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KSG offers India’s best General Studies & CSAT under the expertise of Dr.Khan in both Regular & Weekend classes programs.
The innovative approach towards combining the preliminary and main general studies section under one program is to broaden the objective knowledge as well as subjective knowledge. We, Khan Study Group, provide a Foundation Course, Pre-cum-Mains for the General Studies as it is considered the most essential part of UPSC preparation. We intended to focus on the General Studies section, as it is classified into a wide section of Indian History, Polity, Geography, Economics and Science, and many more sub-sections. Our focus is to simultaneously guide you through prelims and mains throughout your journey.
Key features of our Foundation course:
- We have structured the syllabus into a well-defined plan, called Vertical Plan.
- We have scheduled the daily practice tests for prelims and modified your results into a performance chart.
- We have regular practice tests for mains as well which comprises of various answer writing tests.
- We have scheduled reference material for specific topics that include current topics as well.
- We have designed the POD technique to keep a check on your preparation regularly.
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Advance Foundation Course (Classroom)
Foundation Course (Classroom)
KSG India takes pride in being the best institute in India for the UPSC Civil services examination. We at KSG India guide, nurture and educate our students in achieving their dreams….
Test Series (Navigator)
In every student’s journey of civil services, preparation test series is an inevitable element. Test series helps the student to develop the skill required to tackle the uncertain nature of the paper.
NEEV (NCERT for Effective & Early Victory)
Building a grand edifice is not possible without a robust foundation. A strong foundation is a prerequisite to success in the UPSC Civil Services Examination.
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KSG Foundation Course
The KSG Foundation Course is a consolidated one preparing students for the General Studies for both Preliminary and Mains of the UPSC Civil Services examination. For the Preliminary examination, the course covers General Studies (Paper I) as well as the CSAT (Paper II). For the Mains examination, we cover all papers of General Studies (Papers I, II, III and IV) as well as the Essay Part. Once you clear the Preliminary and Mains examinations, then preparation for the Interview/Personality Test is provided through Mock tests at our Delhi Centre. KSG Foundation Course is imparted through Classroom Teaching Method. Classes are conducted three hours daily for seven days a week including on Sundays and runs for 9 months in a year. Key Features of this Course include: Pre-Preparation Plan, The Vertical Plan, Answer Writing Practice, Current Issues Writing Practice (CIWP), Proof of Delivery (POD), Flashback Series, My Notes by Khan Sir, The Current Connect and Performance Charting.
Pre-Preparation Plan
As soon as you register for the KSG Foundation Course, we provide you a Pre-Preparation Plan to begin preparation with the help of study materials provided by us. This Plan would help you understand the Syllabus and the demand of the UPSC examination and familiarise you with the types of questions that are asked in this examination. The course material of the Pre-Preparation Plan includes guidance on Model Answers Writing, Current Affairs Analysis, Weekly Objective Tests and Subjective Tests for each module. This plan is intended towards building a solid foundation for the students before they start their actual preparation.
The Vertical Plan
When you enter in the class for the first day, we will provide you a Vertical Plan through which you get to know what all tests you have to take each day in terms of Objective Tests or Power Writing submissions. The Objective Test is conducted on the UPSC pattern with negative markings and the Power Writing submissions are oriented towards the Mains examination. The Vertical Plan is geared towards ensuring an effective Retrieval Method and essentially proves that we are planned and organised in minutest details. Such meticulous planning also helps students to know what all they are going to study or what part of the UPSC Syllabus they are going to cover and when they are going to do that.
Answer Writing Practice
We focus a great deal on Answer Writing Practice through KSG’s Power Writing submissions that are divided into two parts: Focus Writing and Purpose Writing. In the Focus Writing, selected themes are provided to the students on which they bring their own write- ups but keep separate in their diary the title of their write-ups. These write-ups are provided to the evaluators, who give these write-ups suitable titles according to their respective contents. Similarly, in Purpose Writing, four options are provided such as Discuss, Evaluate, Comment or Highlight and the students have to accordingly write their answers. In the evaluation of Purpose Writing, the evaluator would tell the students whether they have suddenly changed the track in their approach.
Proof of Delivery (POD)
The Proof of Delivery (POD) is directed towards testing all topics according to the UPSC Syllabus such as History, Polity, Economy and International Relations etc., which are divided into different modules. When the faculty has finished one module, then we test that module. This is called Proof of Delivery. In a sense the students decide through the method of POD whether they have the ability to use the information in an expected format or not.
Performance Charting
We prepare a graph of the 30 objective type tests that are conducted of the students of the KSG Foundation Course to show their individual strength. This chart provides percentage of marks through which students can compare their individual performance with that of the topper of that test and also performance at all India level. Through this charting students can also assess in which topics they are weak and they can accordingly improve their performances to make themselves strong in a holistic manner. We also focus on Daily Progress Charting.
Current Issues Writing Practice (CIWP)
Within the first few weeks, we start taking the test of Current Issues Writing Practice (CIWP) for seven topics, which are covered in the previous weeks. Students are provided research assignments. These research assignments are provided by DR. A. R. Khan, on the basis of these assignments subjective classroom test will be conducted at the respective centres fortnightly.
My Notes
We also provide My Notes each fortnight from the newspapers. In My Notes, we also provide material from some news magazines.
The Current Connect
We also provide the students our in-house magazine named the Current Connect which covers the current affairs of the whole of previous month. In this magazine we cover an exhaustive list of topics of Current Affairs each month. It is unique in a way that the topics are updates of the Mains syllabus.
Flashback Series (CCW and Editorials)
We also keep our students updated on a regular manner on Current Affairs. As a Flashback Series, we provide the students those news which are old but still relevant and on which it is probable that questions may be asked in the forthcoming UPSC examination. Such news materials are provided to the students on a regular basis. Here, any current issue is explained with respect to their backdrops so that students are able to appreciate their present state. In the Current Cognitive Web (CCW), we cover those topics on which UPSC, rather than asking questions directly, may base questions surrounding those topics or related to those topics. We provide such material after their raw filter. We also provide Editorials from those newspapers that students often don’t read.
Reference Book Series
This includes materials from some reference books the author and material of which are very important and useful but it may not be needed to read those books in their entirety. From such books, two pages, four pages or a particular relevant topic is selected for the students to read and after filtering these materials we provide them to the students.
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Advance Foundation Course
During college and school days students gravitate away from their ultimate career investment as they often don’t study those things for which they are basically going to be tested. They may study Philosophy, History or Economics, but most of the competitive examinations focus on General Studies for which there are no specialised courses in Schools or Colleges. So, KSG with its decades of experience in General Studies and highly specialised team of experts mentored by Dr. A.R. Khan has formulated a course plan which we call ‘KSG Advance’ as the basic objective of this course is to train students to appear in competitive examinations early and therefore it works towards advancing their career. Primarily meant for the students planning to appear in the Civil Services examination conducted by the UPSC, the course may also be opted by students who have been simultaneously preparing for other competitive examinations at graduation level such as Bank Probationary Officers (PO) and Staff Selection Board (SSB) or those conducted at the 10+2 level such as National Defence Academy (NDA). In all these examinations General Studies constitute a substantial portion of the syllabus. Accordingly, the Curriculum of this course is divided into the following three categories: Cognitive Development Modules, Skills Development Modules and Personality Development Modules.
Reading Habit
In this course, KSG will be taking the students through essential readings by familiarising them 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 Abdul Kalam; Future Shock by Alvin Toffler; The Art of War by Sun Tzu; The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. What we are essentially is 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. This kind of activity would expose them to a wide range of readings so that they have got some idea of what is known as the ‘Discovery of India’ and all related things that they might have heard so far only cursorily.
Text Books
The students of KSG Advance Foundation Course would also be taught NCERT and other school text books in a more pointed 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.
Skill Development
This course would also have a module of providing those skills which are very essential for clearing any competitive examination. Such skills would include Spoken Skills, Writing Skills and Aptitude Traits. The students would get specialised help in areas such as the CSAT that figures as the Second Paper of General Studies in Civil Services PT examination. In this regard, special focus would be provided on developing their basic skills of numerical ability and logical reasoning.
Current Cognition
KSG Advance 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.
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.