Tips to Choose the Best Online Coaching to Clear the IAS Exam

Tips to Choose the Best Online Coaching to Clear the IAS Exam

Online IAS coaching institutions are usually opted by the IAS aspirants whose daily routine does not allow them to attend the IAS coaching classes regularly in an institution. They can usually spare the time to study for the IAS Exam either during the early mornings at dawn or at the time when the entire world is fast asleep. However, the online IAS coaching allows them to study at their leisure.

But, it’s always somewhat confusing to opt for an IAS coaching institution, be it a classroom coaching institution or the online one. However, it should always be kept in mind that opting for online IAS coaching institution might require you to consider various reasons with a greater consideration than what you might have required while opting for an offline regular classroom IAS coaching in Delhi.

And that is what makes choosing an online IAS coaching institution somewhat more confusing and difficult. And if you have to finalize the coaching while you are still in a perplexed state of mind, it only implies that you are jeopardizing the probability of your clearing the IAS Exam to a considerable extent.

Here’s How You Can Choose the Best Online IAS Coaching Institution

Well, most of the IAS aspirants are usually aware that it would be an unusually difficult task to prepare the entire syllabus for the Civil Services Exam prescribed by UPSC in a competent manner. The more you study, the greater gets the requirement to study even further. No wonder, you would like to finalize the online IAS coaching at the earliest possible so that you get maximum time to prepare for the IAS Exam.

However, it would in your own interest not to finalize the online IAS coaching institution in a hurry. Here are a few tips to opt for the best online IAS coaching institution so that you may prepare for the IAS Exam in a competent manner:

1. Study Material: You should never ever forget that as you would not be attending coaching sessions in a regular classroom for you have opted for an online IAS coaching institution, there should be no drawbacks in the study material. It should be designed as per the syllabus of UPSC and designed in a highly competent manner.
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3. Test Series: Apart from the study material, the test series provided by the online IAS coaching institution should also cover all the requirements of the UPSC syllabus. Also, the test series should be designed in a manner so that they cover all the changes, in case, there have been, made by UPSC in the question paper patterns in the recent past.
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5. Faculty: The faculty teaching online must be highly competent. In fact, they should be more competent than their counterparts teaching offline in the regular classroom coaching sessions. The students who are being taught in a traditional classroom have an easier and quicker access to the faculty than their counterparts studying online.
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7. Query Solving Sessions: Though you have chosen to prepare for the IAS Exam online, make sure that the online IAS coaching institution that you opt for keeps a provision for getting the queries solved for the sake of its students, both online and offline. That is to say, apart from solving your queries online by e-mail or allowing you to talk to the faculty on phone, the online IAS coaching institution should also allow you to get the queries solved by the faculty during a face to face interaction.
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9. Current Affairs: It is a highly important perspective that should not be ignored by any means. The online coaching sessions must keep all the relevant details of the current affairs in a suitable perspective so that you may enrich your knowledge in a manner to get an enviable score when it comes to face the Mains.

This is how the knowledge of current affairs helps you (apart from providing you with various other advantages):

1. You gain a critically analytical insight: It should be noted that with a regularly updated knowledge of what the online IAS coaching institution has been teaching you, specifically for the current affairs, you would be better equipped to gain a critical insight into various subjects/topics/Papers etc. Needless to say, apart from making you more alert and aware, it will also give you a balanced perspective to analyze various current issues.
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3. Contributes to developing better writing skills: And when you can keep all the pros and cons for any issue at various platforms, be it social, political, economical, cultural etc., in the right perspective, you can always reach a conclusion that is justifiable to all. And this quality of being unprejudiced would definitely be reflected in your answers both in the Mains and the Interview.

A Word of Caution

Well, the online IAS coaching institutions have obviously made it viable for all to prepare for the IAS Exam at their own convenience and leisure and wheresoever and howsoever they feel like studying. But, you would have to put in more of the effort when it comes to self study. Besides, you have to be more careful than others to stay fit and fine.

It must not be taken for granted that the IAS aspirants who join the regular classroom coaching have to focus on the preparation for the Exam only. Besides, they are regularly guided by the faculty. But, in your case, you would have to focus to a considerably greater extent on the self studies, as already said above. What’s more, you would be studying either early in the dawn or at the midnight, or might be, at both the times.

Thus, it’s best to take nutritious meals, exercise, keep your mind relaxed, focus on the self study and not waste even a second of your time. You are already running short of the time. You chose the online IAS coaching institution because you do not have the time to attend regular coaching classes. Take care of it all. And choose the online IAS coaching institution wisely and you would do well in the IAS Exam.