Post IES Selection...

Well, for the few days it was very heady and i was literally in the clouds but now it again feels normal. But as some changes i discovered are as following..

    I got to know who my real well wishers are!! Few of my so called friends didn't even wished me congratulations .Some were  so jealous that it was apparent.One of my best friends(We used to stay together ALL THE TIME) now can't see me eye to eye. And she is not even engineer who could give this exam or ever planning to give this in her whole life. Few of my long lost friends found my number and wished me others managed to message me on facebook. And it's cool. I really regret the lost friend but i guess i should have guessed it earlier when i was planning to make her my life long friend. I thought being unsuccessful make you lose friends but the vice versa is also true!!

   I need to take all the congratulations as if it is my first one. I know you might be thinking how is this painful. But it is. My cheeks ache from smiling (fake) so much. Acting must come natural to you.I must say the kind words all weighed and watched as i could be considered egoist and god knows what. I would hate if someone tells other "she changed after selection". But it is so true for others instead of me.Now no one wants to talks to me.They are feel so unsure for themselves.But i don't care. I still have my goods friends with me who are genuinely happy for me.

  My mother is insanely happy. She is sooooo happy i feel it was worth it. She has discovered a new found respect in others eyes.Though i feel like telling her don't be a show off, but when i remember her anxiety, her concern about my future and not to mention her depletion of resources on me for past 3 years i just let her be.

I feel thankful to all the PSU's where i was not selected. I wouldn't have studied so far had i ve been selected early in my coaching days. 

All i want to say that a phase comes when we are so unsure of ourselves, insecure about our future.We see our friends moving on and we feel struck.But as in hindi movies good ending is there.But keep on studying till then. No matter how much you feel it is not getting in your head, how much you feel you are going to forget it, how much the other guy is studying....These things doesn't matter much. Everyone has their own journey, own lessons and own mistakes. And God has a plan for you too .I know a guy who tried telling me the same things and i didn't believe it but now i feel like going back and trusting him. But then again i wouldn't have worked so much if i believed him and was sure of my success!!                    

Got selected in IES..2012

Well after all the drama and rejection in 6 PSU's, UPSC found me suitable for the job.

The selection was completely a surprise for me. and i have no clue what will happen next. I have never seen a iES offices in my life and now i am going to be one!!

  I am deliriously happy and proud of myself.My aim of writing this blog is almost over but i will still help anyone in need of guidance.

It was a total surprise. You must must remember AP Singh used to tell a story about a girl who misplaced her ies admit card and found about her selection through post. I always wondered how can she be so unmindful and doubtful for her selection. But i was one of them too. Who thought i was grossly underprepared. It was not even my best performance.

And not even in my wildest dreams i thought of an under hundred rank. When i cleared the written thought i had cleared it near the boundary line and even if i get selected i would be on borderline. But my rank was an eye opener.

I am glad that i started this post. We always think that winners are different, think different and always know they have it in them.  But in my journey i had all the doubts..my the anxities. And among all these rejections i never realised god has a plan for me..

And trust me god has a plan for everyone..

Best of luck guys..

BEL Interview Experience..

Well i know very few people are actully going to use it as BEL usually takes a few students.


My interview was at Delhi chanderlok building. There were 3 persons on the panel.I was 8 or 9th by sequence. As students were coming out usually taking 20 to 40 mins. Everyone was telling his own story. One student proclaimed that they asked about practical aspects of production like how his watch was made etc etc. Another one said they asked compositions of stee;ls and other material science concepts. One was thrashed for telling his fav subject as HMT as they asked they have no use for heat and mass transfer. Another one was asked all about refrigeration and air conditioning. Some claimed no hr questions were there but threr were others who were asked something like that.
  
    I said my fav subjects to be HMT and Production thinking they could pick either of them .But i was asked questions from every other subject than these. I was asked following questions..

1. All laws of thermodynamics
2. Entropy.
3.Bernoulli's theorem.
4.Strength of materials diagrams
5.Types of turbine and there uses.
6.Properties of turbine material.


Somehow i was waiting for the interview results but i was kicked out of this interview too making it 6th PSU interview from which i was thrown out. This experience has made me scared of appearing in the interview itself. But it is also true that i never extensively prepared for any interview i gave. And i don't know the reason of this reluctance. But here is my advice to everyone. Please be throughly prepared fro each interview you face. Because at some point you are going to regret it as i am doing now. Though my IES selection has given me confidence and something to be proud of but as a matter of fact i am still considered failure and of course i am still unemployed though i am contemplating a career in coaching other people.
Best of luck...

IES iNTERVIEW..

After failing in HPCL. BEL and CIL serially in interviews i had decided i had enough of this mechanical engineering. So i didn't fill any forms and decided to move on with my life in m tech in totally unrelated field. I had been doing good in that too considering i topped my university and was selected for going to USA in june. BUt suddenly my life decided to take again a surprise turn. I get a call for IES interview.After getting kicked out in 5 PSU interviews wasting 2 years of my life actually 3 after calculating mtech year too.

    

I had decided to do my m tech and all.But no i can't decide anything for myself according to god.Now i am so torn between college and this interview. If i concentrate on interview i lose my position in m tech and if i concentrate on college come on i can never do this stupid mistake. I am so scared of giving this interview. I don't want to fail in this interview another interview.Sorry i can't think of anything funny to express this insecurity this fear.

Please pray for me..

And if ANYBODY can help me to give any information regarding the interview please contact me or leave a comment.
And all those who are still preparing and hoping for it.. trust me it is not as difficult as it sounds..I was practically surprised for my selection..

What made easy taught me.

          When i came to Made Easy i was just wide eyed farzi engineer having no idea of what future has in for me,What i have in me or what i want.I was stupid, idiot and i don't know what else i think most importantly NON SERIOUS.

     First few days or may i say months were spent getting the hang of things.Knowing what terms like laws,assumptions etc meant. Though i thought i know a lot at that time i was practically naive. I was proud to be able to do classes for so long.Bragged about it . But coming back i just collapsed and hardly opened the book.I thought i was quick minded to absorb the things. But this was not so.With time as i gained knowledge i lost confidence on my so called sharp brain. I saw people working twice as hard,getting selected,going away all the time.I kept on waiting for my time.There was always something to do in the corner.Some chapters to read from book, some questions to solve some concepts to understand.Things were not easy as they seemed. Whenever i felt i have done a topic there was always a question,a exam to challenge me.Sometimes i took things light heartedly sort of chalta hai attitude. It did me wrong. People who struggled with concepts went ahead. My all confidence was lost. I forgot things easily,sometimes didn't paid attention to minor things,did calculation or unit mistakes. A time came when i was just lost. My classmates were getting ahead,time was passing, few results but no job.You know everytime i was asked what i was doing my heart skipped 10 beats.I stopped going any where, talking to friends.I never thought this could happen to me.Time, money,selections just slipped by.

       But then i took admission in this college where i am the only made easy student around.I see now these 2 years have changed me.I want to learn now, not just pass, i actually do questions in class get appreciated.Now i am passionate about learning.I know how real life changing teachers are.All of my teachers are below the mark made easy teachers like amit kakkar sir, parveen kulkarni sir etc.Even in class i keep on thinking how these teahers have taught the same concept. How boring, unpassionate ordinary teachers are! Somewhere i my heart i too want to be a teacher.In class i feel like telling them you sit and let me teach.
              My knowledge in every field(thanks to GS classes!) is far from anyone here.Even in terms of concepts I could compete with teachers sometimes.
       Though sometimes it feels stupid to be here.Everyone is so ignorant. So lazy,so imcompetent, so unpassionate i get irritated sometimes. But that was how i was before made easy happened.I always wanted to me to be like this.A real engineer, a real intellectual,whom everyone respects for her knowledge.In fact i am considered so out of the world intellectual that no guy talks to me for non study purpose.My boyfriend always imagined me up like that.No matter how much i joke, i just can't be part of students here.Sooner or later i am found telling them something and they listening wide eyed.And obiviously asking how do you things like that.

       I don't know whether all the trouble,all the time ,all the money was worth it.But i find myself turning out to be as i wanted to be.Right from my child hood.I can finally say i am good at something, teachers could sense i am different.I come around as girl of substance and knowledge, not pseudo intellectual.And of course the confidence that comes with it.So i don't have to fake a attitude(Which i never had in first place).I am no more a good figure,okay face.I am someone to be looked upto.Finally i am taken SERIOUSLY.

God's plans..

I just don't know what he has planned for me. i ve got selected in BEL when i least expected it.
I have alreadt taken admission in m tech college and i am loving it.College is great and now when i have known the importance of study i am putting my best into it.Future appears bright but i don't know which way.I will tell the college's name because it's great opportunity for mechanical engineers and very few people know about it but my identity will be in danger.But admissions are over so next year.In fact i am thinking to start a new  blog about my new college life.Whatever.....

Preparation of a PSU Exam

Well our HPCL Exam is coming near and though there are not much seats of us still one can keep hope. Especially after heart shattering result of Vizag steels, rotten exam of BEL and worse than worst exam of CIL. And now ONGC recruitment is out.
  As most of you know I cleared ONGC, HPCL and NPCIL last year.Trust me those selections were totally unexpected and now when i don't find my name on the selected list i could understand what my friends must have felt back then. I was always kind of lucky one. I cleared all written exams of my campus selections despite of being blackest sheep of our college in academics with % less than 65. Without solving a single sheet of career launcher i got 88 percentile as i in my 4th year. I got 94 percentile in english despite of my being not able to understand a single news article till 10th class. I ve constantly failed maths and one time physics exam after my 6th standard. It was only in boards that my percentage rouse upto 80 and i don't know how? I ve never touched 70 mark from nursery. I was always in 50 -60.I just don't know what right or wrong i did.(Well i know but i still got results when it mattered)

 And now today when i picked up my formula copy(made easy formula copy) to be precise i just didn't know what to read. I ve read all the formulas in previous exams too but it had hardly helped. They were simply of not any use for one of the many reasons.I forget them sometimes,my brain didn't worked as it should have and most importantlyMost of the questions demanded time,calculator or worse both. Then i thought of picking up GATE book and remembering all questions but is it possible at such a mature stage of my preparation? When i had finally let go of my recalling properties and was all out in understanding and application of basics, question papers started playing unfair game of devoiding me of my weapon calculator.

I was always the quickest mind.Whether in speaking lies, or thinking innovative answers to a viva question i hardly knew.Trust me the only thing i knew about mechanical engineering was it spelling. I could barely tell name of 5 subjects when i passed out. But these two years of heart breaking, back bending preparation for understanding everything has snatched me of my spontaneity.It was something i was sure is never going to leave me.I was so proud of it, making fun of others as dumb and slow mind. Trust me i ve read notes of every subject atleast 15 times baring a few. I must have done examples atleast 5 times. In between my preparation was disturbed by various reasons but how come it is worse than last year when i was clearing almost every exam and i didn't knew many a things i know now.
 I have taken admission in mtech college in a stream which is quite far from mechanical.You know what as i kept on understanding the depths of mechanical engineering i lost trace of my clever wit quick wit always a answer on lips personality. Has rubbing of my brain against walls of ME had made me blunt instead of sharp.I was so sharp before.
When i don't find my name on that list i repent for the times i took it for granted.All those exams are coming again.I don't know whether to quit or try harder.My hopes are bruised, and brain is reading tired of all the stuff again and again, my eyes accustomed to familiar concepts hardly grasping anything new.Everytime i get struck in problem my heart says not again. I don't know whether it is new beginning or the end. 

Coal India written test..

Hi,
This post is about coal India written test we gave.I wouldn't have written about it as i had forgotten all about it.The experience was bad enough and totally worth forgetting.But a person who's following my blog actually made a point to e mail about it's absence.I wish he had commented on any of my blog instead.But still point taken.

  For next year student paper had 200 questions 100 tech and 100 non tech.
  Non tech questions were fine but i really can't forgive them for keeping engineering mathematics questions there in aptitude and GS section.Come on guys give me a break.Isn't it hard enough you people are giving huge amount of them in tech section. I didn't revise maths at all though i prepared it for GATE.
And what's the fascination about year 2009 dude.I had hard time recalling miss world or miss universe of 2009 leave alone miss earth of 2009(Or 2011 for that matter) We had plenty of clock questions and loads of history.
   Well earlier(pre right to information law) PSU's used to lift questions from R.K. Jain(Yes,this is the most hated book for ALL made easy teachers) or from each others paper.Some questions were right some were wrong but still we had a chance to attempt them. But now when they have one for the readymade things.You know lift your questions from GATE papers you already have the answers so no chik chik no jhik jhik.

Let me tell you , our MADE EASY solved GATE papers is the new"R.K. Jain" now.So learn by heart the questions and answers.That's what time demands now to have a decent job.

 On the positive side time was plenty but questions were too much numerical to even read them or bother solving.Rattafication is the mantra. NO need to revise formulas or concepts. Who cares???
As for as i was concerned after the exam i was again found hitting on my head for the following reasons.

1. For not studying as usual.I am very serious about watching TV instead.
2. Fot attempting questions in hurry and in some cases marking responses in hurry.(What's the fascination with black pen?Pencil was soooo.. good).

     3.Not opening GATE book.It's the new bible for PSU's

P.S. Some students were caught saying the got the paper in advance and thus solved all questions.It was being said that paper was available in 4 lakhs to 2 lakhs.People went as far as saying CIL is demanding 13 lakhs for complete selection.Who knows??                                            






I kind of wish this was true atleast it would give me reasons for not getting selected in the exam.By the way i have already told my mom about it.She was convinced ha ha ha..

BEL Written Examn pattern for Engineers and my story

I know i am quite late in writing this but may be this post will help students of next year so just ignore it.(I tried to write a serious blog but got carried away so you can read.It's looks kind of funny to me.My BF says self appreciation is my thing so be it)

Well in Bel exam we saw the same peculiar things which started after ONGC 2011 exam.And that is they expect us to calculate with our our minds. In ONGC we were actually expected to calculate Taylor's coeffs and diesel Engine efficiency without calculator in of course very limited time.When i asked this from sir he told they just copy paste questions from previous GATE exams. In BEL exam this was extremely apparent as we were given mathematics(come on!! not maths! but a PSU paper is always unexpected) and yes trade mark questions of GATE linked questions.(can u believe it ! i was the 1st one to solve the thermo question in class but in exam i was clueless).


 So my advice is please just read the questions of OUR made easy gate handbook as this trend was seen in NPCIL and in few others also.But on the spot technique is to mark the questions you know you can solve but taking some time so that if the time remains you can come back for some brownie points.

My exam went bad as i ve shifted to home and i ve hardly known a student who come home and opens book and actually study.Yes i know we ALL carry loads of books home promising ourselves to study but alas! Its a target very few can achieve.I was not fully prepared and kept pushing study and revision to last day and when the last day finally arrived i did not studied for the following reasons.

• Syllabus is very wide it's impossible to cover it now.
• We can't predict PSU questions as they are random so why bother.

• I must not take tension on last day so i should keep my mind fresh so that in could approach paper with new outlook.

I know i play such stupid mind games with myself.At exam i was kicking my a** for not studying those queing theory formula (Trust me they have something against me.No matter how many time i put them in my mind they get misplaced in exam time)  and few other topics.At least i would have got the confidence of "yes, i ve worked hard for this i'll do it". But instead i was getting"I have not studied but lets see how many questions can i afford" feeling.


Whatever i decided to study for CIL exam but you can see how unfocussed non serious i am.Meanwhile i am getting a good dose of "how much time and money you will further waste let's get you married" drama from my mom.

IES made easy solutions are wrong

WEll i got to find a very interesting part about made easi ies 2012 solutions given on it's website.It's that in Paper 2 staggering 26 questions are wrong. Yes and in paper 3 only 3questions are wrong.Well if you are looking for right answers you can visit www.lnecgate.org .


I know most of the students have already done their part of answer checking and now must be basking in glory of it enjoying holidys. But not those who are not sure about ies, how must be gearing up for the next PSU exam.WEll i am kind of struck in middle.I ve got enough marks but nobady is sure how much are enough so i am hanging in the middle. Meanwhile i ve decided to get in PSU and keep on syudying till i clear it next year with 1st rank (imagination)


It was actually a easy paper and i got so depressed in last days that i gave up on it.I always regret not studying more while giving the exam.i did so many wrong answers and overconfident answers. I am still kind of upset but atleast i found out IES is not above my level.It's just required more practise and concentration.I actually contemplated not giving the exam a night before but carried on as i thought it would feel worse later.


I know i took longer time than necessary but i was from a private engineering college with no classes and my weak basics of school had made it more worse.But now i have covered that lonh journey investing a lot of time and money over it. You know i was hardly a average student even.At least now i can claim i am a fully fledged Mechanical engineer.
But i don't know if all this will be worth it or not.You know you hardly use your subject knowledge in jobs.I have not planned to write all this but i just thought there be people there wondering if they are worse among the lot.I guess nobody is.WE all have our share of struggles.
Sorry for being to preachy but if any of you sincerely feels demotivated you can e mail me.I 'll try to guide if you consider me something.