Customs Sepoy Written Exam study plan

Build a daily 20-minute current-affairs habit using one newspaper and one monthly digest, and log every item under a fixed set of headings (polity, economy, defence, international, awards).

Summarise the Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties from the bare Constitution text into a one-page recall sheet written from memory.

Explain the three Organs of State and the idea of separation of powers aloud in under three minutes without notes.

Define national security, internal security and border management, and list the principal agencies involved in each with one-line mandates.

Map the Union executive, Parliament and the judiciary article-by-article, and recite the article numbers for emergency provisions and amendment procedure.

Distinguish the roles of the President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers, Governor and Chief Minister in a comparison table.

Trace how a Bill becomes an Act, including money bills, joint sittings and presidential assent.

Connect current-affairs items from week 1 to the constitutional or security concept each one illustrates.

Learn the constitutional and statutory basis of customs administration, including which entries of the Union List and which statutes create the levy and the machinery.

Describe the organisational hierarchy from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs down to a field formation, and state what each level does.

Explain the distinction between customs duty, excise duty and GST, and identify which goods and transactions still fall squarely within customs.

Track one customs or trade-in-policy news story across the week and summarise its legal basis in 150 words.

Walk through the arrival, entry, assessment, examination, clearance and warehousing stages of imported goods in the correct sequence and state the document generated at each stage.

Explain the bill of entry, shipping bill, bill of export and the role of the authorised agent, and distinguish the types of bill of entry by purpose.

Compute assessable value under the transaction-value method for straightforward cases, including freight and insurance adjustments.

Identify the main prohibited and restricted categories of imports and exports and the authority that restricts them.

Drill percentage, ratio, average and profit-and-loss problems until you can solve a standard question in under 90 seconds, recording accuracy after each set.

Solve time-and-work and time-speed-distance problems using the unitary method and the inverse-relation shortcut.

Master series completion, coding-decoding, blood relations and direction sense by solving 20 questions per type and logging errors by cause.

Complete two timed mixed sets of 30 questions each and review every wrong answer against the rule you missed.

Solve data-interpretation sets based on tables, bar charts and pie charts under a five-minute-per-set limit.

Apply syllogism and statement-assumption rules using Venn diagrams and negation tests rather than intuition.

Practise reading comprehension by locating the main idea, tone and inference in passages of 400 words within six minutes.

Revise grammar rules for subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions and tenses, and correct 30 sentences drawn from your own error log.

Write two short essays of 150 words each on customs-related or current-affairs themes with correct structure and no spelling errors.

Build a vocabulary list of 60 words encountered in newspapers and use each in a sentence.

Explain the functions of hardware components, operating systems and common file operations, and practise the shortcut keys you would use in a computer-based test.

Describe what the internet, email, a web browser and basic networking terms mean, and state one security precaution for each.

Take two full-length mock tests under exam timing and record section-wise scores and time spent per section.

Revisit only the weakest three topics identified by the mocks and re-solve 15 questions from each.

Recite from memory the key constitutional articles, customs stages and formulae sheets you built in weeks 1 to 7.

Prepare a final one-page revision sheet condensing each domain's highest-yield facts and formulas.