In this article, we are going to share the success story of Dileep Kumar, who has cleared IBPS RRB PO Exam 2019, after facing many hurdles. Let's know his journey in his words:
Hello,
I was never restricted by anyone in my family of a Father, Mother, and Sister with the decisions taken by me from matured age and was like a free bird. After SSC, I joined in Science Stream in +2, and then B. Com in Graduation along with ICWA (ICWA was left in the middle). (Three Different things at the Gr8 Learning age).
So, like a famous proverb“Rolling Stone Gathers No Mass”, I had no knowledge of anything. My Basic nature was to skip responsibilities, and just to get relieved from education after completing my Graduation, I joined in a Call center, and the Job was so relaxed and provided comforts that I settled in it for 4 years. On the other side, whenever my parents attended any of the family related or friends related functions, they faced severe embarrassments because of my education and career when compared to contemporaries.
My family and few well-wishers were always worried about my career prospectus and advised me to study MBA, which I Joined in Distance mode and completed when I moved from call center to other reputed company. In the meantime, my sister always use to ask me “Please start preparing for “Govt Bank exams (She has more confidence in me than what I have on myself), as Banking sector is providing a great opportunity to write exams for the Graduates who don’t possess first class in their Graduation and also the recruitment process is fast, transparent and the syllabus is moderate when compared to other competitive exams. And I always use to scold her by saying its been more than 8 years I left studies and how can I Succeed (just to again skip the burden of studying).
My sister is a Sai Baba devotee and “Always Pray to him” that I should come to Government Sector and she also told me the same. Then I laughed and said, how can a God create a situation like that when I don’t have the willingness to join the Govt Sector and told her that “Your Desire cannot be fulfilled and it's impossible”. After a while situations in my office became chaotic and I use to work for 12-14 hours a day and still I use to get bombarding’s from my superiors. Even though I delivered everything on time without any delays, and I was always screwed for no fault, that’s when realization started within myself, I was working like a donkey here for 12-14 hours a day and still my job wasn’t secure and safe. I asked myself why not take a break and put these hours in preparing for the Govt bank job and quit the job.
Enjoyed for 6 months as a refreshment break from corporate culture, and started preparing for IBPS Exams (I’m only eligible to IBPS & SBI exams and not for PGDF programs, because of less graduation percentage, which comes only once in a year, if I miss in a year again I have to wait till the next notification in the next year, I haven’t opted to prepare for other competitive exams because the GK syllabus is vast).
There’s a famous saying in Telugu ”Dige Daka Lothu Teliyadhu”, in true Translation, “You don’t know the Depth until you step in”. I joined a coaching institute “PRISM” in Vizianagaram Andhra Pradesh, where I met Prasad Sir, he asked me a few questions to check my capability and advised that if prepared strategically I can make it. That’s when I understood that I’m very weak at basics of Quant and Reasoning, so I sat with RS Agarwal book for a month and understood basics along with the institute's daily tests.
I couldn’t get the real essence of the word “Prepared Strategically”, used by my Sir. After a few months, I realized that it’s a herculean task to compete with the young champs, and cannot attempt the same number of questions like they do in exam. So, I strategically worked on my weapon “Accuracy” and made sure that, I almost reach their scores with my fewer attempts.
In this process, I also understood that the “Luck” factor plays a role indeed.” Attended two interviews and once placed In reserve list and that year reserve list was not fully cleared and also the other interview attempted- the overall score wasn’t sufficient to be in the final list.
The initial 2 years I studied only when the notifications have come, and the rest of the time wasted by surfing the net and with other cultural activities. And finally, I was in a situation like the last attempt for me in the IBPS due to age factor. So, this time I didn’t wait till the notification. Started preparation from Feb 2019. I thoroughly followed Bankers Adda Daily tests, BYJU'S Exam Prep quizzes, Olive Board Tests for Quant and Reasoning and for GK, affairs cloud and IBPS Guide.
“When You give your best with no loops in the middle, God and Luck will also favor you”.
With the blessings of Sai Baba, Selected in “Karnataka Grameen Bank” as a PO. It took nearly 3 years. I dedicate this to my parents and my lovely sister.
P.S: Almighty will present a book to every individual to write their own path in their life and that book is what you write for your life, he also did the same to me and I scribbled the pages, and when I turned back those pages nothing was meaning full and I couldn’t understand what I wrote, so I threw that book aside and started feeling depressed and cursed God. After some time when I looked at that book I was surprised, “it was a Two-Sided notebook”, I realized my mistake of scribbling and started writing it Fresh meaningful from the New side of the book.
Life always gives a 2nd opportunity and we need to just realize at the right time and respond appropriately and it’s never too late to start.
Finally, I will advise my friends just one thing “Be Positive”, never lose hope as your hard work never goes in vain.
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