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Practice Drills: Summarizing a Historical Scam Case Into Key Lessons

A hands-on drill course for market enthusiasts, history and macro curious readers, and investors from every track. Every big Indian scam leaves behind thousands of pages of SEBI orders, court judgments and news coverage, and almost none of it is useful until someone boils it down. This course teaches you to do that boiling down yourself. You start by building a fixed one-page template and learning how to tell proven facts from allegations. Then you apply it, case by case: the 1992 Harshad Mehta securities scam, the 2001 Ketan Parekh scam, the 2019 Karvy pledging case, the Satyam accounting fraud, the IL&FS collapse, the Saradha chit fund, the NSEL payment default and the Sahara refund case. You finish by laying your summaries side by side, pulling out the patterns that repeat, turning them into a red-flag checklist, and writing a one-page summary of a case you have never studied before.

Market ScamsMarket HistoryFraud Red FlagsSEBIInvestor ProtectionCase AnalysisMacro and Markets

MODULES

5

DURATION

~2.5 hrs

TRACK

Macro & Markets

What You'll Master

Use a fixed one-page template to summarise any scam case: facts, timeline, mechanism, victims, red flags, response and lessons

Separate established facts from allegations by reading SEBI orders, court rulings and news reports for what they actually say

Explain how a scam worked in three plain sentences that a first-time investor could follow

Summarise India's landmark market manipulation cases: Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh and Karvy

Summarise corporate accounting and governance failures like Satyam and IL&FS

Summarise schemes that targeted small savers, from Saradha to NSEL to Sahara

Compare your summaries side by side to find the patterns that keep repeating

Turn those patterns into a personal red-flag checklist you can use on your own portfolio

Access Level

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Everything included

Full Text Playbooks

Actionable Exercises

Mobile Reading Mode

Lifetime Updates

Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: The Summary Method

4 Lessons

Drill Setup: Why Summarise a Scam Case and What a Good Summary Looks Like9 min read

Drill: Building Your One-Page Case Template10 min read

Drill: Separating Facts From Allegations in SEBI Orders, Court Rulings and News Reports11 min read

Drill: The Three-Sentence Test for Explaining How a Scam Worked10 min read

Chapter 2: Market Manipulation and Broker Cases

3 Lessons

Drill: Summarising the 1992 Harshad Mehta Securities Scam12 min read

Drill: Summarising the 2001 Ketan Parekh Scam11 min read

Drill: Summarising the 2019 Karvy Stock Broking Case11 min read

Chapter 3: Corporate Accounting and Governance Failures

2 Lessons

Drill: Summarising the 2009 Satyam Computer Services Fraud12 min read

Drill: Summarising the 2018 IL and FS Collapse11 min read

Chapter 4: Schemes That Targeted Small Savers

3 Lessons

Drill: Summarising the 2013 Saradha Chit Fund Collapse11 min read

Drill: Summarising the 2013 NSEL Payment Default11 min read

Drill: Summarising the Sahara Investor Refund Case11 min read

Chapter 5: From Case Summaries to Lasting Lessons

3 Lessons

Drill: Comparing Your Case Summaries Side by Side10 min read

Drill: Turning Repeating Patterns Into Your Personal Red-Flag Checklist10 min read

Capstone Drill: Summarising a Case You Have Never Studied12 min read