Dont stress out too much, that you loose out on your Engineering Years. In the UPSC Interview youll be highly grilled on your Past Involvements, Academics and Achievements in Colleges, hence its important you focus on Acads, Projects, Involvements, Experiences and Internships until your final Year.

You may start preliminary preparation, like getting clear with preparation strategy, consulting your City UPSC Toppers, Taking Guidance, IAS Interview Videos on Youtube, Motivational Talks, Reading Newspaper regularly as well as getting intellectually ready for IAS, in your Third Year.

Once youre Placed maybe in the early half of your Final Year. Suppose your Degree is from 2020-2024, October 2023, is the perfect time for you to start your Preparation, targetting 2025 Attempt, with proper study material, books and test series. However do give 2024 Attempt just for Experience. Keep atleast 4 Attempts in your Radar if youre a Serious aspirant. Your Probability to clear the exam increases with each attempt proportionally.

For more information and UPSC CSE Preparation Tips do follow the link below

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Hey there

Mentioned below are the important tips for cracking union Public Service Commission examination:

1. Practice mock test as much as you can
2. Make notes about important topics
3. Read current affairs and make notes of them daily
4. Do revision again and again of studied chapters
5. Try to complete the whole syllabus within a fixed time

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Dear aspirant..

UPSC is one of most toughest exam of our country. To crack this exam , you should be focused on it. The predation for UPSC and your semester exam simultaneously is not easy. I suggest you  to focus on your semester exam first. After your degree, you can start your preparation for upsc. If you want to prepare for upsc simultaneously than you should go through the syllabus of upsc. Upsc need the most perseverance, patience, consistent, these quality who have can clear the upsc exam easily.

Thank you