The UPSC coaching app that runs like your institute does

UPSC prep is fundamentally different from JEE/NEET in four ways, and your coaching app must reflect that:

• Current affairs is the spine — daily updates on government schemes, Supreme Court judgments, economic surveys, international relations. Your app needs a daily-digest push-notification workflow.
• Mains is handwritten essay, not MCQ — students submit 150–300 word answers. Teachers review, grade, and give line-by-line feedback. No LMS built for MCQs handles this natively.
• Optional subjects vary wildly — some students pick Sociology, others Anthropology, History, Philosophy. Your app must support parallel optional-subject tracks with different content and faculty.
• Interview prep is video-based — mock interview recordings, feedback videos, personality profile tracking. Text-based doubt systems don't work for interview prep.

Most UPSC institutes face the same bottleneck: 50 students writing 3 answers daily = 150 answers to grade every day. No faculty can sustain that manually. Most institutes either reduce submission frequency (hurts student prep) or give rushed feedback (hurts quality).

Igniter solves this three ways. First, AI-assisted pre-grading: our AI reads each submission and flags structural issues (missing intro, no data, weak conclusion) before faculty reviews. Faculty only grades substantive content. Second, rubric-based scoring: one-click scoring on 5 parameters with dropdown feedback snippets means grading takes 2–3 minutes per answer instead of 10–15. Third, peer review pairing: students anonymously review each other's answers under faculty supervision, which both speeds up feedback volume and teaches students how toppers evaluate their own work.

Institutes using these features report grading capacity going up 3–4x without adding faculty.