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Thanks a lot
for such wonderful wishes. I am Aviral Umrao from Village- Asdhana Banglan-Kanpur
(U.P.). My father Mr. Vinod Kumar Umrao is an Income Tax Inspector and my mother
is Home Maker. I did my High School and Intermediate from KDMA International
School, Kanpur. I completed my graduation and post-graduation from National Law
University, Lucknow.
I have previously
selected in the Rajasthan Electricity Board, Jodhpur as Junior Law officer. I
have cleared UP PCS-J 2018 exam this was my second Attempt.
What made you choose judiciary as a career option?
I have chosen
law as an alternative to engineering because I did not performed well in
physics, chemistry, and mathematics in my high school and intermediate. Belonging
to a rural background and a middle class family, the common aspiration of every
parents is that his son should become some government official and this was my
driving force for becoming a judge
It
is said that while one is preparing for judiciary, you have to go through phase
of disappointments. How did you managed to stay motivated?
Yes, it is
true that the phase of preparation is filled with disappointment and loneliness
but I managed this phase because of company of some of my very good friends and
support of my parents. Whenever, I used to feel down, I used to talk to my
friends and family.
What was your overall strategy for UP Judiciary Prelims?
Prelims
consist of two papers: Paper 1- General Knowledge; Paper 2: Law
The first
paper which is of General Knowledge have a vast array of topics.
I choose selected
topics like Indian national movement, geography, polity, last 12 months of
current affairs, static GK of UP for convenience because I know that it was
impossible to study all the topics in General Knowledge. Being the student of
law, polity which I studied for Paper 2 got covered for Paper I. I referred GK
today and Edristi- Navtara for Current affairs. I also solved previous year
papers of UPPCS because the standard of questions is same in both exams.
Paper 2
consist of Law and it was of my primary focus as it carries 300 marks with
limited syllabus. I mainly read bare
acts around 70-80 times and solved previous year judiciary paper of all states.
What was your overall strategy for the Uttar Pradesh
Judiciary Mains exam?
The Mains of
UP Judiciary consist of 5 papers and it has to be dealt with different strategy.
Firstly I went through previous year papers to get idea of what kind of
questions are asked in the examination as the pattern of questions differ with States.
I practiced
a lot of answer writing and prepared model answers of all the questions asked
in past year papers so that I don’t have to search materials or compile notes
after prelims and I could just focus on revisions.
Paper 1 is
of GK and it has set pattern of questions like people who are in news, places
in news etc. I targeted and prepared certain topics of national and
international importance. I made a list of arena of current topics which were
asked in previous year papers and prepared all those arena in depth.
For Paper 2
which is of Language, I focused on reading newspaper and articles. This helped
me to retain and be well versed with the right content for the writing essay. I
followed Rajya Sabha TV Show and this show helped me a lot in formulating
opinions which is necessary for essay-writing. Apart from this, I followed
Vision IAS and saw videos of previously selected IAS officer and their strategies
to write brilliant answer with usage of flow chart and diagrams. For précis
writing, I used google search engine and jolted down basics methodology and
practiced the same 3-4 times. For translation I use to translate passage from
newspaper once a week.
From my
previous failure in UPPCS-J, I learned that Paper 1 and 2 are very scoring
paper with little extra effort and strategy.
I did an
exhaustive study of laws for Paper 3 and 4. In UP Judiciary, most of the
questions are straight forward and are not technical or on problem based.
Therefore, I read all the topics and made pointwise notes along with case laws
and revised them number of times.
Paper 5
consist of UP Local Laws. I completed Local Law before prelims and gave maximum
time to them during preparation. I tried to prepare local laws more diligently
than Paper 3 and 4 as it carries huge weightage of marks and one can score very
well with little efforts.
How did you prepare for the UP Judicial Services
Examination’s Interview?
I prepared
for interview mostly from online sources which consist of watching self help
videos for presentation, personality development etc. I prepared thoroughly Evidence
Act which was my favorite subject in case the interview panel put forward question
regarding my subject of interest.
I also revised
my mains notes along with bare acts and then I prepared contemporary topics
relating to the field of law.
Apart from
this, I gave mock Interviews which helped me a lot to analyze my weakness and
communicating skills.
How
was your UP Judiciary interview and what sort of questions were asked?
My interview
went on for around 20 minutes and the interview panel asked following questions.
1-
Where
I did my law?
2-
What
is self severing admission? And its provisions?
3-
Plea
of guilt?
4-
Section
313 of CRPC?
5-
Section
306 of IPC and its relation with 304B of IPC and 113A and 113B of evidence Act.
6-
My
LLM dissertation? And questions related to it?
7-
Appointment
and Removal of US supreme Court Judges?
8-
Privacy related factual problem?
9-
Live
in relationship?
10- Admission and confession difference?
11- Negligence in tort?
12- Land revenue collection mode?
Anything
else you’d like to tell our readers who are preparing for the Uttar Pradesh
Judicial Services Examination.
Success has no short cut, prepare well and have
faith in your preparation, success will definitely come to you.
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