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AP Police SI · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.