UPSC Civil Services Examination DECODED, earlier known as Peel the USPC CSE Onion, is specially designed to help countless young people who dream of entering the prestigious civil services of India, but lack a mentor or even a friend to guide them on how to approach the admittedly tough examination, set by the UPSC.

Shilpi Mittal, IRS, who has cracked the civil services examination three times, and also aced the personality test, brings her valuable knowledge and experience to guide the new aspirants, who are without a mentor and trying hard to find a correct way to approach this exam as well as those who tried but could not yet succeed. To make things easy to understand, she likened the civil services examination to an onion and then tried to remove the layers of myth and mystery that envelop this examination. She peels off the layers, answering a multitude of questions that often bother aspirants, to give a clear picture of what to expect while preparing for the exam, how to cope with stress, what information needs to be gathered for each subject without wasting time and energy and from where, how to master writing answers, and how to tackle the actual examination at the Prelims and Mains levels as well as the all-important personality test.

Apart from this, the book also contains information about some of the important civil services, the myths that surround them, and what to expect in reality.