UPSC aspirant’s tweet on his 6 failed attempts to clear exam goes viral. Full story here
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A UPSC aspirant’s tweet went viral after he failed to clear the Civil Services exams in his last attempt. Despite not clearing the exams, his undaunted spirit to rise and shine was praised by all.
A tweet of a UPSC aspirant, who missed the chance to clear the Civil Services exams in his last attempt, has gone viral on social media. The results of the Civil Services exams were declared on May 30. Rajat Sambyal, tweeted that this was his sixth and final UPSC attempt and “10 years of hard work ended in ashes.” While the results must have been a bit of a downer for Sambyal, he took it in his stride as he mentioned in his tweet, “And still I rise.”
Rajat completed his civil engineering from Punjab engineering college, Chandigarh. He shared a photo of his mark sheet and wrote that he missed the chance to qualify by 11 marks. Out of his six attempts, he failed prelims 3 times and could not pass the mains twice.
Sambyal’s report card shows that he had obtained 942 marks in total.
“10 years of hard work ended in ashes. 6 UPSC attempts over. 3 times prelims failed. 2 times mains failed. In my last attempt, yesterday I succumbed due to low score in interview. Missed by 11 marks. #upscresult “And still I rise”,” Sambyal wrote on Twitter.
See the post here:
10 years of hard work ended in ashes.6 UPSC attempts over.3 times prelims failed.2 times mains failed.In my last attempt, yesterday I succumbed due to low score in interview. Missed by 11 marks. #upscresult“And still I rise”. pic.twitter.com/m8FRcJGCWu