GKToday’s Current General Studies Programme for Civil Services Mains Examination 2012

May 29th, 2012

GKToday has started a 4 Months Programme on Current General Studies for Civil Services Mains Examination 2012 for Current Affairs Questions asked in Paper 1 and Paper 2 of General Studies. This notification proposes the broad outline of this programme. We invite the interested students and aspirants to join this programme, if they are convinced with the structure and pattern of the programme and believe that this programme may benefit them.

The Mains 2012 Programme is made up of 20 Modules. There are 15 Major Modules & 5 Mini-Modules. Every Module of Mains 2012 programme is basically an extended version of a Solved Model Test Paper, which we could have written for an aspirant. This means that all the 15 major modules are absolutely in Question-Answer format. Each Major Module comprises 2 sections as follows:

Section A : 2-5-10 Marker Questions
Section B : 150-250 Words Questions

Section A of each module comprises around 90-100 or more notes targeting the scoring 2-5 marker section of your paper. Section B comprises 20-35 or even more long answer questions with model answers. You may download and preview the First module of this programme by clicking in the following button:

The first module gives you a better idea to judge whether the modules are suitable to you for your preparation or not. All the 15 major Modules will be same in quality, layout, presentation and almost same quantity of study material therein. The 5 Mini-Modules are based upon various themes in current general studies. For example, the Mini-Module- 1 covers Euro zone crisis in depth, focuses possible questions in your examination.

Coverage:

The Modules in this programme are designed in such a way that they include an extensive coverage and result in saving of your hundreds of hours. These modules are neither guess papers nor they provide any shortcut to success.

The Mains 2012 Programme covers the Current General Studies Part with major emphasis on the following:

Current Developments in Science, Technology, Environment, Geography, Robotics and other related subjects.
Advanced Constitutional Law & Current Bills and Legislation of National Importance
Current Geopolitics and International Economy
Current Political environment of India and States
Current Economy and Policy of India
Persons, Places in News and Sports.

This programme does not cover the following:

Advanced History & Culture of India
Data Interpretation and Analysis Questions
Basic Geography

Each document covers the Current Events in a retrospective manner with 5 days lag. This means that a document that is sent to you on September 10 will cover the current affairs from anytime in 2011/12 till September 5, 2012. The last module will cover the current affairs from the last week of September 2012.

These modules will not cover current events in date-wise pattern. Instead, the Current affairs being published on GKToday come to you as pdf documents during the course of this programme.

In Summary, you are provided the following:

Around 1500 snippets targeting 2-5-10 markers of your mains exam GS papers
Around 600-700 Long Answer questions covering a wide range of issues
Current affairs Published in GKToday via pdf documents.

Duration & Schedule:

The Mains 2012 programme begins from First week of June 2012 and ends in Last week of September 2012. One can join the programme anytime during the course of the programme. This means the previous modules are made available to a member who joins at a later date than the beginning of the programme. The tentative Schedule of the Documents is as follows:

Module 1: Available on GKToday
Module 2: June 6, 2012
Module 3 : June 13, 2012
Module 4 : June 21, 2012
Mini-Module 1: June 26, 2012
Module 5: July 2, 2012
Module 6: July 8, 2012
Module 7: July 15, 2012
Module 8: July 22, 2012
Module 9: July 29, 2012
Module 10: August 5, 2012
Module 11: August 12, 2012
Module 12: August 19, 2012
Module 13: August 26, 2012
Module 14: September 2, 2012
Module 15: September 9, 2012
Mini-Module - 2: September 9, 2012
Mini-Module -3: September 16, 2012
Mini-Module 4- September 23, 2012
Mini-Module 5: September 30, 2012

The above mentioned schedule is tentative. There may be some changes while we move ahead and actually work on these modules and send them across to you.

Cost:

Cost of the Mains 2012 programme is ` 2000/- Only.

Payment Procedure:

By Cash:

For a Cash Payment, you can go to the Nearest ICICI Bank Branch and deposit the amount as mentioned above in the account given below.
Just after you deposit cash, send a sms on +91-9928053351 mentioning the following:
- Your Name
- Your UPSC Roll Number (If you are appearing)
- The Bank Branch Location where you made a payment
- Your email address.
After that you shall receive a confirmation of you added to the mailing list. You can send the scanned copy of the payment if required by us.
Please keep the receipt of the payment safe till the end of the programme.

Online Payment:

For Online Transaction, Kindly log in to your internet banking account and add the author as a beneficiary / payee, with the given details.
After that, you can make a payment and send the following information via sms on +91-9928053351
- Your name
- Your UPSC Roll Number (If you are appearing)
- Transaction ID
- Your Email Address
You may write "your name" in the payment remarks when you make a payment.
Account No: 065201500493
Account Name: Suresh Kumar Soni
Branch Name: ICICI Bank, Kotputli, Jaipur
IFSC Code: ICIC0000652 (use for NEFT Transactions)

Terms and Conditions:

This programme is open for students and aspirants only.
This programme covers ONLY the Current General Studies part of Mains Examination Paper 1 & 2. It may not cover the entire syllabus of the aforementioned Papers.
This programme is a supplement to your preparation and may not be a sole source of your preparation for any particular examination.
This programme will be run by a single person in good faith and good state of health and mind, and the entire liability rests with a single person. However, the programme may come to at a halt / end due to any eventuality such as serious illness, accident or death of the author during the course of the programme. In case any of the above eventualities including death of the author occurs at any time during the course of the programme, you set him / his dependents free from any and all legal liabilities regarding your payment
If the programme comes to at an end due to any other reason than mentioned in clause 4 given above, your claim for getting back your payment shall not exceed than the amount you have paid to the author as financial support, in any case.
The payment made by you is a financial support to the author to run this programme and should NOT be equated with a purchase of a service.
The Schedule of sending the documents is tentative. The documents come to you in simple PDF documents which you can print
You agree to NOT to redistribute / resell/ reproduce any material provided. You are expected to use the content ONLY for your personal use. If we find any misuse of the documents by any member, we reserve the right to cancel his/ her enrolment, forfeit the amount paid.
GKToday reserves the right to not to enrol any person without giving any reason.
The author reserves the right to publish a part of the material on his website
Medium of Instruction is only English
This programme does not provide you any warranty or guarantee regarding your success in any examination.
Any dispute arising shall be subject to Kotputli (Jaipur) Court only.