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About Smash Mains 2024
It is a highly personalized and intensive handholding program for the dedicated and crème-de-la-crème (earlier exclusive to UPSC veterans) amongst UPSC aspirants (the intake is 50 students only).
What Makes Smash Mains Unique?
- Invite/Register-Only: Ensuring that you’re not just a face in the crowd but a name and a mission for us.
- Personalized Attention: Tailor-made guidance with one-to-one interactions with Arvind Sir himself.
- Focused Strategy: No more generic study plans. Get a blueprint crafted just for you.
- In-Depth Analysis: Arvind Sir will be meticulously analyzing your Mains scorecards and test copies to fill in those critical gaps in your preparation.
Multi-level guidance: Arvind sir, IAS-IPS rankers, Swatantra sir will ensure your answer writing is top-notch.
Why is Smash 2024 the best way to prepare for mains ?
- Individual attention and approachability are the USPs of this program. Listen to what our Smash Mains 2020 student and topper Pooja Gupta (AIR 42) says about the program.
AIR 48, 49 attributes their success to CD Mentorship
- Not putting Penguins among the Fowls – You already know how to write an average answer (you’re missing it by a few marks actually). You want to know how to increase your score from 90 to 110-115. The approach followed by other institutes in their Test series is the same for a veteran and a complete newbie and here lies the problem. Without personalized one-to-one interaction with someone like Arvind sir (who has scored these awesome marks), it will be difficult for you to rectify these minute yet very important shortcomings.
- Evaluation is a strength of this program and we put it on a high priority. Arvind sir himself is involved in the process, unlike other institutes where evaluation is outsourced to those who themselves might not have appeared for mains (It’s bizarre). It shouldn’t be based on ‘model answers’ as there are 3-4 ways of approaching an answer. Only a seasoned player will be able to go beyond these model answers and be able to appreciate your approach (If it’s innovative) even if it differs from the model answers provided.
- Test copies get checked in a time-bound manner. The questions, answers, and material provided are of the highest quality.
- Always on time and insightful discussions end with a reality check and motivation to perform better in the next test.
- Emphasis on execution and utilization of knowledge – Mains is not only about knowledge but the way you express the relevant knowledge in the most optimum manner.
- Arvind sir’s interventions are highly specific and not generalized. Sitting right in front of you he walks you through each and every question. Always there, he will not let you lose your focus.
- We deliver what we promise.
Progression of the program:
After completing the Mains Test series, you will have a one-to-one detailed, and in-depth interaction with Arvind sir. Final refinements are done to every answer. Value addition material, as well as pointers, will be provided here. We will work with you to ensure you have enough material for value addition. Our focus will be on providing tips that add the missing X factor to your answers.
Message from Arvind sir
Dear Students,
For some of you, prelims have never been a challenge for you. You have been missing the main cut-off with a small margin (repeatedly). This means that there are some fundamental issues with your approach. You might be aware or not of this. But just realization is not enough, you have to work on its execution as well. And bringing that to fruition will be possible through a guided process under a meticulously designed plan.
Note: The Entry is Restricted to those who have appeared in UPSC interviews in the past 2 years or have missed the mains cut-off by a whisker.
The focus is on identifying and highlighting the issues with your preparation (information/analysis/utilization). According to your strength and weaknesses, a tailor-made strategy is developed. Under Arvind sir’s strict monitoring, incremental improvements are aimed every day, after every session.
Program inclusion:
- Personalized Mentorship by Arvind sir and core Mains team
- Civilsdaily’s Smash Mains Test series
- Samachar Manthan (Till Prelims) – For holistic and comprehensive coverage of Current Affairs.
- Prime Prelims FLTs 2024 – To prepare you for prelims.
- Cohort-based learning: Exclusive membership to Telegram group where you can interact and get your doubts resolved with Rankers and Faculty.