Director’s Message

Director's Message

Dear Aspirants,

Welcome you to Career Point IAS Academy, where your ambition, commitment and devotion will be integrated with our years of experience in guiding and navigating you to your goal successfully.
Your decision to pursue civil services as a career is undoubtedly appreciable and you deserve a big applause for it because civil services not only offers you a prestigious job but also provides you a platform to give services to people at grass root level. This career opportunity will definitely enhance your potential in different areas and will give you immense satisfaction of serving country.
In context to this, Career Point IAS Academy is imparting education for last 20 years to make you part of Bureaucracy. Institute is nurturing leaders in every possible dimension and is inculcating human values and ethics, which help them to make decisions and create a path which is good for them as well as for welfare of society. To fulfill aspirations and goals, each student is motivated to strive to achieve excellence in every endeavor. The institute strives to make substantial improvements in student’s learning capabilities and equip them to face the challenges of Civil services Exam.
It is quite clear that qualities demanded by civil services exam cannot be developed overnight and needs a support at same time. In context to this my 20 years experience of teaching, guiding civil services aspirants can make students capable of achieving its goal in an efficient and time bound manner. After years of research and analysis, my team succeeded in developing a course structure that would ensure that students study the concerned subjects along with developing the administrative traits, techniques and soft skills. Our guidance programme emphasizes on mind power and skill-set development so that our students are trained to use this resources optimally and emerge victorious in this examination. Our consistent Best Results year by year reflects our potential and capabilities to guide students for Civil Services Exam.
Finally, a student of Career Point will lack nothing in terms of support from the faculty, management and administrative staff. We aim to lend a gentle guiding hand so that our students recognize their inner potential and grow of their own accord into stalwarts of tomorrow's society. An aspirant studying in our classroom programme is sure to be knowledgeable, confident and fully equipped to deal with the real world and excel.

PART - I — HOW TO BEGIN PREPARATION

The beginners have varied perceptions about the preparation and a number of them are not aware of the realities of the same. They begin but on wrong lines, they go astray and meet failures in initial attempts. It takes them a year or years to be conscious of the realities and that too, at the cost of some attempts. Some take attempts without preparation just to gain some experience because they do not have a good guide to suggest them that attempts are precious and must not be wasted this way.
All the beginners have problem when they embark upon the preparation that is how to begin. We provide you step-by-step guidelines as regards how to go in for the preparation for the Civil Services Examination.

1. Buy any civil services syllabus guide from bookshops which sell books & guides on competitive exams. It contains all the information required.

2. Go through it and know the pattern of the examination well.

3. a. Go through the syllabus of the optional subjects — consider four things in selection of optional subjects.

i. The Subject interests you
ii. You have familiarity or background
iii. Subjects that help you in General Studies
iv. You get proper guidance for them (the most important)

b. Buy the booklets containing previous year’s questions of those subjects and go through them. Proper idea of the questions will also help you decide the optional subject.

4. Buy booklets of previous year’s questions of General Studies, (Both Prelim & Main) and Languages (Hindi & English) and be well-aware of the pattern of the questions.

5. After doing all these you come to know all about the examination, the subjects, the nature of questions and of course what you have to study. This way, you take the first step in the direction of preparation which is very significant.

6. Study on the basis of the syllabus and previous year’s questions. Just do not finish topics, as this is eventually meaningless and make sure that study enables you to write good and standard answers. This is the essence of preparation.
7. Practise writing answers. Create answer formats of typical questions and get the help of a guide.
8. Join any coaching after considering point (1) to (4). Coaching before these considerations would not be meaningful. On the basis of (1) to (4) you would be in a position to assess the significance of the coaching. In reality, coaching helps you in your preparation when it makes you comprehend topics, makes available to you standard study material and the most significantly it enables you to write good & standard answers. And if you just work on topics and finish them in coaching classes, it has no value finally when you are writing examination.

PART - II — HOW TO MAKE A COMPLETE & MEANINGFUL PREPARATION

One has to perceive the meaning of real preparation. Real preparation does not mean attending classes, procuring study material packages and finishing the syllabus.
Real preparation has an altogether different connotation - it has to be a meaningful preparation. One need to understand finer aspects of preparation — that is, to develop comprehension of questions, to develop approach to write answers, to practise answer-writing etc.

Meaningful and effective preparation which makes one attain qualifying level subsumes various facets

1. Planning the preparation
2. Formulation of strategy
3. Guidance for preparation of compulsory subject
4. Adequate & revised study material packages
5. Analysis of questions
6. Expected topics / questions for forthcoming examinations
7. Answer - formats
8. Information related to strategy & approach
9. Information related to approach to answer-writing
10. Evaluation of answers.

Requirements for Preparation

Success in Civil Services Examination calls for a holistic development. We want to put forward some suggestions in this connection.

1. Study all the relevant topics of various subjects, develop broader understanding.
2. Prepare topics on the basis of the trends & nature of the questions.
3. Create answer-formats in point form so that they prove handy in revising things.
4. Develop approach to writing. Think over ways & presentation of answers. Take the help of some guides.
5. Practise answer-writing and get them evaluated.
6. Develop a good language & expression so that you might write good answers.

Relevance of General Studies

In the overall preparation, pay attention to General Studies on a long term basis because of the nature of syllabus, trends of the questions and the significance of the subject.

General Studies have emerged as a challenge in recent years. There was change in GS

Syllabus in 2007-08 which made is more comprehensive & complicated. From the year 2009
onwards, there has been a drastic change in the nature of the questions. The conventional
types of questions have ceased to occur in the examination. Finally in the year 2012-13 the
syllabus was restructured. Two papers of General Studies consisting of 600 marks was
substituted by four papers consisting of 1000 marks (250 marks each).

Because of changes in the syllabus & changes in the nature of the questions, traditional
teaching by most of the GS institutes has lost relevance since 2008-09. Earlier Students used
to get 100-250 level of marks out of 600 (including top rankers) and most used to qualify on
the basis of higher marks in two optional subjects consisting of 1200 marks. But now, there
is only one optional subject of 500 marks . So the weightage on optional has decreased
considerably affecting those who made preparations on traditional methods.

What our Students say

Preparing for any competitive exam is vastly different from preparing for any school/college or university exam. What to study from the vast ocean of information, how to write what you know within the prescribed time limit and not to lose focus and motivation are some dilemmas every aspirant faces. I consider myself lucky to have got enrolled at Career Point. Regular classes by experienced faculties in small groups, revision tests and constant motivation and guidance by the team especially Raut Sir made my journey much easier. I am forever thankful to Career Point for pushing me in the direction of my goal.

The 2016 APSC CCE was my first attempt of Civil Services Exam. The preliminary exam went through smoothly. However for the Mains Exam I required expert guidance. I searched through various coaching centres in Guwahati and ultimately landed at Career Point, Ulubari. Dinesh Sir is one of the pioneer of Civil Services Coaching in Guwahati. The lectures and test series helped me study for the exams and gave me confidence for clearing the exam in the first attempt itself. I will be forever indebted to Dinesh Sir and Career Point for teaching me not only the syllabus of Civil Service Exams but also the nitty-gritty of a Civil Servant.

I am extremely grateful to Career Point and Dinesh Raut Sir his support and personal guidance. Mock tests and Test series had immensely helped me during the preparation and answer writing skills. Thank you Sir and Career Point.

Hello, I am Nithee Kalita. I want to take this opportunity to thank career point and its team. I had joined the offline course of prelims and mains and thankfully was a part of the interview guidance program as well. I have used career points resource materials at all stages of my preparation. It was a great value addition especially during my mains preparation, given the pausity of time as i had just got into a government job just few months before the mains. I want to specially thank Raut Sir, this wounldn’t have been possible without his unparalleled support and guidance. Thank you Career point and Raut Sir once again for making my APSC journey end on a positive note.