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It's highly probable that CET would be implemented by 2019. But you can't be 100 percent sure as SSC can be as unpredictable as the weather (although MET department nowadays predicts weather quite accurately).Talking about pendrive courses, it can supplement your studies but you shouldn't rely entirely on them.Seeing that you have cgl 2019 in mind, you have plenty of time to prepare. Therefore, I would recommend you to build a strong conceptual foundation first and then get into practise mode by solving sectional tests and full mock tests.

Consider me your mentor, and read with an open mind. It will help you immensely.. . . . .Hello friend! You seem to be angry or upset while framing this question. Perhaps you are tired of hearing the same nonsense again and again - work hard you'll make it OR work smart and you'll make it OR work diligently over some years and you'll make it.And you don't believe a word of it. Probably because you've never known someone who made it (from your friend circle) or you've never seen pretty regular and ordinary people gunning for it, and doing it. It's sad, because even a single example like this would have totally changed your perspective. But it's never too late.Let me start with 3 simple truths -Cracking the UPSC IAS exam is very hardAnyone who has cracked it has put in many years of effortNo one does it in a fluke, in a very limited time, or by being ordinaryBefore you get even more angry and upset, please read on :)The first truth. Competitive exams are not meant for the ordinary. If you walk into the exam hall with an ordinary preparation, the only result you'll fetch is known beforehand. This is true for every single competitive exam held in India, at any respectable scale. The bigger is the scale, the tougher it gets. Does that not sound logical to you? Is that not how it should be? Is it not what you would have done as an examiner (test-paper setter)?The second truth. The more important is the position you will occupy after getting selected in a particular exam, the more stringent the selection parameters will be, and the more rigorous the preparation required will be. Come on, these guys are supposed to run the country. The country! How can the selection process ever be easy? I am sure you realise it.The third truth. The syllabus for UPSC exams is very vast, and there are no definite boundaries to anything. Even when it is a written (printed) syllabus, the ability to answer questions can require a tremendous mix of insights, facts, conceptual understanding, and plain simple commonsense. A lot of students may miss out on one or more of these components.So, why is it that so many of the IAS success stories are written by the categories of people you mentioned in your question description? Because they have put in years of efforts doing what's needed. Reading. Writing. Learning. Understanding. Being ambitious. Developing themselves. Connecting the Dots. [ But not everyone will accept it publicly and say so. Why? Perhaps they fear it will reduce the magical adulation they'll get. Perhaps they don't bother. Perhaps it's too puerile to do so. ]Did anyone tell you that people made it through the IAS exams with just a few months of preparation? There's only 2 things happening - either they were geniuses, or they are plain simple lying.(a) If they were geniuses, then they represent a very tiny minority of test-takers. And rest assured, of the final list of selected people, a very very small number is "the genius category". (If you don't want to believe this, I have no problem. I speak from experience of having been at an IIT, and more than two decades of handling students)(b) If they were plain simple lying, then nothing can be done about it.This is how most people crack the UPSC test:Read, read and read for many years - People read newspapers and magazines. They improve their conceptual grip on topics by reading over many years. They may not realise it yet (while they are in their teens) but they are laying the foundation for the final battle, and all this raw effort proves invaluable later on. [ I'll be honest - I have never met a single person in my life who cracked UPSC in the first attempt and actually never had serious reading habits read before. The person may not say so explicitly, but did the skills develop magically overnight? Of course not. ]Decide early on - Anyone willing to go for UPSC (and become an IAS) decides usually early on that they have to make it. And then they channelise all their energies towards it. They may not publicly declare it by printing an advertisement in prominent dailies, and putting it on hordings all over, or updating their social media statuses, but their families know it.Work on the weaknesses, strengthen the strengths - Sincere people realise what their weaknesses are. For example - for many, it is answer writing. The UPSC Mains exam requires you to write a lot of essays. LOT OF THEM. Now writing as a skill is not something you are born with, usually. It is the end result of a combination of many factors (reading, understanding, good & proper hold over the pen, stamina, love for the process ...) and it surely takes many years.So to summarise :Do people take years to prepare for the UPSC exam? A big YES.Do most of them say so publicly? Usually, NO.Will you need to prepare for many years to crack it? YES, if you have done nothing so far (refer to skills mentioned above)Will it be a very tiring exercise? YES, if you don't love it. NO, if you are super-excited.Can you make it if you decide to do it? A million times, YES.When should you start? TODAY.Why? You are wasting time analysing otherwise.Really? YES.Am I telling the truth? YES.I wish you great luck. Be positive. There's nothing to be gained otherwise. God bless!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I'll be happy to help. Message me on quora with your contact details (mobile etc.) and my team will get in touch with you for counselling and support. Some useful links - UPSC Civil Services Exams (Prelim + Mains) Preparation Course , our Youtube channel - PT education HQ , Entire exams analyses, here - PT's IAS Academy - UPSC Exam Analyses

Nothing significant happened in my life until I dropped out in the 5th grade.Now, just to get certain things out the way, this will not be an answer talking about at what age did I learn to speak, write and engage in hard copies of scientific literature. I’m not a nerd. I’m not an introvert. I have preferences for directing, promoting and priority management. I’m fixated on seeing the world as a macroeconomic playground with human behavioral psychology as the core of why we have what we have and what we don’t. I’m extremely extroverted but I don’t enjoy wasting words, being obnoxious. I’m literally doing something everyday and I never get tired being surrounded by noise and chaos because I organize my environment to benefit me. People as a whole do not drain me. Lacking tenacity, critical judgement, the ability to talk about bigger issues in a variety of topics is what drains me. If I don’t have to be constantly surrounded by the aforementioned traits in various people I’ll be fine. If I do I’ll just tolerate them by remaining quiet until I’m away. That’s how I operate.Anyways…After I dropped out of school and and went into homeschooling, something I didn’t care about either but was forced to do because of my mother, I would do the bare minimum and struggle with understanding models in science and math. The reason being is because I didn’t want to do it and had no motivation to sit down and conceptualize how these models were used because it seemed useless at the age of 11. I was in the hood (South Atlanta, GA) as well as a religion (Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses) that played a huge part in making me feel like there’s no point in taking accountability for yourself because there’s no opportunity in poverty and the god I believed in would give me everlasting life if I just went out and preached the word 5 days a week, did bibles studies and went to theocratic meetings twice a week.I turned to video games and anime. It made me passionate and feel alive while being around my parents who would beat the shit out of me if I disrespected them in the slightest way, or didn’t do what they say. Mom was an ISFP and Dad was an ESTJ so I had a lot of fun with them (sarcasm seeing as how I’m an ENTJ)If I wasn’t getting beat up by my egotistical father because he had a chip on his shoulder, I was getting slapped around by my mother because I was suppose to do chores. I’m by nature a very anti authority type of person and see no power in traditional authority figures without having questions that I have about them answered first. No matter how much I was punished because I didn’t do something because they told me to “just do it” I never caved in and just did covert Machiavellianism. It fooled them for several years, however I was still scared of my dad.Around the age of 16, living in a single unit extended stay with my sister, aunt and mother, I’m getting pressured every day by mom do something with my schooling because I’ll regret it later. It’s funny because there were periods of a whole years where she would let me and my sister do whatever we want, but as we got closer to 18 the pressure became more profound. Mother didn’t want to take care of us because 18 is the year everyone magically turns into adults with no effort. I did occasional school work with bare minimum effort. It wasn’t until I was watching one of my sisters anime where a character really changed my mindset on being accountable and fighting for someone else. The persona of leader appealed to me slightly and I started thinking about my future around 17 years old. I also wanted to be smarter, intellectually speaking. I studied words, changed my Georgian accent to a more northern west accent, I started setting goals, I took the effort and skill in playing video games more seriously. I never studied most topics generally but just observed and implemented. Learning things on my own merit always flowed like water but forced learning was akin to oil and water for me. If I took the initiative and completed a goal then it would take a fraction of the time if I was being supervised.Keep in mind I’m not adding my knowledge of social dynamics and psychology at a young age because it’s was always my strongest ability. I doubted my natural intelligence (in terms of IQ) because I felt like I wasn’t smart (because I wasn’t reading and learning hard topics) yet I knew how to survive a toxic family and a whole bunch of other street smart stuff. I played outside with neighborhood friends often. I walked to a lot of places alone when I wasn’t suppose to. I’ve went in peoples houses as a minor when I didn’t even know them well enough. I was confident in my ability when it comes to human psychology but failed at understanding models due to a severely bad lack of motivation.All that changed at the age of 22…After the age of 20, my mother couldn’t beat me up any more. I could challenge people with questions due to my size because I was now officially 6’3”. I now have multiple experiences under my belt with people and challenges. I also became insatiably curious with a wide variety of topics and whatever I can get my hands on after discovering MBTI, Jim Ron, Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez, Napoleon Hill, and the ability to make things happen. All this information appealed to me because it seemed practical, something important that I can use and interesting. Yet this still wasn’t enough even though I was pretty much reading literature everyday about ideas, what to do with them and what they can offer.I spent most of my days studying my mothers college books, my aunts available books that she gave to me for helping her move, YouTube podcast, Random websites I could find through the use of Google, and Wikipedia. I was also an avid bodybuilder at the time and religiously studied kinesthetics as well as physiology. This was all on my own merit. I grew tired of Instagram and Facebook, flirting with girls and talking to bros on social media just for all the relationships to be nonexistent today. I focused on more longer term goals that mature people would come to appreciate by my 30s at the age of 22.After a while of overloading my virgin brain with material I started having trouble sleeping, being around people became increasingly painful and perplexing, each question answered would grow 5 more questions. Still, in the organization of Jehovahs witnesses, with what little faith and motivation I still had left, made things more difficult given the limitations of freedom because the religion is of no support of an believer looking at information outside the realms of the New World Translation Bible and Watchtower and Tract society. I was essentially at a halt in developmental growth that happened rapidly like a sexual transmitted virus. I had ideals that resonated with INFJs that everyone can do what they aim to achieve given the fact they just apply themselves. Naively, because it didn’t take me long to go from the mental fortitude of a cavemen to an aspiring philosopher I would presume it would be the same for most. I’d struggle to come to a satisfying conclusion and would collaborate with my limited circle of limited minds enslaved in a cult of tyrannical obedience and nonexistent liberty all to no avail. This more of less went on for months…It was the night of Jesus Christ (A figure I strongly hate. Yes, I know hate is a strong word. I personally hate Jesus Christ) memorial. After the meeting, sharing of the blood wine and crisp bread I decide I needed to get some fresh air because the enormous room I was in was hot as hell. I stood outside leaning on a hand rail disheartened and pondering why my environment is not only holding me back, but why are all these people the way they are. I had another headache. Finally, out of nowhere came L.A. (a child psychologist that has known me for a couple of years) and was wondering why I looked the way I did. I related my frustrations with him and how it’s having an unbearable pain on my day to day life. I wasn’t expecting the valuable information he was about to give me. I had no clue this guy had an IQ number of 133, used to be a drug lord and had flashy jewelry and a Lamborghini but gave it away to be baptized in the name of Jehovah because of a friend that died. He had experiences under his belt in all types of life including understanding the mental horsepower of children. L.A. told me I asked a lot of questions and that I think deeply more so than a lot adults. He also stated that my aspirations were similar to that of those he’s seen in gifted communities. A statement “A person who says they need to be good at everything in order for a world of magnificence is rare and shows higher intellectual prowess that most people don’t believe to exists.” from him was given to me… It was mind boggling and I didn’t believe him because I barely had any confidence in myself from what I thought were baby goals. One last statement from him was that I naturally excelled at critical thinking (“You are the Nucleus of critical thinking” his words not mine) I never took information without considering the weight of it in various angles and checking sources. Something I was never taught. It was true. However, I applied that same examination to what he said about me…Then came Quora! 2017 to be exact. I had an existing account from always browsing questions answered for the sake of learning as a mental workout and satiating my curiosity. I’ve grew tired /riamverysmart and other boring so called ‘high minded’ spaces on other social media in the terms of giftedness as they seem shallow and very ‘IQ of 115’ friendly. Quora, at the time was the powerhouse of Intellectual depth around this time, was a playground and escape from the mundane, repetitive life I was currently in.I answered questions here and there about being handsome and smart but stumbled on a certain group of people who had IQ levels that tested in the heavens! They know who they are, I will not mention names for the 100th time. My quest, was and still is, to find my tribe of people that will give me assurance of my natural ability and to build the Murdoch Empire… I’m happy to say they’ve been a huge help in my own understanding. I won’t talk about the level of giftedness that others said I posses, it’s irrelevant unless asked.As you can see from my writing I’m not, and have never been traditionally educated. After a certain age of development all I focused on was self sufficiency. I had some teachers and mentors but I’ve never stayed with them long. It doesn’t make sense to me to be limited to the politics and ambitions of some other group or person. I’ve never followed someone else's protocol for any goal other than my own because they way others get things done seems to be more about appearance of wanting to be accepted in a hierarchy by ass kissing and unnecessary rule following. Too much focus on details and inadvertently showing incapability to be more faster and efficient. My way has always been faster and less regulated. If it works in the real world, great, if it doesn’t then it’s back to drawing board. I’m not looking for A’s and B’s. I’m looking for real world success. I’m not a fan of schooling or college because they don’t teach what I’m looking for. I have similar feelings about IQ testing…AccomplishmentsWent through a psychological phase for keeping myself from turning into a hired assassin by self reflection and focusing on self awareness, occasionally being my own therapist. Understanding what I really am and what I wasn’t suppose to be. Counseling myself and training my instincts into what are good and bad outcomes from a certain decision and how it manifest in my life like a seed that grows into a tree that spreads branches.I’ve focused on athletic pursuits as body sculpting, strength and combat. I’ve looked like a greek god, I’ve benched 315 lbs, squat 500lbs, deadlifted 620lbs. I now focus primarily on effective combat and the technicality of using my entire body as a weapon to progress in my career as a boxer. My stamina and cardiovascular system is that of a special operations soldier.I have a knack for understanding pretty much any algorithm I have an interest in learning in no matter the symbols or language. A good case is beating non beatable gambling games in online casinos and app games. It doesn’t always have to be an algorithm. It can just be a core of an everlasting pattern or multitudes of them like technical analyses, political science, metaphysics and biology. A favorite of mine is when patterns mix and create a hybrid. Basically when two people from different continents and cultural backgrounds come together and have a newborn.Psychology is my bread and butter. I know how to read and gauge people very well in their personality combined with where they are from and what experiences they’ve been though. Whether it’s on Quora in person it’s still the same game. Cognitive science plays a huge foundation in how I understand the world and why it moves the way it does. The existence of human nature and all it encompasses, no matter how much more information I attain, still remains at a high difficulty. I don’t mind that at all as it keeps me sharp.I know that people are looking for the academic accomplishments that include mathematics, physics, engineering and all that jazz… The climbing up the socioeconomic latter that Karan Mehta (whatever his name is) talks about so greatly, the being highly regarded by experts and peer reviewers… The status that comes with being smart and engaging in bubbles of an collective that sits somewhere in the middle of an mega hierarchy… It’s not my style. I’m not looking for acceptance and roads traveled by many men. I’m not in pursuit of putting my self worth in bucket of crabs and all the intricacies that come with it. I do not have a strong need to belong and be looked up to. I choose non regulated learning that’s graded by life, not man. This in turn gives me the freedom to pursue an unlimited imagination of phenomena. The bad is that collectivist bubbles are not too keen on accepting outsider, non regulated information. I’m fine with that because all that matters in the end is being able to do the damn thing competently and effectively, that’s what gets you on board with anything, utilizing effective and efficient action! It’s how I beat amateur and professional boxers with ease even though I’m self taught and didn’t grow up mentored and coached. I’d honestly suggest people looking for the echo chamber answers in the gifted community to turn to Bob Smith or Susanna V. (not sure how to spell her name) I say all that to say this, I have many accomplishments with understanding and the application, with uncanny speed, putting what I’ve learned from academic articles and books into my own real world and move forward in life with ease… That’s what it’s about, winning in the end, not the process of getting there. Talk on Quora is cheap, action in life is worth more than the finest material.Thanks for reading!