TWO YEARS FOUNDATION COURSE

About the Course

Civil Services is one service in the country which provides able administrators to run the country. The selection for Civil Services is done by UPSC. UPSC is the Autonomous Organisation, whose main function is to choose the administrators, who can run the country and manage its day to day affairs. The aim is to choose the right bureaucrat on whose shoulder the administration of the country can be given.

To meet this demand institution of UPSC it is looking for certain qualities in the candidates:

Candidates with leadership qualities who have an organizational capability and a solution oriented thinking.,
Persons who can adjust, adapt and accommodate with dynamic challenges of diverse India,
Candidates who are flexible to suit to the requirement of the down trodden strata of the society.
Candidates who can build social capital and take a variety of people along.
Candidates who have a very good communication ability to communicate to varied profiles and interests.

This 2 year Foundation Course will not only prepare you completely for taking the Civil Services Exam but will also infuse a kind of attitudinal transformation in you in the due course of your preparation.

If candidates have to succeed, they will have to be open and be spontaneous. Civil Services preparation is not about rote learning as is normally thought and as it is handled by the candidates.

UPSC DEMANDS AND STUDENTS NEED

The problems that the candidates face is many.

In this era of deluge of information and an information overload through internet and media, understanding of the issues of socio-cultural, national and international importance you have to be really very objective and wise in choosing the right content. Internet has no regulation and any one can post anything without any accountability.

Moreover, UPSC wants the candidates to have independent thinking as a part of independent personality; they must have value-based orientation so that they are not prone to being manipulated and also that they are not tempted.

By adding the paper on ethics and integrity, UPSC has tried to orient candidates to have value loaded and ethically derived decision making capability and wisdom based educational orientation. Without this trait, the demand of professionalism and performance will be difficult to meet..

NATURE OF THE COURSE

This course will be a Mains and Prelims integrated course (including CSAT).

Steps in preparation

Phase I

Emphasis on

Revising the entire of school learning, and revisiting all the schoolbooks.
Find gaps in whatever they have not learned—fill this gap
Make a concerted effort to develop the language, comprehension and expression.
Start reading newspaper regularly, Collect the different words. Comprehend the language prepare a synopsis.

Phase II

Start concentrating on your personality. Expose yourself to different situations. Your personality development effort should have following components.

1. Completing your sentences while conversing
2. Don’t leave loose ends while conversing
3. Stop taking extreme viewpoints.
4. Start balancing your perception and thought
5. Read as many newspapers as possible. Try to read between lines.
6. Meet variety of people. Try your best to understand them. Understand that everyone is different.

This understanding will be important for preparing a base to study Paper- IV of General Studies. As a first step Paper IV preparation and understanding is important to begin with as it will help develop a perspective for understanding General Studies.

Having revised the school syllabus and the entire of school level subjects, the foundation is created to take a certain amount of load. Having got the ability to read and understand the newspapers, the candidate will be able to develop a perspective. Having taken a keen interest in oneself, and the surroundings, the students will be able to develop his/her thinking, perspective, and start differentiating between perception and reality, the candidate will now start understanding the world better and start learning much more fruitfully rather than only memorise chapter.

Phase – III

Having got the complete syllabus and knowledge and information about the syllabus the candidates will start developing correlative ability. This will comprise of

Preparing a synopsis of the topic
Go for a writing practice by selecting questions and answering them. Once in writing practice, start perfecting writing.

Phase –IV

Continue all of those things learned

Keep developing perspective
Learn about the topics but not only from books
Go for extensive writing practice
Keep meeting people, keep discussing topics
Continue reading magazines and topics of choice so that the perspectives and innovation remain fresh and the candidates keep innovating with ideas and concepts.

CURRICULUM AND COURSE PLAN

First year

Components	Why is it important	Where will it help	Comments
Communication & Body Language Improvement	For being cultured For being more acceptable For making friends who can be helpful	In Interview In becoming favourites with the teacher
Language Improvement	To express anything that the students wish to To write good answers To speak well	In CSAT In other exams such as SSC, or any other exams
Revision of entire school books and its current dimensions with an aim to build foundation.	To prepare the candidates well in advance of their Preliminary Examination, as the first phase of preparation out of three phases in the coming three years	In one day exams such as SSC, and forming the base of other exams including state PCS.
	General Science NCERT level	To answer Objective type questions
	History NCERT level
	Polity NCERT level
	Geography NCERT level
	Ecology and Environment NCERT level
	Economics NCERT level
	Current Affairs Background NCERT

	level
CSAT preparation and customisation	Extend the sharp thinking of the candidates, and their recent mathematical practices into making it solid and concrete.	In exams such as SSC, or any other exams including Bank PO. exams

Second year

Components	Why is it important	Where will it help	Comments
Understanding oneself, their parents and teachers	Know ones strength	In personality Development and Interview
Understanding their surroundings	Build ones strength	In personality Development and Interview
Learning to make bonds, and social capital		In easing preparation and distributing work.
World trip in class	Understanding World geography for a solid base of World history, International Affairs, Geography, and Current affairs	In Preliminary Examination of UPSC, in SSC, in any competitive examination.
Reading Newspapers	For Current Affairs preparation	In any examination of the world.
Learning through various means- Films, Books, Interactions, Parents, Teachers, TV,	For facilitating learning and that too fun learning and learning through any source, not only books	In writing essay and General Knowledge anywhere it is required.
Background of events and World problems	For building a solid base for International and national Affairs and Current Affairs	Reading newspaper with ease, to answer all questions that can be asked from Society, Indian political background, and

		Foreign Policy.
Mastering GS Prelims Preparation	Revision of everything studied so far	Now the students can take any PCS examination.
Mastering CSAT Paper for Prelims Preparation	Practice makes perfect	In providing certainty and security for qualification
Preparing the candidates and perfecting them for Government Services and Jobs offered through SSC. Banking Services and trains them for Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship development	Revision of everything studied so far.	Now the students can take any SSC examination or any one day examination.

GS Mains Course Information and Sources

General Studies- I

SECTION		STUDY MATERIAL & CHAPTER	VIDEO LESSONS	TESTS		ENRICHMENT AND ADDITIONS
Indian Heritage &		Book on Indian Heritage &	Animated Video	For	Mains	Current Update
Culture		Culture by K. Siddhartha	lessons with	and		links and Video
			documentary type	Prelims		footage for story
			explanation			line explanation
Freedom		FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF	Classroom lessons
Struggle	and	INDIA-SEN GUPTA	coupled with
Indian History		BANDOPADHYAYA- FROM	Micro learning
		PLASSEY TO PARTITION	topics of niche
			sections.
History of the World and Society		Book of International relations by NCERT THEMES IN WORLD HISTORY	NCERT lessons explanation.	For Mains		Micro films
		CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY
Society Social Justice	and	Selected study material from Different sources
Geography of the World and Society		THE NEW WORLD: GEOGRAPHY OF THE CHANGING WORLD AND SOCIETIES-K. SIDDHARTHA	Animated Video lessons with documentary type explantion
		NCERT GENERAL GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA
		NCERT RESOURCES AND REGIONAL PLANNING

General Studies- II

Polity: Constitution & Governance	Selected study material from Different sources
Social Justice	Selected study material from Different sources
International relations	THE WORLD SINCE 1945 (7TH EDITION) WAYNE C.M.C.WILLIAMS, HARRY PIOTROWSKI
	Links of Current Affairs related sections.
	Micro films

India’s foreign Policy and relations with neighbours.

India’s Foreign Policy by Ganguly

General Studies-III

Science & Technology	Book on Science and Technology by -K. Siddhartha
Economic Development	Selected study material from Different sources, Links of Current Affairs related sections. Micro films
Bio diversity, Environment	Environmental Issues by K. Siddhartha
Security and Disaster Management.	DISASTER MANAGEMENT BY K.SIDDHARTHA

General Studies- IV: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude

This paper will include questions to test the candidates’ attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity in public life and his problem solving approach to various issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing with society. Questions may utilise the case study approach to determine these aspects.

Selected study material from Different sources. Links of Current Affairs related sections.

Micro films.

Class lecture recordings

Micro films on various case studies.

Essay

The Essay Paper is one of the nine papers in the UPSC Civil Services Mains exam. In this paper, you will have to write two essays each with a word count of 1000 – 1200. One topic can be selected from a choice of four topics. The Essay Paper is for a total of 250 marks with one essay for 125 marks.

Objective Behind Essay

To help students comprehend the theme, philosophy and essence of the essay, structure and organize their information, process and present it as per expectation of the UPSC in a manner that it reveals the candidates’ attitude and administrative acumen.

This course aims to improve the attitude behind the comprehension of the topic of the essay, and help the candidates to understand themselves and their flaws in expression, language, presentation and then to transform them to develop writing smoothly as per UPSC requirements.

Essay hasn’t got any syllabus and a meticulous preparation requires knowing a lot of things unknown as well as to understand oneself.

The aim of Essay programme is to help candidates:

To know and follow the expectation of the UPSC.
How to develop comprehension over the topic of the essay or developing a proper understanding of the topic.
Writing and expression improvement and identification of glitches in that.
How to follow Intra and Interdisciplinary approach and make it perspective based rather than problem solution based.
Mastery over handling various types of essays like abstract and philosophy based essay, knowledge based and Contemporary issue based.
A team of most experienced examiners to evaluate your topics.

REFERNCE BOOKS WITH NEW INCLUSIONS

SOURCES FOR GS PRELIMINARY HISTORY

Puffins, Super Simple History
Basic- NCERT History
Basic- NCERT History
Advanced History – Bashan – The Wonder that was India.
Indian Heritage and Culture- K.Siddhartha
India’s Freedom Struggle- Sen Gupta

GEOGRAPHY

Goh Cheng Leong for Basics, but now needs to be urgently supplemented.
Geography Through Maps – K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee for Map Study
Basic Physical Geography- K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee, or
Indian Geography for Preliminary Examination- K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee for a complete PT orientation

SCIENCE

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology from Science Series of Dorling Kindersley for Applications.
Science, Technology and Society- K. Siddhartha

POLITY

Our Constitution by Subhash Kashyap
Indian Polity by Laxmikant

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Times of India
2. Hindu
3. Indian Express
4. Any competition magazine
5. Portal management

ECOLOGY

Environment by NCERT.
Ecology & Environment – K.Siddhartha
Ecology & Environment for Preliminary Examination Vol-I

PRACTICE QUESTION BANK

Ensemble Series
New Questions from Current Section

GS Prelims (Integrated with Mains wherever the topics are common)

Section	Books	Explanation and Teaching mode	Revision and Practice	Other Support
Polity	Short Smart Study of Ensemble	Classroom explanation along with recorded	Weekly fortnightly as per the

		explanations	schedule.
Economy	Short Smart Study of Ensemble	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Ancient History of India	Short Smart Study of Ensemble	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Medieval History of India	Short Smart Study of Ensemble	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Modern History	India’s Freedom Struggle- Sen Gupta	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Indian Art and Culture	Indian Heritage and Culture- K.Siddhartha	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Environment and Biodiversity	Ecology & Environment by K.Siddhartha Ecology & Environment for Preliminary Examination Vol-I	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
General Science	Short Smart Study of Ensemble	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Science & Technology	Science, Technology & Society- K. Siddhartha	Classroom explanation along with recorded explanations
Geography	Geography Through Maps by K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee for Map Study Basic Physical Geography by K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee, or Geography for Preliminary Examination- K.Siddhartha & S.Mukherjee for a	High grade Multimedia doscumentary type films on chapter.

complete PT orientation

Govt. Schemes

Links of Government programmes

Will be provided from time to time

Current Affairs

Economic Survey (Selective reading from Prelims perspective)

The Hindu Indian Express

Various online links and Mocrofilms.

PROVISIONS WITH THE CANDIDATES

Accessibility to the best teachers for Civil services, who can really transform any candidates future, rather than bank on new generation coaches, having limited knowledge and who themselves require attitudinal correction.
Choice of teachers /coaches and trainers who can be called on students request and/or from where the students want to go for studies/classes/coaching.
To call any specialist from any where in the country within the framework of mentoring process.
The students can share the problems and find solution with the people who feel for the candidates and are concerned about the country.
Have insider information into what the organization is, which is conducting their exam is thinking, and accordingly mould their preparation.
Availability of material and unhindered access to that knowledge source from where model answers are framed.
The students manage the entire programme with complete transparency on the same lines as is being managed in one of the best business schools in India and on the same lines as ISB, Hyderabad.

Animated video lectures prepared in documentary form with a story like explanation. These videos are prepared by the best animation experts, choicest video galleries, original footage laced with authenticated facts to ease your understanding, increase retentivity and improve imagination. Two hours of the classroom is reduced to just half an hour of fun watching and learning.
A second and separate recorded lecture includes Explanatory videos in a classroom atmosphere.
A complete study material in a structured form will be made available to you either via post or print out or in any electronic form. The chapter includes everything that the topic requires. It is a formidable compilation drawn from the best sources available in the world for Civil Services-NCERT, SCERT, Government Reports, The Hindu, Yojana, Kurukshetra…….and what not. Nothing is required beyond that.
Practice Online Tests along with evaluation.

DAILY ROUTINE AND SCHEDULE from Monday to Friday

TIMING
8-10	NEWSPAPER READING IN LIBRARY, VOCABULARY IMPROVEMENT, PREPARING SYNOPSIS FROM NEWSPAPER, UNDERSTANDING COMPREHENSION
10.30-12.30	SYNOPSIS DISCUSSION AND PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

1.30-5.30

ASSIGNED GS TOPICS, PRPARING MONOLOGUES, CHAPTER, SUMMARY, strengthening

information base