In this Essay Mentorship course, we will learn how to understand the question, brainstorm ideas around the topic, practice structuring an essay, and recognize what to write and what not to.
This structured approach has helped many students score very high marks in the Essay paper, and if you understand and apply it properly, it will help you score high as well.
In the Essay course:
We will learn how to understand a question, how to brainstorm ideas around it, and how to structure our essay.
We will also include discussions on a few topics to understand content with respect to essay on common issues which are part of your UPSC GS syllabus.
We will then look at how to approach philosophical essays which is what UPSC has been asking since 2018.
In terms of writing practice, we will start by writing 3 theses to understand the fundamentals of approaching an essay.
We will then write 3 essays to apply what we learnt in theory to improve our essay writing skills.
Last but not the least we will practice writing a Full-length Essay Test.
In this process, you will be part of a Telegram Group for regular interaction and peer to peer learning.
Since this is a Mentorship course, we will guide and steer you in the right direction as far as Essay paper is concerned.
This course is spread over a period of approximately six months, giving you enough time to get a hold of the subject, unlike numerous other courses available online that rush through the optional and try finishing it within three months.
Also, you can watch the lectures as many times as you like until you get conceptual clarity, or for revision.
The course will be delivered through our web platform at courses.sleepyclasses.com
You can also access all the courses via our Android and iOS Mobile Apps.
Candidates may be required to write essays on multiple topics. They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion, and to write concisely.
Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.
The limit of students in the telegram group will be predefined and based on the number of teachers in the group, The student-teacher ratio will be such that none of your doubts will ever remain unanswered.
It would be suggested though to cover atleast 4 topics daily so that by the end of this course in 2023 you could have done 2 revisions. It will be suggested to cover Section A then B of part 1 followed by Part 2 which consists of Section A and B. You will be provided with the whole static part of syllabus in one go to prepare as per your schedule and timings.
You will be given the tests in answer writing in once as soon as related topics get covered you can attempt them. Test’s expiry will be the same as the course’s expiry i.e. 2023. So you can attempt them as per your comfort whenever you want. It will all be evaluated irrespective of how late you attempt them considering it’s done before the expiry of the course in 2023.
However, for your own better understanding you can refer to foundational sources for example, For Part A you can go through O.P. Gauba, For IGP you can refer to Oxford companion, For Paper 2 IR portion you can go through Andrew Haywood’s Global politics and For IFP you can stick to Editorials or sites like Indian Council on Foreign Affairs. Our content has a very wide coverage from diverse resources like books, sites etc.
