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Inspiration behind Practice Topics

Kanishak Kataria

AIR 1, Civil Services Examination 2018

Kanishak Kataria left a software engineering career to prepare for the Civil Services Examination, and topped it in 2018.

A recurring part of what he's described publicly is systematic, topic-by-topic practice against previous years' papers and mock tests — treating pattern recognition as a skill to be built deliberately, not left to chance.

Documented facts

  • •An IIT Bombay computer science graduate who worked as a software engineer before appearing for the exam.
  • •Topped the Civil Services Examination in 2018.
  • •Publicly credited solving mock tests and systematically analysing previous years' question papers as a core part of his strategy.
  • •Widely cited for treating exam-pattern analysis as seriously as content study itself.

Why Practice Topics is dedicated to this story

Practice Topics exists for exactly that kind of systematic, topic-wise repetition. It's dedicated to Kanishak Kataria's methodical approach to knowing exactly where the exam's patterns actually are.

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