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Thanks for A2A.For me it has been a beautiful journey.Mostly because I’ve cleared the exam and even though it’s been more than two years , I’m thankful and relieved as if it happened just yesterday.It was perhaps the first thing I had devoted myself so much to and because it worked out all well, I can safely say , I got lucky !I completed my graduation in 2013 from SRCC, Delhi and after graduation I had no idea what was I going to do next.Most of my batchmates were doing either MBA or CA. Even though I was inclined towards doing CA and had started the course also, but I really wanted to give a try to this so called “most difficult exam”.Staying in Delhi , I had heard of this exam and there were people I knew who were preparing. I learned about the profile of the job and the opportunities it gives. It’s like a dream place to be. But the general Idea was that this exam is very difficult and almost NOBODY can clear it. That minuscule number that does are people who come from another planet.So I enrolled myself for Mcom right after undergrad and thought to myself that I should perhaps give it a try meanwhile I’m still doing masters. Because there was no point dropping an year for an exam I already knew I wouldn’t clear. That is one way of making yourself feel good when you don’t clear the exam, because well hey, I already knew I wouldn’t clear. But still you are literally ready to give your sweat and blood (read health ) for the preparation.But never-the-less, To start the preparation one needs to know about the exam, but in my case I wasn’t much aware of how difficult it is to even get a “token” to a enroll oneself at a coaching institute.I was informed of an excellent coaching institute, by a fellow friend, upon hearing that I went to get myself a seat , but I was told that I had missed the online registration. Which I learnt later closes in 5 minutes of opening.My God ! Was this institute garaunteeing success, NO !Any money returns , scholarships ? NO.I was very surprised at how at an institute where I’m willing to shell out almost a lac is not willing to take me. And I come from a reputed college of Delhi. Written “serious aspirant lacking guidance “all over my face. I tried and spoke to this person and that person at the reception to avail one seat, but I couldn’t. And then came the moment of heroism in heart where I felt I would return to this institute one day after clearing the exam.It was just a thought that made me feel good and dramatic in my head.And so I decided I’d rather not take any coaching at all.There were multiple factors for me to make this decision, firstly because I didn’t want to go on coaching Hunting drive, I saw Rajendra Nagar that day and it was the scariest place for me to be in, one aspirant bumping into the next like bees on a hive and everyone having serious sullen look on face as if they’ve missed a train by 1 minute , (some people do find the hustle motivating also, but I was completely repulsed and more so scared of that place )Also after staying in delhi for another 4-5 months , I moved backed to my hometown in Jaipur. Because I realised I was done with delhi ,having been there for 3 wonderful years of college, I wanted to remember the city with pleasant college memories and also thought the city didn’t have much to add to me now, also managing everything on my own took a lot of my time which was manageable in college but not now and the bad food at Pg which i had been eating last 3 years didn’t inspire much, the cost of coaching itself seemed to me too unreasonable and then the additional cost of staying and food sounded too much of a financial and emotional investment for an exam I was certain in my mind “no-body clears”.Here I would like to add, staying in delhi for college definitely gives you an advantage as you can easily get in touch with people who’ve written this exam and can tell you in great length about it. Which you can go on hearing about being spell bound about the stories that people have.And so I got a list prepared from someone’s someone who had written the pre and was preparing for this exam. This was a golden leaf for me.Next I thought to myself that “Yes , I CAN do it on my own” ! Bubbling with enthusiasm.He gave me a comprehensive list on a white sheet of paper , and that was my first initiation to the exam. By someone’s someone who was kind enough to jot down things for me.I went and purchased the books. The Stationery. The perfect study table and a comfortable chair. And then obviously a table lamp! For studying at night seems incomplete without the company of light from the table lamp.Everything needed seemed to be in place.Next I had the books with me, now I had to start studying.So along with my mcom classes , I started going to DU arts faculty library.Now for someone who’s from DU and has stayed in the north campus , would know that this library is very popular among UPSC aspirants from the north campus.This library was in front of my college and for 3 years I hadn’t visited this place once and now suddenly it became a Temple for me.I was so excited as I walked in with my books.And Even though I would submit here that I haven’t been a regular reader of books but I definitely love libraries.Whenever I had to concentrate and study for any exam in school or in college , I would sit and study in the Library. The most quiet and positive atmosphere is found here.So this particular arts fac library was a perfect place to start the preparation. I would go there in the summer heat and spend long hours , sometimes missing college classes and sometimes in between to study there.There were Other students sitting in the library, also preparing for this exam. It gave me a feeling as if we’re all together in this journey. I felt a kind of unsaid comraderie amongst us all, united for a common cause.Few days going there, I learnt that there were many people who preprared from this library and had cleared, there were many someone’s someone who had cleared prelims that particular year itself and were sitting there and prepraring for mains.I felt honoured to be sitting there and preparing amongst such stalwarts. And all those preparing without coaching and clearing ,further boosted my confidence that it can be done by self study and hard work and blessings of this place.Even though I was devoting my time there, and it had been one or two months into preparation now , I was feeling a little lost. I Couldn’t make much sense of what I was reading and there was no plan. I would start reading whatever I felt wanted to read that day.I was also attending college for masters half heartedly. So after writing my college 1st semester exams in December 2013 , When I was one or two months into preparation , I still continued to find my way around what and how to preprare for this exam. And this was first of the many later when thought , I should have taken Coaching. Because there continued to be sense of “what am I missing by not taking coaching ?” In me. Which died down much later when I started taking mock test series and scoring well, that too in my second attempt.And hence I suggest some kind of guidance , not necessarily coaching , is always better. It gives a sense of direction.In feb next year, I felt I had wasted enough time in delhi and now I wanted to go to my homeplace because of reasons I’ve mentioned before.I went back home and continued my haphazard preparation from there.And hence , Now, I always suggest on having a Plan of preparation first. Because I started on a wrong note.Keeping 2013 GS paper as my base for preparation and as was the trend then, that one could clear the exam based only on csat because it wasn’t qualifying that year, I devoted all my time to csat. Because it was easy , fun and rewarding too.For GS I thought that I would attempt portions only from modern history, polity and Indian geography. Only 3 books. And hence , now , I always suggest and emphasise on reading and re-reading the syllabus.I felt that I had cracked a code to this exam and this was the easiet exam possible and did not know why other people aren’t finding it easy too.Anyway, based on this limited preparation I solved 2013 exam paper.This was the only paper I saw and solved during my first attempt.Because 2013 paper was mostly from the areas I had focussed on and studied , I thought my GS was good and I solved the csat paper also very causally, taking my own time and because I could solve that also, it further boosted my confidence that I was on the right track.All this while , I was so ignorant, that I had forgotten about the first golden leaf on which I had taken syllabus from someone, I did not even go and check online about the syllabus or strategies of other people because I thought I would get scared and nervous.I was in a state of pure ignorance which was so blissful for me.I hadn’t thought of my optional also, which I thought I would choose once I clear prelims.In first attempt , most people want to clear “just the prelims” ! Ekbari prelims toh ho jaye.Based on my code of success, I completed the syllabus in 2–3 months. Have you ever heard anyone say that they have comepletd the syllabus ?Neither had I!And the thought that I had completed the syllabus and now there was nothing more, It started to dawn upon me that there is something definitely wrong with my preparation. But I was too scared now and perhaps too late to look at the exam pattern, syllabus or the Internet.I took the prelims 2014 and messed up my exam completely !But then I’m a die hard optimist at heart, I attempted 100 questions that year, mostly guesswork. Almost all. And then I thought, if my luck is good, I would clear prelims.It’s now laughable, what And how I thought back then.So, after prelims came a hollow in my life. I scribbled my entire question paper, so I couldn’t even guess how many marks was I to score. And hence Now I always suggest that focus on making specific marks on the question paper to calculate marks after the exam. Because no matter how much you fear, you have to calculate.I couldn’t complete csat paper because I hadn’t written any mock test and hence now I tell everyone to write as many tests as possible. To bleed in the battle to win the war.Then, owing to my positive self , I still thought I might clear prelims based on my luck alone !Then came the struggle of mains and deciding on the optional. Commerce being my undergrad course became a natural choice as I thought I might clear prelims and then this was the only subject I knew something about. This was how randomly I just chose my optional without thinking much. And hence, now I always suggest to choose your optional wisely and before hand.Handling commerce as optional is such a pain. It doesn’t help you in GS and the course takes more time than GS preparation. May be not so much for the CAs out there.So I started preparing for the optional now. I went to delhi for a crash course on commerce because there was no time. And also I was still in a regular course at college and had to attend the minimum number of classes. Then came the prelims result around September 2014. And I failed.It would definitely have been a miracle if I would have cleared prelims and that strategy would have become golden goose by now, but I naturally failed.This was when it pinched me the MOST.Not only was this the first exam I had flunked but I was somewhere hoping against hope that I would clear.Because by now, I had wasted one year of my life doing nothing. I had no direction. No sense of what I was doing and how this was to be done.And even though my parents supported me in this journey and believed in me but they started thinking of getting me married after post graduation. Because , well, that’s the right time and age.Then came another shock. I had been a good student throughout my life and it was becoming painful to think that all those years of being a good student would go to a waste now.The failure in the first attempt changed everything for me.This was the first time I cried on phone to my dad about having made a terrible choice of career. Atleast with CA exam I knew what had to be done.And what he said , even though a simple line, stuck with me for the entire course of the preparation and till now is the first thing that comes to my in any difficult situation- nothing lasts forever, sub theek ho jayega. :)You see, sometimes the impact of simple lines lingers on and forms a great part of your personality.Now was time to introspect and make some serious changes.I realised how everything about my preparation was WRONG.From relying on others for even the syllabus, the booklist and taking no guidance I was wrong at every step. I was actually preparing for failure for last one year and that’s what I got.So in my next attempt , I swore to myself that I will not leave any stone unturned as regards my efforts.And also, try and not think of the result of my efforts during the course of my preparation.Then came a list of things I started to do right for my preparation.Saw the syllabus for the first time.Made a plan of action for studying.Made my own booklist by referring to several book lists that toppers made available online.Took help of available online sources- Mrunal, unacademy , insightsonindia , Rajya Sabha tv etc.Drowned myself completely in studies to not leave me with much time for negative thoughts.Selected and worked upon my optional.I was now preparing for the interview also as questions and answers would keep running in my mind as if somebody was asking me.I now utilized my time in the best manner I could.I kept myself motivated by watching YouTube videos, doing physical exercise , joining some yoga classes for a short while, whenever I got bored of my room, I joined some library or the other for a month or so, then came back to my old room to just change the atmosphere a bit.It was as if my mind was constantly engaged in ideas to keep myself motivated and focussed by trying various things.And it helped.When I wrote the next prelims, I knew before hand that I would clear it.When I wrote mains, I was thoroughly preprared,And well for the interview. I had my eyes on it even before I started my preparation.The preprartion leads one to spend time with their own self and that is the scariest part.Sitting alone one has to fight the dragons of one’s own mind. Do the difficult task of Pulling oneself up from the times one feels so low as if nothing is ever going to work.But once past the phase, whether this side or that,You would have become a polished personality. And all this ,by your own efforts.Isint that a wonderful thing ?

I spent a bit over 3 years (10/2010 to 3/2014) at University of Saarland studying Physics and had an enjoyable time. My bachelor was trinational, I spent the first year in France, then Luxembourg, then Saarbrücken for the final year of the Bachelor and stayed on for my master. So I had the slightly special role of the person moving there for an international course and also of a standard student. I have some negative things to say that might also be or are true for other german cities, but that I still find worth mentioning, and of course I will try to add other people's viewpoints in, but it will always be personal. I'll try to add pictures later.Also, I only spent one evening in Kiel, so I cannot compare, but would just think that Kiel is a rather nice place with a good quality of life. But back to Saarbrücken!University experience/lifePeople:The professors and students were welcoming and nice enough. My group was quite small and not really international, except for some French and Dutch and Luxemburgish students mostly from the international cursus. I needed a bit of time to adjust to the locals, like the cliche goes, they were not so talkative at first and not looking so much for contact as us newcomers were. Most were living at home and did not have much experience outside of Saarland. Even my saar husband can laugh about the cliche that Saarland is the region where people marry their cousins, but it is definitely one where you and your partner stay quite close to home. I mention it because I only got to know some people more closely when my first year was almost over.I also took one cryptography course, so I know also the difference to computer science where of course, the courses were in English and for a larger and more international crowd. Just incredibly smart, young and focused people that were 2 semesters at least ahead of us, hearing the lectures from later semesters already at the beginning and saving quite some time.I suspect you come for the bachelor, because for the master, it is advantageous to already have been there before or thesis topics in the more popular groups will be gone quite quickly.The administrative staff is also helpful and warm-hearted.One of the reasons I stayed is that it is a small university and you have a great ratio of students per professor and it is not so anonymous.FoodThe quality and price level of the canteen is quite ok, it was around 2 € for the full menu which was even tasty and not the mush from some other canteens. There are many options for a reasonable price. A supermarket which is a bit pricier (Edeka) is there and some cafes, which unfortunately are a monopoly of Edeka- so not too cheap or diverse, but nice. There were also a few other cheap restaurants, but I heard some closed down.Campus lifeThere weren't so many events or so, except soccer world cup viewing and some barbecues. But the campus is nice (buildings not especially, except the old ones, not the 1970 additions), enough grass areas to sit or lie on and compact enough.CoursesThere is quite a nice selection of courses, as you will probably have the obligation to also take non-bioinformatics courses, and for that, it is really practical that it is a campus university. I went to language, philosophy,math, chemistry and computer science courses as well. You can usually really choose what you like — the nice administrative staff I mentioned will add courses to the list of allowed courses if no one took them before, and you can also decide with the professors if you take the course with or without a grade (you need some of both, and sometimes, the test is only after 2 courses, so you would need an extra exam, or otherwise it is preferrable to take it ungraded).There is a nice language center — register the moment courses are open for registration — and a sports center — dito . I think not all sports are free, but language courses are.JobsIn physics, it was easy to get a job (10 hrs/400€) either in a research group or as teaching assistant or lab course assistant. I'm sure that will exist for you too, and also of course the usual waitressing Jobs are available.TransportationThe campus is up the mountain from Saarbrücken. It is nevertheless possible to go by bike. Quite a few bus lines go there, I usually took the bus, but be prepared they will be late and overcrowded in winter. The semester ticket for the entire Saarland is included in the 150 (now probably also more) € for the registration. You can also take regional trains with it.AccomodationThere is campus housing, the usual tiny room/shared kitchen and bathroom available. But one big form closed down when I was there, and I think still wasn't reopened. There are also private and Christian student houses in the city, I lived in one of the private ones, there you have your own kitchen and bath, but it is still quite loud. I paid 255€ for the furnished student residence room and later 450€ for a larger furnished apartment rented in a town house. The campus housing is definitely cheapest, but not to everyone's taste, but you will also meet many people there. It can become annoying to get into town, and other for supermarkets, you have to go a not into town. There are also many 'WGs'/shared flats (search under wg-gesucht.de) where you would also pay 150–250€- roughly guessed. There is usually high demand for every room, and of course you have to click with your future flatmates, so not every application will work. I tried two times (for 14 or so flats) and never managed, but most were also unfurnished what I didn't want. When you look, look for the same side of the river the university is on, close to a busline and the tram/Saarbahn. Many are in the 'Nauwieser Viertel' which is a bit the hip/party part of town, with many simple bars and cafes, cinema, cool stores and it's own festival.SaarbrückenShortThe city is a really good size and has a lot to offer. Unfortunately, as in many German towns, after the war they built many ugly new houses between the nice old ones. Otherwise it would be quite lovely. The market place St. Johanner Markt (Saarbrückrn originates from St. Johann, on one side of the river (university side) and Altsaarbrücken on the other side)) is lovely to sit outside on, it is surrounded by bars/restaurants.Culture/LeisureThere is really enough going on, film festival, festival with concert close to the Saar etc. There is a big cinema and the nice small ones (There you could catch an English version, hopefully), a big theater with opera and dance ensemble (quite renowned) and a town over, in Völklingen, there is the old iron factory 'Völklinger Hütte' who has always exhibtions (about ancient cultures usually, Egypt, Incas etc). When it is summer, and not raining for a change, everyone is in the Biergarten Staden close to the Saar for a drink after work, on the beach island or just on the grass along the Saar. There are Christmas markets in winter.FoodAs I hinted to, there are just so many cafes/bars/restaurants of all kinds and price ranges. The typical local cuisine (every dish should come from potatoes, cream and bacon), asian, spanish, georgian, good burgers, indonesian, you name it. The favourite motto of the Saarländer is 'Hauptsach gudd gess, geschafft ham wer schnell' — overall eat well, work is done quickly. It also has many Michelin star restaurants, I think the highest density in Germany, due to the proximity to France.For groceries, there are many supermarkets, more and less cheap ones, all around the city center. Also a few Turkish vegetable stores with cheap and good quality vegetables and antipasti, yum, are around. I don't think there should be a large price difference to Kiel, and it is easy to reach them without a car.TravelAs others have stated, you can reach France -Paris in 3 (or 4) hours— and Luxembourg very well. For travel inside Germany, you might have to change trains often, but at least, it has fast train connections in many directions, but it is not a super well connected town like maybe Frankfurt or so. The train station even closes for some hours in the night, so you see, it is not crazy busy.ProstitutionStrange category, I know, and trust me, none I usually use to categorize cities. But it would be misleading to exclude. Saarbrücken, due to being close to France and less strict in their laws, has a large number of casinos and brothels, it is often called the brothel of Germany or something like that. While you can go about your life without noticing prostitution, in Saarbrücken, you can't. On there corners of the city center, there are brothels, it may be impossible to not walk by one on the way into town. I just mention it because I don't know how comfortable you are with that and it certainly was out of my comfort done to buy my kebab next to where women are offered.I know it is a massive answer, and I am not sure if I covered all, but I hope I could help. You are more than welcome to ask me all questions you might still have.