Dear Students,
January is here and we
are hardly 150 days away from Prelims 2023 schedule for 28th May 2023. Now is
the time to shift focus from Mains Examination completely and ramp up your
Prelims Preparation, especially for aspirants to whom Prelims has proved to be
a stumbling block.
With Prelims 2022, the
Commission has stood up to its reputation to be dynamic, challenging, and ever
evolving. This year we have seen the continuation of conceptual questions
derived from a rich balance of static and current affairs, there has also been
a return of pre-2013 format with assertion/reasoning-based questions, a
different format in pairing based question, questions on personality, and major
sports events etc.
ForumIAS Select Focus
Group (SFG) is a program designed on three parameters of a) discipline, b)
rigorous and c) revision. Many of students who joined ForumIAS SFG were able to
cross the Prelims hurdle for the very first time. While many students who write
mains and appear for interview join SFG for a quick revision of prelims
syllabus.
SFG has been able to keep
up with dynamism of UPSC paper by striking a rich balance between static and
dynamic content as well as ensuring conceptual development of every subject.
Our performance can be validated with more than 2000+ selections in 2022
through our SFG Test series, we are hereby announcing SFG LEVEL 2 for the 5th
year of one of our most innovative programs for successfully cracking the
Prelims Examination.
SFG 2023 Level-2 will be
starting from 28th February 2023, and this is the optimum time where one
facing the prelims hurdle should get cracking on their Prelims preparation.
The Select Focus Group
test series has been designed exactly to the demand of the Prelims examination.
In Level 2 we will focus on:
1. Developing the art of solving prelims
questions as well as helping in consolidating and revising knowledge base.
2. Complete chapter wise coverage from
recommended and advanced textbooks.
3. Focus on developing analytical acumen
through interlinked and multi - dimensional questions.
4. Focusing on pattern and difficulty which
is similar to UPSC prelims paper.
5. We will be covering comprehensively both
static and current affairs General studies Paper 1 portion for Prelims 2023
over 40-45 tests.
6. We will covering complete CSAT portion
over 8 – 10 tests.
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 7AM every day 5 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 will be rejected and they will not have any
opportunity to join the Program.
- Tests are conducted daily, and
results are provided within 8 hours of the test with Name and Rank list
for candidates to evaluate their daily performance. On the basis of ranks,
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 2023
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.
Important Dates and Updates:
Registration for Entrance Exam Starts: 13th February 2023 | 5 PM
SFG 2023 Official Noticeboard: https://blog.forumias.com/sfg/
Entrance Test-2: 19th February 2023 | 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Entrance Test Results: 23rd February 2023 | 8 PM
SFG Program Starts: 28th February 2023 | 7 AM
Instructions to attempt the Entrance Test:Click Here
Please Note:
- If you have any clash with any other exam, you will get an opportunity to write the second entrance exam. Only those students will have opportunity to write the specific entrance who will email other exam hall ticket to farej@flaviant.com.
- SFG is available in both Online mode and Offline mode at Hyderabad, Patna, New Delhi Centers.
As a privilege, the students selected in SFG will be provided with test discussions,
while students selected in RLG will not be eligible to receive test discussions in either online or offline mode. RLG students will only receive solution pdfs and All India Rank.Update: The student selected into RLG will be eligible to watch the online discussion on their portal only however students selected into SFG will be eligible to join the Test discussion in Online or Offline at New Delhi Centre.
Application Procedure
- The
program will commence from 28th February 2023, admission to which will be
entrance-based. The Entrance Test-2 will be conducted on 19th February
2023 in both online and offline mode. The results of the Entrance Test
will be announced by 23rd February 2023.
- 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.700+ GST.Candidates
can register by visiting https://academy.forumias.com/sfg/ 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.
- 100
students will be selected for SFG - 50 from online mode and 50 from
students who gave the test in offline mode in Delhi, Patna and Hyderabad
Centres. The remaining students will be selected for RLG. The
ranklist of online and offline students will be published separately.
- The
candidate must pay the program fee as per the group he/she is allocated.
Here are some updates with respect to the SFG Entrance Test:
- The test will be of 1 hour's duration. It will have both GS and CSAT questions.
- There will be 50 questions. For every correct question, there will be 2 marks, and for incorrect questions, there will be a negative marking of -0.67
- It is expected that candidates will have gone through the basic books and are aware of the concepts across different subjects.
- For GS part, you can expect a judicious mix of questions from Polity (10 Questions), Economy (9 Questions), Modern History (9 Questions) and Indian geography (6 Questions). For Current Affairs (6 Questions), questions will be asked from the last 3 months from November and December 2022 and January of 2023.
- For CSAT part, a total of 10 questions from Reading Comprehension, Reasoning, and Aptitude will be asked. The previous year's question paper from 2013 can be used as a reference point for preparing these topics.
- The entrance test will challenge your problem-solving aptitude within the given time constraint
Note: Admissions to the SFG / RLG Group will only be on the basis of the
merit position of the candidate in the entrance test.
No admission will be granted to the candidate without appearing for the
Entrance Test.
@farejul sir for SFG level 2 Delhi old rajendra nagar centre is not there in the centre choices. It is showing only delhi Karol Bagh.
Kindly choose the Karol bagh centre , ORN centre not available for SFG
@farejul Can forumias shift sfg by 1 week ..i.e just after Holi...if possible else 28th February is also OK
I will discuss this with the management and if any changes there, we will surely inform you. Thank You
Hi
Please don't shift it by one week. That would barely leave 3 weeks for final revision and other mocks etc, which is too less.
+1
@farejul Can forumias shift sfg by 1 week ..i.e just after Holi...if possible else 28th February is also OK
I will discuss this with the management and if any changes there, we will surely inform you. Thank You
Hi
Please don't shift it by one week. That would barely leave 3 weeks for final revision and other mocks etc, which is too less.
completely agree, the plan is perfect as it is!
Please share the tentative schedule of tests
- Daily Study Plan for SFG Level 2: Click Here
Again forum ias page not opening for test
@farejul is there any change in schedule for sfg entrance? site is not loading
@farejul is there any change in schedule for sfg entrance? site is not loading
This is to inform you that due to technical glitch in the website the SFG 2023 Level-2 Entrance Test-2 will start from 12:00 PM today.
We are working to fix this website issue with our technical team and we assure you it will be fixed soon.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
is it just me or the site is not loading today also?
This is to inform you that due to technical glitch in the website the SFG 2023 Level-2 Entrance Test-2 will start from 12:00 PM today.
We are working to fix this website issue with our technical team and we assure you it will be fixed soon.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.