The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam is the toughest one to crack for people. However, with great determination, passion, and hard work, one can manage to not only pass the exam but also top it. Today, we will tell you about IAS officer Ishita Kishore who is the UPSC CSE 2022 topper.
IAS officer Ishita Kishore is an economics graduate who completed her studies at the Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University in 2017. IAS officer Ishita Kishore worked with Ernst & Young in risk advisory for a while after graduation, however, her heart was always somewhere else.
IAS officer Ishita Kishore appeared for the UPSC exam multiple times and cracked the UPSC exam in her third attempt. It was the first time that she qualified for the interview round, the third stage to qualify for the UPSC exam.
In her first two attempts, she even couldn't clear the prelims exam of UPSC. A while back, IAS officer Ishita Kishore's marksheet from her 2022 CSE attempt where she scored AIR 1 had also gone viral on social media. The marksheet listed her scores in different tests from general studies and optional to personality tests. Her final total came out to be 1094.
IAS officer Ishita Kishore's individual marks were;
Essay (Paper-I): 137
General Studies-I (Paper-II): 121
General Studies-II (Paper-III): 130
General Studies-III (Paper-IV): 088
General Studies-IV (Paper-V): 112
Optional-I (Political Science & International Relations) (Paper-VI): 147
Optional-II (Political Science & International Relations) (Paper-VII): 166
Written Total: 901
Personality Test: 193
Final Total: 1094
For the unversed, one has to qualify for all three stages of the UPSC CSE exam -- prelims, mains, and then interview.
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