Mihir Patel had only one burning ambition in life ie; making it to the Indian Administrative Service and he finally achieved it by scoring All India Rank 27th in Civil Services Exam 2014 at the age of 24.
Mihir Patel said, “The journey so far was not easy but I was sure of success. I too have failed two times, so I can feel the pain of failure. But real failure is not to fail in the exam, but it is, stand up after failure. So, just wake up and try hard, do more work, get more blessings and achieve your dream”.
Marks Obtained
| Total Marks | Marks Obtained | |
| Total (Written) | 1750 | 786 |
| Interview | 275 | 198 |
| Total | 2025 | 984 (48.59%) |
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Educational Background
Born and brought up in Ahmadabad. Mihir Patel has always been a stellar student. He was among the top 10 in the state in Class 12 exam. His did his schooling in Gujarati medium. Mihir Patel graduated in Computer Science from Nirma University, Ahmadabad in 2011 and secured 73% marks. After completion of his graduation, he went to Delhi in mid July for 3 months to take the coaching of philosophy then he came back and stayed at Hyderabad.
After completing his engineering, he got the job in Multi National Company with huge package, but he decided to leave all this personal benefits for Civil Services and to serve the nation and society. He started preparing for the UPSC Exam in 2011.
Optional Paper
Mihir Patel opted Philosphy as his optional paper. Because it’s a very short subject and you don’t have to mug up things. This subject is very logical as it can be prepared in just a month and its high scoring paper.
Mihir Patel opted Gujarati medium for answering his Mains answer. But chose english medium for answering interview questions.
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Attempts
Mihir Patel had given three attempts in 2012 ,2013 ,2014. In both his previous attempts he reached up to the interview and in this third attempt he cracked the UPSC Exam. His presentation style was not up to the mark in previous two attempts. In third attempt he worked hard to improve his answer- writing skill as it is necessary for Mains Exam.
Mihir Patel failed two times in Civil Services Exam but he never lost faith in himself and he even got back to the reading on the result day of failure. And he kept reading with positive attitude as it takes time but UPSC always appreciates hard work.
Advice for Aspirants from Mihir Patel
- Just believe in your self and you can surely achieve your aim one day
- Continuity and consistency is the key to succeed this exam.
- Don’t guess option randomly if you don’t have any knowledge of the question. Just leave that question blank.
- If your quantitative skill is weak don’t take the paper for granted. At least give 2 to 3 mock papers.
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First of all congratulations to Mr. Mihir Patel ….and I really liked this man….means he did a very good job….v r proud of you…to see u as an officer.
Very helpful advice
Hello sir thank you for all this it is vary helpfull for me sir will you please tell me what books should prefer to crack the exam and philosophy book also
Hey mihir, firstly congr8ts for becoming a IAS…………… 🙂
In which department you got in ?????
Inspiring story…. Proud of him
U r right sir -“The journey so far was not easy but I was sure of success. I too have failed two times, so I can feel the pain of failure. But real failure is not to fail in the exam, but it is, stand up after failure. So, just wake up and try hard, do more work, get more blessings and achieve your dream”.
Dear heartly congratulations for ur success …..am also IAS aspirant but didn’t got a proper information in how to prepared the exams…..
Sir plz contact me one time about preparation of civil exam .. My contact no is 8738873004 plz sir
Sometimes you just become upset and you losses your hope that can you make it or not..during that time how to make self stabilize?
Congratulation mihir Patel ………….
Congrats… mr. Mihir sir..
I learnd a lot of things from u..
U are the inspiration of people
Sir… what”s the most important subject for upsc ????
Sir you had proved that everything can found by hard work as well as ias exam..
when failed we do only hard study and don’t take another thing in mind your constration only study and ofter take seccess best of luck sir
really a helpful advice Mihir sir but i choose History as a optional……..
Thanks for u r valuable suggessions bro….n congratulations..your the hard worker for hard siciety…..goodluck officer.
Congrats….
Congratulation sir and thanks for this helpful advise
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I also want to be an IAS officer…it is My aim in life..pls help me as you can Mihir Patel thanku.
congra tulations sir i also want to be an ias officer.A your your asvice is realy help me.
Congratulations MIHIR for making your dreams come true. Dream on and achieve on.
U r right sir -“The journey so far was not easy but I was sure of success. I too have failed two times, so I can feel the pain of failure. But real failure is not to failin the exam, but it is, stand up after failure. So, just wake up and try hard, do more work, get more blessings and achieve your dream
congrats sir……
Thank u very much sir,to give important information about the Preparation ,thank u again.
Really very inspiring man you are sir
Congrats……..!!!
I need ur help for GPSC & UPSC exam
So pls help me
Abhinandan Mihir Bhai.
Good Advice
Yes sir i want to be my son like you