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Remember the story of the pied piper? Weren’t you astonished at the ease with which he solved the village’s problem (Rat Infestation) where everyone else had terribly failed? Certainly, the Pied Piper had special skills that villagers lacked.
Now let’s forget the Pied Piper for a moment. What if someone tells you that a 160+ score in Essay paper is very much attainable even for an average Essay writer? Don’t believe it? Have a look at these two successive scorecards.
UPSC mains scorecards of Zeeshan sir. A whopping jump of 65 marks in Essay paper.
Here you’ve seen Zeeshan sir transforming from a mere villager (average UPSC essay writer) to a pied piper. But what changes led to a whopping jump of 65 marks (from 98 to 163 Marks)? For that, you need to follow the footsteps of the Pied Piper.
Truth be told, the Essay paper is the most ignored, least understood, but the most scoring paper of the IAS exam. Consider the effort that you need to put in to score even 130 marks in any of the G.S. papers. But in the Essay, it’s altogether a different story.
Like the villagers in the story, IAS aspirants employ the wrong means to approach this paper. Some of those are:
Making the paper an enlarged version of G.S. answer and overloading it with facts, figures, data, statistics.
Using flowery language and difficult vocabulary.
Overdoing Diagrammatic representation.
Using stories, quotes, illustrations just for the sake of using them.
Being restricted to dimensional analysis e.g. PESTEL approach where the main thrust is on probing these dimensions only. And the list goes on.
It’s imperative that you become like Pied Piper to tame the Essay Paper i.e. understand the actual demands of this paper and present them as per the expectations of UPSC. What’s even more exciting is that you can do this with limited efforts and time thus allowing you to devote more time to other time taking subjects.
Zeeshan sir himself will be mentoring and streamlining your essay preparation in Essay FLTs 2020.
What is Essay FLTs 2020?
It is a mentor-driven Essay test series for UPSC 2020 Mains exam. Our focus is on personalized attention in evaluation, execution, and course correction. Our innovative methodology in topic selection, reviews, and evaluation on one hand and mentorship and collaborative approach on the other will build your capacity to write Essays that will fetch 160+ marks.
What are we offering and how is it unique?
We’ve innovated at every step of the process.
Highly relevant, precise and thoughtful topic selection
Our research tells us there are 8 broad themes of essays being asked since 2010 – Economy, Polity, Women Issues, Education, Science & Tech, Philosophy, IR, Miscellaneous.
But there is some rationality to the way UPSC selects essay topics. Those themes are highly relevant to the current times and one can find a strong correlation with current affairs of the past year(s).
We plan to develop your competencies so that you can be better prepared for the actual exam.
Our biggest innovation lies in our review methodology. Specific portions of your essay will be highlighted with symbols to indicate issues in essay writing
(X) Cross – FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS like judgments/strong postures which need to be avoided at all costs.
(*)Star -APPRECIATION for uniqueness.
STRUCTURE is not maintained. Issues with Language and expression.
GENERAL SUGGESTIONS for candidates.
Along with this, Zeeshan sir will also leave specific reviews on strengths and weaknesses.
We don’t want to merely suggest additional points that can be googled by the student themselves or point out superficial flaws like not ‘sticking to the topic’. They don’t necessarily highlight the shortcomings in the essay. This adds very little value to students. We go much beyond that and help students fix major flaws in their essays.
10 parameters on which your essays are going to get evaluated
Comprehension of the topic
Language and Expression
Structure and Organisation of thought.
Objectivity and Biases. Balance of perception
Attitude whether a learner or judgmental
Focus and attention
Content and Source matter, Knowledge and information processing capability
Ability to forge links in an interdisciplinary manner
Model essays with indicative structure and good essay copies
You will be provided with good essay copies to serve as sample answers. This is a better alternative than sample answers which are hastily written and at times not updated with the latest figures.
Students have an incorrect impression that going through a sample essay will somehow help them write better essays. This is absolutely incorrect.
To develop your competency in tackling different topics, you have to be able to come up with appropriate structures. This aspect of the program addresses this issue.
The expectation from you would be that you study the solutions in detail and try to address the shortcomings in your essays. Should doubts still persist, we’re here to help.
One-to-one Mentorship and Civilsdaily’s handholding
This component of the program is the most important. Post-evaluation of your essay test you will get on a one-to-one discussion with Zeeshan sir. He will discuss the topic in considerable depth, appropriate structure, pitfalls to avoid, etc.
Along with that, sir will also discuss copies presenting different styles in which the essays could be attempted.
Membership to exclusive group on Habitat
Habitat is our learning platform, here you’ll be given membership to an exclusive Essay group. This group will be administered by Zeeshan sir, Sajal sir, in-service officers, rankers, and other mentors.
For essays, you need multiple perspectives to understand a topic or an issue in its entirety. You need discussions; arguments; confluence, confrontation, and integration of ideas. Here, discussions will be facilitated by mentors and enriched by different viewpoints by peers. Moreover, you can ask and discuss any of your doubts with peers and Zeeshan sir.
Besides these, you will be given the following
Any additional material that we release for essays.
Notes and reference material including good articles, essays, etc. on Habitat group.
Program inclusion
5 FLTs
Model essays
One-to-one mentorship
Membership to exclusive Essay group on Habitat
Notes and references on Habitat
Price of the program
Rs. 4000 + taxes for Smash Mains 2020 enrolled students
Reviews will be provided in a week. (In the order of submission- First come first serve basis). In case the answer is submitted late the review period may get extended to two weeks.
*In case your answer is not reviewed in a week, reply to your answer saying *NOT CHECKED*. If Parth Sir’s tag is available then tag him.
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Abhishek scored 140 and 129 in UPSC Pre GS paper 1 when pre cut off was 105 and 98 respectively. This will be the third of three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf on IAS Prelims 2021 strategy.Link for the full playlist.
Abhishek Saraf, IAS, in this final lecture three-part lecture series will be sharing his Prelims Strategy with you all. mong things he’d be talking about are: how he attempted his pre papers?; using Civilsdaily’s Tikdams; which test series to join?; time management; and other important dimensions to IAS prelims.
Click on the video below and Set Reminder for 7:30 pm.
Abhishek is a Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur. An achiever through and through he scored this rank in his fourth attempt. Earlier he has scored a rank of 402 and 248 in UPSC 2017 (resigned in 15 days) and UPSC 2018 respectively. His optional was Civil Engineering. He is a manifestation of ‘hard work pays’ maxim. He has three research publications, two foreign internships, and a patent (pending).
This ia a three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf for Civilsdaily IAS. He has been a part of the Civilsdaily family for more than 4 years now and has been a strong supporter of our approach to IAS exam preparation.
The link for the second lecture will be shared after this lecture. Do subscribe to our Youtube channel and let us know what more we can share with you.
Reviews will be provided in a week. (In the order of submission- First come first serve basis). In case the answer is submitted late the review period may get extended to two weeks.
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Abhishek scored 140 and 129 in UPSC Pre GS paper 1 when pre cut off was 105 and 98 respectively. This will be the second of three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf on IAS Prelims 2021 strategy.Link for playlist given in the bottom.
Abhishek Saraf, IAS, in this second of the three-part lecture series will be sharing his Prelims Strategy with you all. Today he will be discussing all the topics (subject wise) on which he made notes. He will also discuss how to deal with and use factoids. His third lecture will be made live in the evening.
Click on the video below and Set Reminder for 11 am.
Abhishek is a Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur. An achiever through and through he scored this rank in his fourth attempt. Earlier he has scored a rank of 402 and 248 in UPSC 2017 (resigned in 15 days) and UPSC 2018 respectively. His optional was Civil Engineering. He is a manifestation of ‘hard work pays’ maxim. He has three research publications, two foreign internships, and a patent (pending).
This ia a three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf for Civilsdaily IAS. He has been a part of the Civilsdaily family for more than 4 years now and has been a strong supporter of our approach to IAS exam preparation.
The link for the second lecture will be shared after this lecture. Do subscribe to our Youtube channel and let us know what more we can share with you.
Abhishek scored 140 and 129 in UPSC Pre GS paper 1 when pre cut off was 105 and 98 respectively. This will be the first of three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf on IAS Prelims 2021 strategy.
Abhishek Saraf, IAS, in this three-part lecture series will be sharing his Prelims Strategy with you all. In the first lecture he will be explaining and discussing the basic approach, syllabus-wise booklist, then the need and approach to reading a newspaper. He will also be telling about notes making from newspapers and books.
Click on the video below and Set Reminder for 11 am.
Abhishek is a Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur. An achiever through and through he scored this rank in his fourth attempt. Earlier he has scored a rank of 402 and 248 in UPSC 2017 (resigned in 15 days) and UPSC 2018 respectively. His optional was Civil Engineering. He is a manifestation of ‘hard work pays’ maxim. He has three research publications, two foreign internships, and a patent (pending).
This ia a three-part lecture series by Abhishek Saraf for Civilsdaily IAS. He has been a part of the Civilsdaily family for more than 4 years now and has been a strong supporter of our approach to IAS exam preparation.
The link for the second lecture will be shared after this lecture. Do subscribe to our Youtube channel and let us know what more we can share with you.
Have you been struggling to crack the IAS exam? You are not the only one. We bring to you a story who despite repeated failures kept going and with perseverance achieved his goal. Scroll down for the Unherd playlist.
Anil Kumar Rathore, AIR 81, UPSC 2019, here in a very straight from the shoulder interview with Shweta ma’am discussed his approach, hard work, failures, and strategy for IAS exam.
He has valuable advice for aspirants. Anil will also join us on Habitat. Watch the video to know more. Click on Set Reminder.
Anil is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from IIT Delhi. His optional was Chemistry and this was his fifth attempt. It was his perseverance and determination which led him to succeed despite four ‘failures’. Anil hails from Madhya Pradesh and was appointed to IRAS before this. His hobbies include charcoal drawing and travelling.
Anil is an inspiration and is going to be a great administrator. We wish him all the very best for his future endeavors.
Unherd Topper Talk series is a Civilsdaily’s initiative. We want to highlight what makes these toppers, their approach, and strategy different from the herd. And you will also be getting a sneak peek into the moments of their lives that are unheard of.
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