AIR 79 UPSC Topper's Strategy to Clear Prelims 4 Times & Crack Mains | Priyanka Choudhary

AIR 79 UPSC CSE 2025 Topper Priyanka Choudhary shares her complete strategy for Prelims, Mains & Interview — including what she did differently after multiple attempts to finally crack the UPSC Civil Services Examination. With UPSC CSE 2026 Prelims just around the corner, this session at Smartwork Labs IAS Academy is a must-watch for every serious aspirant. Priyanka opens up about her real journey — the setbacks, the course corrections, how she cleared Prelims 4 times back-to-back, and the specific changes in her Mains approach that pushed her into the final merit list. She also breaks down her Interview strategy and answers live questions from current students in this interactive classroom session. Whether you're appearing in UPSC 2026 Prelims, planning your Mains attempt, or just starting your IAS preparation journey — this honest, strategy-packed session will give you a real edge. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Precap 01:33 — Introduction & Motivation 03:20 — Prelims Strategy: Subject-wise Strategy & PYQs Analysis 05:02 — My Journey: What I Did Differently This Time 06:32 — Prelims 2026 Strategy: Static Subjects & PYQs Importance 09:15 — Do's & Dont's for Prelims 10:05 — Current Affairs Strategy 10:47 — How I Attempt the Paper 14:43 — Mapping Practice 16:09 — Tests Marks & Analysis 18:20 — Downfall & Rise: Mains Journey Over Multiple Attempts 19:21 — How to Avoid Distractions 22:47 — Mains Strategy: Detailed Plan & Role of My Mentor 25:15 — Science & Tech and Environment for Prelims 2026 30:04 — Final Message & Felicitations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 ABOUT SMARTWORK LABS IAS ACADEMY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Smartwork Labs IAS Academy specialises in personal mentorship for UPSC CSE aspirants at every stage — Prelims, Mains, and Interview. Our approach is built around individual strategy, not one-size-fits-all coaching. 📸 Follow us on Instagram: @smartwork_labs 📱 Join our Telegram Community: @Smartworklabs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for more UPSC topper interviews, strategy sessions, and expert guidance: ‪@SmartWorkLabs‬ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #UPSCCSE2025result #AIR79topperinterview #UPSCprelims2026strategy #IASpreparationtips #UPSCmainsstrategy #howtoclearUPSC #UPSCtopperjourney #SmartworkLabsIAS #UPSCcoachingDelhi #civilservicespreparation #UPSCmultipleattemptsstrategy #howtocrackUPSC #IAStoppertips