FAQs

Don’t worry. The beginner section is meant for the people who find reading a challenging task. You will be given small assignments to read and then some questions based on that. You will also be taking up discussion sessions with your mentor and your buddy (study partner) on a weekly basis. We promise you will start liking reading in this manner.

No. This course is a complete course and caters to all the aspects of UPSC preparation. You will not be required to take up any other course after this.

Your sessions will be conducted through video chats. In the beginner stage, there will be two students in a class. At the later stages, the classes will be for one student at a time only.

No. Mentors have personal lives as well. It will be advisable to call them on the schedule only. If you need special attention to some topic, message, email the mentor and he/she will call you.

No. You must take either Sociology or Geography as an optional. These options are best suited for the plan we have created.

You will get consistent support in your revision in terms of on-demand mentorship, revision study plan, and test series, till your examination gets over.

After you enroll for the course, we will be dispatchin your pendrive which will contain all the videos. The pendrive is to give you offline access to the course. Along with that you will be provided with online access as well. You will also be receiving an orietation call from the mentor assigned to you.

The course will cover extensively all syllabus for both Prelims and Mains. Topics have been covered module wise keeping in mind the static content (conceptual understanding) and dynamic content (Current Affairs).

You will need to refer the basic booklist to create a foundation. However, the videos will suffice after that since our experts have referred to multiple sources while making the course. In case of any student wanting to read more, we can provide them with further bookslist

UPSC Pathshala will deliver you the best in class curated books which will have graphic coverage of the entire syllabus for the examination.

The videos have been compiled by referring many newspapers at a time. So you do not need to refer to newspaper completely if you are watching the videos. But we do recommend you read the editorials regularly.

We at UPSC Pathshala believe that constant assessment is the key to success in UPSC. Keeping this in mind we provide three point assessment of your preparation:

• Checkpoint questions after every video to help check your understanding of the concept taught.
• Modulewise tests at regular intervals to help track your progress.
• Full length test for both Prelims and Mains for to help you get the feel of UPSC

You will be assigned a mentor, who will be the friend, philosopher and guide. He/she will hold your hand and push you towards the best possible preparation of UPSC exam. He/she will solve your doubts and make your preparation better and coherent.

"We have a very rigorous process of choosing the mentor. Our mentors are Ex- civil servants or people who have reached a certain stage in UPSC (At least interview stage). Majority of them are from top Universities like IITs, IIMs and from varied backgrounds like Engineering. Medicine, Humanities etc. The mentors are provided further training in terms of course content and guidance of students. This helps them guide the students well. We also monitor the mentor performance in various parameters.