SAMVAD
Vertical I · Ages 9 – 16
End-to-end coaching for India's most selective schools — RIMC, RMS, UP Sainik School, Gurukul Kurukshetra, and top boarding schools with WEDA. The written paper. The viva board. GK and fitness. Taught by officers who sat on the other side of the table.
Who this is for
Parents speak of "the Sainik School exam" as if it were one paper. It is not. Five institutions. Five entry ages. Five different ideas of the child they want. Here is what each one actually tests.
Five campuses — Chail, Ajmer, Belgaum, Bengaluru, Dholpur — run by the Ministry of Defence. Now open to girls. Entry at Class VI and Class IX, through the Common Entrance Test, an interview and a full medical. The paper rewards speed over brilliance. Children who miss out here lose on the clock — not the syllabus.
Founded 1922. The oldest feeder to the NDA — and the hardest school entrance in India. Twenty-five cadets a term. Class VIII entry only, ages 11½–13. English 125. Maths 200. GK 75. And a 50-mark viva that decides more selections than parents expect. The board isn't testing what a twelve-year-old knows. It's testing whether he can hold a thought — steadily — in front of three strangers in uniform.
State-run, UP domicile only. Entry at Class VI and IX; a girls' wing since 2018. Because seats are state-limited, the cut-off behaves differently: an even score everywhere beats one strong subject carrying the rest.
Sanskrit, yoga and discipline beside a full modern curriculum — feeding the forces and the civil services. Entry from Class VI. The paper tests Maths, language, reasoning. The interaction tests one thing: can this child live a structured, screen-free life away from home — and want to?
Doon. Welham. Mayo. Scindia. Sanawar. Bishop Cotton. Entry from Class IV to IX — each school with its own paper and its own idea of fit. We run the whole campaign, including the part nobody prepares for: the parent interview.
Different children clear different boards. One diagnostic, and you'll know which two schools deserve your next eighteen months — and which don't.
Book the Diagnostic →What is included
This is not a video library with a login. Every part below exists because a real child lost a real seat without it.
120+ lessons for RIMC and RMS, sequenced as the syllabus is examined. Each ends in a timed worksheet. Access runs the full attempt cycle — slip a term, and you don't restart from zero.
RIMC, RMS, fitness and GK — authored in-house, in print and on the app. Not question dumps. Teaching books — by people who cleared these selections, then conducted them.
A real board, not a friendly chat — retired officers, a table, your child's own file, twenty minutes of graded questioning. Recorded, scored and returned to you: bearing, clarity, awareness, honesty.
In-person coaching, minutes from RIMC's own gates. Twelve students, three sessions a week, weekend board simulations. Outstation families: a ten-day residential sprint before each exam window.
Live evening classes, six a week, capped at twenty — so every child speaks in every session. Maths and English on weekdays. GK on Saturday. Doubts on Sunday. Recordings within four hours.
Twenty-four progressive weeks, built for growing bodies. Age-scaled. No weights before fourteen. Every benchmark logged in the app — run time, push-ups, sit-ups, reach.
Fifty-two weekly capsules. A five-minute daily brief. Defence, history, civics, sport — and the state-level questions boards love. Monthly ranked quizzes, so a child knows where they stand against the whole cohort.
Forms, domicile, certificates, medicals, photographs, preference order. One missed deadline undoes a year of work. So we keep your family's calendar — and verify every document before it goes.
One named mentor on WhatsApp. A written report every month. And the two calls that matter most: at enrolment, and forty-eight hours before the board.
The Samvad Library
Every title written in-house — by officers who cleared these selections and sat on the boards that conduct them. In print, and mirrored inside the app.
Ten years of papers, decoded. The 50-mark viva gets its own chapter — the twenty-eight questions boards actually ask, and why the honest answer beats the impressive one.
↗Mapped to the CET blueprint. Maths methods built for speed. Language written for second-language readers. Eight full mocks with timing targets.
↗The session, the target, the log line — per page. Running, strength, mobility, rest. And the injury signals a young body gives before it breaks.
↗A year of general knowledge, week by week — forces, history, Constitution, geography, sport. Each capsule ends in a graded quiz: retention measured, not hoped for.
↗Inside the course
A board reads a child in four dimensions. So do we. Every hour belongs to one of the four. Every monthly report scores all four.
IConcepts first. Then speed. Maths is rebuilt from fractions upward — these papers punish gaps, not ignorance. English is comprehension and precise writing, not grammar drills. GK is a year-long habit, never a month of cramming. Timed sectionals from month two. Full papers from month five.
The sixty-second self-introduction. The "why do you want to join" that sinks half of all candidates. One claim, one reason, one example. And the discipline of saying "I don't know, sir" — without collapsing after. Three graded boards minimum. More for those who need them.
Posture. Eye contact. How to enter a room — and leave it. Then the harder work: opinions a child can defend, hobbies with substance, and the difference between a rehearsed answer and a true one. Officers detect the first within a minute.
Endurance, strength, flexibility — scaled to age. Medical standards flagged early: vision, weight-for-height, flat feet. Children have cleared the paper and failed the medical. That is a preventable loss.
Why families choose Samvad
Mock boards run by officers who sat on real panels. Your child's first board should never be the real one.
We teach in the town that holds RIMC and the IMA. Students see the gates they're preparing for. It changes how they train.
A written plan per student. Nobody is quietly carried along at the batch average.
Every class, board and run lives on the app. Miss a week for exams. Pick it up cleanly, in order.
Twenty-four structured weeks, with medical checks. Not homework we set and forget.
A written monthly report — never a vague "he's doing well." Scores. Attendance. Benchmarks. Board grades.
RIMC opens twice a year. RMS, once. We plan the whole runway — not one exam date.
Children who clear arrive at boarding life ready. Children who don't leave with discipline, fitness and a voice. Neither year is wasted.
The Student Journey
Six stages. Eighteen months. Join later and you run the same sequence, compressed — with a mentor telling you honestly what compression costs.
VINinety minutes, before any money changes hands. A written baseline. An unscored interview. A fitness benchmark. You leave with a report naming which schools are realistic — and exactly how wide the gap is.
Repairing what school left thin — arithmetic, reading speed, one protected hour a day. Fitness Week 1 begins. No exam pressure yet. Deliberately. Children frightened in month one rarely peak in month twelve.
Full syllabus at exam standard. Weekly timed sectionals. GK in parallel. This is the long middle — where selections are quietly decided, and where self-study families fall away.
Weeks 12–24. Running targets tighten; posture work begins. Medical checks reviewed with the family — so nothing surfaces for the first time at a board.
Three graded boards with retired officers — recorded, reviewed with student and parent. Between boards: rewrites, drills, and the small mechanics a nervous child forgets first — knocking, greeting, sitting, leaving.
Documents confirmed a week ahead. A briefing call the evening before — for the child, and for you. And on the day: a child who has done this five times, walking calmly into the sixth.
The Parent Journey
You sign the form, drive the car, wake a child at half past five — and absorb the result. So we built a parallel track for you. Dates, documents and evidence. Not reassurance.
Forty-five minutes with your family's mentor. The diagnostic, line by line. The targets, agreed. The odds, stated plainly. You leave with a written plan — and one WhatsApp number that always answers.
One page, first working day of the month — scores, attendance, rank, fitness, and the mentor's honest note. If something is slipping, you read it in month three. Not month nine, when it's unfixable.
You watch the full mock board, graded sheet beside it — bearing, clarity, awareness, honesty. Parents tell us this is when the programme stops being abstract. It's usually when the child's effort changes, too.
Every certificate, window and specification — issued as a dated checklist, verified before submission. Families lose seats to paperwork every single year. They are the most painful losses of all.
Travel, timings, what to carry, what to wear — and what not to say in the car. Parental anxiety is the most common thing a board smells on a candidate. Named, it becomes manageable.
Selected: a boarding-readiness pack — packing, homesickness, the first term. Not selected: a frank review, the second-attempt calendar, the schools still open. Either way — a call, not a form letter.
The Success Roadmap
Everything here is countable — the only fair way to sell a year of a child's life.
Diagnostic. Foundation repair. The daily hour. Fitness weeks 1–16. Success here is habit, not marks — sessions attended, runs logged, pages read. Own the routine by month four, and you almost never lose it.
Full syllabus at exam standard. Weekly sectionals. Ranked quizzes. First interview exposure by month eight. The target: cut-off-band scores, three attempts running.
Full papers under exam conditions. Three graded boards. Documents locked. Medicals cleared. Nothing new is taught here. This phase exists to make the real day feel ordinary.
Questions parents ask
Not answered here? Ask on a call. We would rather lose an enrolment than take a family in under the wrong impression.
Ask us directly ↗Begin with a diagnostic
Ninety minutes. A written baseline. An honest report. No obligation. If we can't move your child meaningfully in the time available, we'll tell you on the call — not at the end of a year.