“All it takes is determination, Laser-sharp focus and a smartly guided approach to the IAS.”

Shruti Sharma secured AIR-1 in UPSC-2021. According to her, syllabus-focused study is important & not the counting of hours.

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Table of Content:

About Shruti Sharma
Her Family and Education
UPSC Strategy
Her Notes & Booklist
Motivation & Inspiration

1. About Shruti Sharma- Her UPSC Journey & Hobbies

She started preparing for UPSC in JMIR coaching academy.

Name	Shruti Sharma
Age	26
Resident	Bijnor District, UP
Exam	UPSC 2021
AIR	1
Attempts	2
Optional Subject	History
Hobby	Reading Books, Watching Movies, Etc.

Shruti always desired to serve Indian by entering IAS. However, she couldn’t achieve success in her first attempt. After facing failure once, she realized her missteps and worked stronger in her second attempt to secure All India Rank 1 in the UPSC-CSE 2021. she was confident enough in the 2nd attempt about qualifying for the exam but was surprised when she found out that she topped it. She followed, from the beginning, her own strategy under her mentor’s guidance.

2. Family and Education

Father	Sunil Dutta Sharma. He is an architect engineer. Runs a school
Mother	An MSc. graduate.
Brother	A state Level Cricketer
Grand Father	Doctor

Her family consists of her parents, brother, and grand mother. Though all of them studied science but only Shruti pursued Arts.

Shruti’s Educational Background:

Early schooling from Cambridge Primary School. After that she passed 12th standard from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya.
Shruti completed her graduation in History honors from St. Stephen College
She pursued a Master’s Degree in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

3. UPSC Strategy

Shruti has really gone through a different journey as a UPSC examinee. He did not blindly follow the advice of others. Rather, he followed his own strategies and methods that were appropriate for his level of intelligence.

My strategy was simply to focus on her own notes, emphasizing her practice of writing answers for the main exam. she was satisfied with her performance on the test and optimistic about a good result but it was excellent to be at the top of the merit list.

For prelims she practiced a lot.
For mains she regularly gave some effort to make answer structure better.
She started UPSC preparation 4 years ago by studying NCERTs.
Since current affairs are possibly the most significant part of the IAS exam She backed her preparation with day-to-day newspaper readings to give sufficient focus to the happenings nationally and internationally.
She joined a few online mock test series for Prelims and mains.
She was meticulous about study materials. she consolidated her study materials and revised them as many time as she could.
Be patient and stay focused all the time.
Always tried to improve her performance.
made her own notes.
From very starting, she carried her preparation under a senior teachers and mentors.

She didn’t follow any super different strategy of planning. She executed the same strategy differently.

4. Shruti Sharma’s Notes & Booklist

5. Motivation and inspiration

Shruti didn’t search for outer motivation. Her family was the biggest one. Shruti’s family dreamed of her being an IAS officer, so she fulfilled their dream of becoming an IAS officer. Passing the UPSC exam is not easy as it is the most difficult exam in the country and a person has to clear three rounds to become an IAS or become a collaborative service like IPS, IFS, etc. Besides her family, she showed her gratitude to her teachers and mentors who were the real torch bearer all along the crooked path of UPSC.