam
In my first two attempts my optional was public administration which I changed to Mechanical engineering.
I got many request for my preparation strategy on different social media platform so I decided to create this blog. I hope this will help future aspirants in their preparation and they will be able to avoid the mistakes which I made during my preparation.
Feel free to ask any question in the comments, or by sending messages

My fb profile page is : https://www.facebook.com/anshu1
My email-id:  anshu163ips@gmail.com
My quora page is: https://www.quora.com/profile/Anshu-Kumar

Comments

  1. AtkMay 11, 2018 at 6:15 AM

    Congratulations sir
    Please share your strategy (booklist for pre and mains ,)
    Sir please share your personal notes for all GS PAPER IN PDF FORMAT.

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  2. AtkMay 11, 2018 at 6:15 AM

    Congratulations sir
    Please share your strategy (booklist for pre and mains ,)
    Sir please share your personal notes for all GS PAPER IN PDF FORMAT.

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownJune 12, 2018 at 7:06 AM

    Sir . I am presently starting my 3rd year of BE mech and Iam thinking of taking mech optional . {Iam not so confident abt 2yrs. &Iam not from IIts or NIts}.
    Plzz suggest me abt choosing optional and it's preparation.

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  4. Anil kOctober 14, 2020 at 9:15 PM

    Sir shall we crack upsc with mechanical engineering optional easily

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