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Why coaching (both classroom and online) is neither necessary nor sufficient to help you clear the UPSC civil services examination.
1. Shahrukh Khan sells a well-known coaching centre's brilliant genius on billboards and TV commercials. But he sent his kids to Ambani’s uber
1. Shahrukh Khan sells a well-known coaching centre's brilliant genius on billboards and TV commercials. But he sent his kids to Ambani’s uber
expensive school. This means the advertisements extolling virtues of this coaching centre or that are selling expensive lies.
2. More than hundred thousand (a conservative estimate) aspirants spend truckloads of their parent’s hard-earned money on coaching classes (in Delhi,
2. More than hundred thousand (a conservative estimate) aspirants spend truckloads of their parent’s hard-earned money on coaching classes (in Delhi,
Chandigarh, Patna, Lucknow, Chennai, Hyderabad and hundreds of other cities and towns) every year. Year after year. Only one thousand (maybe less than that) qualify. Every year. This means joining a coaching institute is no guarantee for one’s success.
3. Even the finest of
3. Even the finest of
the coaching centres don’t disclose their strike rate - the percentage of the students (who enrol with them) who actually score brilliantly in their respective papers (CSAT, general studies or optional) because of their coaching. So, no transparency here.
4. Who are these coaches who teach thousands of aspirants in coaching centres? How many of them have actually cleared the UPSC CS exam when they were students? What are their specializations? Who are they accountable to – their students or their employers - when hardworking
students fail to get a good score?
5. If twenty odd students get good scores and two thousand students get lousy scores (even in the same coaching centre, in the same course package and in the same batch), what happens to the tall claims these coaching centres? Where is the
5. If twenty odd students get good scores and two thousand students get lousy scores (even in the same coaching centre, in the same course package and in the same batch), what happens to the tall claims these coaching centres? Where is the
magic wand?
6. When the UPSC civil service exam toppers give interviews on how their coaching centres were instrumental in helping them clear the exam with good ranks, they forget to mention what happened to the thousands of other aspirants who enrolled for the same courses
6. When the UPSC civil service exam toppers give interviews on how their coaching centres were instrumental in helping them clear the exam with good ranks, they forget to mention what happened to the thousands of other aspirants who enrolled for the same courses
in the same coaching centres. So, no sense of proportion here.
The UPSC civil service toppers are actually a part of the conveyor belt that feeds the revenue model of the coaching centres in India.
So, dear aspirants, be your own candle and do a cost-benefit analysis.
The UPSC civil service toppers are actually a part of the conveyor belt that feeds the revenue model of the coaching centres in India.
So, dear aspirants, be your own candle and do a cost-benefit analysis.
