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158
GS questions
4
Essays
2,500
Marks written
8
Weeks, day by day
Daily Answer Writing, from the blank page to a built answer. Mains is decided by the answer you build under the clock, and it is the one skill no one trains. This pack makes building one a daily habit — a real question every day on UPSC’s own themes and mark patterns, written, then returned by the AWE engine with exactly where the marks leaked and the fodder you missed.
Built and taught by Neil Sir — HCS 2021, Rank 93.
The loop: Write → Evaluate → Improve.
Write
A real question every day, on the clock.
Evaluate
The AWE engine returns it, marks-leak mapped.
Improve
Tomorrow’s answer beats today’s.
158 GS questions + 4 essays
A real question every working day, mapped to the week it is written — 158 GS questions and 4 essays, balanced to roughly 500 marks of writing per GS paper across the cycle.
| Week | Focus | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Polity (GS2) | 18 + 1 essay | 225 + 125 |
| Week 2 | History & Art and Culture (GS1) | 14 + 1 essay | 175 + 125 |
| Week 3 | Geography, Environment & Disaster Management (GS1, GS3) | 22 | 275 |
| Week 4 | Economy, Agriculture & Science and Technology (GS3) | 24 | 300 |
| Week 5 | Ethics theory (GS4) | 16 + 1 essay | 160 + 125 |
| Week 6 | Ethics theory & Case Studies (GS4) | 22 | 340 |
| Week 7 | International Relations & Internal Security (GS2, GS3) | 17 + 1 essay | 215 + 125 |
| Week 8 | Society, Governance & Social Justice (GS1, GS2) | 25 | 310 |
The UnlockIAS Answer Writing Evaluation, built in-house on how Neil Sir grades to the UPSC rubric. Every answer comes back in minutes with exactly where the marks leaked — dimension by dimension — plus the value-add it was missing: the fodder, the examples and the qualified content that turn a flat answer into a topper’s.
It’s a daily answer-writing practice programme: one fresh question every working day; 158 GS questions and 4 essays, 2,500 marks in all, each written in real exam format, backed by a Sherlocking Answer Blueprint and evaluated against the UPSC rubric. It turns “I know this topic” into “I can build a scoring answer on it under pressure.”
158 GS questions and 4 essays — 2,500 marks of guided writing in total (2,000 GS + 500 essays), mapped across an 8-week day-by-day timetable.
The Question-cum-Answer Booklet — the same space and format as the real exam hall. You practise inside the actual constraints of the paper, not on loose sheets, so formatting and space management are solved long before exam day.
No. It’s the build, not the output. Each blueprint walks you through the Sherlocking process on that question — cracking it open, probing the dimensions, arranging the structure, reasoning the argument — so you learn the repeatable move rather than memorising one answer.
Every answer you write is assessed by the UnlockIAS AWE engine, built in-house on how Neil Sir grades to the UPSC rubric. Within minutes you get back exactly where marks leaked — dimension by dimension — plus the value-adds you missed (fodder, examples, qualified content). Each round of feedback makes the next answer beat the last.
By design. The blueprint takes you almost to the finish and hands you the final cut to make yourself. Doing that last economisation on your own is what wires the method into memory — so building an answer becomes a reflex, not a tip you once read.
Either. Run it Mains-first and finish the full cycle by December, or run it alongside your Prelims preparation and again after Prelims. It’s self-paced, so you set the rhythm.
No. DAW is built to work with your reading, not after it. Because each question is a twisted real theme, it exposes exactly where your understanding is thin, so your revision goes where it’s actually needed.
Fully self-paced with instant access, nothing is drip-fed. Access is for 1 year.
Manjul Raj
AIR 861 (CSE 2025) · AIR 956 (CSE 2024)
UPSC CSE 2025
From post-prelims with no notes at all for mains, to scoring 370 collectively in GS — nothing would have been possible without the Mains approach from Unlock IAS and Neil sir.
Zinnia Aurora
AIR 6 (CSE 2025) · AIR 156 (CSE 2024)
UPSC CSE 2025
Neil Sir’s PYQ videos on YouTube made Prelims 2024 easier. The march towards mains became less stressful on hearing Sir’s approval of the qualitative prowess of my answers.
Akshya Kumar Patel
Rank 104
OPSC 2023
Prelims Sherlocking was a game changer. Mains Sherlocking completely changed my mindset — the focus on syllabus parsing and intensive PYQ analysis sets the base, and the Answer Writing bot is probably the best in the market.
I attempted my very first Mains with confidence. Every paper was completed 4–7 minutes ahead of time. Point generation through syllabus parsing was a delight — it felt like Sherlock Holmes was sitting in the examination hall.
I was super skeptical about the Sherlocking Mains course — it’s way shorter than what other coaching offers. But wow, your answer-writing videos blew my mind. This course is a gem.
One of the finest gems in mains preparation. I learned organised techniques and keywords to enrich answers — and the essay course helped me write with proper framework structures.
Despite this being my first mains, I never felt disadvantaged. The Sherlocking modules, if followed, can truly make your answer-writing very seasoned.
Evaluation from the bot has helped me improve on answer writing. I tried so many platforms for answer evaluation — none was satisfactory. The value add is great; I see improvement in every answer I write.
It’s not just about covering the syllabus — I feel like I’m actually building real understanding of the process as a whole.
