Advance Foundation Course (Online)
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Advance Foundation Course: The 2-Year Classroom (Online) Program
KSG, with its decade of experience in General Studies and a highly specialized team of experts mentored by DR. A.R. Khan, has formulated a special course called ‘’KSG ADVANCE FOUNDATION COURSE (AFC)”.
The KSG AFC is a two-year program which aims at building a strong foundation for UPSC CSE. The basic objective of this course is to give students an early starter advantage in the preparation of UPSC CSE.
The two-year course is designed to give ample time to all the topics, stages and aspects of UPSC CSE, whereby every aspirant can develop the skill sets, knowledge and holistic development of personality to achieve the qualities of a future IAS officer.
The program is carefully planned, keeping in mind the demand of the competitive examinations. In this initiative, we work on the overall development of the aspirants in a nuanced, methodical, targeted and meticulous way.
We at KSG work tirelessly in a mission-mode approach to guide our students through a Module based learning approach.
- Newspaper Reading Module : Current affairs is one of the most essential aspects of the UPSC CSE. It becomes challenging for aspirants to keep up with daily updates wrt current affairs. Going through multiple newspapers every day, understanding the concepts and memorising it becomes challenging. Therefore, we at KSG guide all our students to read newspapers effectively to separate the wheat from the chaff.
- Basic Concepts Module:Here, we focus on holistic coverage of NCERT and Other state board books like TN State board to build a robust foundation. Basic concepts and terminologies associated with all the subjects are also covered here, which are relevant to the examinations.
- Dominant issues Module: Major current affairs, issues of relevance and Current events pertaining & relevant to UPSC CSE are taken up by the faculties in classrooms, and also, the Issues of the Month (IOM) Magazine act as a quality enrichment and value-added resource.
- Map reading Module: Local, national and global awareness drastically improves via locational, spatial and map-based learning. This module enables a student to create data visualization and improve the relevance of the content taught already. Furthermore, maps have been a source for multiple questions in the preliminary and mains levels of UPSC CSE.
- CSAT Module: CSAT is a crucial component of the preliminary examination, and therefore skilling, training and regular testing of aptitude, logical reasoning, and English become cardinal to success at the preliminary level of UPSC CSE. Additionally, the Compulsory paper of General English asked in the UPSC CSE Mains exam will also be covered.
- Writing Skill Module: Marks obtained in the Mains Examination determine a candidate’s rank in the Civil Service examination, special emphasis is given to developing answer writing skills. Answer writing is a skill which needs to be nurtured and developed under the guidance of experts. We at KSG mould, train and hone our students to inculcate the habit of answer writing since the very inception of the classes via a myriad of initiatives. e.g. Convergence Writing practice (CWP), Newspaper Analysis Test (NAT), Pre Assessment Test (PAT).
- Book Reading Module: Academic knowledge, articulation in answer writing and holistic personality development requires students to develop the habit of eclectic reading. Our faculties at KSG will nurture this habit of reading books ranging from Finance to Administration and up to Autobiographies and Contemporary books.
- Personality Development Module: This will include Interaction with Bureaucrats, both former and serving, successful aspirants while conducting activities like debates, Assignments, and Research workshops in the classroom.
How are online classes different from classroom classes?
- Online Classes offer flexibility to students who are working, remotely located or are more comfortable with E-learning.
- The faculty, material and notes are exactly the same for both the Online and Offline classes.
- Students who enrol in online classes have the added advantage of accessing and watching the classes multiple times as the videos remain on the portal for extended periods of time.
- The online classes are designed to be interactive and accommodative. Students are free to post their questions on the class group and receive answers from the faculty during the class itself.
- The aim is to eliminate the difference between physical and online classroom learning.
- The students are also given a chance to interact with their classmates in the class discussion group enabling enriching discussions.
- The support of faculty and mentors is consistent. Every student is assigned a personal mentor who is responsible for addressing any academic or non-academic issues.
- Students gain from the expertise of not just the faculty but the mentors as well.
ADVANCE FOUNDATION COURSE
TEXT BOOKS MODULE
The students of KSG Advance Foundation Course would also be taught NCERT and other school text books in a more comprehensive way attuned to the requirements of the UPSC or other competitive examinations. This will also include imparting them training on effective ways of revision and testing their knowledge gained through these readings.
CURRENT COGNITION
KSG Advance Foundation Course would include a module on current event cognition that is needed to be developed through the newspaper reading. In this regard, those skills and training would be provided that help in effective reading of newspapers geared towards extracting relevant information needed for competitive examinations. Skills pertaining to preparation of notes on current affairs and related issues would also be provided to the students.
PERIODIC PROGRESS
KSG Advance Foundation Course would also include preparing, maintaining, monitoring and evaluating regular Progress Chart of students so that they would actually see for themselves as to how they are progressing towards achieving their goal.
INTERACTION WITH SERVING OFFICERS
KSG has got a good reservoir of its alumni who are now officers in different services such as IAS, IPS, IFS and IRS. A key feature of this course includes a plan to introduce our students to these serving officers who would share their experience of preparation for competitive examinations. This would be a regular feature of our course so that our students feel continuously motivated. Such interactions would also help students to see in time where they are moving, towards what kind of jobs they are working, and why they are working for those jobs.
READING HABIT
In this course, KSG will be familiarising the students with an exhaustive list of books which will help them develop their personalities. These would be taught to the students through easy means such as by providing them and explaining to them certain pages and excerpts of certain books such as The Story of My Experiments With Truth, the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi; India after Gandhi & Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha; Wings of Fire, an Autobiography of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; 21 Lessons for the 21″ Century by Yuval Noah Harari, Rethinking Good Governance by Vinod Rai, Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee, The India Way by S. Jaishankar.
We are what we read! Therefore, we shall help students to inculcate a habit of qualitative reading and also teach them how to use this habit to build their personalities.