Ankita Agarwal is an Indian woman, who secured AIR 2 in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services exam in 2022 in her third attempt. She secured 1050 marks out of 2025 marks.Before clearing UPSC 2022, Ankita worked in Indian Revenue Services (IRS) as she cleared her UPSC AIR 236 in 2019, however, she wanted to be an IAS so she gave her second attempt and secured AIR 2.During an interview, Ankita expressed her desire to work for womens empowerment, primary health, and school education sectors.While stating her reasons to pursue her career in civil services she said that I was clear about my goal and therefore chose not to enrol for a postgraduate degree. I worked for a year and then jumped into UPSC preparation. I qualified in the exam in 2019 and got into the IRS but my goal was to join the Indian Administrative Services. So I reappeared in the exam in 2021. This was my third attempt,.During her college days at St. Stephens, Ankita was part of the Campus Placement Cell and The Finance & Investment Cell. She was the editor in chief of the Yearbook Editorial Team and had also joined the economics society. [1]Ankit Agarwal- LinkedIn.In 2015, Ankita joined a summer internship for two months at CRY (Child Rights and You), which is an Indian non-governmental organization that works toward ensuring childrens rights and in 2016, she joined another summer internship for 3 months at Pratham, which is a non-government organization that works towards the provision of quality education to underprivileged children in India. [2]Ankita Agarwal- LinkedIn.After completing college, Ankita joined a corporate company named Dalberg, which is a development advisory firm in a strategy and policy, where she worked for almost one year.In 2019, during a mock interview, Ankita mentioned that her first preference is to be an IAS Officer and her second is IPS Officer.She represented her college in basketball, however, in the final year of the college she met with an accident so she left playing.Before moving to Kolkata, Ankitas father had a hardware business in Bihar.