[Official] ForumIAS SFG 2021 - Level 1 Details and Important Updates
Important Update : LIVE Session for SFG 2021 - Level 1 General Discussion and Way Forward - 19th January 2021 at 4:00 PM. (Click Here)
To check the instructions on how to write SFG 2021 - Test 1 :
Important Dates:
Date of Entrance Test 2 - 3rd January 2021 (10:00 AM to 11:00 AM)
End Date Registration for Entrance Test 2 – 2nd January 2021 | 5 PM
Please click on the link for instructions regarding attempting the Entrance test.
Result of Entrance Test 2 –4th January 2021
Commencement Date of SFG Level 1 – 7th January 2021
Syllabus of SFG Entrance Test - Candidates can expect 30 questions equally distributed across History, Polity, Economy, Environment and Geography. Further 15 questions will from Current Affairs of October, November and December months and 5 questions from CSAT.
SFG Level 1 Calendar: https://go.forumias.com/sfg21-calender
SFG – How it works
- Select Focus Group (SFG) is a small group of students who are selected by ForumIAS every year for coaching them to clear the UPSC Prelims Examination. Every single candidate selected and retained consistently in the group with Top ranks has cleared the Prelims examination in the past.
- 100 Students will be selected for the Select Focus Group, through the SFG Entrance Test, who will be required to report at 7 AM every day 6 days a week to write an hour-long test based on a pre-planned syllabus, followed by a discussion on the same.
- Candidates who are unable to make it to the SFG, will be maintained in a Reserve List, who can also write the tests. Candidates who couldn't clear the cutoff and are unable to make it into both SFG and RLG can register for the 2nd Entrance Test
- Tests are conducted daily and results are provided within 8 hours of test with Name and Rank list for candidates and parents to evaluate their daily performance. On the basis of rankles, about 50% of bottom performing students from SFG are migrated to the reserve list on a weekly basis, and an equal number of students from reserve list (RLG) are moved into SFG.
- The decision of the management in this regard is final and not subject to dispute. Please note that this migration is done not keeping in mind the overall merit list but moving away bottom 50% from SFG and picking up an equal number of people from RLG.
- Thus those who may be getting more than RLG students, but are bottom 50 in SFG will be moved to RLG.
- Every month, the bottom 20% or so non-performing students are eliminated from the program to maintain the quality of competition.
- All candidates writing the CSE 2021 are eligible to apply for the entrance test.
This year we introduce some changes as to how we conduct the SFG exam. Please note that changes that we bring are always in response to the examination pattern, the student feedback and our own learning with respect to how to best enable a serious candidate to clear the exam
Covid 19 Update:Keeping in mind the Covid situation, SFG – 1 entrance Test and the SFG program will be conducted in the online mode only for the year 2021. SFG – Level 2 may be conducted offline as per government guidelines and this decision will be taken at a later date.
This year SFG will be conducted in two levels as below:
SFG Level 1 (Foundation)
The SFG Level 1 is for beginners, freshers, first-timers, or simply those who have not cleared the Prelims examination ever before. The objective of the SFG Level 1 Program is three things
- Students know the basic books and basic concepts back and forth
- Students complete coverage of the syllabus through self-study
- Students are thorough with previous years papers
- Students develop the discipline and time management skills that are needed to clear the exam
The SFG Level 1 Tests will have book based / text-based / notes-based tests. By the end of SFG Level 1, you can expect that your coverage of the syllabus is complete, and you have done previous years questions well.
SFG Level 2 (Advanced)
SFG Level 2 is for people who have completed the reading and revision of the basic books and are now ready to take on the exam. The objective of the SFG Level 2 is as below
- Developing problem-solving skills for solving analytical, conceptual and thought based questions.
- Developing skills to solve questions based on the application of the reading that they have done for Level 1
- Mastering the art of handling questions from unknown areas and applying concepts from their wider reading which is relevant for the Civil Services Prelims Examination.
- Developing time management skills, and being through with the syllabus
- Providing a reliable, time-bound framework for revision just before the examination.
Current Affairs:
SFG Level 1 will provide coverage of current affairs from January 2020 to November 2020.
SFG Level 2 will have complete current affairs relevant for the Prelims examination 2021 integrated into the course.
CSAT:
CSAT tests will be integrated with SFG Level 2. There will be no CSAT tests in SFG level 1.
Application Procedure
- Admission to the SFG and RLG are based on the rank of the candidate in the merit list of the SFG Entrance Test. Students can apply for the program by registering for the Entrance Test by paying a fee of Rs. 500+ GST. Candidates can register by visitinghttp://academy.forumias.com
- The candidate must appear for the entrance test on the designated date and time, subsequent to which he/she will be admitted to the Select Group or the Reserve List.
- The candidate must pay the monthly fee as per the group he/she is allocated.
Note: Admissions to the SFG / RLG Group will only be on the basis of merit position of the candidate in the entrance test. Entrance Test will be held on 23rd December 2020. Candidates must register for the SFG Entrance Test by visiting the website http://academy.forumias.com before12 PM, December 22nd.
No admission will be granted to the candidate without appearing for the Entrance Test.
Fee Structure and Details:
- The course duration is of about two months and fees is charged on a monthly basis. Fees for the full duration of the program cannot be paid at one go.
For students selected in SFG- Rs. 1300 + GST (18%) per month. For Payment,Click Here.
For students selected in RLG- Rs. 1900 + GST (18%) per month. For Payment,Click Here.
- Fees are to be paid once the candidate is selected for the program. A fee of Rs. 118 is to be paid additionally for the I-Card by all students.
Wishing you Success,
Always
ForumIAS Academy
@Gaurav2020 The feature of parliamentary govt is that Ministers (Executive) are members of Parliament. It nowhere mentions that only elected members are Ministers. I interpreted the question this way.
minister for 6 mnths + i was saying for this thing.
It shows review result not pending
@jack_Sparrow It showed resume exam. When I clicked it, it got submitted again.
Try again.
@jack_Sparrow There only. It only shows - Review Result :(
Please attempt your test. Check again
@forumiasacademy please create a discussion group where we can discuss the answers for some disputed questions like in test 1 q.no 18) most of the sources differ from option a) and b). So it should be useful to rectify and update the notes. And also where should we post doubts for the disputed ones officially?
https://forumias.com/post/detail/SFG-RLG-All-Tests-Discussions-in-one-place-1575640662?page=71#comment_22854
@pk3170810410128412 This is the official group for SFG discussion
Any initiative to discuss test doubts? Maybe a 3hr live chat with a faculty every week. SFG 1.0 had this system after every five tests. Non-addressal of genuine doubts for conflicting questions makes the preparation very incomplete.
Please address this issue
BongoSontan,baba07
Any initiative to discuss test doubts? Maybe a 3hr live chat with a faculty every week. SFG 1.0 had this system after every five tests. Non-addressal of genuine doubts for conflicting questions makes the preparation very incomplete.
Please address this issue
Do consider this proposal@forumiasacademy
It would be really great if we could get our doubts cleared via teacher every weekend
Hey, thank you for acknowledging the feedbacks. Can you elaborate the idea of community sfg?
I have no problem in scheduling some pdf uploads. But 10 PM Quiz is already being posted, you want to create a ranking mechanism in it? And it'll be free, but 10PM quiz already is!?
But 10 PM Quiz is mostly current affairs and sfg is a 50 question, syllabus based test. Just demarcating the difference.
Hoping to hear from you!
Cheers.
Of Course!
Look how wonderfully some people are doing it :)
People are already doing what you want to do :)
Why we talk so much about culture is because see, students are already in stress. There is already so much negativity in the world. If we need more negativity, all of us have relatives :)
When we were doing the forum well with good moderation, ( Like if you write Hindi, moderator would edit and type it in English ) we would have ranks like 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10 from this forum itself - just check out 2013 / 14 years.
When discussion quality was unmoderated, it went down and down and we moved focus on the academy. We got ranks 1,3,5,7,8,10,11,13 from our academy. The whole good crowd of forum shifted to the academy.
All we did was provide a good environment. People get selected on their own.
With this community also the goal is to create a good environment and you will be surprised that among you people itself you will have at least 5 ranks out of Top 10 ranks of CSE 2020 and CSE 2021 .
When we get good discussions , Basically two things happen.
One, good people come. They are driven away when there is too much crap or negative things - even if genuine , and if it is against our academy or any other academy. Then it becomes a culture. You have a coaching problem, come and write something on forum.
More than that, a lot of people who are in remote areas and don't know anything about preparation, for the first time come to know about how actually people prepare. See this.
There is no learning more than peer learning. In the end you will get selected because someone here guided you ( not even taught you - but guided you ) . And it will be some peer of yours with the right buddhi.
See the kind of stuff people are sharing.
If we get the culture right, you will see that automatically the average level of the user of this website will rise like anything , and even you will benefit from it.
It takes a lot to develop a culture. Lot of time and effort.
So even if this looks totalitarian , anti-democratic it is important that we have a healthy and knowledge oriented culture here.
See, the academy will thrive completely on the basis of quality. We have realized that. If quality is good, we will have a good word of mouth reference. If people who are getting selected don't think that we were useful for them, they will not send their juniors, siblings and others to forum.
But for the community to thrive, we have to have limits on what we can say and what we cannot say, because we are not twitter or quora or facebook. We are ForumIAS.
And deep inside, we know that selection in this exam is very less, but do you realise that if you have good contributing people here, the readers minds will open. Once the minds are open they will crack one Top exam, even if something does not work out in Civils ( Think from an elder guardian perspective, not a student perspective on this part )
We all are the average of 5 people we interact with. And we want to meet good people here.
Let not one initiative of the forum monopolise the conversation. And let us not stoop below a level. Lets build something nice.
Now off to tomorrows Test, or else again server will crash tomorrow. Or something will go wrong!
Regarding justice and injustice on the forum , injustice will be there. Some people will take advantage. In offline also at least 300+ students didnt pay the fees and wrote tests until we came up with the App based attendance.
Aaj ka itna hi hai,
Bye Bye!
Hi, could someone pls share the link to access the excel sheet in the picture? it is titled "combined performance of modified SFGs".. I saw a link for comparing marks of Insights subject wise tests, are there any other such sheets?
Hey, thank you for acknowledging the feedbacks. Can you elaborate the idea of community sfg?
I have no problem in scheduling some pdf uploads. But 10 PM Quiz is already being posted, you want to create a ranking mechanism in it? And it'll be free, but 10PM quiz already is!?
But 10 PM Quiz is mostly current affairs and sfg is a 50 question, syllabus based test. Just demarcating the difference.
Hoping to hear from you!
Cheers.
Of Course!
Look how wonderfully some people are doing it :)
People are already doing what you want to do :)
Why we talk so much about culture is because see, students are already in stress. There is already so much negativity in the world. If we need more negativity, all of us have relatives :)
When we were doing the forum well with good moderation, ( Like if you write Hindi, moderator would edit and type it in English ) we would have ranks like 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10 from this forum itself - just check out 2013 / 14 years.
When discussion quality was unmoderated, it went down and down and we moved focus on the academy. We got ranks 1,3,5,7,8,10,11,13 from our academy. The whole good crowd of forum shifted to the academy.
All we did was provide a good environment. People get selected on their own.
With this community also the goal is to create a good environment and you will be surprised that among you people itself you will have at least 5 ranks out of Top 10 ranks of CSE 2020 and CSE 2021 .
When we get good discussions , Basically two things happen.
One, good people come. They are driven away when there is too much crap or negative things - even if genuine , and if it is against our academy or any other academy. Then it becomes a culture. You have a coaching problem, come and write something on forum.
More than that, a lot of people who are in remote areas and don't know anything about preparation, for the first time come to know about how actually people prepare. See this.
There is no learning more than peer learning. In the end you will get selected because someone here guided you ( not even taught you - but guided you ) . And it will be some peer of yours with the right buddhi.
See the kind of stuff people are sharing.
If we get the culture right, you will see that automatically the average level of the user of this website will rise like anything , and even you will benefit from it.
It takes a lot to develop a culture. Lot of time and effort.
So even if this looks totalitarian , anti-democratic it is important that we have a healthy and knowledge oriented culture here.
See, the academy will thrive completely on the basis of quality. We have realized that. If quality is good, we will have a good word of mouth reference. If people who are getting selected don't think that we were useful for them, they will not send their juniors, siblings and others to forum.
But for the community to thrive, we have to have limits on what we can say and what we cannot say, because we are not twitter or quora or facebook. We are ForumIAS.
And deep inside, we know that selection in this exam is very less, but do you realise that if you have good contributing people here, the readers minds will open. Once the minds are open they will crack one Top exam, even if something does not work out in Civils ( Think from an elder guardian perspective, not a student perspective on this part )
We all are the average of 5 people we interact with. And we want to meet good people here.
Let not one initiative of the forum monopolise the conversation. And let us not stoop below a level. Lets build something nice.
Now off to tomorrows Test, or else again server will crash tomorrow. Or something will go wrong!
Regarding justice and injustice on the forum , injustice will be there. Some people will take advantage. In offline also at least 300+ students didnt pay the fees and wrote tests until we came up with the App based attendance.
Aaj ka itna hi hai,
Bye Bye!
Hi, could someone pls share the link to access the excel sheet in the picture? it is titled "combined performance of modified SFGs".. I saw a link for comparing marks of Insights subject wise tests, are there any other such sheets?
Hi,i created that sheet for 2nd sfg tests during june to july,now as sfg 2.0 started i removed the link from it.(also it was not updated since 20 days)
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