Answer Writing Focus Group [AWFG] for Mains 2020 | Registrations Starts for 2nd Month from 9th Nov.
We shall be commencing with the Answer Writing Focus Group ( AWFG ) for Mains 2020 from October 10th ( Saturday)
Update 1: To check the detailed daily test plan of AWFG: Click Here
Update 2: This is to quickly inform you that the registrations for AWFG Entrance Test 2 are now Open. For those who missed the registration due to State PCS or other reasons and want to join, can register for it immediately.
Registrations will close by 2 PM, Monday and Test will be released at 5 PM. You must submit the test by 10 PM, Monday ( October 12).
No further extensions will be provided.
Registration Link: https://go.forumias.com/184
Update 3: List of Students selected in AWFG for Mains 2020 - Entrance Test 1.
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Update 4: List of Students selected in AWFG for Mains 2020 - Entrance Test 2.
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Update 5:Payment Link of AWFG - First Month:https://go.forumias.com/186
Update 6: The Paper will now be uploaded at 7 AM. So those of you who want to begin the day with Answer Writing Practice can get started early.
Update 7: We will be having a Telegram Group for connecting and sharing our Answers for better peer review of answers. The Link of TG Group is
https://t.me/joinchat/Ax-WPlHBblaZSGnCSSDS7Q
Update 8: Candidates are requested to renew for the second month by Monday, November 9 by paying a fee of Rs. 1500 + 18% GST. A grace period of 3 days - till November 11, 5 PM will be provided in which fees must be paid. From November 11, candidates will be removed from the course.
Payment Link for 2nd Month:https://go.forumias.com/230
What is AWFG?It is a focussed group for Mains Preparation by way of regular Answer Writing. We shall be requiring participants to do 1-hour answer writing every M/W/F for the next 2 months with us.
The Admissions to the AWFG will be based on an entrace test conducted on Saturday, October 10, 2PM. Candidates will be given a question Paper with 3-5 subjective questions to access their (a) conceptual understanding (b) note making ability (c) general awareness of current issues.
Candidates will be required to submit the Test on the same day at 10 PM by uploading on the portal.
The Answer Copies will be assessed by the Academy and students who are selected will be informed by email and SMS.
Note :
- This program is available only in the online mode.
- The program commenced from October 10 ( Saturday ), with the first Entrance Test.
- Results of the Entrance Test will be given out by Monday, 14 October at 11
- The First Test will be conducted Wednesday, October 14th.
- Students in ORN / KB can collect the daily Question Paper ( Hard Copy ) from the Center at after 11Am every day.
- Solutions along with Discussion Video will be uploaded by 7PM of the Test Day on the academy portal.
- Copies of AWFG are not evaluated.
Interested Candidates can register for the entrance test of the program by paying a fee of Rs. 500 + GST at this link.
Important Dates :
AWFG Test #1 (The first week will be Wednesday, & Friday. All other weeks will be M,W, F)October 14, 11 AM
| # | Activity / Event | Date / Deadline |
| 1 | Registrations Open for AWFG 2020 - Entrance Test 1 | October 6, 11 AM |
| 2 | Registration Closes for AWFG 2020 - Entrance Test 1 | October 9, 5 PM |
| 3 | Entrance Test of AWFG ( 1st ) at 11AM [ Online Portal academy.forumias.com >My courses ]
| October 10, 2 PM |
| 4 | Deadline for submission of Answers ( To be uploaded on Academy Portal Only ) | October 10, 10 PM |
| 5 | Registrations Open for AWFG 2020 - Entrance Test 2 | October 11, 9 AM |
| 6 | Registration Closes for AWFG 2020 - Entrance Test 2 | October 12, 2 PM |
| 7 | Entrance Test of AWFG ( 2nd ) [ Online Portal academy.forumias.com >My courses ] | October 12, 5 PM |
| 8 | Deadline for submission of Answers - Entrance Test 2( To be uploaded on Academy Portal Only ) | October 12, 10 PM |
| 9 | Selected Candidates for AWFG List (Entrance Test 1) and (Entrance Test 2) Released Fee Payment for first Month Deadline (AWFG Entrance Test 1) & ( AWFG Entrance Test 2) Note any students trying to pay fee after the deadlines will have to pay a Late Payment Penalty of Rs. 500. Please do not call us or email us at the last moment for same as this is a low cost program and we will not be able to provide you any support for it. | October 12, 2 PM & October 13, 11 AM October 12, 5PM & October 13, 3 PM |
| 10 | AWFG Test #1 ( First week will have test only on W, F. Later all Tests will be on M, W, F ) | October 14, 11AM |
Steps Interested Students Needed to take
- Register for the Entrance Test byclicking this linkand paying Fee Payment of Rs. 500
- On October 10, at 11AM Question will be in their course at My Courses on Academy Portal ( acdademy.forumias.com )
- Download the Question Paper and Write the Answers in A4 Sheet and upload it as per deadline clearly mentioning Name, ForumIAS Roll Number and Mobile Number. Upload it before the deadline.
- October 12, 11 AM Their Roll Numbers will be released on the Website. They must pay for the first month : Rs. 1900 / month ( including GST extra )
- UPPCS Appearing Students may email us their admit card and can write the test on Monday as per the procedure.
- Official Discussion Thread will be this link.Please ask any questions there.
- Detailed Plan will be updated by October 7, 8PM.
Note :
What you will get
- Questions & Answers ( 3 Tests every week with 1 hours duration and 7 Questions )
- Discussion Classes with goal of complete coverage of Mains Questions.
What you will not get
- Evaluation by ForumIAS ( MGP is for that )
- Mentorship ( MGP Students can seek that )
Fee Structure ( Subscription Plan )
- Entrance Test Fee – Rs. 500
- Fee for first Month Subscription will be Rs. 1500 plus GST @18%. This will allow you to access the course from 14th October till 6th November )
- Fee for second Month will be Rs. 1500 plus GST @18%. This will allow you to access the course till Mains 2020 ) . In case you do not renew your subscription for the second month, you will be removed from the course from 9 November. You will not be able to access older files / docs / videos )
@HotBloodPrince October 7 8pm :)
Thanks buddy. Tomorrow things will probably become more clear about this prog.
BD,
@Hayagreeva We want you to know that we are actively considering your suggestion. The thing is then we need to have like 2 Tests per Paper and four FLTs. But is very difficult for anyone to do GS Paper 1 in two tests. What do you suggest ?
BD,
@ForumIAS-AcademyFirst of all, thank you.Why have rigid 2 tests per paper like rigid approach. GS 1 requires more tests then have them, same with GS3. Like last year, IIRC, where we had more than 2 full weeks for GS4. Such detail was necessary, I mean I know people who prepared entire GS4 in that period, they were thankful for the attention AWG had with GS4. AWG was about completing syllabus, making notes, having meaningful readymade content at disposal, and writing fast. In that sense FLTs can be reduced, even you can say I am not very much excited for FLTs in AWG. We have MGPs and other test series for that purpose.Let me tell you something, the AWG model 7 question per hour was so wonderful that we continued even after completion of AWG till mains. However, that time had like 3 AWG sessions each in the morning, afternoon, and night. By this way we wrote FLTs of other major coaching that we purchased from market.So my suggestion would be focus on micro approach, that is what separates AWG from other test serieses.
Basically, we have to map AWFG Tests with one MGP Batch because people want that. Here is the modification which we have come to
( We begin with World History so that people study the least important parts in the beginning )
We are breaking up GS Paper 1 into 3 Tests for MGP, that is 3 weeks for Paper 1, 2 Weeks each for Paper 2, 3, and 4. I want you to know that whole MGP Team is working right now ( after a busy day at work ) to incorporate your suggestions - it may be exactly what you wanted, but it may fit your requirements.
Thank you for this.
Guys, apart from AWFG pour in suggestions how to best utilize forum for mains. We have a few answer writing threads for GS. Anything else? Collaborative effort always has yielded better results.
Here’s my suggestion ,
I feel lot of aspirants would have joined test series (MGP/Vision/Insights/GS Score etc) and some may also join AWFG. So invariably a decent amount of answer writing would be covered by end of December by coaching. What aspirants may find difficult this year is their content. Why so ?
1. Lesser time to finish off left subjects and lesser time to revise everything thoroughly enough number of times
2. Roughly for 6-9 months, the aspirants were into prelims mode, which means their mains current affair is severely lacking and a long time has elapsed since their revision done.
3. Style of UPSC questions in two years has changed, requires broad issue analysis
In light of above, I feel collaborative effort would be beneficial in the area of content/issue.
Just a random outline of what could be done :-
1. Let the GS 4 thread continue for answer writing since ethics requires more answer writing practise
2. We can use GS 1,2,3 thread for issue analysis/note making.
2a. 1 topic/issue each day can be picked up on GS 1,2,3 thread (so that will be 3 topic/issue every day)
2b. The topic/issue can be from monthly current affair or newspaper
2c. The task of choosing topic/issue can be delegated to willing aspirants on per day basis (eg. if we have 7 willing aspirants, we allocate days to them when they would choose topic/issue)
2d. Once topic is chosen for the day, that day constructive analysis and/or notes can be discussed strictly from UPSC point of view
2e. Even we follow this for 7-8 weeks, we should have roughly something substantial on 50-60 topics/issues. And this will take care of our content to a huge extent and also develop some multidimensional thinking on topics.
The above is just a thought, open to hearing what you think about it.
Here’s my suggestion ,
I feel lot of aspirants would have joined test series (MGP/Vision/Insights/GS Score etc) and some may also join AWFG. So invariably a decent amount of answer writing would be covered by end of December by coaching. What aspirants may find difficult this year is their content. Why so ?
1. Lesser time to finish off left subjects and lesser time to revise everything thoroughly enough number of times
2. Roughly for 6-9 months, the aspirants were into prelims mode, which means their mains current affair is severely lacking and a long time has elapsed since their revision done.
3. Style of UPSC questions in two years has changed, requires broad issue analysis
In light of above, I feel collaborative effort would be beneficial in the area of content/issue.
Just a random outline of what could be done :-
1. Let the GS 4 thread continue for answer writing since ethics requires more answer writing practise
2. We can use GS 1,2,3 thread for issue analysis/note making.
2a. 1 topic/issue each day can be picked up on GS 1,2,3 thread (so that will be 3 topic/issue every day)
2b. The topic/issue can be from monthly current affair or newspaper
2c. The task of choosing topic/issue can be delegated to willing aspirants on per day basis (eg. if we have 7 willing aspirants, we allocate days to them when they would choose topic/issue)
2d. Once topic is chosen for the day, that day constructive analysis and/or notes can be discussed strictly from UPSC point of view
2e. Even we follow this for 7-8 weeks, we should have roughly something substantial on 50-60 topics/issues. And this will take care of our content to a huge extent and also develop some multidimensional thinking on topics.
The above is just a thought, open to hearing what you think about it.
I am in. Just one input- delegation to a selected few may reduce participation. It's very likely that we all may have varying schedules. Issues can be listed and we can start writing it out. I, for one, have prepared in this manner in past wherein I picked 2-3 important issues and made my notes on it. For example, Prisoner Reforms. These are topics which are important and relevant but we wouldn't find gists in one book/compilation. Let's improvise while we do it?
Here’s my suggestion ,
I feel lot of aspirants would have joined test series (MGP/Vision/Insights/GS Score etc) and some may also join AWFG. So invariably a decent amount of answer writing would be covered by end of December by coaching. What aspirants may find difficult this year is their content. Why so ?
1. Lesser time to finish off left subjects and lesser time to revise everything thoroughly enough number of times
2. Roughly for 6-9 months, the aspirants were into prelims mode, which means their mains current affair is severely lacking and a long time has elapsed since their revision done.
3. Style of UPSC questions in two years has changed, requires broad issue analysis
In light of above, I feel collaborative effort would be beneficial in the area of content/issue.
Just a random outline of what could be done :-
1. Let the GS 4 thread continue for answer writing since ethics requires more answer writing practise
2. We can use GS 1,2,3 thread for issue analysis/note making.
2a. 1 topic/issue each day can be picked up on GS 1,2,3 thread (so that will be 3 topic/issue every day)
2b. The topic/issue can be from monthly current affair or newspaper
2c. The task of choosing topic/issue can be delegated to willing aspirants on per day basis (eg. if we have 7 willing aspirants, we allocate days to them when they would choose topic/issue)
2d. Once topic is chosen for the day, that day constructive analysis and/or notes can be discussed strictly from UPSC point of view
2e. Even we follow this for 7-8 weeks, we should have roughly something substantial on 50-60 topics/issues. And this will take care of our content to a huge extent and also develop some multidimensional thinking on topics.
The above is just a thought, open to hearing what you think about it.
I am in. Just one input- delegation to a selected few may reduce participation. It's very likely that we all may have varying schedules. Issues can be listed and we can start writing it out. I, for one, have prepared in this manner in past wherein I picked 2-3 important issues and made my notes on it. For example, Prisoner Reforms. These are topics which are important and relevant but we wouldn't find gists in one book/compilation. Let's improvise while we do it?
Valid inputs, and yes I agree, let’s improvise as and when we begin it
upsc2020,
Here’s my suggestion ,
I feel lot of aspirants would have joined test series (MGP/Vision/Insights/GS Score etc) and some may also join AWFG. So invariably a decent amount of answer writing would be covered by end of December by coaching. What aspirants may find difficult this year is their content. Why so ?
1. Lesser time to finish off left subjects and lesser time to revise everything thoroughly enough number of times
2. Roughly for 6-9 months, the aspirants were into prelims mode, which means their mains current affair is severely lacking and a long time has elapsed since their revision done.
3. Style of UPSC questions in two years has changed, requires broad issue analysis
In light of above, I feel collaborative effort would be beneficial in the area of content/issue.
Just a random outline of what could be done :-
1. Let the GS 4 thread continue for answer writing since ethics requires more answer writing practise
2. We can use GS 1,2,3 thread for issue analysis/note making.
2a. 1 topic/issue each day can be picked up on GS 1,2,3 thread (so that will be 3 topic/issue every day)
2b. The topic/issue can be from monthly current affair or newspaper
2c. The task of choosing topic/issue can be delegated to willing aspirants on per day basis (eg. if we have 7 willing aspirants, we allocate days to them when they would choose topic/issue)
2d. Once topic is chosen for the day, that day constructive analysis and/or notes can be discussed strictly from UPSC point of view
2e. Even we follow this for 7-8 weeks, we should have roughly something substantial on 50-60 topics/issues. And this will take care of our content to a huge extent and also develop some multidimensional thinking on topics.
The above is just a thought, open to hearing what you think about it.
Where can I find these answer writing threads? Are they active?
Here’s my suggestion ,
I feel lot of aspirants would have joined test series (MGP/Vision/Insights/GS Score etc) and some may also join AWFG. So invariably a decent amount of answer writing would be covered by end of December by coaching. What aspirants may find difficult this year is their content. Why so ?
1. Lesser time to finish off left subjects and lesser time to revise everything thoroughly enough number of times
2. Roughly for 6-9 months, the aspirants were into prelims mode, which means their mains current affair is severely lacking and a long time has elapsed since their revision done.
3. Style of UPSC questions in two years has changed, requires broad issue analysis
In light of above, I feel collaborative effort would be beneficial in the area of content/issue.
Just a random outline of what could be done :-
1. Let the GS 4 thread continue for answer writing since ethics requires more answer writing practise
2. We can use GS 1,2,3 thread for issue analysis/note making.
2a. 1 topic/issue each day can be picked up on GS 1,2,3 thread (so that will be 3 topic/issue every day)
2b. The topic/issue can be from monthly current affair or newspaper
2c. The task of choosing topic/issue can be delegated to willing aspirants on per day basis (eg. if we have 7 willing aspirants, we allocate days to them when they would choose topic/issue)
2d. Once topic is chosen for the day, that day constructive analysis and/or notes can be discussed strictly from UPSC point of view
2e. Even we follow this for 7-8 weeks, we should have roughly something substantial on 50-60 topics/issues. And this will take care of our content to a huge extent and also develop some multidimensional thinking on topics.
The above is just a thought, open to hearing what you think about it.
Where can I find these answer writing threads? Are they active?
I don’t think they’ve been active since 3months
jack_Sparrow,BD
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