Success Story - Saurabh Sisodia (IBPS Clerk 2016)

By Saurabh|Updated : September 17th, 2017

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Hello my dear gradeup friends,

I feel extremely privileged and grateful to the team of Gradeup for considering me successful enough to allow me to share my success story with you all. I will keep it simple and short but long enough to include all the difficulties I faced along with the techniques I used to overcome them.

Introduction :

My name is Saurabh Sisodia. I have done B.Tech in Electronics branch. I have cleared IBPS Clerk 2016 exam.I was in the first year of my engineering in 2011, when I, for the first time, decided to take an IBPS exam. I secured 170 marks out of 200 and went for the interview. At that time the eligibility criteria was 10+2 only. As I was an undergraduate they told me to go back and complete my engineering. I tried to convince them but they decided to prefer MBAs over undergraduates. I would lie if I told you that I did not feel bad. After almost 6 months of sadness, I composed myself again and thought that instead of taking this as a rejection I should take it as a challenge and started preparing again.

Exams which I took :

After completing my Btech in 2015 I appeared for the following exam -

IBPS Clerk 2015 Pre cleared, could not attempt mains due to ill health.
IBPS PO 2015 Failed Prelims
SBI PO 2016 Failed prelims
SBI Clerk 2016 cleared pre, Failed Mains
SSC CGL 2016 failed Pre
ESIC 2016 failed
RBI Assistant 2016 failed
NIACL 2016 failed
IBPS SO 2016 and failed
IBPS PO 2016 failed mains by 0.25 marks.
IBPS Clerical 2016: CLEARED (45.66, cut off was 39.69), Punjab National Bank

My Journey to success :

These 2 years had been very much discouraging to me but I never lost hope and kept on pushing. Even though my parents were very much impatient and were always in stress especially my mother and relatives kept on irritating by asking whether I secured a job or not yet, I never stopped.

In August 2016 I installed the app of Gradeup and I must say that was one of the best decisions of my life. The reason I like Gradeup is not only because it is a good platform to study but also because it is a community of students. You can share your success and also failure with your fellow students. You can interact with students here. People help each other out to solve the problems they are facing. Today, I personally like to read

Daily Gk updates.
Quick Look on Financial awareness
Shape up of your vocabulary
Quant daily quiz

These are some of my favourite posts. They have helped me a lot to achieve the success I am sharing with you today.

Techniques to stay motivated :

Today I will not be telling you how to study, you all know that very well. But instead, I will teach you what I have learnt over the course of 10 years of my life.

Everyone's brain is a huge network of neurons that are physically wired together (in a sense) according to our dominant thoughts and belief patterns. So if you repeat to yourself daily that "I am weak in English " you create a neurological pattern that keeps you weak in English no matter how hard you study.

You might have read "Attitude is everything ". There is no other quote as true as this one. Unless you change your attitude you can never secure a government job even if you study 18 hours a day. You must believe that you deserve the job, that you have studied hard therefore you will achieve success surely. Have a healthy self esteem and keep the thoughts of success dominant in your mind. Change in thoughts will change your beliefs which will eventually change your behaviour so that you can be more efficient and more productive. Only hard work or even smart work is not going to take you anywhere unless you blend it well with positive attitude and a sense of relaxation. Remember the interviewer likes the person who is positive and enthusiastic. You might have heard the famous saying of Bhagwad Geeta "Abandon all attachment to the results and only perform the actions diligently"

There is no better opportunity than examinations to apply this teaching practically. Remember this quote always.