AP Police SI study plan
AP Police SI · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
General Awareness and Current Affairs & Indian Polity and Constitution
Build a one-page syllabus map linking each of the 10 domains to its weight, then rank them by marks-per-hour of study.
Compile a dated current-affairs log for the last 6 months covering state, national, appointments, awards, sports and defence, capping each item at two lines.
Write out the Preamble, the seven Fundamental Rights articles and the eleven Fundamental Duties from memory, then correct gaps in red.
Solve 30 domain-1 and domain-4 practice questions under a 25-minute timer and record accuracy per sub-topic.
Set up a single error notebook with three columns: question, why I got it wrong, the rule I must remember.
Your checkpoint
A dated 6-month current-affairs log of at least 80 entries plus a completed syllabus-weight map with your first accuracy baseline written on it.
General Awareness and Current Affairs & Indian Polity and Constitution
Memorise the constitutional bodies, their appointing authority and tenure, and self-test with a blank-table recall sheet.
Trace the amendment procedure for Articles 368 and list ten landmark amendments with their subject.
Add 40 fresh current-affairs entries, then self-quiz the previous week's entries and delete anything you failed twice.
Work through 40 mixed polity questions and re-derive every wrong answer from the bare constitutional text.
Draft short notes on Centre-State relations, emergency provisions and the three lists with one example each.
Your checkpoint
A completed constitutional-bodies recall table scoring at least 80 percent on a closed-book self-test, plus 40 new current-affairs entries.
Arithmetic and Numerical Ability & Reasoning and Mental Ability
Drill arithmetic speed on percentages, ratio-proportion and averages until 20 questions take under 20 minutes.
Learn and apply shortcut methods for time-work, pipes-cistern and speed-distance problems, showing the shortcut beside each solved sum.
Practise series completion, coding-decoding and blood relations in sets of 15 with a strict 12-minute cap.
Build a formula card for mensuration, simple and compound interest, and profit-loss, then test recall without looking.
Log every calculation slip in the error notebook and redo those exact sums after 48 hours.
Your checkpoint
A timed 50-question arithmetic-and-reasoning mock scored and analysed, with a written target time per question type.
Arithmetic and Numerical Ability & Reasoning and Mental Ability
Solve data-interpretation sets (tables, bar and pie charts) in 8 minutes per set across 10 sets.
Complete 30 non-verbal reasoning items covering mirror images, paper folding, embedded figures and figure series.
Run a full 100-question sectional test on domains 2 and 3 and classify every error as concept, calculation or time.
Re-teach two weak reasoning subtypes to yourself in writing, as if explaining to a classmate.
Increase arithmetic accuracy to at least 85 percent on a 30-question set without relaxing the time limit.
Your checkpoint
A written error-cause breakdown from the sectional test showing the percentage split between concept, calculation and time errors.
Indian History and Culture & Indian and Andhra Pradesh Geography
Build a timeline of Indian history from the Indus Valley to 1947 with 60 anchor dates and one identifying fact each.
Compare the major dynasties, their administration and their art and architecture in a single comparative table.
Memorise the Indian physical map: mountain ranges, rivers, plateaus, passes and coastal features, tested by blank-map labelling.
Map Andhra Pradesh's districts, rivers, ports, minerals and major irrigation projects onto an outline map from memory.
Answer 40 mixed history-and-geography questions and link each wrong answer back to a timeline or map entry.
Your checkpoint
A hand-drawn Andhra Pradesh outline map correctly labelling all districts, major rivers and at least five mineral belts, plus a 60-date history timeline.
Indian Economy & General Science
Summarise the Union Budget and Economic Survey highlights relevant to the exam year, focusing on growth, inflation, fiscal deficit and key schemes.
Explain basic economic concepts such as GDP, repo rate, inflation types and monetary versus fiscal policy in your own short definitions.
Revise school-level physics, chemistry and biology: units, laws of motion, acids and bases, human body systems and plant physiology.
Write 25 one-line science facts most likely to be asked and self-test them twice during the week.
Solve 40 economy-and-science questions and flag any term you cannot define in one sentence.
Your checkpoint
A one-page glossary of 25 economy terms and 25 science facts, each defined in a single accurate sentence, self-tested at 80 percent or better.
Andhra Pradesh State Specific Topics & English Language
Compile Andhra Pradesh state facts: formation and reorganised boundaries, state symbols, key welfare schemes, and major institutions and their headquarters.
List the state's recent budget priorities and flagship programmes with one concrete detail each.
Revise English grammar rules most tested in the paper: subject-verb agreement, tenses, prepositions, articles and common confusions.
Practise 30 error-spotting and 20 fill-in-the-blank items, then rewrite each corrected sentence in full.
Build a 40-word vocabulary list of frequently confused pairs and use each in a sentence.
Your checkpoint
A 3-page Andhra Pradesh fact sheet and a 40-item English correction log, both closed-book tested at 75 percent or better.
General Awareness and Current Affairs & Arithmetic and Numerical Ability & Reasoning and Mental Ability & Indian Polity and Constitution & Indian History and Culture & Indian and Andhra Pradesh Geography & Indian Economy & General Science & Andhra Pradesh State Specific Topics & English Language
Take three full-length timed mocks on separate days and score each strictly against the official pattern.
Analyse each mock within 24 hours and reclassify every error using the notebook's three-column format.
Re-read only the error notebook and formula cards, not fresh material, in the final three days.
Rehearse a question-selection order and an abandonment rule for any question exceeding its time budget.
Protect sleep and revise the current-affairs log daily in 20-minute blocks.
Your checkpoint
Three scored full-length mocks with a written comparison showing improving accuracy and a final one-page revision sheet drawn only from your error notebook.
Milestones
Week 2: Closed-book polity recall test on constitutional bodies and amendment procedure at 80 percent or above, with the current-affairs log at 120 or more entries.
Week 4: Arithmetic-and-reasoning sectional mock completed within the time limit at 70 percent accuracy or above, with errors classified by cause.
Week 6: History timeline, India map and Andhra Pradesh map all reproducible from memory, and the economy-and-science glossary self-tested at 80 percent.
Week 8: Three full-length mocks taken, the last scoring at least 10 percent higher than the first, with every error logged and revised.