Dear Friends,
The Mains Guidance Program ( MGP) 2017 is the second year of ForumIAS’s Mains Guidance Program.
The MGP of 2016 had an intake of 86 students, out of which 73 candidates got an Interview call.
Out of these 86 candidates, there were 43 candidates ( exactly 50%) who appeared for their first Interview. This means that they had been writing Mains before, but were not able to break the Mains barrier, and did not appear for the Interview before.
This includes ForumIAS members like @drkingschultz , @IWRA @louislitt @md47 , @mittali sethi and dozens of other members .
ForumIAS Members like Louislitt / Prajit Nair and Mittali Sethi have secured IAS rank 87 and 56 respectively, having benefited from the program.
You can read the detailed strategy of Prajit Nair by clicking here.
Sushil, who was earlier in allied services for more than two consecutive years, was able to improve his rank with MGP and has secured IAS Rank 96.
MGP is a mentor supported , test series based preparation plan for Civil Services Mains Examination.
MGP+ is aan augmented variation of the MGP, and it also includes 5 Essay Tests with evaluation with discussion classes.
While MGP is suitable for anyone appearing for the Mains Examination, we recommend that is it most useful for
- Candidates who have been writing Mains before, but unable to secure an Interview call
- Candidates who are unable to score in GS well over the years
- Candidates who are looking for rank improvement and service up-gradation.
Having said that, MGP is a very beginner friendly mentor supported Test Series program, and first timers who have no prior experience of answer writing have hugely benefited from it.
- Test Series Papers as per UPSC Standards as per schedule in both online and offline mode.
- Exhaustive Model Answers to help candidates prepare the syllabus well
- Telephonic Guidance from Mentor to discuss your paper and possible preparation strategy.
- Discussion classes after each Test
- Flexibility in writing the Tests at any later date once the Tests are released.
- A personal Mentor allocated to you to monitor your progress.
- MGP consists of GS Tests only whereas MGP+ includes Essay Tests as well. We decided to add the Essay Tests as in 2016, we saw that our students could not do any essay practice as we had not offered any. We did evaluate some of the essays for students who came to us, from the free Weekly Essay Tests on the ForumIAS Blog.
- Not practicing a single Essay can be detrimental to your total scores as essay scores have gone as high as 160 . Thus, effectively it has more effective weightage than the GS Paper 1 ,2,3 or 4 where marks are usually in the range on 90-125.
- Thus Essay offers a unique opportunity as well as challenge to candidates to get a good score, and the service of their choice.
- For 2017, we have decided to include Essay as well. Thus MGP+ also includes 5 Essays.
A Mentor is a person who has relevant experience of the Civil Services examination, who guides and evaluates your copies and also provides feedback – both written and telephonically.
A mentor is responsible for seeing that feedback provided by him / her is implemented by the candidates in subsequent Tests
The MGP 2017 began in December 2016 for the Civil Services Mains Examination 2017.
The next batch of MGP starts on July 1
- MGP/MGP+ Batch A – Download Brochure Here – Enrollment Closed
- MGP/MGP+ Batch B – Download Brochure Here – Enrollment Closed
- MGP/MGP+ Batch C – Download Brochure Here – Admission closed|
Any further admissions will be on case by case basis. In case, you had already informed us about late payments, you can email us at shantanu@forumias.academy
We do provide an offline Center for writing the Test Papers in exam environment. We currently have one Test Center in Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi
The address of the Test Center is :
ForumIAS, 3rd Floor, Shop No. 6. Old Rajinder Nagar Market, New Delhi 110060
You can refer to any of the below landmarks to locate us.
Landmark : Near Syndicate Bank ATM | Lane in which KSG is there | 3rd Floor above NEXT IAS.
Google Maps Location : http://is.gd/ForumIAS
You can write the Tests at the Offline Center 6 days a week between 10AM to 5PM. The Test Center will be closed on Thursday for clean up.
Apart from this the Test Center will be closed on National Holidays ( such as Independence Day ) or upon any such regulation as provided by local administration such as local elections.
You will be intimated if the Test Center is closed apart from National Holidays.
You can also reach our Test Center in charge Vinay at 9821711605. You can also email us at student@forumias.academy for any assistance.
If you are facing any difficulties with respect to the program, copy checking, or any other issues, you can reach out to vinay@forumias.academy or call him at 9821711605.
If your issue is unresolved, you can reach out to shantanu@forumias.academy or call him at 8800631116
