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Mains Answer Writing & Mentorship Programme (MAP 27)

Civil Services Mains 2027 · General Studies 1, 2 & 3

All levelsEnglish · 98 lessons · 3 live sessions · Updated September 2026

What you'll learn

✓Eighty-five thematic tracks across GS-I, GS-II, GS-III and GS-IV, one every day except Sundays
✓An answer-writing philosophy and a structural template for every theme
✓A model answer for every theme, plus comprehensive theme notes
✓Weekly questions and model answers alongside each lecture
✓Six full-length tests from 10 December — two each on GS1, GS2 and GS3
✓Copy evaluation within four days of submission
✓Free access to the weekly lecture series from January 2027
✓Seven post-Prelims papers, including the bonus GS4 paper, evaluated free

Course content

10 sections · 102 items · 3h 0m total

Tracks 1–12 · Mon 28 Sep 2026 – Sat 10 Oct 2026

Track 01 — Social Change, Aspirational India & New Social Fault Lines — Part 1
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Track 01 — Social Change, Aspirational India & New Social Fault Lines — Part 2
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Track 01 — Social Change, Aspirational India & New Social Fault Lines — Part 3
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Track 01 — Social Change, Aspirational India & New Social Fault Lines — Part 4
Track 02 — Globalisation & Changing Indian Society

Tue 29 Sep 2026 · Globalisation, family transformation, disability, caste intersectionality and patriarchy.

Track 03 — Women's Work & the Care Economy

Wed 30 Sep 2026 · Female workforce participation, unpaid care work and gendered economic participation.

Track 04 — Gender, Women & Child Development

Thu 1 Oct 2026 · Women's safety, child nutrition, IMR/MMR and changing gender relations.

Track 05 — Ageing India & the Future of Social Security

Fri 2 Oct 2026 · Demographic transition, ageing, pensions, healthcare and intergenerational equity.

Track 06 — Urbanisation: Opportunity or Governance Crisis?

Sat 3 Oct 2026 · Urban growth, urban poverty, infrastructure and metropolitan transformation.

Track 07 — Heat-Resilient Cities & Urban Climate Governance

Mon 5 Oct 2026 · Urban heat, heat action plans, planning, water stress and urban resilience.

Track 08 — India's Demographic Transformation: Dividend to Divergence

Tue 6 Oct 2026 · Fertility transition, demographic dividend, ageing and women's workforce participation.

Track 09 — Linguistic Reorganisation of States & Linguistic Divide in India

Wed 7 Oct 2026 · Language, state reorganisation, regional identity and national integration.

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Track 10 — Sons of Soil Doctrine — Historical Perspective

Thu 8 Oct 2026 · Regionalism, migration, local identity and employment-related politics.

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Track 11 — Genesis of Riots & Social Conflict

Fri 9 Oct 2026 · Structural causes, triggers, mobilisation, rumours and institutional response.

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Track 12 — Social Media & Its Impact on Society and Culture

Sat 10 Oct 2026 · Changing social relationships, youth, misinformation, polarisation, identity and cultural change.

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Description

Be Mains ready by Christmas. Begin your Prelims 2027 preparation on 1 January with clarity and confidence — not with a syllabus still unread.

Most aspirants meet Mains too late

The conventional sequence — finish Prelims, then discover Mains in the ten weeks after the result — is the single largest source of avoidable marks lost in this examination.

Mains is not a memory paper. It rewards a trained hand: the ability to read a demand accurately, structure a response under time pressure, and write with substantiation rather than assertion. That hand takes months to build, and it cannot be built in the weeks between two results.

This programme inverts the order. Between 28 September and 24 December you cover the entire General Studies 2 and General Studies 3 syllabus, broken into micro-themes, together with the current affairs core of General Studies 1. Every theme is taught, written, and evaluated. By Christmas you are Mains ready — and Prelims 2027 preparation begins on 1 January against a syllabus you already understand in depth.

One theme. Five deliverables.

The syllabus is divided into micro-themes rather than broad heads, so that nothing is covered in the abstract. Eighty-five tracks run one a day, Monday to Saturday, with a weekly test every Sunday — coverage is sequential and cumulative, each theme building on the analytical vocabulary established before it.

  1. A theme lecture. The concept discussed in full — scope, debates, institutional and constitutional grounding, and the examiner's likely angle of attack.
  2. An answer-writing philosophy for that theme. Not generic advice. What a good answer on this specific theme must do, what it must avoid, and where marks are actually awarded.
  3. A structural template. A reusable skeleton for the theme — introduction, body architecture, substantiation, and a closing that adds value rather than repeating the body.
  4. A model answer. Written to the standard expected in the examination hall, so that the target is visible rather than described.
  5. Comprehensive notes. Consolidated theme notes, issued alongside the model answer, that stand on their own for revision.

How each day runs. Questions in the morning, the lecture in the evening, then the model answer and a master file — previous-year questions, examples, data and committees for the theme.

Thirteen full-length papers, in two phases

Writing is assessed the way it is examined — full paper, full duration, full syllabus. Every copy is evaluated and returned within four days of submission, so the correction reaches you while the attempt is still fresh.

Phase One — from 10 December 2026 · six papers Two tests each on General Studies 1, General Studies 2 and General Studies 3.

Phase Two — after Prelims 2027 · seven papers Two tests each on General Studies 1, General Studies 2 and General Studies 3, plus a bonus General Studies 4 paper on Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude.

Copy evaluation for the post-Prelims phase is provided free to registered aspirants after the end of the course.

September 2026 to Mains 2027

Enrolment does not end in December. Registered aspirants stay inside the programme through the Prelims cycle and out the other side.

  • 10 September 2026 — Early registration closes. The reduced fee is held only for aspirants who register on or before this date.
  • 28 September 2026 — The programme begins. Micro-theme lectures across GS2 and GS3, plus the current affairs portion of GS1.
  • 10 December 2026 — Full-length test series opens. Six papers — two each on GS1, GS2 and GS3. Copies returned within four days.
  • 24 December 2026 — The programme concludes. You are Mains ready.
  • 1 January 2027 — Prelims 2027 preparation begins, with clarity and confidence, against a syllabus you have already written on.
  • January 2027 onward — One lecture every week, with questions and model answers for that week. Free access for registered aspirants.
  • After Prelims 2027 — Seven further full-length papers — two each on GS1, GS2 and GS3, plus a bonus GS4 paper on Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude. Copy evaluation provided free.

Who this course is for

  • Aspirants preparing for Civil Services Mains 2027
  • Aspirants who will attempt Prelims 2027 and want the Mains syllabus covered first
  • Anyone whose Mains preparation has been compressed into the weeks after a Prelims result

Instructor

Rohan Dange
Rohan Dange
Founder & Chief Mentor, The Round Table IAS · Distinguished Fellow, Forum for Global Studies · 15+ yrs UPSC mentorship · PSIR, IR & Essay specialist

Rohan Dange is the Founder and Chief Mentor of The Round Table IAS. Over 15+ years he has mentored aspirants into the IAS, IPS and IFS through a distinctively Socratic method — posing syllabus and current-affairs questions so aspirants build, challenge and refine arguments live.

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