new delhi history has been made in this years civil services results in a rare first the top two candidates are women topper s divyadharshini is an alumnus of dr ambedkar law university in chennai sweta mohanty who did her b tech in computer science from gokaraju rangaraju institute of engineering and technology griet hyderabad has come second the merit list boasts of five women candidates in the top 25 r v varun kumar a student of chennais ragas dental college has topped among the male candidates overall he came third of the 547698 candidates who appeared for the preliminary exam held in may 2010 920 717 men and 203 women made the grade now they will be inducted in the indian administrative service ias indian foreign service ifs and indian police service ips along with other central services candidates from engineering background seemed to enjoy a distinct edge in the civil services examination 2010 whose results were declared on wednesday of the top 25 15 had an engineering background followed by medicine five eight made the cut in their first attempt four including topper divyadharshini made the cut in the second attempt nine including the second and third in the merit list got through in their third attemptsthere are 151 vacancies for ias ifs 35 and ips 150 the result of two candidates has been withheld and candidature of 39 candidates has been declared provisional the consolidated reserve list includes 242 candidates twenty eight physically challenged 14 orthopaedically challenged five visually impaired and nine hearing impaired got selected while148 are from the scheduled castes scheduled tribes 74 and other backward classes 270the list can be accessed on the websites of press information bureau and union public service commission the marks are expected to be published within a fortnight