Mains Focus Group 2023

Mentorship Course

UPSCprep.com has enabled

54 Toppers in UPSC CSE 2022!

Course Starts On : 17 JUNE

Founders and Mentors:

Abhijeet Yadav and Adv.Shashank Ratnoo

Course Features

Answer Writing
Workshop for
GS

Special Quality
Enhancement
Sessions

24*7 Personalised
Mentor Support

Workbook Based
Sessions
 Structure

Mains Answer Writing Special Sessions by

#1 Workshop for GS 1, #6 UPSC Toppers
GS 2 and GS 3

Session on Mains
#2 Practice Workbooks
for GS and Essay
#7 Mindset

Special Mission Mains Individual Mentorship

#3 Quality Enhancement #8 to discuss Doubts
Sessions with Mentors

Option to choose Ethics Theory and

#4 Traditional Evaluation #9 Case Study
OR Live Evaluation Workshop

Model Frameworks along

#5 #10 Essay Writing
with Post Test
Workshop
Discussion

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Who this course is for

If you are writing mains 2023.

Or want to finish your mains
preparation in the next
4 months.

If you want a yearlong test series,

check the yearlong test series
variant.

FEES STRUCTURE

Mains Focus Group with

21 Tests
(11 Sectional + 10 FLTs)

10999/-

Mains Focus Group

with 10 Tests
(all FLTs)

6999/-

Mains Focus Group

without Test Series

4999/-
 Starting Date : 17 June

On all test series if

you clear Prelims

20% If you have appeared to

UPSC CSE Interview before

old students discount

Note: Different types of discounts can’t be clubbed together. In case you are
eligible for different discounts, the maximum discount will be given to you.

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 Mains Focus Group - Sessions

Day Date Session

Saturday 17 June Intro Session

Sunday 18 June Essay Workshop

Monday 19 June GS4 Ethics Answer Writing Session

Saturday 24 June GS1 Answer Writing Session

Sunday 25 June GS2 Answer Writing Session

Monday 26 June GS3 Answer Writing Session

Monday 3 July Workbook Discussion Ethics

Friday 7 July Workbook Discussion GS1

Monday 10 July Workbook Discussion GS2

Friday 14 July Workbook Discussion GS3

Wednesday 19 July GS1/GS4

Wednesday 26 July GS2/GS3

Wednesday 2 August Essay

Note: Mentor sessions will be held on weekly basis + you can

reach mentor anytime you need to discuss anything.
 Mains Test Series Schedule

Date Type Subject Syllabus

1. Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of

Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient
to modern times.
2. Modern Indian history from about the middle of
the eighteenth century until the present-
Sectional
18 June GS 1 - Test 1 significant events, personalities, issues.
Test 01
3. The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and
important contributors/contributions from different
parts of the country.
4. Post-independence consolidation and
reorganization within the country.

1. History of the world will include events from 18th

century such as industrial revolution, world wars,
redrawal of national boundaries, colonization,
decolonization, political philosophies like
communism, capitalism, socialism etc.— their
forms and effect on the society.
2. Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of
Sectional
21 June GS 1 - Test 2 India.
Test 02
3. Role of women and women’s organization,
population and associated issues, poverty and
developmental issues, urbanization, their problems
and their remedies.
4. Effects of globalization on Indian society.
5. Social empowerment, communalism,
regionalism & secularism

1. Salient features of world’s physical geography.

2. Distribution of key natural resources across the
world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-
continent); factors responsible for the location of
primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries
Sectional in various parts of the world (including India).
25 June GS 1 - Test 3
Test 03 3. Important Geophysical phenomena such as
earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone
etc., geographical features and their location-
changes in critical geographical features (including
water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna
and the effects of such changes.
 Date Type Subject Syllabus

1. Indian Constitution— historical underpinnings,

evolution, features, amendments, significant
provisions and basic structure.
2. Functions and responsibilities of the Union and
the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the
federal structure, devolution of powers and
finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
3. Separation of powers between various organs
dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.
4. Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme
Sectional
28 June GS 2 - Test 1 with that of other countries.
Test 04
5. Parliament and State legislatures—structure,
functioning, conduct of business, powers &
privileges and issues arising out of these.
6. Structure, organization and functioning of the
Executive and the Judiciary—Ministries and
Departments of the Government; pressure groups
and formal/informal associations and their role in
the Polity.
7. Salient features of the Representation of
People’s Act.

1. Appointment to various Constitutional posts,

powers, functions and responsibilities of various
Constitutional Bodies.
2. Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial
bodies.
3. Government policies and interventions for
development in various sectors and issues arising
out of their design and implementation.
4. Development processes and the development
industry —the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups
Sectional and associations, donors, charities, institutional
2 July GS 2 - Test 2
Test 05 and other stakeholders.
5. Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the
population by the Centre and States and the
performance of these schemes; mechanisms,
laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the
protection and betterment of these vulnerable
sections.
6. Issues relating to development and
management of Social Sector/Services relating to
Health, Education, Human Resources.
7. Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
Date Type Subject Syllabus

1. Important aspects of governance, transparency

and accountability, e-governance- applications,
models, successes, limitations, and potential;
citizens charters, transparency & accountability
and institutional and other measures.
2. Role of civil services in a democracy.

3. India and its neighborhood- relations.
5 July Sectional GS 2 - Test 3 4. Bilateral, regional and global groupings and
Test 06 agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s
interests.
5. Effect of policies and politics of developed and
developing countries on India’s interests, Indian
diaspora.
6. Important International institutions, agencies and
fora- their structure, mandate.

1. Indian Economy and issues relating to planning,

mobilization, of resources, growth, development
and employment.
2. Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
3. Government Budgeting.
4. Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts
of the country, - different types of irrigation and
irrigation systems storage, transport and
marketing of agricultural produce and issues and
related constraints; e-technology in the aid of
Sectional farmers.
9 July GS 3 - Test 1
Test 07 5. Issues related to direct and indirect farm
subsidies and minimum support prices; Public
Distribution System- objectives, functioning,
limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and
food security; Technology missions; economics of
animal-rearing.
6. Food processing and related industries in India-
scope’ and significance, location, upstream and
downstream requirements, supply chain
management.
7. Land reforms in India.
Date Type Subject Syllabus

1. Effects of liberalization on the economy,

changes in industrial policy and their effects on
industrial growth.
2. Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports,
Railways etc.

3. Investment models.
Sectional 4. Science and Technology- developments and
12 July GS 3 - Test 2
Test 08 their applications and effects in everyday life.

Achievements of Indians in science & technology;
indigenization of technology and developing new
technology.
5. Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers,
robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and
issues relating to intellectual property rights.

1. Conservation, environmental pollution and

degradation, environmental impact assessment.
2. Disaster and disaster management.
3. Linkages between development and spread of
extremism.
4. Role of external state and non-state actors in
creating challenges to internal security.
5. Challenges to internal security through
Sectional
16 July GS 3 - Test 3 communication networks, role of media and social
Test 09
networking sites in internal security challenges,
basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its
prevention.
6. Security challenges and their management in
border areas - linkages of organized crime with
terrorism.
Various Security forces and agencies and their
mandate.

1. Ethics and Human Interface

2. Attitude
3. Aptitude and Foundational Values for Civil

Service
Sectional GS 4 - Test 1
19 July 4. Contributions of Moral Thinkers and
Test 10 (Theory)
Philosophers

5. Public/Civil Service Values and Ethics in Public

Administration
6. Probity in Governance
 Date Type Subject Syllabus

Sectional GS 4 - Test 2 (Case

23 July Case Studies on the above issues.
Test 11 studies

Full Length
30 July Essay
Test 01

Full Length
6 August GS 1
Test 02

Full Length
13 August GS 2
Test 03

Full Length
20 August GS 3
Test 04

Full Length
27 August GS 4
Test 05

UPSC
3
Simulation Essay
September
Test

UPSC
4
Simulation GS 1
September
Test

UPSC
4
Simulation GS 2
September
Test

UPSC
5
Simulation GS 3
September
Test

UPSC
5
Simulation GS 4
September
Test
 ABHIJEET YADAV
CO-FOUNDER UPSCPREP.COM | CHIEF MENTOR

IIT DELHI (2014) | IIM C/FMS DROPOUT

CLEARED UPSC CIVIL SERVICES EXAM 2 TIMES
AIR 653 (CSE 2017)
RESERVE LIST (CSE 2018)
CURRENTLY NOT IN SERVICE.

Abhijeet Yadav has successfully mentored more than 2000

students in the past 2 years. Under his guidance,
UPSCprep.com enabled 24 selections in UPSC CSE 2021.
These students were from the Mains and Interview batches
started in the first year of UPSCprep.com.
In UPSC CSE 2022, Abhijeet Yadav and the UPSCprep.com
team are mentoring more than 125 UPSC aspirants for the
UPSC Personality Test.
 ADV. SHASHANK RATNOO
CO-FOUNDER UPSCPREP.COM
MASTER STRATEGIST FOR MAINS

AIR 688 (CSE 2015)

SUPREME COURT ADVOCATE

Adv. Shashank Ratnoo has been mentoring UPSC aspirants

online and offline for the last decade. Due to his vast
experience in dealing with the Government and Courts, he is
able to guide aspirants to add that extra value in their
mains answers. His speciality is UPSC Mains guidance,
where he has worked closely with the 1st and 2nd Mains
batch of UPSCprep.com to enable more than 24 selections
in the UPSC final list.

Articles about Shashank: TOI, Mint, New Indian Express, The

Telegraph, Business Standard.
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