Interview of CA Pawan Sarda Sir (AIR 2)

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Interview of CA Pawan Sarda Sir (AIR 2)

• DGS CAPS Nagpur

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• Getting a good rank is not a new thing for Pawan
  Sarda Sir, however getting a rank in CA exams is
  definitely super exciting for everyone.
• After scoring an All-India Rank 2 in CA Final
  exam, in an Interview with CA Club India, Pawan
  Sarda sir shared his secrets happiness. Earlier
  he had secured an All-India Rank 2 in his 10th
  standard, after which he knew that he wants to
  become a CA, following his brothers footsteps
  who is also a successful CA, Pawan Sirs guiding
  force and mentor.

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• CPT (CA Foundation now) preparation laid a strong
  foundation for him by his teachers and mentors,
  he focused more on understanding the concept than
  mugging it up. Articleship again gave him an
  exposure which helped him more in practical
  training like how to manage time, stress and how
  to reach deadlines on time, all of these
  learnings made all his preparation easy. Taking
  his thoughts back in time he said During the
  second reading of my subjects, one point came
  where I could have given up easily but I pushed
  myself to ignore all the negativities and went
  forward with confidence and kept faith in myself.
  That was the time I realized the power of each
  minute and areas where I could improve

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• Firm believer of focus, determination and
  sincerity, he never gives up no matter how big
  the problem is. With the twinkle in his eyes, his
  message to the future CAs is Never give up and
  take every failure in a positive way because it
  opens so many other doors for you. Its not about
  passing or failing its about being honest and
  to learn more and more with zeal.

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• Big fan of cricket and music, guitar player, fond
  of reading motivational books and loves to hang
  out with friends, he likes to enjoy every moment
  of life as he says that we have only one life so
  why to lose even a minute.
• Thumbs up to this inspiring young man, who has
  the potential to conquer the world.

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• CA Club India I would like to congratulate you
  from CCI.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Thank you very much!!!
• CA Club India So how are you feeling?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir I am feeling awesome,
  actually I am feeling great because of my
  parents, friends and teachers happiness which
  matters more to me.

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• CA Club India Your parents must be very proud of
  you?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes, they are telling
  everybody proudly, also everyone who knows me are
  telling others that I know Pawan, he is my
  friend, he is my junior, my student so that
  feeling is really good.

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• CA Club India Thats nice, so celebration must
  be big, I assume. So how big is this achievement
  for you? 
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Personally, for me my
  achievement was when I could study sincerely, I
  knew that the result could be anything. You cant
  compare yourself with other people. I have set my
  own standards for studying for this exam so when
  I was able to meet those standards inspite of
  doing other things, like my Articleship, spending
  time with my friends, cricket matches etc. and
  managing all these, is definitely an achievement
  for me. But this is not a personal achievement,
  its a team work since everybodys expectations,
  blessings, goodwill and everything will be
  counted. Its not just my own.

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• CA Club India Yes of course it is. So, when did
  you decide to take CA as your career?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Id decided it well before
  my 12th standard, because my elder brother is
  also a CA. He had already become a CA, by the
  time I was in 10th standard. I was watching him
  all the way so I wanted to follow his footsteps.
  He was my idol right from the beginning. I wanted
  to live his lifestyle, so I knew that I had to do
  CA only and this is the course for me. I got 2nd
  rank in 10th standard CBSE exams and at that time
  everybody told me that you should go for IIT or
  IIM or Medical field, but still I thought if
  there is a decision I have made so everybody
  should support it and then my family members
  stood by me, so today I have no regrets when I
  look back at that decision.

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• CA Club India Who was your guiding force?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir My brother was my mentor, he
  used to motivate me all the time and from 11th
  standard I also joined CAPS Nagpur - CA coaching
  classes in Nagpur. There I had great teachers who
  laid the basic foundation and always kept me
  motivated and inspired. They always told me to
  focus on the concepts, not to mug up things and
  that approach definitely helped and thirdly my
  Articleship was something which I did very
  sincerely at V.K. Surana Co. in Nagpur. There I
  got nice exposure, so again practical experience
  helped in CA final exam. Now-a-days we can see
  that many students do dummy Articleships but then
  ultimately it ends up harming their own interests.

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• CA Club India Yes, you are right! So, you
  learned a lot while doing Articleship?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes definitely. I got a lot
  of good exposure and because of sincere work I
  got to learn things more than the technical part.
  I got to learn how to manage time, pressure and
  how to meet the deadlines so these qualities
  helped me in studies straightaway. So, CA final
  exam was just a matter of planning and then
  mental preparation and then implementation of the
  plan.

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• CA Club India Okso what was your schedule that
  time when you were preparing for exams?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir I had got 4 months leave
  from my office. First one or two months there
  were cricket matches going on in England and as I
  am a great fan of Cricket, so my schedule used to
  revolve around the cricket series with the focus
  on the studies. I had planned that I would
  complete my course in 2 months by the end of
  august and so accordingly I planned to do 2
  subjects in 15 days so likewise in 60 days I was
  able to do 8 subjects more or less, so I had
  scheduled 2 to 3 sessions. 3 sessions of 3-4
  hours each day and in between the sessions I
  used to take breaks by listening to songs and
  watching cricket.

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• CA Club India Yes, breaks are definitely
  required!
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes, break was important and
  finally after the first reading, I started
  reading all the things again in September. So,
  for 1 month I targeted to complete the second
  reading in the complete month of September. But
  sometimes it was getting very difficult, that was
  the time when anybody could have given up but if
  you hold on if you dont give up at that time
  then it becomes easy later on. So, I had somehow
  managed to complete my 2nd revision also and in
  October 1st week we had test series, daily we had
  one paper so in 8 days we had 8 papers in
  October. So, accordingly after the first revision
  in September, for the test series I was prepared
  because I had already done 2 readings in total
  and in the test series again daily I went through
  the portion-one full day and then I discovered
  the power in each and every minute at that time
  the time management was importantso the test
  series helped me a lot, we got to write the
  answers and then exam conditions and we came to
  know how much scope is there for improvement so
  likewise third reading was done and then after
  the test series ended on 11th October then again
  we had 20 days before the exams. In those 20 days
  I finally made my plan for studying just before
  the exams and the two days which we have before
  the exams, I think those two days are very
  important, if you study something for 4 months
  but if you dont study the same thing just before
  the exam, it could be a waste of time then
  because when you go into the exam you should have
  the confidence that you have read everything,
  everything should be fresh in your mind, so I had
  made 20 hours plan for those two days.. for that
  one holiday and another day just before the exam
  how to complete the entire portion.

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• So those 20 hours plan Id made and somehow in
  all the subjects I managed to complete
  everything.. all the portions nicely and my
  target was to read everything 100, to study 100
  of the material, not to leave anything because we
  cannot afford to leave anything and secondly to
  solve everything, to solve 100 of the answer
  sheet because even if you dont know the answer
  you can at least write something, there is
  nothing that you can be completely blank about,
  so that was my strategy and one more thing was
  that those 3 hours during the exams are very
  crucial whatever you study for one or two years
  that does not count if you do not do well in the
  3 hours. So, I had planned that in the 180
  minutes in which you have to give 100 marks
  paper, so you have 1.8 minutes for each mark so
  likewise you can calculate that for a 5 mark
  question you have 9 minutes in hand, for 10 marks
  question you have 18 minutes in handso while
  giving the answers we can keep a track of time
  like, how much time is over, how many marks paper
  is left and accordingly we give importance to
  each and every mark and if we solve the paper
  completely, then definitely we are giving
  examiner more chance to give us more marks.

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• CA Club India Alright! So, any hurdles you faced
  while preparing for exams and any challenge that
  you had faced?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir I would let you know because
  Indirect taxes was the subject for which Id not
  joined any classes and I was dependent on a
  single book and my own self-study, so after the
  first reading when in September, I sat down for
  the second reading I felt that everything is so
  new, as if I am reading for the 1st time so I was
  a little bit frightened that time because I
  hadnt joined any classes and Id to do it all on
  my own and time was limited but then after the
  test series, I decided to make my weakness into a
  strengthso, daily I planned and gave 2 to 3
  hours to Indirect taxes and daily I studied after
  the test series for the last 20 days, so
  ultimately I ended up getting the highest marks
  in Indirect taxes, that was the one challenge I
  faced. Among other challenges, I was always
  somewhere running behind the plan so I used to
  revise my plan

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• It is not always necessary that 100 of your plan
  will be followed, so I used to revise my plan
  every few days, even the daily plans I had,
  something or the other used to come up but then
  somehow there was the determination that I have
  to do it and there is nobody else who can help
  me. I took this responsibility and finally it was
  done. Also, everybody else supported me very
  well, my family members and my friends...
  everybody used to motivate me that it is
  possible. Everybody had the expectation and the
  faith that I will do very well in the examsso I
  just had to give my own best that was my rank as
  I told you. What came now is the comparison with
  others, that was the comparison with your own
  standard that is the rank for me.

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• CA Club India And how would you summarize your
  journey?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir After 10th standard when I
  entered into CA right from 11th 12th, I had my
  CPT (CA Foundation now) classes, so that time I
  just had a feel of CA, what is it all about. But
  then I got 2nd rank in CPT also in 2008. But
  later we discovered when the Articleship began
  that this is the real CA, CA is not just about
  training and scoring marks in exam. Articleship
  and practical training is the real part of CA.
  Then we also had IPCC (CA-Intermediate now) exams
  in May 2010, again then I got 8th All India Rank.
  At that time, I discovered that within two and a
  half months you can do IPCC (CA Intermediate now)
  portion very well.

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• And other than that, my CS course was also going
  simultaneously in December (2008, 2009 and 2010)
  I had my CS exams and I always had very little
  number of holidays, so at that time I discovered
  that in very short amount of time if we would
  focus, we can do a lot, its not just about
  studyingits about everything but what you need
  is proper focus and sincerity, you need to be
  involved in what you are doing. These are the
  things I learnt during students life. And other
  than this, at the end, the CA final journey was
  awesome. After IPCC experience, I had just joined
  classes for 3 subjects, practical
  subjects-Accounts, SM and Costing and for others
  I discovered that self-study is only going to be
  the wayeverybody else thinks that classes are
  very important but I think self-study benefits
  you more.

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• CA Club India Great! So, what are your hobbies?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir I like to watch and play
  cricket, I am a big fan of cricket. Other than
  that, I play badminton, I am fond of music, I
  like to play guitar, keyboard and I also like to
  sing.
• CA Club India Oh!! you play guitar
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes, I played guitar in the
  CA events also. We have cultural events. I like
  to read motivational and inspirational books,
  like to go out with friends, watch movies I like
  to have fun basically. Its not just studies
  because I believe we have just one life, so
  whatever you have to do, it is your
  responsibility.

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• CA Club India Yes you are right.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Take it in the right way and
  then if you do the right thing at the right time
  and in the right way then nothing can go wrong.

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• CA Club India Great! and what is the message you
  would like to give people who are preparing for
  CA exams?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir I would like to tell them to
  do their Articleship training sincerely.
  Secondly, not to give up.it seems easy to give
  up but at that point of time if you hold on then
  lot of events are waiting for you, there are lots
  of positive things which are waiting for you. And
  then I have even seen my friends fail in exams
  but then if you take the failure in the right way
  then it can be a bigger success than passing in
  the exams. So do not be disheartened by the
  failures because it is not just about how many
  marks you are getting whether you are passing in
  the 1st exam or not but it is about what
  qualities you are developing. So, I want to give
  them the message to be honest to themselves, not
  to show off to anybody what they are, but then be
  truthful to their own selves.

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• CA Club India Absolutely! So, what is the next
  thing for you after this achievement?
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir After this I havent yet
  decided finally what to do now. I am just 21
  years old, so I am thinking of doing MBA course
  that is one of the options among many and then I
  have my GMCS course which will be completed in
  February. Then I will think whether to do MBA or
  not.

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• CA Club India So, the celebration is going on or
  you have some plans to celebrate.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Definitely, the whole month
  will be a celebration!!!
• CA Club India Wow!! You are sounding quite
  excited.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes. It is a very eventful
  thing which has happened. Its not just about me,
  its more about the happiness of my family
  members and my friends.

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• CA Club India Your brother must be very happy.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Yes definitely. My brother
  is very happy. He cried with happiness.
• CA Club India It was great talking to you, once
  again I would like to congratulate you from our
  CAclubinida Team, All the best for you future.
• CA. Pawan Sarda Sir Thanks!!