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 )
For someone writing first Mains and with very little previous preparation of either optional or the GS papers, would it be advisable to join AWFG ?
After reading the experiences of some people who joined earlier, i get a feel that the course is without doubt very intensive (which may leave little time to prepare optional) and without a proper peer group you may not be able to derive the full benefits of the programme as there.s no evaluation and you.d be stuck in your own bubble ..
It would really helpful if someone can share their views. @Hayagreeva
@Neyawn Sir, some guidance please.
Hello I was expecting marks/rank.
चिंता न करो ! सब का कटा है ! Everyone was expecting a rank list of sorts.
But if it means something, I am just glad to see thecompetitive spirit of everyonehere !
In hindsight, expecting rank and marks for questions like ,"what is your story" or "what can forumias do to be better" was actually a bit naïve. But yes, I was expecting to see the reviewed sheets at least. Comments are necessary to gauge whether the direction is right.
Anyway. Best of luck for AWFG. Lets be Consistent and improve with every answer that we write. Ranks and marks will take care of themselves.
When we do walk out of that exam hall on 18th of January at 5:00 PM, the feeling should be ,"I prepared well. I gave my all" instead of " काश थोड़ा और....."
Cheers :)
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?
For someone writing first Mains and with very little previous preparation of either optional or the GS papers, would it be advisable to join AWFG ?
After reading the experiences of some people who joined earlier, i get a feel that the course is without doubt very intensive (which may leave little time to prepare optional) and without a proper peer group you may not be able to derive the full benefits of the programme as there.s no evaluation and you.d be stuck in your own bubble ..
It would really helpful if someone can share their views. @Hayagreeva
@Neyawn Sir, some guidance please.
With all the information, schedule, mode of operation in public domain, whether to not join will be your call.
However, for anyone writing first mains, optional should be first priority. I learnt this hard way. It yields very high return on investment. Optionals reward you handsomely for each extra thing you put into. But this is not the case with GS.
Good optional can compensate for below average GS but even extra ordinary GS can't compensate for sub par optional.
I wish you all the best.
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.
@forumiasacademy Why is my name not there in selected list ? I don’t buy this that 400 people wrote better answers and I was the 501st candidate whom you chucked off?
And she's got some rank in upsc 2019(quoted by forumias itself) and now she's not selected in awfg. That's high level swag from forum 😅
@forumiasacademy Hi, this isimportant! In the instruction sheet attached in the email, it is mentioned that the answers should be written in the question cum answer (QCA) booklet attached therein. A lot of us aspirants who aren't in New Delhi don't have the luxury of a printer shop nearby our houses and hence I would request you to allow writing the answers on A4 sheets and uploading the same.
Hello everyone.
This group was formed with a purpose in 2018 to read, evaluate each others answers. And to benefit from it. It was aligned with AWFG program to maintain the quality of questions we attend.
So, it is time once again. I shall be sharing the questions daily. What we all have to do is,
✓ write atleast a few answers
✓ read , and may be review others
✓ via this exercise add on to your existing knowledge base.
Do make sure that you write the test. Because you will definitely add on to it. This group already has some selected candidates and mentors as well.
✓ check the question paper by 7 am.
✓ start reviewing by 11, so that everyone is able to see most of the files without much effort.
Those who are not sending their answers, kindly review. But please do contribute.
Also, to those whose copies are being reviewed by others. Do reciprocate and make the same efforts by reviewing other answers.
I hope we all shall be able to add on to our preparation via this group effort. Let's make it worth.
Regards.
Alankrit ❤
Link of telegram group.
https://t.me/joinchat/Ax-WPlHBblaZSGnCSSDS7Q
@ForumIAS-Academy where is the result
Selected folks will receive a mail stating they are eligible.
haan aa gaya mail mujhe bhi.
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