How I got selected for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL and Railways ALP (Allahabad zone)?

How I got selected for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL and Railways ALP (Allahabad zone)

So I never thought I would write this kind of post but now I am writing this for the sake of those students who think that there is no ray of hope.

Before I proceed forward I would like to mention those exams in which I got kicked out from the final list.

· Chsl ( 0.25 marks)

· Tis hazari court ( could not go to attend interview )

· Scientific Assistant IMD ( don’t remember the marks now )

· Allahabad high court, Assistant Review Officer ( 5 to 7 marks )

· Allahabad high court, Clerk ( don’t remember the marks now )

These are the exams where I got disqualified from the last stage.

There are many reasons for my disqualification one that I remember is less marks in Tier II for CHSL. The reason I remember CHSL is because this was the first exam I qualified and I was so sure that I will make to the final list.

Now let me come to year 2017 and SSC released its notification for CGL and as usual I filled the form and started preparing for it. I dedicated my time properly and kept working on all four section which are REASONING MATHS ENGLISH and GK. Everything went fine and I took mains examination the paper of mathematics was really tough but I kept my nerve cool and tried to score good marks in English.

Then come the Court case and you all know what happened.

After all on 15 November 2019 I was checking my phone ever second to know any update about the result, time was passing very slowly every minute was like a year. I was really stressed in the evening went out for a walk but all I was doing is to check my phone every moment. 

After 9:30 pm when SSC did not upload the result I came back room and went to my bed. I was half sleep when my phone vibrated I show It was my friend he sent me a photo on Telegram and said there is only one SARANSH KAUSHAL, is it you just check your roll number and confirm it. Then I rechecked the roll number and It was mine.

I told my roommate that I got selected and then he told me that my post is Tax assistant I was really happy after all I got something. Then I made phone call to my mother and told her. My parents were really happy, and deep inside I was even happier to know that I am the reason for their happiness.

Well this was the story of my selection in SSC CGL.

For CHSL and ALP, I will write that some other time.

My book list for SSC CGL, CHSL and Railway ALP - What was my book list for Ssc Cgl and Chsl and Railway Alp

-Saransh Kaushal 

{Bloggers Note:Check syllabus and pattern of the exam. Take other toppers into consideration also, before buying the books in the given link .}

It was a normal sunday for everyone but it changed the lives of 4 medical students forever

It was a normal sunday for everyone but it changed the lives of 4 medical students forever.

We are posted in the medicine department for this month. One of the doctors called us today to attend the icu and emergency.

We went to the hospital at 5pm. First, we went to the ICU. We asked the doctor to show us the history and ecg of the patients with Myocardial infarction. He opened the file of a patient in bed number 9. He explained the signs and symptoms and taught us the pecularities of ecg of MI patients. When he was explaining the treatment, the patient started to have convulsions. We were panicked. But the doctor immediately started giving cardiac massage and nurse injected in a few drugs. Convulsions stopped. He measured his bp. He was hypertensive. Ecg was done again. It showed recurrent Myocardial infarction. The doctor explained the relatives, they need to do an angiography soon, and accordingly angioplasty or bypass had to be done. But, the main problem was money! Everything would cost around 1 lakh rupees. But poor people are given MAA card, and with that card they can get all the treatment for free. The patient was 75 year old. He didn't have a card. And his family was extremely poor. They all were extremely worried about the expenses. The procedure had to be done within a few days. And it was difficult for them to arrange this amount of money. And if money couldn't be arranged, the patient will not survive long.

There was this another lady who was suffering from carcinoma of lungs. It was last stage. She didn't have enough money to get a treatment from any fancy cancer hospital. Thus, she was there all alone in an icu bed of a civil hospital waiting for her death.

One thing we realised is the importance of money. We say, that money can't buy everything in this world. But here, money is the deciding factor for life and death. If they could arrange the money, patient's life would be saved otherwise noone can save him from death.

For most of us, 1 lakh rupees is just amount with which we can buy a scooty or an iphone or a laptop. But for some, this amount can decide their life or death! Money is extremely important and though money can't buy you everything, but it can surely buy all the necessary things.

Thank you

-Thirak Vaishnav  (Pursuing MBBS)

Others success

Several years ago, a puzzle was given to us.

The teacher drew a line on the board and asked the following question.

“Can you make this line smaller without touching it?”

We thought about it for quite some time, but could not figure out the way to make the line smaller without touching it.

Then teacher did something which we never expected.

He drew a bigger line parallel to this line and asked the question.

“Which line is smaller now?

The answer was obvious.

The same line became smaller without touching it.

This is precisely what happens when other people succeed while we remain where we are.

We become unsuccessful in the relative term when they succeed, becoming better than us.

While we don’t mind other’s success, we surely feel bad when we are unsuccessful or when we fail.

It is only natural to feel bad when we fail.

It is for this reason that most people don’t like other’s success.

However, there are a small number of people who feel happy when others succeed.

Instead of feeling any animosity for those successful people, they befriend them and learn from them the secrets of success.

They are motivated by their successes and strive to work harder to do their best so that they not only equal their success but also surpass them.

I have always developed friendships with the people who had been better than me in life.

It is only thanks to such people, that I worked extra-hard and achieved something in life.

They had been my gurus and motivators.

I am always thankful to them for being part of my life and lifting me due to their brilliance and successes.

-Awdhesh Singh

Wealthy Children are Advantaged

In terms of resources and opportunities, they may be advantaged. But from many other perspectives, NO, they aren't. Rather in my eyes, wealthy children are highly disadvantaged.

How?

Look. There are certain highly satisfying moments and experiences in life which I think only those can experience who were not born rich but earned money later on in life.

And these moments and experiences make you feel so accomplished and happy that it can't be put in words.

Some of these experiences are:

• To see the happiness on the face of your parents when they sit for the first time in their own car. They were being pushed in local transport before this.
• To see tears of joy and a child-like vigor in your parents when you get your first home. Those who were born in their own home can never get this experience.
• Listening to the stories of your own childhood when the resources were not enough and your family couldn't afford much. How you survived and reached where you are today. Makes you feel like a winner already. I don't think that resourceful children can ever know how good and satisfying that feels.

I can write a list of such experiences but I guess you got the idea.

So, when god gifted them with money and resources (which can be earned later on in life), he took away these priceless experiences which no money can buy.

What do you think now, who is advantaged. :)

-Chandresh Mahajan,AIR- 37 GATE-2014 (First Attempt),B.Tech-Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

CSE/IT Engineer from private college or Other Branch Enigneer from Top colleges, what will a TOP IT Company choose and why?

I have done a fair bit of recruiting for Engineering Talent. These are my observations.

1. Going to Campuses take a lot of energy and time. Hence companies find it easier to go to a few Top level colleges to meet their Talent requirements.

2. In India at the time of deciding a college most students are willing to let go of a branch of their choice to get into a college of their choice. This means that all the top talent is concentrated in these very colleges. Their branch choice was a matter of a difference in rank here or there.

3. Skills are transient in nature. High quality candidates with the drive to do well will always be able to pick up new skills on the go. Hence companies are willing to put their bets on a student from a Top level college. This has been proven time and again in the output at the workplace.

4. Finally and most importantly whenever Companies have spread their net wide to look at students from a variety of colleges they have been mostly disappointed. The students have not made an effort to pick up relevant skills. If you are not from a known college then you have to possess outstanding skills to be considered.

-Rimy Oberoi

Children

I was beaten mercilessly more times than I can count. And I never felt bad for myself to be honest. I didn't think it affected me much. However, an incident happened that made me realise how it had twisted my views.

A few years back, my parents had their most aggressive fight in front of me.

Let me tell you first that my father was never abusive. If anything my mother is the more aggressive one. There has never been any domestic violence in our house.

But in that fight, for the first time, there was.

All I remember is my mother yelling incredibly demeaning things at my father and telling him that he's not even a man, etc…

My father told her to shut up, but she kept going and her insults got even worse. He would repeat that she needs to stop talking and she pressed further.

And for the first time, he pushed her down and beat her.

And I stood there, not feeling a thing. No anger, no sadness, no contempt, nothing. Just looked at it as if it's the most normal thing ever.

The beating wasn't hard and it lasted for a minute. Then mama rushed to our room (me and my siblings) and yelled “what were you all doing when you witnessed this happening? This is how you defend your mother when someone lays a hand on her?”.

I asked myself the same thing. What's wrong with you Salma? You're completely against domestic violence. You know there is no excuse for it. So why were you so numb?

But the scene was awfully familiar. Us speaking rudely to my mother and her beating us for dear life because we provoked her. How is that any different? Because it was done under the name of disciplining?

I scared myself by how I didn't find what happened bad to the degree I should.

And that was the first time in my life I swore that I won't beat my children. I won't make violence their norm in their eyes.

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p.s: my parents made up afterwards and my father never repeated it again

-Salma Medina

Specialization in BE/ME that will be in demand for next 15 Years

It is not any specialization. All skills have a half life , ie how long will it take after 1/2 of the skill that you have is not useful. Generally the half life of many computing skills is about -3 years, Mechanical engineering is about 5–6 years.

The one item that will be in demand in 10 years is your

“ability to take a vague and ill defined problem, identify the underlying (as opposed to stated) need and actual (as opposed to stated) constraints (social thinking skill) , convert it into a proper hypothesis/need statement (critical thinking) and then craft a solution (using your combination of special skills and experience) and then defend your solution to your peers or others (communication and critical thinking and debating skills)”

If you dont have this, no specific skill will help you survive.

So rather than trying to anticipate what will be useful (we are very poor at judging this), you need the ability to learn a new skill and upgrade throughout your life: for this you need to have a strong conceptual foundation (ie ability to reuse ideas in many different contexts) and a very healthy curiosity, boldness and discipline to learn new things.

5 years ago I was convinced that MATLAB was going to dominate the engineering world…..well Ive now switched everything to Python, who knew….

I dumped 20 years of matlab expertise. But it was not a waste, I used my matlab skills to abstract the ideas and use them in Python. Ie from matlab I figured out “what I needed to do”, then, thanks to Stack Overflow I learnt how to do it in Python (thanks folks and I am perfectly willing to take the abuse if you teach me something). Eventually I started thinking “natively” in python and found better ways.

As computers and AI develops, specific skills will become less relevant.

I *hope* that eventually AI will be used to assist humans with the routine tasks (ie the star-trek model) and not the other way round (the Matrix/Terminator Model)

Hopefully AI would lead at worst to cyborgs and not robots.

-Arun Srinivasa,PhD UC Berkeley

I am certainly bothered about......

I am certainly bothered about what people say about me.

I don’t do anything deliberately to receive a negative feedback from the people.

However, I also know that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

The perception of every person is different because each person is different.

It is, therefore, not possible for anyone to do anything or even say anything without brushing someone on the wrong side.

People like you when you do what they like, and dislike you as soon as you don’t follow their wish.

In this way, you become slave to the all the people whom you are trying to please.

Unfortunately, if you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing none.

Instead, we must stand on our principles, whether someone likes it or not.

A principled person attracts only the people of principles and thus he is protected from the shallow and selfish people of this world.

And all relationships based on principles last long because they are not based on mutual exploitation.

Is not a great blessing it itself?

Even if you make some enemies for standing on your principles, you are happy and proud of it.

It is better to get rid of such people as early as possible.

Winston Churchill has said it so wisely, “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

A botheration that comes due to standing for principles is worth bothering for

-Awdhesh Singh

Important Life Lesson.............

In life, the lesson will repeat itself over and over, until you get it.

If you are in a loop. Ask yourself; what’s the lesson here?

Here are 5 commons lessons people forget.

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1. Everyone won’t like you.

No matter how many social hacks you master. Everybody won't like you.

People tend to forget that and chase people. You give your self-worth to someone and then chase them to get it back.

How is that sane?

Piss-people off on purpose. Learn to be okay with not being liked.

2. Negative people are just on autopilot.

People discouraging you from going after your dreams? People being mean to you?

They are just chained to their emotional patterns. Trying to cope with what they haven’t let go.

There is no ill intent. I know, it’s not fun to hear it.

But it’s true.

3. But get negative people out of your life.

I know I said that there is no ill intent but there is an ill effect.

Your brain will catch up on the negativity around you. You can’t observe every thought.

You can’t change the people around you.

So it’s best to leave, even if it means being alone.

4. Small wins need celebrations.

How many times something good happened in your life?

And how many times you brushed it off as “not good enough” “doesn’t really matter”.

People tend to forget it’s the small wins that fill the journey with colors.

The end goal won't give you as much happiness as celebrating these small wins will.

Being happy about every little step up. You deserve to feel that :)

5. Comfort zones are miserable.

Yes, you have done something uncomfortable in your life.

Something that challenged you and made you a better you.

But people disregard that it needs to happen daily.

Every time you escape your comfort zone; there is a new one waiting for you.

That’s the joy of life. That’s how you grow.

-Rafael Eliassen

It’s so overwhelming to scroll through social media and see people -

Getting engaged in Greece, being married, purchasing their dream home, moving in with their partners, travelling the world and what not ?

It can be so overwhelming and when you look around at what the world is achieving and I know it can give you a sense of underachievement and make you feel like you’re not enough.

It’s okay to feel this way but you have to always remember- you see what others want you to see about their life.

It’s moments like these where social media can do harm to your mental health and you must take a step back.

Introspect. Look within. Look around.

Look at you. Look at your parents and your friends. Look at how for your mom you’re her world.

It’s so easy to get caught up in things and people who don’t even know about our existence.

It’s in the moments like these that Practising mindfulness and breathing works.

Too many people are busy with other people’s lives and very less interested in what’s going around them.

Finding comfort in a celebrity or a bloggers life is always going to leave you hanging nowhere.

It’s no ones job to make you feel good. You have to do that for yourself. And the day you accept this, you will start feeling and expressing gratitude for minute things :)

Thank you for the sunlight.

Thank you for the warmth.

Thank you for the cold wind.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Just look around and see how many things are taking place just for you ♥️😇

-Ankita Srivastava

Just One Habit..........

If you ask just for one habit, it would be the habit of looking forward with continuous introspection of setbacks. This would save me from self pity along with necessary improvement in my strategy. It used to give me confidence to go ahead that played out in the interview stage. Clear thought and expression.




-Shilpi Mittal