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Our Strategy
It is said that Rome was not built in a day, and we at KSG India believe in the philosophy of “KAIZEN,” or a stepwise gradual improvement in the quality of knowledge & skill sets that a student possesses. Khan Sir has encapsulated these ideals and ideas in the Panchamrita model.
The Panchamrita of Khan Sir: USP of KSG
- Students are always the priority.
- Leave no questions unanswered.
- Rigorous and Regular testing modules.
- Tailormade Mentoring until the final selection.
- Students association with KSG extends beyond the classes.
More importantly, we at KSG India continuously brainstorm and produce value-added content and classroom experience. This enables targeted preparation, separating the “to be read” and “not to be read” content.
Key features of our Foundation course:1. Comprehensive Coverage of the entire UPSC CSE syllabus under Module based Teaching Program. The course aims at preparing students for all the three stages of UPSC CSE.The books and material are designed keeping in mind the changing pattern of the exam and aim at covering the entire syllabus for UPSC CSE.
- The books and material are designed keeping in mind the changing pattern of the exam and aim at covering the entire syllabus for UPSC CSE.
- In addition to the books KSG also gives supplementary material to students to further enhance their knowledge. This material is compiled by a team of dedicated researchers and saves the precious time of students.
- Dedicated Academic & Administrative POC (point of contact) for each student.
- Daily Objective and Subjective Tests will be conducted with assessment & monthly analysis report.
- A student’s association with KSG continues after the completion of the course they undertook. Post Course Knowledge transfer Program gives students access to updated material (daily, weekly and monthly) and tests regularly through a dedicated portal. This service is offered free of cost to students.
- Over the years many questions have been asked directly from the class notes and supplementary material. This consistent ability to predict the questions being asked in UPSC points to the fact that KSG has cracked the UPSC code and devised the right technique to give highly relevant material to the exam.
- Faculty support extends beyond the class.
- Special tutorial class by the faculty upon completion of the segment.
- Every student is assigned a personal mentor to address any academic or non- academic doubts. The students can rely on them as their teacher and guide.
- In addition to solving the doubts of candidates mentors also hold regular discussion sessions with the students regarding different aspects of their preparation such as newspaper reading, notes making, scheduling their day, answer writing etc.
- Regular classes on Current affairs covering all the current affairs issues in great detail.
- Answer writing sessions are conducted to teach students the art of answer writing.
- Subjective tests are conducted regularly to judge students on different dimensions of answer writing.
- Scholarship program (Earn Your Fee Back)
Under the leadership of DR Khan, KSG India has delivered consistent results. All of the top five successful candidates in the year 2020 were from KSG. The consistent result produced by KSG showcases its methodologies’ success and dedication to helping its students realise their true potential.
WHY KSG?
Under the leadership of DR Khan, KSG India has delivered consistent results. All of the top five successful candidates in the year 2020 were from KSG. The consistent result produced by KSG showcases its methodologies’ success and dedication to helping its students realise their true potential.
Dedicated Faculty: Under the guidance of DR Khan, KSG India has developed an excellent team of experienced and dedicated faculty whose unending commitment to the students has led to the astonishing success of the institution. In addition to being technically adept, the faculty at KSG India are renowned for their dedication to their students. The support of the faculty extends beyond the class. The faculties personally engage with students by sharing their contact details with the students, enabling students to ask any queries they face even after their course ends. The same is true for DR Khan, who engages with students at a personal level. And this is why many top bureaucrats of the country and serving civil servants credit DR Khan and Team KSG and remain in touch with us even after their selection.
Focus on answer writing: Since 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. The answer-writing sessions are conducted under the guidance of DR. Khan, and emphasis is laid on the practice of answer-writing from day one. Giving students enough time to hone their skills and work on their weaknesses.
Regular evaluation: Daily objective and subjective tests allow students to evaluate their progress on a regular basis. We have developed many innovative techniques to judge candidates on different aspects. Tests like POD and CIWP aim to judge the answer writing techniques of the student and helps them identify their mistakes.
At the end of the month, the students are presented with a performance chart. This chart depicts their performance in the tests conducted throughout the month, and a comparative analysis is also given with the performance of past UPSC toppers from KSG.
Mentorship Program: KSG prides itself on giving students a holistic learning experience. One of the components of this is the Mentorship program, where every student is attached to a mentor. The mentor acts as a guardian angel to the student and guides them through the UPSC journey. The mentors adopt a handholding approach with the students and help them with academic and non-academic doubts or personal issues. The main aim of the mentorship program is to ensure that every student is provided with the intellectual and emotional assistance they require during this journey.
Material: The material provided by KSG in terms of its books, daily current affairs updation material and the monthly current affairs compilation magazine is all designed keeping in mind the changing pattern of the UPSC examination. The material is created by a team of dedicated researchers who are experts in their field. These notes are designed to complement the class notes and help students approach the examination in the proper manner.
Questions are asked directly from KSG material: One of the misconceptions associated with UPSC CSE is that anything under the sun is asked. However, this is a fallacy. Over the years many questions have been asked directly from the class notes and supplementary material. This consistent ability to predict the questions being asked in UPSC points to the fact that KSG has cracked the UPSC code and devised the right technique to give highly relevant material to the exam.
Post-Course Knowledge Transfer: A student’s association with KSG continues after the completion of the course they undertook. Post Course Knowledge transfer Program gives students access to updated material (daily, weekly and monthly) and tests regularly through a dedicated portal. This service is offered free of cost to students. This program ensures that the student receives the required material and guidance until their name appears in the final list of UPSC.
KSG FOUNDATION COURSE
The KSC 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 1, II, Ill 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, Vertical Plan, Answer Writing Practice, Current Issucs Writing Practice (CIWP), Proof of Delivery (POD), Flashback Series, My Notes, 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 Subjective Tests and their submissions. The Objective Test is conducted on the UPSC pattern with negative markings and
Subective Iestssuchas Power Hiniting submissions ar oriented towards the Mainscxamination. The Vertical Plan is gcared 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 stuly or what part of the LPSCSy llabus 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 KSC’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 oftheir 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 end
KSG FOUNDATION COURSE
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 livided 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 for 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 three topics, which are covered in the previous weeks. The Research assignments are provided by Dr. Khan and on the basis of these assignments subjective tests are conducted at the respective centres fortnightly.
MY NOTE
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 Monthly Magazine named the “Current Connect” which covers the current affairs of the whole month. In this magazine we cover around 100 topics of Current Affairs each month. It is unique in a way that the topics are covered holistically.
FLASHBACK SERIES (CCW, EDITORIALS AND SNAPSHOT)
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. Flashback series also includes Snapshot under which we give articles from some of the magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra & etc.
Foundation Course
KSG offers India’s best General Studies & CSAT under the expertise of Dr Khan in both Regular & Weekend classes program.
The innovative approach towards combining the preliminary and mains general studies section under one program, is to broaden the objective knowledge as well as subjective knowledge. We, Khan Study Group, provide Foundation Course, Pre-cum-Mains for the General Studies as it is considered the most essential part in UPSC preparation. We intended to focus the General Studies section, as it is classified into a wide section of Indian History, Polity, Geography, Economic 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 modify 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 includes current topics as well.
- We have designed POD technique to keep a check on your preparation on a regular basis.
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.