A weekly class on the developments the PSIR papers draw from: the record of what happened, and the theory that governs it. Practice questions follow in the same session. One class every Saturday, from the first week of the batch to the Mains.
The same hour, week after week.
Live, and you take that week’s material away with you.
The reason the class exists
Paper I asks about Indian institutions as they work now: a Governor’s decision, or an election the party system has just absorbed. Paper II asks about a foreign policy that moves between one Mains and the next. Neither layer appears in the standard reading list, and reading the newspaper on its own does not put it there.
Dynamics does that work in the class itself. Every Saturday I take up the developments that belong to the syllabus one at a time, and write them up as material. Each entry carries its date and the document it came from, and names the concept and the scholar it belongs to. I cover the year as it passes, so no backlog builds up before the examination.
Inside a session
The pattern does not change from week to week, so the notes for the whole year read alike and you can revise them in one pass.
Where the development comes from, and what it follows.
The events themselves, with dates, official wording and the document they come from.
The argument the development raises, and the positions people have taken on it, including the ones we do not accept.
The concept on the syllabus that governs the question, and the scholar who set it out. The passage comes in the scholar’s own words, with the attribution intact.
Other lines you can cite on the same theme. Each one carries its source, so you can check it before you use it.
Questions on the theme in the pattern the paper uses, at 10, 15 and 20 marks.
Over the year
The themes follow what the year produces rather than a catalogue fixed in advance. Across a full run, the sessions work over both papers in rotation.
Indian Government and Politics
Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics; India and the World
One live class every Saturday at 4:30 pm, through to the Mains. Amit Pratap Singh takes every session.
Each theme written up in the six-part pattern, with the quotations and their attributions. You can file it straight with your existing notes.
Questions at 10, 15 and 20 marks on every theme we take up in class.
Fee and access
The longer PSIR programmes already carry Dynamics. Students of those courses attend at no additional fee. Test series students pay half.
| Your ForumIAS PSIR course | You pay |
|---|---|
| PSIR Foundation 2027 (Magnus and Crucible) | No additional fee |
| PSIR OGP 2027 | No additional fee |
| PSIR O-AWFG Prime | No additional fee |
| PSIR O-AWFG | ₹3,450 (half fee) |
| PSIR ATS | ₹3,450 (half fee) |
| None of the above | ₹6,900 |
Course fee
For the full run of weekly sessions and the material that goes with them.
I take this class myself every Saturday. I write the material for it before the class, not after. I check every date, every section number and every quotation against the primary document before it reaches you. If I cannot verify a claim, it stays out. Some quotations are commonly misattributed; the handout names the correct source.
After a year of Dynamics you hold a set of notes on the current record that sits beside your static preparation. You will not have to build it again in the last month.
Foundation, OGP and O-AWFG Prime students already have access and need not enrol again. Otherwise you can enrol directly, or at the concessional fee against an O-AWFG or ATS seat.
The class meets every Saturday at 4:30 pm. Call or write to us if you want to know how it fits with the course you are already taking.
