This story is from October 8, 2021

Rohtas boy tops BPSC exam, assistant engineer bags 2nd spot

Gourav Singh from Rohtas district has topped the Bihar Public Service Commission’s (BPSC) 65th Combined Competitive Examination (CCE), the results of which were announced on Thursday. Chanda Bharti and Varun Kumar have bagged the second and third spots, respectively.
Rohtas boy tops BPSC exam, assistant engineer bags 2nd spot
Gourav Singh from Rohtas district has topped the Bihar Public Service Commission’s (BPSC) 65th Combined Competitive Examination (CCE), the results of which were announced on Thursday. Chanda Bharti and Varun Kumar have bagged the second and third spots, respectively.
PATNA: Gourav Singh from Rohtas district has topped the Bihar Public Service Commission’s (BPSC) 65th Combined Competitive Examination (CCE), the results of which were announced on Thursday. Chanda Bharti and Varun Kumar have bagged the second and third spots, respectively.
Gourav, who had been preparing for the exam for the last three years, told this reporter over the phone from Pune, “I was offered a job in the social welfare department of Bihar, but did not join it because I wanted to become a civil servant.
I could not crack the prelims in my first attempt, but secured the 142nd rank the second time. Becoming the BPSC topper came as a surprise to me.”
After getting a mechanical engineering degree from KIT, the 28-year-old tried cracking the exam of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), but did not succeed. He has, however, decided to give it a shot again in 2022.
Gourav, whose mother, Sati Singh, is a government schoolteacher in Sasaram, said he solved online test series and relied on self-study. He, however, did not follow any syllabus.
On the other hand, Chanda, an assistant engineer working with the Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited in Gaya, secured the second position in her second attempt. Born to Vivekanand Yadav, an assistant engineer in Jharkhand, and Kundan Kumari, a government schoolteacher, she had not expected to perform so well.
“Instead of joining a coaching institute, I followed a strict study plan. However, I had no fixed time or duration. I simply set a target of finishing the syllabus and achieved my goal,” Chanda said, adding that she wanted to crack the UPSC exam next year.

While Varun from Nalanda got the third rank, Sumit Kumar from Madhubani stood fourth. Avinash Kumar Singh from Samastipur (5th), Aditya Shrivastava from Jharkhand (6th), S Prateek from East Champaran (7th), Aditya Kumar from Bhojpur (8th), Anamika from Gopalganj (9th), and Ankit Kumar from Bhagalpur (10th) also cracked the exam.
The chairman of the BPSC, R K Mahajan, claimed that the results of the 64th and the 65th CCE were released in record time. “As many as 422 candidates have cleared the exam this year,” he added.
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