Every year 8 to 10lakh students apply for the Civil Services Examination. Nearly half of them participate in the Preliminary Examination. From those 4 to 5lakh students only 10 to 14 thousand students (in proportion to the total number of vacancies) are selected to appear in the Main Examination. Out of them, between 2 to 3 thousand aspirants get the interview call letter and only a handful of them (800 to 1100, based on the total number of vacancies) makes to the final list of Civil Services Examination. So, mathematically your probability of clearing Civil Services Examination is approximately 0.1% and it becomes even lesser if your dream is to become an IAS in your own State."How to Crack Civil Services Examination" tells you in detail about the Civil Services Examination. It explains about the examination pattern, syllabus, previous year papers and how to develop a strategy for all the stages and vital papers of the Civil Services Examination. In order to bring best help to you and turn that 0.1% probability into 100% reality, our team has gone in detail on the approach adopted by the UPSC, what it seeks in a candidate and most importantly, what the selected candidates do in terms of strategy or preparation which differentiates them from serious and knowledgeable yet not-selected candidates. As a gift and a tool to check your understanding of the Civil Services Examination, an essay test is added at the end of this book. Kindly use that and submit it for our feedback.