Roll numbers are coming in

The syllabus finishes before the exam does.

बोरिंग बात है। इसी से चयन होता है।

A BPSC and UPSC institute in Boring Road, Patna. One batch of 90, one timetable, and a revision cycle that has closed on schedule for eleven years running.

Next batch
Seats left
0Final selectionsAcross BPSC, UPSC and SSC since 2014
0Years runningSame building, same 6 am start
0Seats per batchCapped, and it has never been raised
0Full mock cyclesBefore you sit the real prelims
The plan
540Days to prelims
Phase 01 · Months 1 to 6

Foundation, slowly

नींव

Polity, history, geography and the standard books, taught in order and not in a rush. Nobody sits a mock in this phase. We are only building the shelf that everything else gets put on.

Phase 02 · Months 7 to 12

Optional and answer writing

उत्तर लेखन

Your optional subject starts, and so does the thing most aspirants postpone for a year: writing 150 words under a clock, every single day, checked by a human being who signs the copy.

Phase 03 · Months 13 to 16

Revision, three passes

पुनरावृत्ति

Everything above gets read three more times, each pass shorter than the last, until a full subject fits in one evening. This is the part that separates a second attempt from a first.

Phase 04 · Final 60 days

Only papers now

सिर्फ पेपर

Four full mocks under exam conditions, a current affairs sheet every Sunday, and no new material at all. By the last week the syllabus is closed and you are just keeping your hand warm.

0 of 48 topics closed

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Results

The board in the stairwell.

Every name that has cleared from this building, in the order the results came in. It flips over whenever a new list is published, which is the only day of the year we close early.

Final selections · latest cycle
Board live
RollNameExamRank
Full list of 1,240 pinned outside the office Last flip · this morning
Who actually teaches

Four people. No visiting faculty.

The person in the photograph is the person in the room, for the full course. If a class is missed it is taught again, not uploaded.

Faculty portrait

R. K. Mishra

Polity · Founder

Nineteen years on the Constitution. Takes the 6 am slot himself because that is when the room is quiet.

Faculty portrait

Sudha Ranjan

History · Answer writing

Reads every copy by hand. Returns them in 48 hours, with the margin note everyone quotes back years later.

Faculty portrait

Amitabh Roy

Geography · Maps

Draws India from memory on the board every Monday, and makes the batch do it back on Friday.

Faculty portrait

Farhan Alam

Current affairs · Interview

Runs the Sunday sheet and the mock interview panel, which is deliberately harder than the real one.

BPSC prelims · general cut-off vs our batch average
Official cut-off Sankalp batch average
Why we teach to a margin

We do not aim at the cut-off.

The cut-off moves every year and nobody can predict it. So the batch is trained to sit twelve to eighteen marks above wherever it has ever landed. That margin is the entire strategy, and it is the reason a bad paper still clears.

Figures shown are the institute's own mock averages, which is the only number we can actually stand behind.

In their words

Three people who sat in row four.

Selected candidate
AIR 04
"I had already failed prelims twice when I joined. Nobody here mentioned it once. They just handed me the timetable and asked whether I could keep to it."
Priya KumariBPSC 69 · Saran
Selected candidate
AIR 212
"The answer copies came back with more red on them than my school notebooks. By the fourth month I stopped writing what I knew and started writing what was asked."
Abhishek RajUPSC CSE · Patna
Selected candidate
AIR 19
"My family could not pay the full fee. That conversation took four minutes and was never brought up again, by anyone, in two years."
Neha SinhaBPSC 69 · Darbhanga
The building

Three floors, open till eleven.

Study hall
The reading hall

140 seats, allotted by name, yours for the whole course. No day passes, no sharing.

Doubt counter
The doubt counter

Open 5 to 7 every evening. A teacher sits there whether or not anybody comes.

Hostel room
Girls hostel, next lane

32 rooms, run by the institute, mess included. Priority to students from outside Patna.

Batches

Four batches. All of them fill.

Fees are the same for everyone and are printed on the board outside. Fee concession is decided by one person in one conversation, and it is never discussed in the classroom.

BPSC Foundation
बीपीएससी नींव
18 months · 6:00 amStarts 14 July17 of 90 left
UPSC Integrated
यूपीएससी
24 months · 8:30 amStarts 1 August6 of 60 left
Weekend Working
सप्ताहांत
20 months · Sat and SunStarts 20 July31 of 75 left
Prelims Crash
क्रैश कोर्स
75 days · 4:00 pmStarts 2 SeptemberWaitlist only
Counselling

Come and sit through one class first.

Counselling is twenty minutes with a teacher, not a salesperson, and it ends with an honest answer about whether this is your year. Book a slot and attend one live class before you pay anything.

Walk in without booking on any Tuesday between 4 and 6 pm. Ground floor, opposite the old post office, Boring Road, Patna 800001.
Please enter the student's name
Enter a 10 digit number
Pick an exam, or "still deciding"
Pick a slot
Seat held.

You will get a call from the office before this evening. Bring your last mark sheet if you have it.