Intellectual seriousness
Questions and resources are built around genuine issues, not decorative complexity.
Founder & Mentor
Prateek Bhatt
Educator, evaluator and mentor committed to helping serious aspirants transform knowledge into clear, relevant and persuasive Mains answers.
Experience and purpose
Mentorship must make an aspirant more independent.
Prateek Bhatt is the Founder of AKriti IAS, an initiative dedicated to thoughtful preparation, answer writing and personalised mentorship for UPSC aspirants. Having appeared twice for the UPSC Civil Services Examination Personality Test, he brings first-hand experience of the demands of the examination.
He formerly served as Team Lead for the Mains Guidance Programme (MGP) at ForumIAS. As a UPSC mentor and interview panelist, he has worked closely with aspirants across different stages of the examination.
2× UPSC CSE Personality Test
Former Team Lead, MGP, ForumIAS
UPSC Mentor
Interview Panelist
For aspirants who wish to think, not merely prepare.
The mentoring ethic
Rigour without intimidation.
Feedback should be candid but constructive. It should reveal the weakness in an answer, explain why it matters and leave the aspirant with a practical route to improvement.
Individual growth
Aspirants are helped to develop judgment and expression rather than imitate a standard script.
Consistency
Progress is understood as the product of sustained work, reflection and repeated correction.