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BY Jay P Gupta
he Union Public Service Commission
(UPSC) has recently declared the results
of Civil Services Examination, 2017
(CSE-2017). Durishetty Anudeep has topped
the examination. Anu Kumari and Sachin
Gupta bagged the second and third position
respectively.
Interestingly, top 10 rankers belong to 8
different states including Telangana, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, U.P and Rajasthan.
Traditionally, aspirants from across the country
had two choices — either relocates to one
of the select few coaching hubs or study
from a local, typically sub-par teacher in their
e-Route to IAS
The digital wave in India is enabling more
and more aspirants to use technology for
exam preparation. IAS preparation goes
online as over 120 students of NeoStencil.com
made it to the final list.
We at NeoStencil are super
excited that we were able to
support students like Saumya
Sharma in fulfilling their
dreams of becoming an IAS
officer.
Kush Beejal, Co-Founder & CEO, NeoStencil
own town.
The digital wave in India is enabling more
and more aspirants to use technology for exam
preparation.
Let’s take the example of Ilma Afroz. She
belongs to a small town named Kundarki in
district Moradabad. At such a remote place,
there are no options of quality education. Ilma
used the help of technology. She assisted her
civil services preparation with online courses
from the ed-tech platform NeoStencil. Her grit,
hard work and use of technology enabled her
to secure all India rank 217.
Ilma is not alone. In this year’s results, 2
ranks in top 10 and 9 in top 100 ranks chose
to study through online courses at NeoStencil,
including AIR 3 and 9. Overall, 120 candidates
were online students of NeoStencil, and more
than 500 aspirants have successfully overcome
the final hurdle of UPSC with the help of
NeoStencil’s partner teachers — including
their classroom programs.
Such increasing number of selections from
the online mode is a testimony to the fact that
online classes for UPSC exam have emerged
as a strong alternative to the traditional
preparation methodology. Companies like
NeoStencil provide aspirants easy and seamless
access to the best teachers without the need to
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