DAILY ANSWER WRITING PRACTICE FOR UPSC
The right way to start with daily answer writing practice for UPSC CSE is to get enrolled in a course, start writing and get your answers evaluated. While preparing for Mains, I realized that evaluating answers on your own won’t help you much. That’s because you are a beginner and secondly, you might end up overlooking your mistakes. So, it’s important to let somebody else review your answers and provide you with honest feedback.
This is the reason why I got myself enrolled in Eden IAS’s STEPS answer writing course. This particular course is designed for beginners wherein they are not only taught how to write good answers but answers that make an impact on the checker. This course is of 4 months and can be taken in online mode as well. The topics covered in this course are listed and handed before the commencement to the students. Be it World History or regional trade agreements, each and everything is covered properly under this course.
The ultimate responsibility of the student is to go through the model answers provided and discussed by the faculty in the class, then take up the daily four questions and attempt them. Once the faculty reviews your answer sheets and returns them back within a period of 48 hours, you need to evaluate them yourself. Go through your answer sheet, read the individual feedback given by the faculty and identify your gray areas. In this manner, you can improve your answer writing skills. If you think that you require more practice, then you can opt for SUGAM – Stay on Track and Enrich your Preparation. It is an advanced answer writing course where they make you prepare by daily answer writing practice.
Where do I practice Daily Answer Writing for the UPSC Exam?
UPSC Mains requires an aspirant to master the art of answer writing. It requires you to write answers that ain’t just good or just fulfill the requirement but make an impact. For the same, you require guidance. See, while preparing for Prelims, we end up training our brain to be quick and accurate. But Mains requires you to explain a point. When you take up answer writing leaving the objective-pattern of the Prelims, you end up landing in a situation where you are at a loss of words. So, you require some help.
I explored through a couple of courses and stumbled upon STEPS – an answer writing course for beginners by Eden IAS. The duration of this course is 4 months and it is taught by the expert faculty of Eden IAS.
One can either opt for all the papers together or just one paper under this course. Eden IAS takes up one paper per month for better understanding and detailed coverage. Every day, students are made to appear for 4 questions and by the end of the week, 6 questions are attempted. The questions are taken up from a particular topic as per the schedule. The schedule is handed over to the faculty in prior so that students get a glimpse of what they will be doing in this course.
Evaluation of these answers takes within 72 hours. Students are written the marked sheet with individual feedback with the objective of making them aware of their gray areas. In addition to that, the faculty sits on doubt counters from where you can seek an individual clarification for your doubts. I personally recommend this course to everybody.
