There Were Many Challenges That This Person Faced During Preparation

Well , There are many troubles I faced during my preparation. I started my journey in June, 2016. I would give my answer in some points.

1. Residential / PG problem : when I went to Delhi , I had taken a PG in Ghitorni. This was a very bad decision I had taken. The behaviour of the owner of the PG was very pleasant. I decided to reside there. After some days, He started creating problems. He started to tell me the rules according to situations. Earlier he had allowed me some things ( Like kitchen availability, Friends meet-up in the room , water availability on my floor etc) and later he restricted all those things. Then I got to know that the owner only needs money. He had very rude behaviour. I decided to leave that PG. Them he asked rent of 1 more month . At that time I had paid the fee of coachings and rent+ security amount to that owner. Hence I had not any money to give him. Along with it, my classes were also getting disturbed. Somehow I had arranged the rent and left that PG.
2. Food Problem: In South Delhi, where the Campus is situated, it is very tough to get the good/healthy food. I was in Ghitorni. There were no good mess in Ghitorni. They were simply doing money making business. There was no Quality food available . After I left that PG, I had taken a 2 room apartment with my friend Rahul . Then we decided to establish a kitchen and we employed a maid for this. I had came Delhi with my friends Rahul and Suranjana . So we all shared the kitchen. The food problem was solved . But also there's a maid problem. They used to cook good for 1–2 months and after that they were just making the food . So we had to search for a maid in every 1–2 months.
3. Health Issue: The environment of Ghitorni was not so good. There are very bad roads and gutters . So there were also many diseases like Dengue, Chicken pox etc. We all 3 friends suffered from these diseases. I faced chicken pox. It took 15–20 days of my preparation. I missed many classes. So I got a lot of Home work to do. Rahul faced Jaundice. Suranjana faced Dengue. So they also had a very much loss of their studies.
4. Made easy: Now if I talk about coaching, so when the classes were over in the evening, the road got jammed . On that road you can only see students of Made easy. In a batch there were 400 students. So whenever I used to see them I used to think about the competition. There were only 100+ total seats and total students in coaching were 15000+ . And many of them were from IITs and NITs. I was from a Govt college. So I used to think if I have to get a seat then I have to defeat them all.
5. Classrooms: In a class there were 400 students. There were some students who were answering just after the teacher'd asked something. And I was doing calculation at that time. So I was thinking if I can not fight in a class only then how would I fight with those 15000+.
6. Time: I had joined the coaching very late. So I had only 6 months to prepare. Those who are preparing for ESE, know that 6 months are not enough if you start from the basics. I had also wasted my time on chicken pox and that PG owner. So I had not much time. At last , the coaching began to increase the class timings. In June it was 6 hrs/day, then increased to 8 hrs/day, then 10 hrs/day and finally they went to 13hrs/days. So imagine what would be the condition of one who is taking a 13 hrs class in a days. I was unable to do any self study, unable to solve problems.
7. Test series: Now if I talk about test series, I was not getting good marks on test series. My ranks used to be above 8–9000. So my self confidence got down at that time.
8. Water: The water quality is not so good in Ghitorni. We had to purchase water Cane . Now we were new at Delhi. The shopkeeper was selling the canes in ₹30/cane and if on doorstep then ₹40/cane. So we used to bring it by keeping canes in our shoulders just to save money.
9. Self Study: our syllabus was completed on 20 Dec and the exam was on 8 Jan . So we had 18 days for self preparation. Now we had to cover whole syllabus in 18 days. (Note: we were taking 12–13hrs classes daily so we hadn't study self at last.)

So what was the result???
 

Failed in every Technical exam.
 

Tried again in next year with full of experience and a better strategy.

Got success. Thanks to my family who supported me in everything, My friends Suranjana and Rahul and also Vikram who came next year.

-Shailendra Mishra,IES Officer