The person behind Prelimo

I studied at IIT Madras. After that I sat the UPSC Prelims. Twice.

I am not a coach and I have never taught a classroom. What I have is the aspirant’s side of this exam, which is the part nobody selling you material has to live with.

What two attempts actually teach you

The syllabus fits on two pages. The market sells you two thousand against it. Every week there is a fresh compilation, a monthly magazine, someone’s list of 500 must-do questions, and you read all of it because skipping any of it feels reckless. Then you sit in the hall in June and the paper asks how many of four statements are correct, about something you read in March and cannot place.

The volume was not the worst part. The worst part was not knowing. I could finish an entire month of current affairs and still have no idea whether I had got better at anything. A mock score gives you a number, never a reason. Between the two attempts I was studying blind. More hours, more highlighters, no feedback loop worth the name.

Why Prelimo exists

Prelimo is the thing I wanted then.

The idea is small and it runs against what the market sells. Less material, not more. Ten questions a morning instead of a firehose. Every question anchored to what the paper has actually asked before, mined out of eleven real UPSC Prelims papers (2015–2025), instead of somebody’s guess about what looks important this year. And a live map of your own weak spots, so the thing you fix tomorrow is a fact instead of a feeling.

Aspirants do not lose this exam for want of material. They lose it holding more material than one person can revise, with no idea which part of the pile is load bearing. Cutting that pile down is the whole product.

How it gets built

Solo, with AI doing the volume work. Questions are drafted and checked overnight by machines. I read the sets and pull the ones that are wrong. The entire checking pipeline is written out in public, including the places it can still fail, on how the questions are made. If you are going to practise on AI-generated questions, you should be able to read exactly what they went through first.

You can write to me at hello@prelimo.in. Same person at that address, no support desk behind it. Other ways to reach me are on the contact page, and the daily quiz itself is free and open at prelimo.in.