The most dangerous misconception. Can anyone quantitatively express what reduction in effort is allowable for a category student owing to his/her reservation as compared to the input of a general category student? If 6 hours of average daily study for one year is sufficient for a general category student to clear civil services, then 5 hrs. may be sufficient for an OBC candidate, 4 hours for an SC candidate and 3 hours for one who is an ST. It may be a laughable proposition for many if we try to quantize the efforts in number of hours of study for different category students. One of my dearest friends belongs to a reserved category. He resigned from a prestigious private sector company in 2008 to study for civil services. In 2009 I met him before the preliminary of CSE and he said, “Don’t you worry. I shall be an IPS one day.
My attempts are many and I know I will get through any one of these.” It is 2014 now and that golden attempt is yet to arrive! Every candidate, irrespective of category, should study the maximum that is possible and write the exam to the best of his/her efforts. Has anyone from the category thought that we should write one question less in the exam because we have a category? Then why do we seek solace in the number of attempts? Dear aspirants from reserved section, you must not take refuge in the thought that you possess more number of attempts than that of the general candidates. An aspirant should always consider the upcoming attempt as his/her last attempt!