UPSC

“If you go to top universities today and you ask kids, what do you want to do? That has changed. When I was there, they either wanted to go abroad or they wanted to write UPSC. Now you know, the brightest kids want to do a startup. So there has been a major cha…”

“But I think lakhs of people spending their best years trying to crack an exam where a tiny number of few thousand people actually going to get in makes no sense. The same, if they put the same energy into doing something else, you know, we would be winning mor…”

“I'm very confident that the next generation of fairly wealthy Indians, or even tier two Indians will not send their kids to UPSC, because they're like, if they went through, they'll be like, this is too hard, and it's unnecessary to go through this.”

“But I also feel that the process of the UPSC examination needs to have be re-looked at so that people do not end up wasting 10 years of their life. We can have a GMAT kind of format of examination, which can then enable them to give the main examination. If yo…”

“What happens when you give so many attempts is that the people who typically qualify, I'm making a, you know, ballpark judgment, which is that those people who qualify are more likely people who master the technique of the examination rather than people who ha…”

“So I think you must give more than one chance, certainly, because there's an element of luck, but two chances, at the most three chances. But giving three, six opportunities under a long lifespan of 20 to 32 years is pushing youngsters into this sunk cost fall…”

“My views on UPSC and the fact that I think that too many young people are spending too much of energy trying to crack that one tiny exam you know, you can agree, you can disagree, but I think it's a good thing that there is a national debate on something that …”