00:00having passed through that thing myself I very well know where the real competition is others
00:06are there just to make up the numbers you still want to hang on how can you have 10 lakh
00:11people
00:11applying for the UPSC thing having passed through that thing myself I very well know that the real
00:20competition is actually only between 5,000 to 10,000 students my time there were hardly 300
00:28400 seats available and we used to discuss that there is no need to be overwhelmed by the number
00:37of applicants because the number of serious contenders is hardly a few thousand that's
00:45where the real competition is others are there just to make up the numbers but they are being
00:51continuously fed a diet of hope and when it comes to heaven as the prospective reward even a little
01:02hope suffices no the reward is so big that even if there is a 0.00001% chance you still
01:10want to hang
01:11on if they could see that there is no heaven at stake that there are more promising more fulfilling
01:19alternate routes possible then they would not needlessly invest themselves so deeply and for
01:27so long I always say try for two years and then look somewhere else two attempts are more than
01:36sufficient if you have honestly prepared
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