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What 18 June 2017 means to me

It is August 26, 2016. Coming back after one year on this site for writing another blog. I finished my M.A. Now heading towards my particular dream- Indian Administrative Services. I received my post-graduation degree on June 18, 2016. Co-incidentally next year's exam, in which I am going to appear will be on June 18, 2017. Preparing for this 'mother of all exams' has never been an easy task for anyone. Numbers suggest that the success rate in this exam is below 0.50%. If I tell this, in other words, it means that around 8,00,000 aspirants fill-up the form and on the day of exam nearly half of 8,00,000 means 4,00,000 appear, now inference is that among this figure of 4,00,000 contenders only 1,00,000 are giving it seriously. So, this final number of aspirants appear physically, mentally, actually in the Preliminary (this is the first stage of this three-stage exam, prelims followed by mains and interview) exam. Now, suppose UPSC said that we have 1,000 vacancies or posts...