Introducing Relay Learning

Since its inception, Lead IAS is thoughtfully building a training model. And we are happy that it is helping many students to improve their performance. This mains results from Lead IAS was a vindication of such training model. 

We are practicing 'Relay Learning' in Lead IAS. All of our academic programmes are crafted keeping Relay Learning in mind. Relay learning implies back-to-back academic engagements wherein the student actively participates in diverse learning methods to improve their performance. It embodies the 'spirit of training' and places the student at the center of all our activities. 

I will just illustrate how it works in our most popular Prelims Killer Programme. A day at Lead starts at 6.00 am with CSAT classes. The weekly test is conducted at 9.30 am and the discussion is followed at 11.30 am the next day. After each test, students sit with their mentors in a small group at Round Table for a well-moderated approach discussion. Every day, micro-classes are conducted post lunchtime which will give them certain assignments. Based on these assignments, questions are given to solve the next day. In the late evening, UPSC Classics is conducted wherein relevant areas from past year questions are covered in detail. All of the students are given special training on logic daily for a month during the course. 

This feature-rich, intense training model is a pathbreaking academic innovation in the education sector. We depart from the conventional content delivery model to a participative and continuously engaging learning model. In this method, a student is not at the receiving end of the content. But they evolve gradually, upgrade their skills and build thorough exam-orientation. 

Similar was the training pedagogy we used in our GS Mains Killer Programme through diverse means such as answer writing conclave, tests, explanations, feedbacks, competency workshops, facts-driven revision classes, and daily final lap answer writing. There were around 8 people who usually turned up for all the programmes. Among them, 6 of them cleared, and all of them got an interview call for the first time. 

The training works because they are in an academic loop that provides them hand-picked content, workable techniques, and focussed attention in a regular manner. 

We never tried to focus on most-potential ones because it was antithetical to the spirit of training. It also contributed to the good result. Success is determined not by the inherent capabilities of a student but by the degree with which a student is ready to participate and improve her performance. 

Executing relay learning is effortful and resource-intensive. It also requires regular monitoring and accessible mentorship support. Moreover, an imaginative, energetic, and expert team must form the backbone of such training method. In Lead, you find them all. 

As we step into the second year, we are on a mission to deconstruct a predominant notion - that is coaching and training is just attending classes and doing some mocks. Lead IAS has already come a long way to demolish this through our Lead PRIME course, Prelims Killer, Mains Killer, and Interview Bootcamp - four flagship courses at Lead. 

Next year is promising and we are hopeful. Impulses to growth is irresistible.

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