IFS Akshay Pawar (AIR 81)🌳🌱

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In this video...you can find my strategy to conquer this exam. If any doubt still persists feel free to ask .You can message me @TheSpiritualNomad

In the coming days, I'll be sharing the complete strategy, resources, and writing techniques that helped me improve my score and ultimately secure AIR 81 in the Indian Forest Service Examination. I hope these insights will help fellow aspirants optimize their preparation and avoid the mistakes I made in my earlier attempts. Stay tuned. 🌿

One question that many aspirants ask after the results is: "What changed this year?" Looking at my marks, the biggest change wasn't in the number of books I studied—it was in how I wrote the exam. 2024 → 2025 Improvements: • English: 108 → 147 (+39) The biggest hurdle in 2024 became one of my strongest improvements after focused practice and the right strategy. • Forestry: 195 → 227 (+32) Despite this year's papers being more random and difficult, a better approach helped me improve significantly. • Agricultural Engineering: 202 → 205 (+3) Although the improvement in marks was modest, considering the highly uncertain and random nature of this year's papers, I consider it a satisfying outcome. • General Knowledge: 118 → 119 (+1) Not every effort translates into a huge jump, and that's perfectly fine. Every mark counts in this examination. Overall, I improved my Mains score by 75 marks compared to last year, despite the overall difficulty level of the examination being considerably higher. The biggest takeaway from my journey is this: Success in UPSC is not always about studying more. It's about studying smarter, writing better, and maintaining the right mindset under pressure. Small improvements across different papers eventually add up to a life-changing result. Keep improving. Trust the process. One attempt can change everything.

2025 marksheet

2024 marksheet where I missed an interview call just by 4 marks

On 8 May 2026, UPSC declared the final results of the Indian Forest Service Examination. As I scrolled through that revered PDF and found my name with AIR 81, a journey of six years flashed before my eyes. In that single moment, life changed completely. Coming from an ordinary rural family, neither I nor my parents had ever imagined that one day I would become the first Indian Forest Service officer from my community and tehsil. What followed was overwhelming. People from across the district came forward to congratulate us. The achievement became a matter of pride not just for my family, but for thousands who had witnessed my journey. The happiness on the faces of my parents and relatives is something words cannot capture. Everywhere they went, they were greeted as the parents, relatives, and family members of "Pawar Saheb." Seeing their pride and joy remains the most rewarding part of this success. The journey, however, was far from easy. It demanded patience through uncertainty, courage through setbacks, and faith through moments of self-doubt. There were emotional struggles, physical hardships, failures, and countless occasions when the destination seemed distant. Yet every challenge helped shape my character and strengthened my resolve. Today, as I look back, I feel immense gratitude towards my family, friends, mentors, well-wishers, and everyone who stood by me during difficult times. This success belongs as much to them as it does to me. The Bhagavad Gita teaches us: "Sukha-duhkhe same kritva, labhalabhau jayajayau"—remain balanced in happiness and sorrow, gain and loss, victory and defeat. Perhaps that has been the greatest lesson of this journey. The rank is an outcome; the real achievement lies in the person the journey transformed me into.