Union Public Service Commisson’s CSE results always create a huge buzz because it’s an extremely difficult exam to crack, and this time too, when the Civil Services Exam results were announced, everyone wanted to know who had secured the topmost rank. On April 16, 2024, when Union Public Service Commision (UPSC), declared the much-awaited UPSC 2023 results, the National Police Academy became a hub of celebrations because Aditya Srivastava, from Lucknow, currently under training to become IPS officer, had managed to bag the first rank. Undoubtedly, there’s a lot of frenzy among future civil service aspirants to know UPSC IAS topper Aditya Srivastava’s study strategy because he has cracked the UPSC exams not once but twice!
Interestingly, Aditya Srivastava is currently undergoing IPS training at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad to become an IPS officer. He had also previously cleared the UPSC CSE 2022 exam, securing an All India Rank of 236, and that’s how he got into the National Police Academy after completing the foundation course at The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie.
Aditya Srivastava is an inspiration to thousands of UPSC aspirants who burn midnight oil studying extensively for this extremely difficult exam. So, for future aspirants, here’s what he did differently:
Unveiling the Distinctive Traits of UPSC IAS Topper Aditya Srivastava:
- Aditya Srivastava had secured 95% in class 12th board exams.
- Aditya Srivastava’s father works as an Audit Officer in the Central Audit Department. Aditya’s mother is a homemaker. He also has a younger sister who also dreams of cracking the civil services exam.
- He completed his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in engineering from IIT Kanpur.
- After his engineering, he bagged a high-paying job at Goldman Sachs where he was earning 2.5 lakhs per month.
- He quit his job in Bengaluru and returned to Lucknow to prepare exclusively for UPSC exams. Despite having a well-paying job, he devoted himself to studying day and night, with a desire to serve his nation, recognizing that making money was not his primary objective.
UPSC 2023 Topper Aditya Srivastava’s batchmates celebrate his first rank at the National Police Academy campus in Hyderabad where he is currently undergoing IPS training. (Video courtesy @ips_dawachya’s instagram handle).
UPSC IAS Topper Aditya Srivastava’s 5 Success Tips To Crack Civil Services:
Aditya Srivastava had secured AIR 1, in three attempts. In the first attempt, he couldn’t even manage to clear his prelim exams. In his second attempt in 2022 CSE, he secured the 236th rank and opted for IPS as his choice of service. He wrote UPSC exams again in 2023 and managed to race past all other candidates securing the first rank. Aditya Srivastava would be the best person to take as a role model in working towards achieving the set goal. So, read about 5 UPSC IAS Topper Aditya Srivastava’s 5 Success Tips To Crack Civil Services:
1. He relied heavily on previous years’ question papers and went through them extensively.
2. He said it was mostly about identifying previous mistakes or the perceived mistakes he thought he had made in his previous attempts.
3. In general studies 1 and 4, he identified the reason why he was falling behind, zeroing in what other toppers were getting, and then correcting those mistakes. He informed India Today that this was the main factor that enabled him to move from 236th to 1st rank within a year.
4. He identified the various patterns that UPSC was following, be it sentence formation or the kind of questions the commission were framing. He also went through the answers that toppers were giving to those questions.
5. He also revealed that self motivation and consistency were keys to his success in UPSC 2023 exams.
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Insights into UPSC Topper Aditya Srivastava’s Initial Reactions upon Securing First Rank:
- Speaking to the news agency PTI, Aditya Srivastava revealed that until the morning that the results were declared, he had prayed to God to place him in the top 70 list. And it took him a while to realize that he had secured the 1st rank.
- He said his aim is to create impact and work at the grassroot levels.
- The IAS topper stated that upon assuming his post, his primary objective would be to implement all the schemes that the government is developing for the people to the best of his ability.
- He said getting the top rank in UPSC exams was a “dream come true” for him.
