Santhosh & Sabari IAS Academy was founded in 2013 by Mr. R K. Sabarinathan, a prolific instructor of Civil Services Exam coaching, for more than a decade. The founder was one of the vanquishing Editors-At-Large for the in-house Current Affairs magazine of Vajiram and Ravi, Institute for IAS Exam, New Delhi from Nov 2004 – Nov 2013 and a competent Content Editor of New Indian Express, Chennai from 2007 to 2009. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Loyola College, Chennai from 2009-2012. The founder was once an ardent IAS aspirant who has cleared Main Exam thrice and appeared for the Personality Test twice.  

Santhosh & Sabari IAS is continuously supported and mentored by eminent educationalists and well-wishers like Mr. Ravindran of Vajiram & Ravi IAS Academy, Dr. Devira, Rtd., Principal, A.M. Jain College, Dr.Eswaran, Professor, A.M. Jain College,  Mr. R. Krishnamurthi., former Professor, Regional Engineering College, Trichy and others.

Why Santhosh & Sabari IAS ?

We know that learning is easier when you have excellent teachers. Our instructors are passionate about the subjects they teach and bring enthusiasm into their seminars and courses. Our educators have achieved an advanced qualification in their field like Ph.D/ NET/ JRF. Moreover, they themselves have appeared in various competitive Exams and have reached a height. 

Apart from that, we run only one batch at a time for any of the courses we provide and those batches are small batches consisting of around 50 students. So, there is no crowd in our batches and so we never lose attention on students. It means, we individually focus on each student and continuously monitor and mentor their progress. 

More than that, we spend a lot of time for each batch, for example, we conduct UPSC Civil service Preliminary cum Main GS batch for 11 months. It means around 1300 hours of class room training in 11 months. 

Most importantly, our fees structure is the lowest and most affordable among the institutes. We also provide term based payment of fees so as to ease the stress of the parents.

What we offer ? 

We offer courses for

All of our courses are customized for your needs to make sure you leave with relevant skills to face the exam.

Our Teaching methods

Our method of teaching is very traditional.  It is also very comprehensive. It includes

We first introduce a concept, explain about it  and dictate the notes. We provide hundred percent class notes for all the subjects. It is mandatory to take written notes. We explain to the root level that help the students to learn how to approach and solve a question.  The main advantage of hand written class notes is that we can provide the latest updates in each topic. 

After every small topic is completed, we present the previous year questions that were asked in various competitive exams. The students must write the questions along with the class notes ( Yes, you read it right).  

We conduct tests regularly so that we fine tune them towards their exams.

OUR TEAM

Mr. RK. Sabarinathan 

Public Administration, Current Affairs, Polity & Indian Economy. He has been training the UPSC and TNPSC aspirants since 2004.


Mr. M. Vigneshwaran  

History, CSAT, Art & Culture Post independence Consolidation & Society. 9 Years experience in Civil Service Exam Coaching

 Mr. G.S. Jai Ganesan 

Internal Security,  International Relations,  Social issues, Ethics, Case Studies & Essay. 7 Years experience in Civil Services Exam Coaching.

Mr. V. B. Naveen Kumar

Indian Economy, Ethics, Society, Governance & Essay. 12 Years experience in Civil Service Exam Coaching

Mr. P. Arivazhagan 

CSAT- Aptitude and Reasoning.

6 Years experience in Civil Service Exam Coaching

Mr. G. R. Ganesh Kumar

Geography, Environment, Disaster Management & Modern Indian History. 5 years experience in Civil Service Exam Coaching

Mr. P.K. Arun

Ancient, Medieval History

5 Years experience in Civil Service Exam Coaching

Mr. G. Sastikumar

History, International Relation, Society .5 years of Teaching experience


Dr. G. Lakshmi   

Essay and  Science. Former NIT Asst., Prof. 9 Years of Teaching experience.

Mrs K. Mahalakshmi   

Science and Tech. 8  years of Teaching experience.

Miss. P. Swadhika

CSAT - ENGLISH. 

4 Years of Teaching experience