Bogus Marketing + Self Promotion Thread
Creating this thread for bogus marketing , self-promotion, sharing success stories and little victories! Will add small success stories and a little self bragging of self and forumias as a whole.
I will get back on this thread over weekend as I have more time. Just few things for clarification
1. You overestimate me :-) I have just been doing what I enjoy. Not saying this to sound humble or cool. You know me because you have been on forum. College folks and 80% people writing Prelims do not know of forum. You could say that after 2-3 attempts, most people hear of forum.
2. I am not too centred about ethics. I am more like stupid things wont help in the long run. Every question is not a question of ethics. Its more like being smart or stupid. And when you are doing things that have a commercial angle, you ought not be stupid , lest hundred of people sink with you ( i mean employees/ team members ). Look, the english medium crowd was always the crowd which knew better, which was not bought by fancy advertising etc. That has however changed. At least in this part of the country - the ORN/ Karol Bagh area, people English medium crowd - which until 10 years ago was more aware - has shown to be equally befooled by fake advertising - which was only a Hindi medium coaching problem.
What I think is - a lot of people are doing things which is not right, but I am not so concerned about what is right and what is wrong - but more so about what is good in the long run. It is merely co-incidental that good business practices help in the long run.
3. This community is the biggest check against stupid things that Forum may want to do. To build a coaching with a community front face was challenging, but has helped build strong pillars that support forum in the long run.
4. As forum scales, I see investors not at all interested in results, success and outcome. They want to invest in a company that can generate revenue without results. They are more likely to find a - say a Srishti IAS better avenue to invest as its business operations is not based on learning outcomes or results. I see investors all keen on lowering the quality of courses to cater to a few million users, without which they do not value it. When it comes to Civils, if your curriculum is not as per exam, your students will end up clearing some other exam, but not upsc.
Will share some more thoughts over weekends.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
I will get back on this thread over weekend as I have more time. Just few things for clarification
1. You overestimate me :-) I have just been doing what I enjoy. Not saying this to sound humble or cool. You know me because you have been on forum. College folks and 80% people writing Prelims do not know of forum. You could say that after 2-3 attempts, most people hear of forum.
2. I am not too centred about ethics. I am more like stupid things wont help in the long run. Every question is not a question of ethics. Its more like being smart or stupid. And when you are doing things that have a commercial angle, you ought not be stupid , lest hundred of people sink with you ( i mean employees/ team members ). Look, the english medium crowd was always the crowd which knew better, which was not bought by fancy advertising etc. That has however changed. At least in this part of the country - the ORN/ Karol Bagh area, people English medium crowd - which until 10 years ago was more aware - has shown to be equally befooled by fake advertising - which was only a Hindi medium coaching problem.
What I think is - a lot of people are doing things which is not right, but I am not so concerned about what is right and what is wrong - but more so about what is good in the long run. It is merely co-incidental that good business practices help in the long run.
3. This community is the biggest check against stupid things that Forum may want to do. To build a coaching with a community front face was challenging, but has helped build strong pillars that support forum in the long run.
4. As forum scales, I see investors not at all interested in results, success and outcome. They want to invest in a company that can generate revenue without results. They are more likely to find a - say a Srishti IAS better avenue to invest as its business operations is not based on learning outcomes or results. I see investors all keen on lowering the quality of courses to cater to a few million users, without which they do not value it. When it comes to Civils, if your curriculum is not as per exam, your students will end up clearing some other exam, but not upsc.
Will share some more thoughts over weekends.
Absolutely, will come back over the weekend for more insights.
Adding a few more pointers.
1) Lol, no. I'm definitely not overestimating you. Whatever I'm saying is based on what I've seen. And i still stand by those thoughts because what you've done in the last 5-6 years is highly difficult to achieve. And this is just the beginning, 30 years down the lane, considering this trajectory, things will be what they have to be.
2) Not just forum, but many people who are either in college or fresh graduates, do not know other major institutes also. The problem again, is of marketing and outreach. I've hardly seen any innovative approach with respect to this among the coaching institutes.
A campus ambassador programme, free virtual workshops, tie ups with colleges can easily solve this in just 2-3 years of time. Any college would love to tie up with forum or any big brand because providing access to preparation for civil services is a matter of reputation for colleges. Setting up a civil services prep club and having a dedicated faculty advisor/coordinator will ensure that there is consistent registrations every year. Once this is done, the issue of awareness in college folks will be a thing of the past.
Also, such an exercise is relatively not capital intensive, you'll just need a dedicated team to focus exclusively on the outreach and awareness aspect.
3) I highly doubt that a person with your experience and talent can do anything stupid to sink the ship. I see it as more of a problem in navigating the dilemmas. Some times our personal set of beliefs pull us back, so it's just a matter of introspection and devising a clear cut algorithm of what to do in such situations, so that the business always stays in the healthy curve.
4) True, I agree with you, building a business with a community will provide checks and balances and is also very difficult. But once that is done, if you look at any business that has a growth based on community participation, there are hardly any disappointments. So, the community thing is highly rewarding in the long run.
5) Investors will always want better returns. That's the only thing they care about. How we do it, is left to us. With or without selections, with or without high quality courses is really not their headache.
It's just that the coaching institutes lower the quality of the courses, in the pressure of meeting investor targets - kind of an easy approach to the problem. I don't think any investor would tell a founder to tweak around with courses "as long as the numbers and the revenue keep flowing".
If today you think that forum is not as investible as say, srishti, it's because of the numbers. If forum can generate those numbers, while maintaining the quality of the courses, then there would be bee-line for investments.
And i definitely, without any doubt can say that forum can reach those numbers with the same high quality content with innovative approaches in marketing and thinking beyond the delhi crowd. (For example, I've stopped marketing for my initiative long ago, whatever happens is through organic searches and through content generated long ago by influencer marketing. With almost zero marketing in the last 1 year, people from the remotest parts like nagaland, mizoram, arunachal and other rural areas are sitting at their home and ordering products from my website.)
There are millions of aspirants waiting for trustable initiatives to come near them, atleast virtually, so that they can also prepare at the best of their capabilities. Unfortunately, those millions of aspirants don't really have a choice to make. Whatever they have is clearly not catering their aspirations and that's why they end up searching for more and more initiatives.
I've always wondered what stops all the major coaching brands to increase their presence in colleges. The solution is definitely an open secret, it's tech + innovative marketing, but why it hasn't been executed yet, hopefully i get an answer to this one day.
I genuinely feel that if any coaching brand wants to be the next 1000 crore "revenue" brand, without any VC backing, then going the college route and establishing strong presence in the academic institutions, across thousands of them in the country, is the way forward. The first mover will obviously have the largest advantage to succeed here. Time and pace at which it happens is of critical importance.
All this aside, as a common member of this platform, it's a privelege to discuss on these issues on a public forum. The talks that usually happen in the board rooms are out here for everyone to look at and share their thoughts on it. Full credit to you. And thank you again for this thread.
Commenting here just so that those who have so passionately given some inputs here know that what they have said has not gone unnoticed.
There are two books i have felt have been very useful in building an organisation - One if Peter Theil's from Zero to One and second is what got you here won't get you there.
The challenges which one may face is beyond imagination from a common person's perspective. What is happening right now is that big players have purchased / leased nearby buildings. There are no buildings available. There is a physical barrier to running tests and classes. Most programs where a lot of energy goes such as awfg or sfg which is good for the student , may not have profitability to continue doing it. And if we are half hearted about something, it wont work out.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
It's absolutely alright for things to go unnoticed and it's understandable considering your schedule. 😁
Well, that's unfortunate what they're doing.
After a certain scale, such things happen as we come across as competitors.
Competitions on such a plane are anyhow won by the most powerful in terms of money and network. Ofcourse with some rare exceptions.
So, to survive, either we become a part of them, so that we no longer are the part of competition or
We keep thriving on the plane of innovation and creativity where there's no competition.
In any case, this too shall pass, and wish you the best.
TheProbe,I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
venkataharish,TheProbe
If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
Hi Neyawn, I enjoy reading your posts and always wait to see them in my inbox.I have the following query... I see that you have personally mentored many toppers in person. But I assumed that while you were budding in this industry, you might have had that time to handhold them (eg: Minal Karanwal mam, etc) in their prelims and mains stage.I also assumed that you only mentor students in their interview stage currently due to paucity of your time.I consider myself unfortunate to know you when you have already reached the summit in this industry (any serious aspirant or a veteran knows or speaks about MGP, CA classes, Ethics classes, etc- I mentioned this because in one video you said that you felt bad when your old teacher visited you and told you that he took time to locate your institute from metro and you lost sleep over it because you felt that you couldn't survive in this industry and thought of advertising more or so... trust me, many of us know you and follow you and your institute very seriously), so may be I can't avail your personal mentorship.But just today when I read your post on Medha Mam, I am getting to figure out that you might have helped few aspirants in their initial stages of prep (during post 2020). You are mentioning that you could comprehend today's toppers as potential rankers in their nascent stage itself.So now Icouldn't wait to choose a place where I can write the same to you (found that you saw and mentioned about one of @Twoface questions), so I hope you get to see my question to you too...How can I reach you to get "that" personal mentorship??? (ofcourse not expecting handholding every day, but once in a while every 3 months is a good enough support we can have from an experienced mentor like you. Because you can just check a grain or 2 and decide if the rice is cooked unlike inexperienced many)You may not have time for someone like me (because there are many like me)... But may be you are missing some potential topper too...P.s. I am a hard core believer of the following quote..."Not everyone can become a great artist but a great artist can come from anywhere".I am humbly writing the above message...You said confidence is all that is needed after a point of time, so I wanted to sound like a person with self- belief in his/her own self.If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
I tried, but I could not pronounce your username. If you are in Delhi or in GGN, you can come down with bunch of your copies.
You do not really need a lot of inputs, but only the one that can set you up. Thats all.
Some students maintain a mail chain with me. It goes on for like 50 messages. This year for prelims I have 40 people with 30+ messages long chain. Just keeping in touch.
If you are busy studying , writing tests, sometimes that is all.
And when there is a moment of doubt, reach out to me.
Regarding Medha, she was in my essay classes , probably ethics too, the first batch, I dont remember. But when we met she remembered some of the things and examples I said in the class.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
Hi Neyawn, I enjoy reading your posts and always wait to see them in my inbox.I have the following query... I see that you have personally mentored many toppers in person. But I assumed that while you were budding in this industry, you might have had that time to handhold them (eg: Minal Karanwal mam, etc) in their prelims and mains stage.I also assumed that you only mentor students in their interview stage currently due to paucity of your time.I consider myself unfortunate to know you when you have already reached the summit in this industry (any serious aspirant or a veteran knows or speaks about MGP, CA classes, Ethics classes, etc- I mentioned this because in one video you said that you felt bad when your old teacher visited you and told you that he took time to locate your institute from metro and you lost sleep over it because you felt that you couldn't survive in this industry and thought of advertising more or so... trust me, many of us know you and follow you and your institute very seriously), so may be I can't avail your personal mentorship.But just today when I read your post on Medha Mam, I am getting to figure out that you might have helped few aspirants in their initial stages of prep (during post 2020). You are mentioning that you could comprehend today's toppers as potential rankers in their nascent stage itself.So now Icouldn't wait to choose a place where I can write the same to you (found that you saw and mentioned about one of @Twoface questions), so I hope you get to see my question to you too...How can I reach you to get "that" personal mentorship??? (ofcourse not expecting handholding every day, but once in a while every 3 months is a good enough support we can have from an experienced mentor like you. Because you can just check a grain or 2 and decide if the rice is cooked unlike inexperienced many)You may not have time for someone like me (because there are many like me)... But may be you are missing some potential topper too...P.s. I am a hard core believer of the following quote..."Not everyone can become a great artist but a great artist can come from anywhere".I am humbly writing the above message...You said confidence is all that is needed after a point of time, so I wanted to sound like a person with self- belief in his/her own self.If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
Also I feel embarrassed as I am not used to so much bhav. I don't think of myself exactly as a winner here. It may look from far as if I hangout with bunch of successful candidates with top ranks, but I see myself as someone struggling - much like the people who look like successful toppers when results come - and the struggle is the same as they had when they were preparing.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
Hi Neyawn, I enjoy reading your posts and always wait to see them in my inbox.I have the following query... I see that you have personally mentored many toppers in person. But I assumed that while you were budding in this industry, you might have had that time to handhold them (eg: Minal Karanwal mam, etc) in their prelims and mains stage.I also assumed that you only mentor students in their interview stage currently due to paucity of your time.I consider myself unfortunate to know you when you have already reached the summit in this industry (any serious aspirant or a veteran knows or speaks about MGP, CA classes, Ethics classes, etc- I mentioned this because in one video you said that you felt bad when your old teacher visited you and told you that he took time to locate your institute from metro and you lost sleep over it because you felt that you couldn't survive in this industry and thought of advertising more or so... trust me, many of us know you and follow you and your institute very seriously), so may be I can't avail your personal mentorship.But just today when I read your post on Medha Mam, I am getting to figure out that you might have helped few aspirants in their initial stages of prep (during post 2020). You are mentioning that you could comprehend today's toppers as potential rankers in their nascent stage itself.So now Icouldn't wait to choose a place where I can write the same to you (found that you saw and mentioned about one of @Twoface questions), so I hope you get to see my question to you too...How can I reach you to get "that" personal mentorship??? (ofcourse not expecting handholding every day, but once in a while every 3 months is a good enough support we can have from an experienced mentor like you. Because you can just check a grain or 2 and decide if the rice is cooked unlike inexperienced many)You may not have time for someone like me (because there are many like me)... But may be you are missing some potential topper too...P.s. I am a hard core believer of the following quote..."Not everyone can become a great artist but a great artist can come from anywhere".I am humbly writing the above message...You said confidence is all that is needed after a point of time, so I wanted to sound like a person with self- belief in his/her own self.If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
I tried, but I could not pronounce your username. If you are in Delhi or in GGN, you can come down with bunch of your copies.
You do not really need a lot of inputs, but only the one that can set you up. Thats all.
Some students maintain a mail chain with me. It goes on for like 50 messages. This year for prelims I have 40 people with 30+ messages long chain. Just keeping in touch.
If you are busy studying , writing tests, sometimes that is all.
And when there is a moment of doubt, reach out to me.
Regarding Medha, she was in my essay classes , probably ethics too, the first batch, I dont remember. But when we met she remembered some of the things and examples I said in the class.
Thank you so much for your reply@Neyawn :)
Ilive in Vijayawada, AP. So I could never drop in your office. I will definitely see how to reach you with my work.
Thanks again…
Regarding embarrassment, I am so sorry. I thought you would be happy to hear that someone from South India also follows many of your courses. :)
DM,Hi Neyawn, I enjoy reading your posts and always wait to see them in my inbox.I have the following query... I see that you have personally mentored many toppers in person. But I assumed that while you were budding in this industry, you might have had that time to handhold them (eg: Minal Karanwal mam, etc) in their prelims and mains stage.I also assumed that you only mentor students in their interview stage currently due to paucity of your time.I consider myself unfortunate to know you when you have already reached the summit in this industry (any serious aspirant or a veteran knows or speaks about MGP, CA classes, Ethics classes, etc- I mentioned this because in one video you said that you felt bad when your old teacher visited you and told you that he took time to locate your institute from metro and you lost sleep over it because you felt that you couldn't survive in this industry and thought of advertising more or so... trust me, many of us know you and follow you and your institute very seriously), so may be I can't avail your personal mentorship.But just today when I read your post on Medha Mam, I am getting to figure out that you might have helped few aspirants in their initial stages of prep (during post 2020). You are mentioning that you could comprehend today's toppers as potential rankers in their nascent stage itself.So now Icouldn't wait to choose a place where I can write the same to you (found that you saw and mentioned about one of @Twoface questions), so I hope you get to see my question to you too...How can I reach you to get "that" personal mentorship??? (ofcourse not expecting handholding every day, but once in a while every 3 months is a good enough support we can have from an experienced mentor like you. Because you can just check a grain or 2 and decide if the rice is cooked unlike inexperienced many)You may not have time for someone like me (because there are many like me)... But may be you are missing some potential topper too...P.s. I am a hard core believer of the following quote..."Not everyone can become a great artist but a great artist can come from anywhere".I am humbly writing the above message...You said confidence is all that is needed after a point of time, so I wanted to sound like a person with self- belief in his/her own self.If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
I tried, but I could not pronounce your username. If you are in Delhi or in GGN, you can come down with bunch of your copies.
You do not really need a lot of inputs, but only the one that can set you up. Thats all.
Some students maintain a mail chain with me. It goes on for like 50 messages. This year for prelims I have 40 people with 30+ messages long chain. Just keeping in touch.
If you are busy studying , writing tests, sometimes that is all.
And when there is a moment of doubt, reach out to me.
Regarding Medha, she was in my essay classes , probably ethics too, the first batch, I dont remember. But when we met she remembered some of the things and examples I said in the class.
Thank you so much for your reply@Neyawn :)
Ilive in Vijayawada, AP. So I could never drop in your office. I will definitely see how to reach you with my work.
Thanks again…
Regarding embarrassment, I am so sorry. I thought you would be happy to hear that someone from South India also follows many of your courses. :)
And about only mentoring toppers. Actually
This year I thought of doing something different.
Finding people who had failed, given up, with like 3-4-5 attempts with zero succes in Prelims
I got bunch of such kids, made them study.
Here are the results.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
Hi Neyawn, I enjoy reading your posts and always wait to see them in my inbox.I have the following query... I see that you have personally mentored many toppers in person. But I assumed that while you were budding in this industry, you might have had that time to handhold them (eg: Minal Karanwal mam, etc) in their prelims and mains stage.I also assumed that you only mentor students in their interview stage currently due to paucity of your time.I consider myself unfortunate to know you when you have already reached the summit in this industry (any serious aspirant or a veteran knows or speaks about MGP, CA classes, Ethics classes, etc- I mentioned this because in one video you said that you felt bad when your old teacher visited you and told you that he took time to locate your institute from metro and you lost sleep over it because you felt that you couldn't survive in this industry and thought of advertising more or so... trust me, many of us know you and follow you and your institute very seriously), so may be I can't avail your personal mentorship.But just today when I read your post on Medha Mam, I am getting to figure out that you might have helped few aspirants in their initial stages of prep (during post 2020). You are mentioning that you could comprehend today's toppers as potential rankers in their nascent stage itself.So now Icouldn't wait to choose a place where I can write the same to you (found that you saw and mentioned about one of @Twoface questions), so I hope you get to see my question to you too...How can I reach you to get "that" personal mentorship??? (ofcourse not expecting handholding every day, but once in a while every 3 months is a good enough support we can have from an experienced mentor like you. Because you can just check a grain or 2 and decide if the rice is cooked unlike inexperienced many)You may not have time for someone like me (because there are many like me)... But may be you are missing some potential topper too...P.s. I am a hard core believer of the following quote..."Not everyone can become a great artist but a great artist can come from anywhere".I am humbly writing the above message...You said confidence is all that is needed after a point of time, so I wanted to sound like a person with self- belief in his/her own self.If you reach till here, thank you so much. Your blessings would help me, but I wish I could meet you and get your guidance as well...if it's not possible, I will surely meet you in my interview preparation.
I tried, but I could not pronounce your username. If you are in Delhi or in GGN, you can come down with bunch of your copies.
You do not really need a lot of inputs, but only the one that can set you up. Thats all.
Some students maintain a mail chain with me. It goes on for like 50 messages. This year for prelims I have 40 people with 30+ messages long chain. Just keeping in touch.
If you are busy studying , writing tests, sometimes that is all.
And when there is a moment of doubt, reach out to me.
Regarding Medha, she was in my essay classes , probably ethics too, the first batch, I dont remember. But when we met she remembered some of the things and examples I said in the class.
Thank you so much for your reply@Neyawn :)
Ilive in Vijayawada, AP. So I could never drop in your office. I will definitely see how to reach you with my work.
Thanks again…
Regarding embarrassment, I am so sorry. I thought you would be happy to hear that someone from South India also follows many of your courses. :)
And about only mentoring toppers. Actually
This year I thought of doing something different.
Finding people who had failed, given up, with like 3-4-5 attempts with zero succes in Prelims
I got bunch of such kids, made them study.
Here are the results.
How can I reach you@Neyawn ? Mail id?
If I write to ravi@forumias.com, will you reply to those mails?
@Neyawn sir is there any way to meet you. Cleared prelims, need your guidance for mains
So from December 2023 we were busy working with a bunch of people who had NEVER cleared Prelims before, to make them them clear Prelims.
So we got about 100 people to join us. It was not an easy task. There were lot of hiccups.
Everyone said you dont need to do this. You already have good candidates and toppers. Even senior faculty thought I would lose focus from good students to work with studens who have not performed in past 3-4 and some in past 6-7 years.
We expected 30-40% people to clear the exam, and we reached close. The game is that the ones who did not - will clear it next year- ( about 20-30% ) . But they should not lose faith in themselves.
Here is what happened.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
DM,Mango_Person@Neyawn sir is there any way to meet you. Cleared prelims, need your guidance for mains
AT KB center 4PM Friday
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
DM,
I took MGP i can share my answers to you via mail and you can give suggestions.
Kindly help if possible, this is my 3rd mains :)
My prelims story till now-My scores were 86.67, 61.96, 88 to 92 in 2022, 2023, 2024 respectively. I have cleared CSAT in all 3. I have dedicated 5-6 months for prelims in all three attempts.In 1st attempt, I followed 1 test series with a few open tests, PYQs but not in-depth, and did my basic books.In my 2nd attempt, I did in-depth PYQs. Along with that, I was too enthusiastic about other UPSC exam papers ie. CDS, CAPF, Geoscientist. In 2nd attempt, I compromised on mocks, [also a bit misguidance from YouTube on this aspect]. Also, my marks as per my markings on the question paper should have been 70, but I got 61.96. I have probably made a few bubbling mistakes there [However, I used to mark on OMR along with solving every single question]In my 3rd attempt, I buckled up to solve daily mocks, which I did. I solved around 78-80 mocks with analysis.I have not read Spectrum and Lakshmikant. Rather I chose Subhash Kashyap for polity [also helping in my optional PSIR], and Bipan Chandra NCERT and new NCERTs for Modern history. However, my polity performance in prelims was fine except for 2023 when I couldn't solve the legal questions. Also, for current affairs I read newspaper The Hindu and make my own notes. I haven't read Pt365. In current affairs also I have scored well. The problem mostly lies in ancient and medieval [for which I devoted 50% of total revision time - from NCERTs], and 5-6 silly mistakes where I couldn't recall or made reading errors [even after so many mocks]. I do realize intense revision should help.My mains story till now-I did my optional notes and 1 round of revision before my 1st attempt. I have written mocks for GS, PSIR, and essays.So, after 1st prelims failure, I completed my optional short notes, GS 2, ethics value addition.After the 2nd prelims failure, I revised optional, worked on GS notes.What should be my way forward? My parents are suggesting I should take up a foundation course since I haven't taken any. Any mentor I talk to, suggests me to work on optional, ethics, essay or very mains specific things till November. I have done much of it in the last 3 years.My mental state nowIn my first attempt I analysed PYQs and traced them to source. Based on which I selected my booklist and decided not to rely on Pt365. I was quick in my decision-making and took bold steps like reading Subhash Kashyap over Lakshmikant. However, with each attempt my confidence has been going down. My strategy in 2023, 2024 was all wrong and for that only I am to blame. This time I am unable to take any decision whatsoever. Should I move to Delhi, should I take up some foundation course, should I do prelims from now only, should I go for conventional mains till Nov dec.
There are few things you may have missed. People like you who come very close to cut off, but just miss it generally have one issue. And that is of resilience. Soe for instance someone getting 30 marks in Prelims is easy to train to clear the prelims ( obviously because he hasnt studies, and one he does, he clears! ), but people within 5-7 marks gap may have too many varied reasons for their inability to clear it.
One of them is resilience issues. Which means when the pressure comes, they crumble. So every time you have to worry about such candidates because they may have studied and all, but will underperform under pressure.
And let those failures accumulate for a few years and you have major issues of baggage with them. In short, they fail because they failed.
There are few things I will suggest you
One is to do mocks in coaching institutes in offline mode. It is not the paper that matters , but sitting with people around and being outside your comfort zone.
I had a bright kid, predictably not clearing the prelims thihs year. because the person was too smart. So if you ask them did you write sims? They will say yes but at home. Did you write abhyas, they will says , yes but i did it at home?
WHy?
You cant handle the pressure of sitting with hundreds others and being jduged in two hours. You want to sit on bed, put a pillow and put a laptop on top of it, and whole family is providing auxiliary services like food and water ( which will not be the case in actual exam ). YOu have to step out of that. Write tests offline. Attend open mocks. One paid test series and one from market.
Also take a look at SFG. If thats been done, you need some serious push, and may explore FRC 5.
People around you study so hard, they may sure you perform.
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
DM,MaxAdmirer
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