NAME OF THE COACHING COURSE / LOCATION INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS SUBJECT RANKING LOCATION (If others)

Alok Ranjan's IAS Alok Ranjan Geography

Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee 3 Nagar (Average) (Delhi)

NEGATIVE POINTS 1) Doesn't finishes syllabus, covers only 70%; 2) Waste too much time with fancy stories and useless discussion; 3) Printed notes are horrible; 4) Teaches a lot of wrong concepts; 5) Facts are pathetic; 6) He is more visible beacuse he has more advertisements compared to Shabbir sir who as a part of vajiram is not allowed to avertise as much (maybe its the institutes policy); 7) ALok ranjan gives good notes and knows his subject, but i dont think he is as good with answer writing skills; 8) His language is not good and he teaches geogrpahy in the conventional pattern;

POSITIVE POINTS

WORST EXPERIENCES

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

ALS

ALS

ALS

Shashank Atom, Jojo Mathew M. Gautam, A. Shrivastava Arunesh Singh, K Krishna Reddy, Jojo Mathews, M. Gautam

Mukherjee 3 Nagar Geography (Average) (Delhi) Mukherjee Public 4 (Not Nagar Administration Good) (Delhi)

1) Sometimes, if he teaches a wrong concept or quote a wrong data, and if any student is able to figure it out, he will argue and try to prove himself correct, and if later on the same student bring proof that he was wrong, he will simply give a brief explanation of his mistake, but deny to get 1) Good class notes; 2) Tries to into further argumentation; clear concepts; 3) Can discuss 2) Always say to keep confidence on him anything related to CSE prep; 4) and he will finish the syllabus, but at last all He has taught in ALS, his promises will turn out to be fake, and SYNERGY and now has his will suggest some books/materials to refer own institute; to same. 1) Good Printed Notes; 2) 1) Ok for geography, far inferior to Alok 1) Hectic timing of 4-5 hours classes; 2) Popularity declining but still the Ranjan, all other subject in ALS are waste; Teaching quality not up to the mark; 3) best, better feedback than Alok 2) They mostly get their material and work Alok Ranjan is better; 4) Shashank is no Ranjan and much better than K. done by older students who are also more interested and Jojo is a joker; Siddharth; appearing for the exam

1) He is good, kind-hearted, and his out-of-course talks help people in building its personality. 2) He tries to listen to student's view calmly, never turns angry Sanjeev, and scold his students. Nakul, Sid

Kalyan, Nakul, Sid

ALS

C. K. Singh, M. Kohli Ranjana Sabbarwal K. Krishna Reddy, Y.D mishra

General Studies 4 (Not (Compulsory) Good) Political Science & International Relations

Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi) Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi) Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi) Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

100% bogus people 1) National Issues is Worst; 2) History is bogus; 3) Current Affairs is average; 4) Test Series is bogus, but regular and systematic, and still paper checked by subordinates which is the case with every crowded institute;

Nakul 1) Last year, we were five students in Krishna Reddy's class and when there was a break, three left and the other two were saying I can teach better than him; 2) His notes are a good compilation, but as a teacher Reddy and others are "frauds";

1) Economics is good but not better than Vajiram; 2) Polity, Int. Rel. & Sci & Tech is average;

Nakul, Kalyan

1) M. Kohli is old and outdated, She has not adopted to UPSC trend, so don't join; C K Singh is Good;

ALS

Sociology

Good but too Academic Considered good for History as the instructors form a good team; 1) I wasted Rs. 9000 there, I bought their notes , it is full of printing misktakes; We have the second term of UPA govt now going and in his notes there is still NDA govt going - hasent bothered to update it; 2) I read a review about Pol. Sc. in Chronicle magazine that was given by its director cum teacher - S K Singh - which I found very good, so that encouraged me to do so, later I came to know that the write up was stolen from a book - How to crack IAS - written by toppers of 2007 batch; 3) They gave me only 3 sets on notes and said that they will send 1 set when it will come, I called them 100 times but they never send, so beware of APEX for Pol. Sc.;

ALS

History

APEX Academy

S K Singh

Political Science and International 4 (Not Relations Good)

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Axiom

Mahesh Lalwani

BrainTree

Karthic

BrainTree

NEGATIVE POINTS POSITIVE POINTS 1) Not at all exam oriented; 2) Does not teach as per the syllabus, just teaches economics in general; 3) Never will tell anything about answer writing even if you write any answer and take it to him it will not be evaluated; 4) Does paper 2 in 20 days (no justice at all); 5) Discourages reading indian author books (now where will one read indian Both Old economy from should we expect any Rajendra foreigener to write on indian economy); Nagar / Karol 6) Discourages asking questions and Bagh (New does not clarify any doubt; 7) Of the 3 Delhi) and months course, he spends 1 month on Mukherjee microeconomics, while growth and 4 (Not Nagar development he takes only in 1 week Economics Good) (Delhi) and same for international economics; Hardly any 1) Best Institute for Anthropology - teacher (Kartic) Himayat is excellent; 2) Gives good Nagar, Printed material for Anthropology 2 (Good) Others Hyderabad Anthropology 1) Not very good in handling dynamic part of the GS paper; 2) Once upon time a good institute but it General Himayat has lost the credibiltiy; Studies 4 (Not Nagar, 3) Main teachers had left the institute. (Compulsory) Good) Others Hyderabad Don't join here for the GS.

WORST EXPERIENCES

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

1) I wrote some answers and asked him to evaluate, but he paid no heed to it. None

Sandeep

BrainTree

Gopala krishna

Public 4 (Not Administration Good)

Others

Himayat Nagar, Hyderabad

1) I hate him for his pubad teaching, he will use some slides and read them and give some examples which are of no use; 2) After few days he will say both mains and prelims has completed, you will be 1) Useful for Polity and Thinkers shocked to hear this and in the end you will (Pub Ad); decide to prepare by your self; 1) Career Launcher has definitely destroyed the careers of it's own students and indirectly "launched" those of their competitors/fellow aspirants who didn't join the coaching;

Sandeep

Career Launcher

Aptitude Test (Paper-2 of Prelims)

Career Plus

Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

Biggest fraud institute I had ever seen!

Om

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Career Point Hemant Jha History Chanakya A.K. Mishra

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

Chankaya

Bibhash Sharma

Sociology

4 (Not Good)

Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

Hemant jha is a good teacher ,but if u want personal improvement then contact K. Shivesh (at Achievers IAS) or Liaquat sir (at Ber sarai, Crescent). 1) Chanakya IAS and Rau's IAS are seasoned and old fraudsters; 1) Lacks professionalism; 2) Got his concepts wrong; 3) Quotes wrongly; 4) No command over language; 5) Doubtful if he could even go near contemporary topics; 6) Skips painful area for which one seeks coaching;

1) Excellent understanding of history; 2) unique method of teaching; 3) Complete coverage of syllabus; 4) Exhaustive style of teaching; 1) They have survived only because of advt and false claims.

EVALUATOR'S GOOD EXPERIENCES NAME I took coaching from Hemant jha for Mains history, as i had read all the basic text & also cleared 1 prelims before joinning his class it was easier for me to comprehend him; I would suggest beginners to atleast read all the basic text once before joining his class or they would find it slightly diffucult to understand; mains coaching goes on for 8 months but history's syllabus is so vast I think sir cant do anything abt it, printed notes could have been brief but written notes are excellent; Amol Sid

A huge presence over the internet portraying him India's Best coach (well why not Asia's) in sociology, be careful, be very careful; 1) Good for the mains preparation but not from the PT point of view; 2) Majid sir has a very good knowledge, he teaches any complex concept in the most simplistic manner, so that any layman could understand; 3) Entertains questions and answer them intelligently; 4) Simple, down-toearth person, not like Alok Ranjan who thinks he is the "only" best teacher of Geography; 5) His concepts of Human Geography is marvellous; 6) Doesn't dictate notes and encourage people to 1) Majid Hussain is a fraud, don't go for read books; him;

Civils India

Majid Hussain

Geography

Civils India DIAS Vajpayee

Pali Physics

Mukherjee 3 Nagar (Average) (Delhi) Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

1) Question paper of Mains test series are not up to the "changing pattern" of UPSC; 2) Marking will tough initially, but lenient later on, making students realise that they are doing really well, just to fool them; 3) Answer sheet sucks, they are 5-Rs. "jista" paper which would tear up if you write with a bit more pressure; 4) Too many students in a too small place; 5) Majid Sir take it as default that you are giving 3rd or 4th attempt, so not so beneficial for freshers;

Sanjeev, Dharmendra

1) Best for Physics, I am 200% satisfied with his teaching; 1) Classes become monotonous and boring as she teaches only Geography and even jokes are related to Geography; 2) Give average marks to most of the students in Test Series evaluation; 1) Completes full syllabus on time; 2) Teaches full 3 hours dedicatedly; 3) Test Series up to the mark of UPSC's changing pattern

Chandan,

Direction

Neetu Singh Geography

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol 3 Bagh (New (Average) Delhi)

NAME OF THE COACHING COURSE / LOCATION INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS SUBJECT RANKING LOCATION (If others) NEGATIVE POINTS POSITIVE POINTS Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and 1) Siddhartha himself takes very few Mukherjee classes; 2) Other assistant teachers are Ensemble 4 (Not Nagar bogus; 3) The institute is the biggest 1) Some of the books published (ETAN) K siddhartha Geography Good) (Delhi) cheat by Siddhartha are really good; 1) This institute rocks, one has to add here n there but most Mukherjee part is covered in exceedingly Nagar nice manner, only wise decision Evolution Zoology (Delhi) I made in last many years; Mukherjee Nagar Face IAS (Delhi) 1) He gives much less information than other teachers, but his best part is that he is sincere in his efforts, in FIAS Salimuddin Public Jia Sarai, 1) Though he is a good teacher but his checking your answer papers Academy Ansari Administration Others Delhi notes especially of paper 1 is not good; and regular in his approach; Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

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GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

1) Siddhartha is the biggest crook, avoid him like plague;

Shubham, Tarun

Dr. Rahul 1) The name is FACE IAS but I will call it Fake IAS. It is a no.1 fraudster, Its new but still tall claims;

Sachin

1) I scored in first paper 174 only by reading his class notes as I opted pubad after prelims result. Gaurav 1) Majority of the persons whose photos are displayed, doesn't go there for more than 1 week; 2) He always speak useless stuff; 3) Manocha is good for GS Geography, but not for optional; 1) It is the most fraudand dumbest institute in whole India, never join this even by mistake, if you do so then surely u will be signing your destruction draft;

Geography Classes

SK Manocha

Geography

4 (Not Good)

1) His concepts are not clear;

1) He put lots of efforts during discussion of Test series;

Anamika

IAS Era

Saroj Kumar Geography Aptitude Test (Paper-II of Prelims) 1) He is a great instructor; 2) Knows how to handle things in Paper-2 for PT; 3) He really helped in figuring out what to study and what not;

Manish

IAS Paathsaala

Abhash Thakur

Mukherjee Nagar 2 (Good) (Delhi) Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

Insight

Baliyan

History

Not many people know about him 1) Baliyan has never qualified in prelims and lot of photograps which he use to advertise in Hindu news are manipulated;

Prakash

Inspirations

Sunil Gupta

Public 4 (Not Administration Good)

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

1) The teacher does not know anything, keeps on repaeting his notes in the class; 2) Speaks very pathetic and unintelligible English; 3) Even his answers are wrong or just too simplistic; 4) He has appointed his wife as his manager whose only purpose is how to fleece students.;

1) Only god knows why the crowd goes there, not only useless but more than useless. 2) He never knows what he is talking; 3) I heard he is giving full page advertisements claiming me to be his student. I am a student of Mr.Ganesh (chennai) when it comes to pub ad. 4) I joined test series with Sunil Gupta as he gave maximum number of tests. His discussion classes were horrible. 5) First class I left the hall in ten minutes as I was unable to hear his lecture. But I wrote all tests for paper 1 with him. I wrote it at my room and never got any feedback from him because I didn't have any trust on him. Don't waste your money on him if you want a good teacher.

1) I started pub ad in june after prelims, just in 4 months I could not read any book but majorly followed Sunil Gupta sir notes of inspiration and I got in Pubad paper-1 171 and paper-2 173. Some friends have criticised these centers, my experience is different.

Arun, Pratik, Dr. Rahul, Gaurav, Dr. Varun (AIR 3 CSE 2010), Manu

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Jains IAS

5 (Worst)

NEGATIVE POINTS 1) He s a dumb person, guys please don't go by paper ads; 2) Jain himself confused about geography concepts and also bring together a group of confused teachers for other subjects, so please avoid it;

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WORST EXPERIENCES

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

Rajesh, Sid 1) Printed class notes of paper1 are good, though copied from 4-5 books, it serves as a single place to study the contents organised intelligently as per the syllabus; 2) Puri Sir's class notes and teaching style is awesome, doesn't makes you feel tired in a 4-hr class also; 3) He is fully dedicated and help students in maximum possible ways and is reacheable anytime for any kind of doubt; 4) He will repeat a concept unless every student understands it and completes almost 95% of his syllabus (paper-2)

Kaizer

O. P. Minocha, M. Public 4 (Not Puri Administration Good)

Both Old Rajendra Nagar (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

Kalinga IAS

General Studies Abani Kumar (Compulsory) Dash - Economics

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

1) It is advertised too smartly to attract people and highlights the achievement of O. P. Minocha in Pubad, but he has grown too old and his teaching standard is not sufficient for a Civil Service aspirant. 2) The manager of this institute is the "biggest liar", whatever he committed in his 1st interaction, he wasn't able to deliver 10% of them. 3) He didn't took test series for us and even didn't send me some of the printed materials, which was not distributed before the classes end; 4) Minocha sir is good for timepass but not for marks; 1) I did a one month course for prelims to get a basic understanding of economy. I suggest first to read economy on your own and then join any class, it definitely makes more sense; 2) Regarding Dash sir's negative point, he wastes a good amount of time on stories which somehow every instructor is infamous of; 3) Does not cover each topic in detail, you cannot rely on his coaching alone, need to do research; 4) Lastly, do not rely on any instructor's factual information, especially in economics;

1) It is a fraud institute run by a cheat management; 2) Minocha's name is just hype ("Unchi dukaan, feeki pakwaan"; 3) just knows how to finish the syllabus, but not in a perfect way; 4) He will just waste time telling stories about his experience, et. al, which may not be related at all to the topic he is teaching; 5) Most of the time, he will just read out the topics/sub-topics and would say that your syllabus is over!; 6) Puri Sir's speaks too fast, need 2-3 classes to get up to his pace; 7) Test Series is just hoax, neither Minocha corrects it, nor the corrected papers are distributed on time;

1) Puri Sir is good for paper-2, but you can join him in Vision IAS or take get his notes in the market, I heard is going to take both papers in Vision IAS and he Sanjeev, Dr. is no more with Kaizer Rahul

Khan study group

Both Old Rajendra Nagar (New Delhi) and General Mukherjee Khan sir and Studies 3 Nagar others (Compulsory) (Average) (Delhi)

1) Khan sir himself is brilliant for polity but for geography and economy he is sad, but fortunately he does not teach much of both, so it works out fine; 1) His notes dont make much sense after class; 2) The english hardly looks right, but its the same I found with other institutes also, so cant say that he is bad; 3) Atleast he explains it well enough for you to write in your own language;

1) The other professors are really good, you might find a few boring but if u have the patience ur concepts get cleared, they know their job and they know that they have to make our concepts strong and they also make u capable enough to think;

Mitra`s Ias

Mitra

Philosophy

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

NAME OF THE COACHING COURSE / LOCATION INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS SUBJECT RANKING LOCATION (If others)

NEGATIVE POINTS 1) Bhavani Singh has a pathetic communication skills; 2) He is a big Fraud; 3) His English is very bad; 4) He doesn't teaches just dictates/reads the notes projected on a screen; 5) His materials though seems to be exhaustive but you will not understand head or tail of it, that too it was in unreadable form in our batch (Black fonts in complete red color background; 1.His English is very bad 2.He doesn't teaches just dictates/reads the notes projected on a screen 3.His materials though seems to be exhaustive but you will not understand head or tail of it.That too it was in unreadable form in our batch (Black fonts in complete red color background !) Utter waste of money and time. I throwed Rs.22,000 for this Idiot and got nothing in return except for his so called scholarly material ! I know now some people will start saying again that Bhawani Singh is not good for beginners who do they expect to join coaching institutes ? A person with PhD ?

POSITIVE POINTS

NIAS

Bhavani singh

Public 4 ( Not Administration Good)

Both Old Rajendra Nagar (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Nagar (Delhi)

WORST EXPERIENCES 1) I went to meet him to enquire about his course details, and was shocked to see such a frustrating English communication, it would be better for him to teach in Hindi; 2) He is a utter waste of money and time, I throwed Rs.22,000 for this Idiot and got nothing in return except for his so called scholarly material; 3) More than money what frustrates me was time wasted had I used those time for self study I could teach Bhawani Singh some real Pub Ad;

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

1) Bhawani Singh is not fraud as told by someone, his notes and classes is really helpful if your basic concepts are clear; Dilip Kumar

NIAS

Bhawani Singh

Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Public Nagar Administration (Worst) (Delhi) 5

NICE Praveen (Inspirations) Kishore

Sociology

Lacks experience, Communication not very fluent, but still far better than Ramaswamy or Sunil Gupta.

1) His printed notes are one of the best; 2) He is very hard working and sincere; 3) I have attended his Mains test series and few classes for Mains and found that test series questions are very good, also discussion is also good for a beginner (though won't call it mesmerizing or incredibly insightful);

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NEGATIVE POINTS

Nirvana IAS Academy

General Studies (Compulsory), Aptitude Test (Paper-2 of Prelims)

Others

Rohini, Delhi

Nirvana IAS Academy

General Karam Singh Studies Gill, Sunil (Compulsory)5 (Worst) Others

Near Rohini West Metro Stattion, Delhi

Nirvana IAS Academy Panini

Political Karam Singh Science and Gill and International Sunil Relations 5 (Worst) Others Sanskrit

Near Rohini West Metro Station, Delhi

1) A strict no to weekend classes, they are of no use; 1. Doesn't meet Mains standards at all in terms of quality. For PT, it can be OK. 2. The institute is useless for Sc. & Tech. and Economy. 3. Much time is wasted over parts of syllabus like Ancient & Medieval History instead of Eco or Sc. & Tech. 4. Only Frank School ATLAS is covered for Geography. 5. Only 1-2 classes for Current Affairs. 1. IGP section is synonymous here with Indian Polity of GS. Doesn't meet the main examination standards of Paper I, Section B. 2. Worst for Paper - II. Contemporariness is completely lacking here. 3. Don't get allured by the fact that they run weekend classes (for working people) coz teaching quality is bad. 4. The institute can be useful ONLY for begineers, in terms of quality improvement; its a disaster. The biggest fraudster 1) Pathetic english, sentences don't make any sense. (2) He has just mugged up some notes, no conceptual understanding at all. If you ask any concepts to clarify, he will just scold you to shut up. (3) Voice is not clear ( some problem in his vocal chord)

POSITIVE POINTS 1) There are two teachers for GS and one female teacher for CSAT; 2) They will not flood you wid unnecessary knowledge or facts and will teach only result oriented things; 3) One teacher (someone named Gill), gets all kinds of praises for his clarity and knowledge on foreign relations, law and current affairs but the another guy (Sunil) is energyless and teaches useless stuffs; 4) CSAT teacher is extremely beautiful and it ws so hard to concentrate :P, but she too didn't waste much time in covering all the topics and taught selective things like DI, blood relations, sequences, RC etc. 5) In short, you will benefit a lot from Gill sir's clear n pure thoughts and knwledge on politics and international relations but Sunil sir's classes are just a waste of time, CSAT not that difficult surely for you being from an engineering background;

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GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

1. The teacher named Sunil will torture you a lot by killing your time with unnecessary 1. Dictations are on a least side. examples and utter nonsensein terms of 2. Polity part is good. Though his so called love for social reforms. many parts like Panchayati Raj Working people will get affected more etc. will be left to you for self when you realise that delivery in terms of study. output is too low in comparison with time.

1. Dictations are on a lesser side. 2. Good for Political Theory & Thought. Vaibhav

Ramaswamy's Essay, IAS Ramaswamy Sociology

4 (Not Good)

1) I have taken help of Ramaswami for Esaay and I got 110, so I appreciate his approach;

Pratik, Sahil

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POSITIVE POINTS

Rau's IAS Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New General Delhi) and Studies Mukherjee (Compulsory), Nagar Rising IAS Chokalingam Psychology (Delhi) Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Public Nagar Sriram's IAS Pavan Administration (Good) (Delhi) 2 Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Sriram & General Nagar Sriram's IAS Others Studies 2 (Good) (Delhi) Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Abhay General Nagar Synchronous Thakur Studies (Delhi) Both Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi) and Mukherjee Public 3 Nagar Synergy Mohanty Administration (Average) (Delhi)

1) Chanakya IAS and Rau's IAS are seasoned and old fraudsters;

WORST EXPERIENCES 1) The original Rau has long left, the institute is now owned and run my one fraud Gupta, who used to me administrator/assistant/steno of Rau; 1) I approached him for psychology and he was always talking ill about Mr. Mukul Pathak, and I found him blowing his own trumpet, his flashy advertisement and tall claims were not commensurate with his knowledge, and his special attention to students of Tamil Nadu is uncalled for;

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

Sid

1) Would try to mind wash you for joining his package deal and ultimately do nothing; 2) It is a nightmare, Mt Everest in promises but Mariana Trench in delievery, compounded by lack of insight in his inefficiencies;

Raju, Dr. Anmol, Dr. Rahul, Dr. Varun (AIR 3 CSE 2010)

1) He can be too fast for you if you have not read the basics of the subject, and 1) Pubad basics are brilliant, his you may find his jokes not at all funny language is simple and he is and they may also hurt you sometimes; crystal clear abt dos and donts; He is very knowledgeable and inspiring person. I would put only two people in the whole IAS preparation business into the category who inspire the candidates with their knowledge & ethics - Sri Ram sir and Nitin, Manish, Ravindran sir (vajiram). Kalyan

1) Printed materials are waste;

1) All subjects in GS are the bes; 2) Notes are the best; 3) Tests are genuine and not meant for complicating matters to impress the freshers;

1) I paid 6k and never attended even 2 classes, first class itself I decided he is worthless;

Dr. Varun (AIR 3 - CSE 2010)

1) Rushes for paper-2 and doesn't teaches well; 2) Bogus Institute;

UIAS

Upendra Gaur

Sociology

2 (Good) Others

Safdurjung

1) Good printed notes; 2) Conceptual clarity 1) Covers both the papers; 2) Test series is very useful; 3) Sociology is covered like story; 4) Go with the pace of Upendra Sir, follow books mentioned by him, attend test series seriously, one can score above average Sometimes he was harsh while criticising mars very easily; the answers. But, eventually it helped.

Deepak, Kalyan

Improved my writing skills.

Sandeep Kumar Singh

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Vajiram & Ravi

Shabbir

Geography

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New 2 (Good) Delhi)

1) His notes are only worth, he is also bogus as a teacher; 2) He takes extra classes, but it is a compulsion because the syllabus is vast; 3) sometimes can be very hard and severe on insincere students, but that is good otherwise.;

Vajiram & Ravi

Mukul Pathak

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Psychology 2 (Good) Delhi)

Vajiram & Ravi

Ravindran, Manocha, Kapooria, Verma, Sosin, Bhardwaz, Rahul

General Studies

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol 3 Bagh (New (Average) Delhi)

1) Better without his occasional off the course discussions which dragged the entire course ultimately leaving many topics simply untouched 1) 40% of the time is wasted on writing down dictation, which are simply repeated in every batch; 2) History teacher (Bhardwaz) and Science teacher (Rahul) are disastrous, they teach irrelevant things and doesn't know how to teach well; 3) Fees is too high (60K+); 4) Too much rush, when they combine the class you can't have enough space and air; 5) Printed notes suck except Ancient & Medieval history; 6) Sosin just rushes to cover lot of topics in a limited classes and only stresses on facts which are irrelevant nowadays for CSE; 7) Manocha gives his best, but many times get confused with student's queries; 8) The prelims test series is simply horrible, has tough questions just to impress students, but no way related to UPSC's PT; 9) Less importance is given to contemporary topics as compared to tradition topics; 10) CA is taught just before prelims, which doesn't make much sense;

1) He put lots of effort and give personal attention; 2) He is the most under rated best teacher is geography; 3) He has the best skills in teaching answer writing; 4) His notes on human geography, particularly on models and thought, environment, regional planning, population (he actually taught the HDR report for population topics); 5) He updates his students on latest reports, surveys, policies and that is where he is best for UPSC preparation; 6) Very dedicated man and excellent in knowledge base, extremely motivating and also teaches many values which can be appreciated, very committed and a no-nonsense approach; 1) Test series and class discussions really helped; 2) Knows his stuff and his field; 3) He is the best man to take advice from in all matters and 1) Paper correction for paper-2 was also is very helping as he will horrible which simple involved coloring the help u in any way he can; scripts red with no significant inputs;

GOOD EXPERIENCES 1) Shabbir was not good till last year this year seeing his popularity soaring up; 2) Go to Mr. Shabbir for Geography, he is the best one around, his notes, classes, coverage and the amount of attention he puts into is not matched by any teacher around; 3) He will personally call you for giving suggestions, very encouragive if he thinks you are sincere. 4) I once wrote a bad answer, he listened to me politely and suggested corrections, I was surprised that he could see all that and after the corrections the answer actually looked very good, so he is the best teacher for answer writing and for developing clarity on concepts;

EVALUATOR'S NAME

Nakul, Sid, Subbarao

1) Ravindran's concept of Indian Polity is good, gives sound understanding, but dictates too fast; 2) Kapooria and Verma's concept are good, they teaches Economy well and gives good class notes; 3) Abhilash is good for some topics in Polity and a master in Essay; 4) Good Infrastructure and ambience; 5) Finishes syllabus on time, takes extra classes towards end, and if needed arrange good faculties from various cities of India;

1) Kapooria sir hardly teaches, he is ok and was good 5-6 years back; 2) Ravindran sir is outdated. 3) My brother was a student of Ravindran sir and Kapooria sir, he liked them immensely, but when he saw it last year, he admitted there is only a shell and nothing more in today's Vajiram; 4) Abhilash is miserable. What he teaches is worse than what my cousin (9th class) gets in school; 5) There is no value addition in coaching, they just flood u with lot of useless knowledge; 6) For first attempters (especially IITians), I suggest not to join G coaching anywhere, rather focus on optionals during that time;

Sanjeev, Manish, Kalyan, Himanshu

NAME OF THE COACHING COURSE / LOCATION INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS SUBJECT RANKING LOCATION (If others)

Vajiram & Ravi

Aptitude Test (Paper-II of Prelims)

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

NEGATIVE POINTS 1) They were 'off-mark'; 2) Their standard of tests, even the Comprehensive Full length tests were so hard that even CAT aspirants would feel sick; 3) And the CSAT Pre paper, which everyone must have seen, requires nothing at all; 4) They were so off mark that someone who hasn't heard of CSAT could make a better wild guess than who joined Vajiram.

POSITIVE POINTS

WORST EXPERIENCES

GOOD EXPERIENCES

EVALUATOR'S NAME

Abhishek 1) I Dedicate My Success to Him. I will share only one thing here. One fine evening he called me form his landline no. and wanted me to meet the next day. I never had personally met him in class asking for too many things. But if he sees worth in you, he gives his best to you and you will come out flying colours. Due to Sir's blessings and guidance, I got 340 in Sociology this year and in Paper-1, its cool 207 - the record break in sociology; 2) I think mohapatra sir for Sociology is Best undoubtedly, he is such a nice person, and when it comes to teaching even there he is really great;

Vajiram & Ravi

Mohapatra

Sociology

Old Rajendra Nagar / Karol Bagh (New Delhi)

1) He will give name and quotations of many sociologist,but not good for conceptual clarity; 2) In first paper, I will rank Upendra and Analytics above Mr Mohapatra and in second paper only analytics;

Devender M Singh (AIR 253 - CSE 2010), Alok, Natasha