Get your Mains answer evaluated, free

Yes, to begin with. Sign up free and 3 answer evaluations are on us — no payment, no card — one each week, so they take three weeks, and a week you skip is not carried over. That is how you see how I evaluate before you spend anything. After those three, or to have more read in the same week, an evaluation costs ₹99 an answer, with packs of 5, 11, 22, 40 and 100 answers from ₹399 to ₹4,999 — the bigger the pack, the less each answer costs. In the mentorship you get weekly evaluation of all the assigned Mains questions.

Your mentor does — the same person who mentors the paid plans, someone who has been through every stage of the exam. Free or paid, answers aren't outsourced, marked by a checker pool or run through software: every line is read by a person.

A score against the question's marks, and written remarks on whether you answered what the question actually demanded, your structure, your content (facts, examples, data, committees, reports), presentation (flow, diagrams, headings), and the one change that will lift your marks most.

By hand, as in the exam — speed, legibility and space are part of what's being evaluated. Then scan every page, in order, into one PDF — Adobe Scan or the Google Drive scanner on your phone does it in a minute.

Any UPSC Mains question: a previous year question (every Mains PYQ page in the Vault has a 'Get this answer evaluated' link), a test-series question, or one you've set yourself. GS Papers I–IV, Essay and Public Administration (the only optional subject evaluated) answers are accepted.

Only me. It's never shown to anyone else unless you tick the box allowing an anonymised version to be used as an example — and even then, without your name.