Physics Optional: answer writing, test series and mentorship
UPSC-style normalization across all 48 optionals26 tests (12 sectional + 14 full-length), each evaluated by experts within 2 hours, with model answers written around your own style. Every test gets your All-India rank and your Physics rank.
Papers set on UPSC's own pattern, a verified model answer for every question, every copy evaluated in about 2 hours, and a plan made for your hours.
Choose how you prepare for Physics
Three programmes, one standard: every paper set on UPSC's own pattern, every answer evaluated in about 2 hours, a verified model answer for every question.
Daily answer writing
A 50-mark paper every weekday, module by module through the whole syllabus. Write 35 minutes a day and never fall out of practice.
- Every module tested, the heavy ones again and again
- Real UPSC questions mixed with new ones of the same standard
- Evaluated in about 2 hours, with a model answer
- Your practice days; papers held when you fall behind
Mentorship
Everything you need to clear Physics: study material, a personal plan made for your hours, a test for every module, weekly and topic tests, full UPSC mocks and a mentor.
- Complete, comprehensive study material for every module, designed to score high in Mains: foundation, full notes, quick revision
- A personal plan for your hours and exam date, re-dated when you slip
- Read first, then the module's test; weekly, topic and mock tests in UPSC form
- Every copy reviewed; mentor calls and progress reports
Test series
Topic tests and full-length mocks, each a copy of a real UPSC paper's structure, with an All India Rank after every test.
- Mocks exactly in UPSC form: 8 questions, Q1 and Q5 compulsory, attempt 5
- Every question written for its probability of coming in 2027, printed beside it
- All India Rank and Physics rank after every test
- Change your test dates after joining
PYQ Topicwise · ₹750
Every Physics question UPSC has asked (2014–2026), arranged topic by topic, with how many marks each topic has carried year after year.
PYQ Solutions · ₹1,750
A model answer to every previous year question (2014–2026), module by module: worked step by step, with the figures a topper draws. Get one module free on WhatsApp.
GS + Essay + Physics: opening soon
The same three programmes for GS + Essay + Physics. Prices below; tell us on WhatsApp and we will message you the day it opens.
| Programme | 4 months | 8 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily answer writing | ₹17,999 | ₹27,999 | ₹34,999 |
| Mentorship | ₹49,999 | ₹79,999 | ₹99,999 |
| Test series | Lite ₹17,999 · Full ₹29,999 | ||
GS + Essay: opening soon
The same three programmes for GS + Essay. Prices below; tell us on WhatsApp and we will message you the day it opens.
| Programme | 4 months | 8 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily answer writing | ₹11,999 | ₹19,999 | ₹24,999 |
| Mentorship | ₹34,999 | ₹54,999 | ₹69,999 |
| Test series | Lite ₹12,999 · Full ₹21,999 | ||
Count the tests, not just the price
A test series is usually 8 to 16 tests. Here every rupee buys far more evaluated writing.
Up to 215 papers, each read, marked and returned with a model answer in about 2 hours.
26 tests in the full series: topic tests and mocks that copy real UPSC papers.
Up to 112 tests, with the study material, your personal plan and your mentor at no extra cost.
| What you get | Daily answer writing | Test series | Mentorship |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every copy evaluated in about 2 hours - marks, comments on each answer and a verified model answer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A test on every module of the syllabus - nothing left untested | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Weekly and topic tests that build the speed and stamina of the real exam | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full mocks set exactly like the UPSC paper, every question written for its probability of coming in 2027 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| All India Rank after every test - know exactly where you stand | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Complete, comprehensive study material, designed to score high in UPSC Mains - foundation, full notes and quick revision for every module | — | — | ✓ |
| Your own day-by-day study plan, built around your hours - it re-plans itself when you fall behind | — | — | ✓ |
| A mentor beside you - every copy reviewed, mentor calls and progress reports | — | — | ✓ |
Who sets the papers? How good are they?
The question every serious aspirant asks. Here is exactly how every Physics paper is made, and you can check one before you pay.
Built on UPSC's own paper
Each mock copies the structure of a recent UPSC paper: its sections, its questions and parts, its marks. Q1 and Q5 with five 10-mark parts, attempt five, at least one from each section, exactly as in the exam hall.
Weighted by 12 years of UPSC marks
Every topic and module gets questions in proportion to the marks UPSC has given it. You practise most what UPSC asks most.
Real PYQs and new questions of the same standard
Previous-year questions sit beside new questions written to the UPSC standard, each checked against the syllabus and given its chance of coming in 2027.
A verified model answer for every question
Worked step by step, with the figures a topper draws, checked before it is printed. You get it with your evaluated copy.
Reviewed and approved by our faculty
No paper reaches you before it is reviewed and approved. The approval is printed on every page of the paper.
Evaluated in about 2 hours
Your copy comes back marked question by question, with what you missed and how to write it better, while the paper is still fresh in your mind.
See it before you join
Judge the papers, the model answers and the plan yourself.
Write a free test
Get a real Physics paper on WhatsApp, write it, send it back and get it evaluated free. We also send you a solved paper and the sample plans.
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A solved paper
One of our daily papers with its full model answers: see the standard of the questions and how every answer is written.
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A sample personal plan
Day by day from the coming Monday: what to read, which test comes when, the revision weeks and the mocks, made for 6 hours a day. Preview the first weeks here; get the whole plan on WhatsApp.
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Questions aspirants ask us
Who sets the question papers?
Every paper is built on the structure of a real UPSC paper and on 12 years of UPSC's marks for each topic, mixes real PYQs with new questions of the same standard, and is reviewed and approved by our faculty before it reaches you. Download the solved sample above and judge it yourself.
Who writes the model answers?
Every question has a model answer worked out step by step, with figures where a topper would draw one, checked before it is printed. You receive it with your evaluated copy.
How fast is the evaluation, and what do I get back?
About 2 hours after you submit. Your copy comes back marked question by question with comments, your marks, the model answer and, in the test series and mocks, your All India Rank.
How do I write and submit?
Print the paper or write on plain A4 sheets with margins, scan the pages into one PDF named with the test code, and send it on WhatsApp or upload it in the IndianCivils app.
Daily answer writing, test series or mentorship: which one is for me?
Daily answer writing keeps you writing every day through the syllabus. The test series checks you in exam conditions with topic tests and full mocks. Mentorship does both and adds the material, a personal plan and a mentor: the complete preparation for the optional.
What if I fall behind my plan?
In the mentorship your plan is re-dated around your real pace. In daily answer writing new papers wait while you have several unwritten ones, so nothing piles up.
Test series timetable
12 topic tests, then 14 full UPSC mocks, at the weekend, from your batch's first week. A free weekend follows every mock, to work on its evaluation.
| Test | Type | What it covers | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 1: Mechanics | Week 1 · Sat (FN) |
| 2 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 2: Quantum Mechanics | Week 2 · Sat (FN) |
| 3 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 3: Mechanics | Week 3 · Sat (FN) |
| 4 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 4: Quantum Mechanics | Week 4 · Sat (FN) |
| 5 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 5: Waves and Optics | Week 5 · Sat (FN) |
| 6 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 6: Atomic and Molecular Physics | Week 6 · Sat (FN) |
| 7 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 7: Electricity and Magnetism | Week 7 · Sat (FN) |
| 8 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 8: Nuclear and Particle Physics | Week 8 · Sat (FN) |
| 9 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 9: Electromagnetic Waves and Blackbody Radiation | Week 9 · Sat (FN) |
| 10 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 10: Solid State Physics Devices and Electronics | Week 10 · Sat (FN) |
| 11 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 11: Thermal and Statistical Physics | Week 11 · Sat (FN) |
| 12 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 12: Solid State Physics Devices and Electronics | Week 12 · Sat (FN) |
| 13 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 1 | Week 13 · Sat (FN) |
| 14 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 1 | Week 13 · Sat (AN) |
| 15 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 2 | Week 15 · Sat (FN) |
| 16 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 2 | Week 15 · Sat (AN) |
| 17 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 3 | Week 17 · Sat (FN) |
| 18 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 3 | Week 17 · Sat (AN) |
| 19 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 4 | Week 19 · Sat (FN) |
| 20 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 4 | Week 19 · Sat (AN) |
| 21 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 5 | Week 21 · Sat (FN) |
| 22 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 5 | Week 21 · Sat (AN) |
| 23 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 6 | Week 23 · Sat (FN) |
| 24 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 6 | Week 23 · Sat (AN) |
| 25 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 7 | Week 25 · Sat (FN) |
| 26 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 7 | Week 25 · Sat (AN) |
The Lite series takes 6 of these topic tests and 3 mock rounds. Dates don't suit you? Change your test dates after joining.
Physics Optional syllabus
The UPSC syllabus this test series covers, topic by topic.
Physics - PAPER-I · 5 topics, 30 modules
- Mechanics
- Particle Dynamics: (a) Mechanics of Particles : Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis accelerations
Central Force Motion: Motion under a central force; Conservation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; Fields and potentials; Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss and Poisson equations, gravitational self-energy; Two-body problem; Reduced mass; Rutherford scattering; Centre of mass and laboratory reference frames
System of Particles: (b) Mechanics of Rigid Bodies : System of particles; Centre of mass, angular momentum, equations of motion; Conservation theorems for energy, momentum and angular momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions
Rigid Body Dynamics: Rigid Body; Degrees of freedom, Euler’s theorem, angular velocity, angular momentum, moments of inertia, theorems of parallel and perpendicular axes, equation of motion for rotation; Molecular rotations (as rigid bodies); Di and tri-atomic molecules; Precessional motion; top, gyroscope
Elasticity: (c) Mechanics of Continuous Media : Elasticity, Hooke’s law and elastic constants of isotropic solids and their inter-relation
Fluid Mechanics: Streamline (Laminar) flow, viscosity, Poiseuille’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Stokes’ law and applications
Special Relativity: (d) Special Relativity : Michelson-Morely experiment and its implications; Lorentz transformations length contraction, time dilation, addition of relativistic velocities, aberration and Doppler effect, mass-energy relation, simple applications to a decay process; Four dimensional momentum vector; Covariance of equations of physics - Waves and Optics
- Oscillations and Waves: (a) Waves : Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation and resonance; Beats; Stationary waves in a string; Pulses and wave packets; Phase and group velocities; Reflection and refraction from Huygens’ principle
Geometrical Optics: (b) Geometrial Optics : Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat’s principle; Matrix method in paraxial optic-thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations
Interference: (c) Interference : Interference of light -Young’s experiment, Newton’s rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer; Multiple beam interference and Fabry Perot interferometer
Diffraction: (d) Diffraction : Fraunhofer diffraction - single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power; Diffraction by a circular aperture and the Airy pattern; Fresnel diffraction: half-period zones and zone plates, circular aperture
Polarisation: (e) Polarisation and Modern Optics : Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarized light; Double refraction, quarter wave plate; Optical activity
Fibre Optics: Principles of fibre optics, attenuation; Pulse dispersion in step index and parabolic index fibres; Material dispersion, single mode fibers
Lasers: Lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients; Ruby and He-Ne lasers; Characteristics of laser light-spatial and temporal coherence; Focusingof laser beams; Three-level scheme for laser operation; Holography and simple applications - Electricity and Magnetism
- Electrostatics: (a) Electrostatics and Magnetostatics : Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and their applications; Energy of a system of charges, multipole expansion of scalar potential; Method of images and its applications; Potentialand field due to a dipole, force and torqueon a dipole in an external field
Dielectrics: Dielectrics, polarisation; Solutions to boundary-value problems-conducting and dielectricspheres in a uniform electric field
Magnetostatics: Biot-Savart law; Ampere’s law; Magnetic shell, uniformly magnetised sphere; Ferromagnetic materials, hysteresis, energy loss
Current Electricity: (b) Current Electricity : Kirchhoff's laws and their applications
Electromagnetic Induction: Faraday’s law; Lenz’ law; Self-and mutual- inductances; Principle of transformer
AC Circuits: Mean and rms values in AC circuits; DC and AC circuits with R, L and C components; Series and parallel resonance; Quality factor - Electromagnetic Waves and Blackbody Radiation
- Maxwell Equations: Displacement current and Maxwell’s equations; Wave equations in vacuum, Poynting theorem; Vector and scalar potentials; Electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwell’s equations
Electromagnetic Waves: Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics; Fresnel’s relations; Total internal reflection; Normal and anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering
Blackbody Radiation: Blackbody radiation and Planck ’s radiation law- Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans law - Thermal and Statistical Physics
- Thermodynamics: (a) Thermodynamics : Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric processes and entropy changes; Otto and Diesel engines
Thermodynamic Potentials: Gibbs’ phase rule and chemical potential; Maxwell relations and application; Clausius-Clapeyron equation
Real Gases: Van der Waals equation of state of a real gas, critical constants
Kinetic Theory: Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular velocities, transport phenomena, equipartition and virial theorems
Specific Heat of Solids: Dulong-Petit, Einstein, and Debye’s theories of specific heat of solids
Low Temperature Physics: Adiabatic demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and liquefaction of gases
Statistical Mechanics: (b) Statistical Physics : Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and blackbody radiation; Concept of negative temperatures
Physics - PAPER-II · 4 topics, 27 modules
- Quantum Mechanics
- Wave Mechanics: Wave-particle duality; Schroedinger equation and expectation values; Uncertainty principle
One-Dimensional Potentials: Solutions of the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation for free particle (Gaussian wave-packet), particle in a box, particle in a finite well, linear harmonic oscillator; Reflection and transmission by a step potential and by a rectangular barrier
Free Electron Theory: Particle in a three dimensional box, density of states, free electron theory of metals
Angular Momentum: Angular momentum
Hydrogen Atom: Hydrogen atom
Spin: Spin half particles, properties of Pauli spin matrices - Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Atomic Structure: Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin, fine structure of hydrozen atom; Elementary ideas about Lamb shift and its significance
Atomic Spectra: L-S coupling, J-J coupling; Spectroscopic notation of atomic states; Zeeman effect
Molecular Spectra: Franck-Condon principle and applications; Elementary theory of rotational, vibrational and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules
Raman Spectroscopy: Raman effect and molecular structure; Laser Raman spectroscopy
Astrophysics: Importance of neutral hydrogen atom, molecular hydrogen and molecular hydrogen ion in astronomy
Luminescence: Fluorescence and Phosphorescence
Magnetic Resonance: Elementary theory and applications of NMR and EPR - Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Nuclear Structure: Basic nuclear properties-size, binding energy, angular momentum, parity, magnetic moment; Semi-empirical mass formula and applications; Mass parabolas
Nuclear Forces: Ground state of a deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central forces; Meson theory of nuclear forces; Salient features of nuclear forces
Nuclear Shell Model: Shell model of the nucleus - success and limitations
Nuclear Decay: Violation of parity in beta decay; Gamma decay and internal conversion; Elementary ideas about Mossbauer spectroscopy
Nuclear Reactions: Q-value of nuclear reactions
Nuclear Energy: Nuclear fission and fusion, energy production in stars; Nuclear reactors
Particle Physics: Classification of elementary particles and their interactions; Conservation laws; Quark structure of hadrons : Field quanta of electroweak and strong interactions; Elementary ideas about unification of forces; Physics of neutrinos - Solid State Physics Devices and Electronics
- Crystal Structure: Crystalline and amorphous structure of matter; Different crystal systems, space groups; Methods of determination of crystal structure; X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopies
Lattice Dynamics: Thermal properties of solids, specific heat, Debye theory
Magnetism: Magnetism: dia, para and ferromagnetism
Superconductivity: Elements of super-conductivity, Meissner effect, Josephson junctions and applications; Elementary ideas about high temperature super-conductivity
Semiconductor Devices: Band theory of solids—conductors, insulators and semi-conductors; Intrinsic and extrinsic semi-conductors- p-n-p and n-p-n transistors; FET, JFET and MOSFET; Thermistors, solar cells
Analog Electronics: Amplifiers and oscillators; Op-amps
Digital Electronics: Digital electronics-Boolean identities, De Morgan’s laws, Logic gates and truth tables; Simple logic circuits; Fundamentals of microprocessors and digital computers
Free PYQ solutions
One module's previous year questions with full model answers, worked step by step with the figures a topper draws. We send it to you on WhatsApp.
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