Sangam city girl bags 51st rank in her first attempt in Civil Services
A fresh graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi and daughter of a former district judge, AK Singh, Ananya has cracked the coveted exam at her first attempt.
Ananya SinghPRAYAGRAJ: As the results for UPSC (union public service commission)-2019 were declared on Tuesday, a sense of joy and fulfilment of dreams among the aspirants ran high across the country. And among these successful candidates was a 22-year old local girl, Ananya Singh who has secured 51st rank among the list of all India successful candidates.
A fresh graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi and daughter of a former district judge, AK Singh, Ananya has cracked the coveted exam at her first attempt.
A student of St Mary’s Convent of the city, she has been district topper (ICSE board) in both class X (2013, 96%) and class XII (2015, 98.25%). A brilliant synthesiser player and found of reading, young Ananya was in her final year of her graduation when she seriously started preparing for civil services, keeping Economics as her main subject for the coveted exam. She completed her graduation in 2018.
Her mother, Anjali Singh had been a former senior lecturer at IERT, Prayagraj and elder brother, Aishwarya Pratap Singh stays at Kanpur and posted as additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kanpur Nagar along with his wife Jyotsna Singh who is posted as Metropolitan Magistrate at Kanpur Nagar.
“Since my school days I wanted to go for IAS but actual preparations started only 2017-18. During initial phase, I used to devote Seven to Eight hours for studying and when the base was set, it was around Six hours of serious studies”, said Ananya, while talking to TOI from Noida. Coaching is good for guiding you and the test series makes you more prepared, but surly it is your personal commitment and preparations that makes the difference between success and failure, she adds.
A fresh graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi and daughter of a former district judge, AK Singh, Ananya has cracked the coveted exam at her first attempt.
A student of St Mary’s Convent of the city, she has been district topper (ICSE board) in both class X (2013, 96%) and class XII (2015, 98.25%). A brilliant synthesiser player and found of reading, young Ananya was in her final year of her graduation when she seriously started preparing for civil services, keeping Economics as her main subject for the coveted exam. She completed her graduation in 2018.
Her mother, Anjali Singh had been a former senior lecturer at IERT, Prayagraj and elder brother, Aishwarya Pratap Singh stays at Kanpur and posted as additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kanpur Nagar along with his wife Jyotsna Singh who is posted as Metropolitan Magistrate at Kanpur Nagar.
“Since my school days I wanted to go for IAS but actual preparations started only 2017-18. During initial phase, I used to devote Seven to Eight hours for studying and when the base was set, it was around Six hours of serious studies”, said Ananya, while talking to TOI from Noida. Coaching is good for guiding you and the test series makes you more prepared, but surly it is your personal commitment and preparations that makes the difference between success and failure, she adds.
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