Shikher Goyal is the founder and editorial lead at Digitally Learn. He prepared for the UPSC Civil Services Examination from 2012 to 2019 with Geography as his optional subject, sitting the Preliminary Examination five times, and also wrote the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Preliminary Examination in the same period. He holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA).
Those years as a full-time aspirant, through syllabus revisions and changes in how the papers were set, shape how our articles are written today. Every article answers the question a student searched for first, then explains the topic in full, with the previous year questions that tested it.
Why I run Digitally Learn now
I work full-time in digital strategy and search-engine optimisation, and bring that discipline to Digitally Learn: clear structure, accurate sources, and pages that reach the aspirants who need them.
The combination is deliberate. Five attempts at Prelims taught me which kinds of explanation actually stick under exam pressure. Digital work taught me how to build a site that competes with the crowded coaching market without becoming part of it. Digitally Learn is the result: comprehensive articles for UPSC – CSE Prelims and Mains, written from NCERT, standard reference books and official sources, and free to read.
How Our Articles Are Written
- Sources first. Every topic starts from the NCERT chapter and the standard reference book, then the official source: the Constitution or the Act, the ministry or PIB release, the parliamentary record, or the report of the scientific or international body concerned.
- Previous year questions. Each article is linked to the Prelims and Mains questions that have tested the topic, and explains what those questions demand. All of them can be practised on the PYQ practice page.
- Every fact checked. Every figure, date and name is checked against the source it cites, and every source link is opened, before an article goes live.
- The same standard for the test series. Every question and every explanation in the Prelims Test Series 2027 is checked against its source before release.
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Editorial team
I lead the Digitally Learn editorial team. Every article is reviewed and fact-checked by the team and by me before it is published, with AI tools assisting as described below. When a subject specialist contributes, they are credited on the article. See the Editorial Team page.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to work faster and to check our facts. They help us draft and organise articles, compare every figure against the government and institutional sources we cite, and sometimes prepare diagrams. Every article is reviewed by the founder and the editorial team before it is published, and every fact is checked against the source listed with it.
Contact & corrections
If you find a factual error, an outdated figure or a source that no longer opens, please write to me at shikher@digitallylearn.com. Every confirmed correction is logged on the Corrections page with the date, the original text, the corrected text, and the source used to verify the fix.
For how every article and test is sourced and checked, see the Editorial Policy.