January 12, 2025
To improve the performance of our community in the Civil Services Examinations, we should understand the problems and also think positively to create resources for it! After the results of the Civil Services Examination in the last two decades, it has been seen that what is the proportion of Muslim youth among the successful students and there have been comments on them. If the result is favorable, the atmosphere of celebration is seen everywhere and if the result is bad, disappointment also prevails. Then, discussions and comments start on it from the chat rooms of our neighborhoods to 2 the electronic chat rooms i.e. social media. Unfortunately, most of the comments on it are only superficial. A few people in our society make serious comments on this subject, but in their hearts. They do not consider it their responsibility to convey those thoughts, the action plan for this important examination, etc. to the educational and social circles or the public. Today, let us examine all the issues in this regard: First of all, let us understand the importance of the Civil Services Examination. In this regard, I would like to say a few very important things:
(1) Only through this exam can the minorities of our country become participants in the policy making of this country.
(2) This is the only exam in which there is a benefit even in being ineligible (or failing), that is, even if an elephant dies, it is worth one and a half million rupees because in the preparation for this exam, the student gets so much information about history, geography, political science, civics, economics, current affairs, literature, mental testing, logic, psychology, sociology, philosophy, modern technology, sports, etc., which is at least fifty times more than the knowledge and the information acquired in 15 years of school and college.
Why are the results of our students in this exam of such importance unsatisfactory, weak and sometimes very disappointing? Let us examine the reasons for this:
There has been no movement to create awareness among our community about the importance of the Civil Services exam. Some people even mocked these efforts saying that we did not come to this world for government jobs. In this regard, these people did not even try to think and understand where we are telling all the youth of our community to join the civil services. Of course, the officers who play a decisive role in the formulation of policies in every country play the most key role in every policy of every country and the representation of our community there is essential.
If there was a little information available from this important civil services exam, it was limited only to the elite and those ‘elite’ people only kept sighing coldly about this exam in front of the common people. Of course, they were so seriously mentally ill that they limited all that information to their children.
The general opinion regarding this exam has been that it is a very difficult exam and its result is very weak. In this regard, to scare the students, they always present illogical analysis that more or less one million students participate in this exam at the national level, one lakh of them reach the main exam, only thousand in the interview and out of them only one thousand students are selected for the final selection. These figures are purely hypothetical because out of those one million students, only one lakh students had obtained complete information about this exam and out of them only ten thousand students prepared for it with utmost seriousness and dedication. They studied the entire syllabus, used necessary books, prepared their notes, met the successful and unsuccessful students. They used electronic media properly. 50/60 Mock interviews were conducted and if ten percent of them, i.e. one thousand students, are selected, then this result is not bad. So the correct analysis regarding this exam is not that out of one million students (who only fill the form) one thousand students are selected. The fact is that out of ten thousand students who work hard in the right direction and have made this exam their goal for years, one thousand students are successful.
The biggest negligence in our community in the Civil Services Examination is that our students do not even dream of it, let alone target it at the school level. Some of our students start talking about it at the junior college level, some start getting information about it at the graduation level and the vast majority of them have the attitude of “let’s try our luck”.
Some of our students who are enthusiastic and some who think ‘out of the box’, those who think in a traditional way, if they start talking about Civil Services, they are called talkers. In fact, our youth are always scared about this examination and its system and success in it is considered doubtful.
The officials of most of our centers who conduct Civil Services preparation go around senior colleges and look for students there. It should have been that in the eighth and ninth grades, we have to show our children the dream of UPSC and started preparing for it from the first day of the eleventh grade. Four hours should be spent every day in junior college and then five to six hours every day in senior college. After graduation, it is too late to attract children towards this important and laborious exam because by that time
Even today, visits and excursions in our schools mean visits to zoos, waterfalls, etc. We should take students after the eighth grade to visit those centers where preparation for competitive exams is done. If ten percent of students get inspired by this, it will be a big deal. Due to the lack of such an initiative, many of our graduates do not even know the full form of UPSC, while their counterparts, seventh grade students from other communities, dream of becoming part of the country’s policymaking through the Civil Services.
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