Amid COVID 19 pandemic, online education and elearning platform are gaining traction. SkillOutlook team recently have interacted ith  Mr. Abhishek Patil, CEO and Co-founder, Oliveboard- learning and assessment platform with 6mn subscriber base via email. Here is the brief of the interaction.

Is there an uptick in students taking up coaching for the government services exams?

We have always seen demand from Tier II and III students choosing government services exams over the private sector. What has changed recently is that due to the time available, students have invested time in preparing for government sector exams. During the crisis, stability always being associated with government jobs is all the more emphasized. Keeping this in mind, we have launched free live mock tests for all government exams. We have observed 15k-20k students take the free live test every day, since the launch.

Please share the rise in demand for courses to compete for these government services exams. Please share in comparison with last year.

We have seen good demand for SEBI and UPSC EPFO exams as notifications are out for these exams. Students are also expecting the SBI PO and IBPS exam notification to be released soon. Hence, definitely expecting a huge demand.

How many students have enrolled for coaching for these exams? Is it an all time high over the last 5 years? Please share statistics.

We have seen more than 75k+ students for our online coaching batches.

Any other trends, please share

Talking about trends we have observed students spending more time attending online live classes. Students are also consuming a lot of free materials like free tests, free PDF, free practice sessions, etc. We have also seen a rise in engagement for current affairs sessions and have recorded a good spike in our daily youtube sessions as well.