It takes about 3 days for the Civil Services examination final results to sink in. Not getting through in the final merit list sometimes feels worse than not qualifying the prelims – for sometimes, it may alter the trajectory of our personal lives. And sometimes, more than one life. This is also the time, when… Continue reading Failure is a distraction – Making sense of the final results of CSE 2023
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[INVITATION] Prepare Current Affairs for Prelims 2024 – New Delhi, 27th February at 5PM – OFFLINE ONLY
Dear Friends, Sometime in 2016, we invited our students to attend the first batch of Current Affairs Classes at our Offline Center. Ever since that day, we have never looked back, and have grown as an academy from 74 successful students out 86 students joining us in offline mode to over 600+ students in final… Continue reading [INVITATION] Prepare Current Affairs for Prelims 2024 – New Delhi, 27th February at 5PM – OFFLINE ONLY
Today @ 4 PM at KB | DAF + Cadre preference + Queries
Dear Friends, Yesterday, we gathered at the Karol Bagh Centre and discussed some basic strategies for personality test preparation. Continuing from the previous session, we will be meeting again today at the Karol Bagh Centre. We will be discussing about: Service & cadre preferences The things that are needed to score well in… Continue reading Today @ 4 PM at KB | DAF + Cadre preference + Queries
Interview Prep Meet up at 4PM on Sunday
Dear Friends, The Mains results have just come. On Sunday at 4PM we shall have an informal gathering to discuss two things: Interview Preparation Strategy DAF Filling strategy including Cadre and Service filling This year, I have also invited two special friends, now serving in the IAS, who were a part of the first community… Continue reading Interview Prep Meet up at 4PM on Sunday
Inviting Applications for SFG – Forum Residential Coaching for CSE 2024
Click here to skip the story. Visit https://forumias.com/blog/sfg to register for regular SFG in New Delhi, Gurugram, and other cities. UPDATE on 04th Jan at 7PM ( SFG – FRC Cohort 2 ) Dear Students, A Webinar is organized today i.e. Thursday, 04 January 2024 at 8PM. All SFG-FRC Cohort 2 Students can join from… Continue reading Inviting Applications for SFG – Forum Residential Coaching for CSE 2024
How to turn around your preparation ( and life ) after 4 Prelims failure + The Story of Natasha Goel + Complete Noted in PDF
What would you say to a girl who has flunked Prelims four times? That she has little time left before she winds up her UPSC journey. Or that she should be in an effort minimization mode, spend no single penny on her further preparation. Perhaps look for a job elsewhere, and recover some of the… Continue reading How to turn around your preparation ( and life ) after 4 Prelims failure + The Story of Natasha Goel + Complete Noted in PDF
23 Suggestions for those Writing Mains 2023
There are less than 23 hours remaining for the Mains examination as I write this. Tomorrow at this time, we will be in the examination hall writing the first Essay Paper. It has been 11 years since we founded ForumIAS, and it has been a wonderful journey learning from the few hundred people that I… Continue reading 23 Suggestions for those Writing Mains 2023
Mains 2023 Students + Sunday, 5PM in New Delhi
Dear Friends, A number of our friends are writing the Mains 2023. If you are one of those, this is for you. We have cleared the Prelims, after a lot of slogging. And just when we thought we have won half the game, the Mains stares at us, hardly a month from now.… Continue reading Mains 2023 Students + Sunday, 5PM in New Delhi
The failure Meet Up Post Prelims 2023
Dear Friends, The Prelims results have come out. Some of us have made it. Some of us will make it next year. The truth is- we don’t know yet. For those of our friends, who have not made it, it is time we take a 2 day break And then come back. The first step to deal with this… Continue reading The failure Meet Up Post Prelims 2023
Turnaround Story of Natasha – 4 Prelims Failure, One Massive Success!
Its been ten years we have been running the Forum. I remember the first Thank you message I got from Harsh about nearly a decade ago, when he secured Rank 43 in his first attempt. Almost half a decade ago, it was Forum Member Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh who said – Sir you should set up an offline… Continue reading Turnaround Story of Natasha – 4 Prelims Failure, One Massive Success!