FOCUS SCHOOL
Our most ambitious course. Crafted for school students who are already dreaming in the language of civil service — and who want a decade of preparation compounding quietly in their favour.
Start early.
Think deep.
Stay ahead.
Built for young minds
A curriculum that respects the school timetable — structured, bite-sized, and paced around board exam cycles.
Skills, not just syllabus
Critical thinking, analytical reasoning and effective communication — skills that pay off in school, college and UPSC alike.
Mentorship from Day One
Regular interactions with Mr. Ajay Sah and senior faculty who've taught at GS Score, Next IAS and Chanakya IAS.
Foundation that compounds
The subjects students learn here — Ethics, IR, Polity — stay relevant right till the Mains and Interview stages.
Six subjects. Sixty-five-plus lectures.
Every subject below unfolds through a structured set of lectures designed for conceptual clarity and exam-readiness.
01 Internal Security
11 lectures · Terrorism, cyber security, border management, security forces.
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Internal Security
11 lectures · Terrorism, cyber security, border management, security forces.
- L1 Internal Security Challenges of India
- L2 Left-Wing Extremism & Naxalism — meaning, history, contemporary challenge
- L3 Terrorism, Terror Groups in India & frameworks to deal with it
- L4 Organised Crime, Narco-Terrorism
- L5 Security Challenges in North-East, Assam Insurgency
- L6 Security Issues of Border Areas & Management
- L7 Basics of Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare
- L8 Black Money — issues & challenges
- L9 Security Forces: Assam Rifles, BSF, ITBP, CISF, CRPF, NSG
- L10 Coastal Security — issues & challenges
- L11 Make-in-India in the Defence Sector
02 Indian Society
10 lectures · Caste, communalism, regionalism, urbanization, women, Census.
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Indian Society
10 lectures · Caste, communalism, regionalism, urbanization, women, Census.
- L1 Salient Features of Indian Society — Unity in Diversity
- L2 Caste — origin, issues & challenges
- L3 Communalism & Secularism — contemporary issues
- L4 Regionalism — concept, types and issues
- L5 Constitutional provisions for socially disadvantaged classes
- L6 Scheduled Castes — issues & journey
- L7 Tribals in India — types, development & displacement
- L8 Women — issues & movements
- L9 Urbanization — issues & challenges
- L10 Census 2011 — overview & analysis
03 Ethics
14 lectures · Indian & Western thinkers, emotional intelligence, corruption.
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Ethics
14 lectures · Indian & Western thinkers, emotional intelligence, corruption.
- L1 Basic concepts — ethics, morality, values, integrity & sources of ethics
- L2 Schools of ethics — deontology, teleology, consequentialism, Kantianism, hedonism
- L3 Western Thinkers (I) — Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- L4 Western Thinkers (II) — Bentham, J.S. Mill, Machiavelli, Kant
- L5 Western Thinkers (III) — Karl Marx, Gramsci
- L6 Indian Thinkers — Gandhi, Ambedkar, Vivekananda
- L7 Emotional Intelligence — concept, components, utilities
- L8 Attitude — concept, components, functions; moral & political attitude
- L9 Ethics in International Relations — war ethics, international funding
- L10 Corruption in India — extent, dimensions & response
- L11 Corporate Governance & CSR
- L12 Codes of ethics — doctors, journalists, ministers
- L13 Corruption in politics — reasons & solutions
- L14 Ethics in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism & Islam
04 Science & Technology
6 lectures · Space, AI, biotech, defence, IPR, contemporary innovations.
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Science & Technology
6 lectures · Space, AI, biotech, defence, IPR, contemporary innovations.
- L1 Basics of Space Tech, Nanotechnology & Robotics
- L2 Superconductors, Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Technology
- L3 Defence Tech — Prithvi, Trishul, Nag, Akash, Agni, Shaurya, Astra, BrahMos
- L4 Intellectual Property Rights — copyright, trademarks, patents, design, trade secrets
- L5 Biotechnology — genetic engineering, DNA sequencing, biofuels, gene therapy
- L6 Contemporary innovations — Chandrayaan, Aditya, Gaganyaan
05 International Relations
16 lectures · World order, diplomacy, India's neighbours, global groups.
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International Relations
16 lectures · World order, diplomacy, India's neighbours, global groups.
- L1 World Order — from Billiard Ball Model to Multipolar World
- L2 Key IR theories — Realism, Liberalism, Marxism, Feminism, Constructivism
- L3 Key determinants of India's foreign policy
- L4 Foreign policies — NAM, Look East, Gujral Doctrine, Act East, Neighbourhood First, Think West
- L5 Diplomacy — soft power, hard power, nuclear, para, diaspora diplomacy
- L6 India's relations with neighbours — Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan
- L7 Evolution of India-US relations
- L8 Evolution of India-Russia relations
- L9 Evolution of India-China relations
- L10 Evolution of India-Europe relations
- L11 Evolution of India-West Africa relations
- L12 Global groups — BRICS, SCO, NATO, QUAD, G20, OECD, OPEC, ASEAN, SAARC, BIMSTEC
- L13 Global institutions — UN, UNSC, IMF, World Bank, WTO, WHO
- L14 Key global issues — terrorism, South China Sea, BRI, refugee crisis, climate change
- L15 India's ambition of global superpower — prospects & challenges
- L16 Key concepts — Nuclear Peace Theory, Democratic Peace Theory, MAD, national interest, game theory
06 Post-Independence History
8 lectures · Nehru era to 21st century — states, parties, Emergency.
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Post-Independence History
8 lectures · Nehru era to 21st century — states, parties, Emergency.
- L1 Prime Ministers of India & key events
- L2 Formation of States & current demands of statehood
- L3 Three-Language Formula & language politics in contemporary India
- L4 Breakdown of the Congress system & rise of regional parties
- L5 Green Revolution — evolution & impact
- L6 Land Reforms Movement in India
- L7 Democracy in Crisis — JP Movement & Emergency
- L8 Regionalism in India — Regionalism vs Nationalism
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