This is to remind you that we shall be holding a LIVE Mentor Session with Mr Ayush for AWFG Students Tomorrow i.e. on Friday at 10 AM. You can ask your doubts live in the chatbox during the session.
Update #11 Due to unavoidable circumstances, the AWFG Test #6 scheduled on Friday, June 11, is rescheduled to June 12, Saturday at 8 AM followed by discussion.
#Update #10 Instructions on how to write AWFG 2.0 - Tests
Update#6 You can submit your AWFG Paper by 28th May, 12 PM
If you face difficulties while uploading the copy, you can attach your copy and email it to farej@flaviant.com with the subject "AWFG Copy - Your Name"
Update #5 Registrations for AWFG 2.0 are now closed.
Registrations for AWFG 2.0 are now closed. If you have missed the registration for any genuine reasons, you can fill up this form below, and our team will reach out to you. No phone calls or emails will be entertained apart from the form below.
Acceptable formats of Entrance Test / AWFG Submissions :(1) Kindly take a printout and submit answers in the designated Generic QCA Booklets (2) If you do not want to print the whole Generic Booklet, take print out of the first page only and attach it to your scanned PDF submission (3) You can also draw the front page of the QCA, fill up the details and attach it to your submission.
Not acceptable forms of submission : (1) No file format other than PDF will be accepted (2) The front page must carry the details of the Test and the Student (3) The Answers sheets must have margins drawn when print out is not taken.
Please ensure that correct question numbers are mentioned before every answer.
Updates #3 Instructions for writing AWFG 2.0 - Entrance Test
Updates #1 Link for Registration for Entrance Test (27th May):
Registration Closed
If you miss the AWFG 2.0 Entrance Test or did not register earlier, Please fill up the form below so that we can reach out to you and facilitate admissions for the AWFG 2.0 - SFG for Mains 2021,Click hereto fill the form.
AWFG 2.0 is meant for candidates who are looking for an Intensive, competitive program with the best peer group to complete their coverage of the GS Syllabus in the shortest time possible.
It is recommended for candidates who have not been able to devise a comprehensive strategy for Mains preparation, and still have prelims based approach to exam preparation. Candidates who have written Mains, but lack notes on GS across the papers can use the program to complete their coverage of the syllabus and make high-quality crisp notes for the same.
Candidates who have secured a Rank, but are looking for Rank improvement and a complete revision of the syllabus can benefit from this program.
We are planning to provide complete, issue-based preparation of Mains with the new and revamped AWFG 2.0
The Answer Writing Group - will be selected from the Entrance Test to be conducted on May 27, Thursday at 11 AM.
From the Entrance Test, the Top 100 Students will be selected for the Select Focus Group (SFG) and the remaining candidates will be part of the Reserve List Group (RLG), subject to a total strength of 350 candidates to have a fair degree of competition and peer learning.
( The reason for restricting the numbers to 350 is because this year we are also providing a grading for the Test Papers submitted by you. Further, to provide complete coverage of the syllabus, we have increased the number of Tests and Questions so that you can be rest assured of good coverage. We are working to expand this capacity to at least 600 students in the coming days. )
The Candidates will be required to log on to Academy Portal at 7:45 AM. At 8 AM, the Question Paper will be made available on the portal in PDF format.
( Candidates will be provided with a generic QCA Booklet PDF by the 27th of May, which they can print and use for writing the Tests. This generic booklet can be used for attempting all Tests and will not have questions printed on them. )
Candidates will be required to write the Tests in the Generic QCA Booklets between 8 AM to 9 AM.
There will be between 7-10 questions out of which candidates will be required to attempt ANY 5 or 7 Questions - depending on the syllabus. The duration of the Test will be of 35 minutes for 5 Question Tests and 50 minutes for 7 questions Test paper. )
There will be a window of 30 minutes till 9:30 AM by which candidates will be expected to submit their copies online.
At 9:30 AM, the discussion of the Tests will be conducted in the online mode ( can be pre-recorded or LIVE depending on the Covid situation in New Delhi ), and solution handouts will be provided.
By 11 PM, of the same day, candidates who have submitted their copy by 9:30 AM, their copies will be graded ( not evaluated ) and a rank-list will be published indicating their position - if they are part of the - The Select Focus Group ((SFG) or the Reserve List Group (RLG).
Tests will be conducted 4 days a week - on days - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday.
Candidates will be reshuffled on the basis of daily performance and a new list will be published every week - which will indicate if the candidate is in Reserve List Group (SFG) or the Select Focus Group (SFG)
At the end of the month, the candidate will be required to pay the renewal fee for the next month based on his monthly ranklist.
What is the Select Focus Group and Reserve List Group?
The Select Focus Group consists of a select few - 100 students who have scored well in the entrance examination. The reserve list consists of the rest of the candidates.
This group is not permanent and every week, on the basis of performance, candidates will be shuffled between Select Focus Group and Reserve List.
In this program, a complete solution to content building and syllabus coverage is being offered through Questions & Answers.
It also serves well as a crash course of GS for those who are looking for a program like this, with the exception that the AWFG requires active learning on the part of the student.
The faculty shall discuss all the 10 questions, along with a crisp handout for the answers that will be provided to you. This ensures maximum coverage of issues through the Tests and Sessions.
Thus we aim to cover all the major issues from Mains perspective. This is what we mean when we talk about "issue-based preparation".
The Solution Handouts will be something on the lines of Concept Classes Handouts that are being provided to MGP++ students of 2022. You can see a handout of ForumIAS Concept Classes here.
Copies in this initiative will NOT be evaluated like MGP copies, but will be graded. This means that you will not get detailed comments or mentorship in this program.
What you will get instead is a relative indicative score ( RIS ) for each Test that you write.
Copies will be graded, without comments and for each Test, you will be awarded marks on a scale of 0- 10. This will be your Relative Indicative Score ( RIS ). The RIS will be indicative and suggestive of your performance. This will be used for ranking in the Tests and for the reshuffling of Batches. You can use this score to see how you are performing.
Your RIS will be provided ideally on the same day by 11 PM, ( but with a commitment of within 72 hours ) so that you can continuously monitor your performance.
Only copies that are scanned and sent by 9:30 AM will be graded and candidates who submit the copies after the window will be awarded 0 marks.
You can expect to have a near-complete coverage of the syllabus through the Tests of this program. You will be covering more than 400 issues through these tests, and with the classes, it is expected that you will have one of the best notes on the issues/topics covered.
First, MGP is a mentor supported Test Series that offers complete flexibility in writing tests till the date of the Mains exam of that year. AWFG Tests have to be attempted on the same day and submitted in the Test window ( like SFG for Prelims )
Secondly, MGP Program comes with mentorship, where you can discuss your copies with a Mentor. The AWFG does not provide this avenue.
Thirdly, MGP is an annual subscription with validity till the Mains exam. AWFG is a monthly subscription program where access to the portal is valid only for the month. Video discussions will only be available for the week and will expire at the end of the week, so as to maintain discipline and regularity in finishing of the syllabus.
Candidates who are looking for flexibility and mentor guidance may consider the MGP Program in addition / as a replacement of the AWFG.
Admissions to the program will be through an entrance Test. Once selected, you will be allowed to join the program for the first month.
This is done to ensure that the right kind of candidates are part of the program to build the right atmosphere for ensuring a certain level of competition and avoid complacency in preparation.
Candidates will have to register for the Test by paying a fee of Rs. 500 by visiting the link below at the end of this post.
Candidates will be required to attempt a subjective 1 hour Test Paper having 7 questions, which will be released at 11AM on May 27th. Candidates will be required to submit the Test by 11 PM on the same day. This is done to ensure that working candidates can also submit the Tests after office hours.
The list of candidates selected for the Select Focus Group (SFG) ( 100 Candidates ) and Reserve List ( subject to a total of 500 candidates ) will be published on the website ( https://academy.forumias.com ) by 30th May by 11 PM.
The Program is of 11-12 weeks duration. You cannot enrol for all the full duration of the program. You will be required to pay the fees every month.
At the end of every month, you will get getting a rank list with reshuffled students from the Select Focus Group (SFG) to Reserve List group (RLG) on the basis of average Relative Indicative Score ( RIS ).
The program shall commence from 3rd June, Thursday. We shall be covering GS Paper 4, Paper 2 and Paper 3 by end of July.
We will break for Prelims for August & September.
We will get back to GS Paper 1 after the Prelims within 10 days of the Prelims. This is to ensure that we do not have misplaced priorities of Mains preparation as the Prelims exam comes closer.
To apply for the program, you can register by paying a non-refundable fee of Rs. 500 at the link below.
Candidates who are selected for the Select Focus Group (SFG) and join the group will be eligible for a flat 30% concession on CA Classes for Mains 2021/2022. Candidates selected in Reserve List will be eligible for a flat 20% concession on CA courses for 2021/2022. Concessions cannot be clubbed with other offers/carryovers and must be available before October 1, 2021.
Candidates who are a part of either group can also avail a concession of a flat 40% on any Prelims Test Series Batch of 2021.
Why are the fees of AWFG 2.0 higher than last year?
This cost of the program has risen to ensure grading of the Papers which requires human effort and incurs human cost. Further, the coverage of the AWFG from a static perspective is much wider given the more number of Tests ( more than 40 Tests ) as well as the increase in the number of questions.
#1 Link for Registration for the Entrance Test: Registration Closed
Registrations for AWFG 2.0 are now closed. If you have missed the registration for any genuine reasons, you can fill up this form below, and our team will reach out to you. No phone calls or emails will be entertained apart from the form below.
A few people who have asked me and other fellow aspirations here about preparation, kindly note these
1. I am just an aspirant like you all and like I said I am learning the trade too. I dont have authority to suggest on preparation. Moreover many students are performing better than me consistently and must have better idea on how to go about this
2. Mentors like@Neyawnare best placed to suggest on how to go about this. And he is one of the best in the business. Moreover he helps students when approached.
3.@farejul sir considering the difficulty most of us are facing on finishing syllabus, balancing optional and managing fatigue and burn out in this intensive process, Kindly see if you can arrange a session with Ayush sir or other mentor for half an hour. That will help all of us. In Sfg we used to have Ayush sir coming weekly to give his pep talk that motivated us. If sfg needed that, awfg needs more. Kindly consider.
@farejul Sir mailed you the correct file due to upload of file with blurred images and front page errors. Please consider the new mailed file for evaluation. Will surely check on these errors in future to not to repeat again.
@farejul sir, kindly guide me that how to finish the everyday syllabus, unable to complete my notes making even by spending 5 to 6 hours, I feel disheartened and lonely also stuck up in a whirlwind since this is my first time preparation with mains.
No one replies me in this issue, I'm really frustrated that I not even completing my notes making means how could I revise? Yesterday I have messaged to neyawn sir also, but no reply. At whom should I approach to overcome this vicious cycle.
Read standard books... make notes which is small and crisp and only has important details..
For dynamic portion of the syllabus- try to make issue based notes. As upsc always ask questions on issues whichare in news... For example --- Anti defection law, is there a decline in parliament functioning, three farm Acts.... these are some of important issues in news on which you must prepare notes...
Also one trend I've been observing among the toppers and my own answer sheet evaluation is lengthy answers (over 200 words) are being rewarded.
Those answers which are between 130-150 words for a 10M answer aren't looked at in good light. Is my observation correct? Can you introspect if there are any internal biases in evaluation process?
Nevertheless, can you penalize answers exceeding word limit? (I am exceeding word limit in several questions as well :p) It helps in two ways:
1. It disincentivizes writing awfg for 1.5hrs
2. In exam conditions we can't keep crossing word limits and finish 20Q in 3 hours.
Also, evaluated toppers' copies with remarks on what went well helps us evaluate our own answers better.
Thanks
One thing, please remember, that invariably we see that whoever has a bhara - bhara copy has conventionally gotten marks in the exam. This was even before the introduction of QCA booklet in 2013. Content dense answers tend to get rewarded.
With respect to word limit, I am personally not aware of anyone being penalised for it . Three years back, an old forum members had texted me about her SI's daughter being penalised in Mains exam. I could not speak to the kid back then because of time committments.
Last year ( in fact last to last given that last year things were closed, and I think I am losing sense of time due to the lockdown, merger of weekends with weekdays ) I finally met her before her Interview, and i specifically did ask her if she was penalised for the breach of word limit, to which she said no. She thankfully scored 30 rank in the interview.
There is an article about it below, but for some reason the images are missing.
@Neyawn @Others Tomorrow marks the 10th test. So far kept up with the schedule.
How to deal with burnout? AWFG feels overwhelming and I am not able to find time to study much else till now except newspaper.
Need your suggestions to tune my attitude, schedule.
The Pain has Purpose.
If you can complete what you are writing tests on, that is enough work for the day. Look, many people are managing this with ease, while some people are struggling and having a burnout. Others are simply not able to complete in a week what is being done in a day.
What can we learn from it?
Can we safely say that there are people who have lesser and more gaps in their preparation, which they become aware only when they go through something like this?
Secondly, do you realize that this burnout, on one hand shows that you are doing this with sincerity, on the other hand shows how much you had to do and were not doing?
Rest assured, if you do it well, you will have a decently robust Mains preparation.
@manojreddy21041096 I think you are one of those people who do well under pressure and competition. I am seeing your name in the list nearly three years after your name used to be in SFG toppers list. All your folks have been selected, and I sincerely hope that this is the point where you get out of your comfort zone and go through the grind that is needed to accomplish in few weeks which we sometimes take months to finish off - and make it.
We become what we write. Keep up the performance and consistency.
@farejul I scored 7.57 in today's awfg test. However I had submitted it late by 10 minutes. But my marks haven't been deducted. Kindly deduct 0.5 from my score.
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