Unique Features

Madurai IAS Academy / Unique Features

Ambience

The World – renowned phenomenon of Hawthorne Effect demonstrates that an individual’s working behavior is highly influenced by the kind of physical environment he or she is placed in Madurai IAS Academy

Libraries and Laboratories

Integrated classroom libraries and state-of-the-art laboratories contribute to the benefit of the activity-oriented approach of learning every day. The latter has been proved to be highly productive environments to our subject enhancement programme.

Relaxation Techniques

Students are taken through relaxation techniques, yoga and meditation 2 hours a week to cope with several ongoing hours of academic activity.

English Lab

Integrated classroom libraries and state-of-the-art laboratories contribute to the benefit of the activity-oriented approach of learning every day. The latter has been proved to be highly productive environments to our subject enhancement programme.

Edutainment

The sheer nature of audio-visual media and omnipresent technology in Madurai IAS e-Techno programme makes the course exciting to follow, justifying the term ‘edutainment’ MIA is leading the transformation in conventional teaching methods in the country, by utilizing the audio-visual teaching medium of instruction and interpretation. Every classroom is equipped with LCD projectors and supporting enhancements, taking its students to the depth and clarity of each concept. Students also get to participate in mind-space broadening activities like group discussions and mind-mapping techniques along with quizzes on applying thought, data sufficiency, mental ability, logical reasoning, and folding and unfolding of concepts. This allows them to fulfill the much needed objectives of stimulating minds and developing conceptual skills, two crucial determinants of personal competency.

Rank Based Evaluation

Reinforcements or rewards are instrumental in deriving sense of one’s work, both quantitatively and qualitatively. More importantly among competition, they act as checking mechanisms when one has strongly decided upon future goals.

MIA vouch for a reward-system lent by the concept of continuous common assessment for students of all programmes, done twice a week. Based on the evaluation of results, every student is notified of their position through local and state ranks, While the local rank reflects their performance within their programmes, the state rank is indicative of cumulative scores through all programmes.

Such a system, where temporary ranks define relative performance, gains traction in context to competitive examinations, at state and national levels. It gives aspirants several opportunities to make appraisals of their position among others and assess improvement strategies from time to time.

Zero Error Policy

There is a popular saying that to err is human. But there is also another which challenges it- Practice makes one perfect. The consequences that errors can have on focus and determination are Far-reaching. Madurai IAS Academy put in best efforts to eliminate them as much as possible by adopting a zero-error plan.

Our faculty takes the time to list out different kinds of errors students make in their tests. An hour is dedicated for them to identify where they had gone wrong and practice the right methods to rectify them. Depending upon the nature of error, we compose questions of increasing levels around the same. Further counseling and training is provided in case of any ambiguity. This will not just effectively stop the error from recurring but will also make the entire error category dormant.