CIL MT study plan
CIL MT · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 8 hours per week
Professional Knowledge (discipline-specific: e.g. Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Geology, Finance, HR, Marketing)
Map the full discipline-specific syllabus and rate every sub-topic 1-5 on confidence
Take one 50-question untimed diagnostic in Professional Knowledge and classify every wrong answer by cause
Draft one-page formula, definition and standard-value sheets for the three highest-weight sub-topics
List the five weakest sub-topics in priority order for the next three weeks
Your checkpoint
A confidence-rated syllabus map plus three formula sheets and a ranked list of five priority sub-topics, covering 100% of the professional syllabus
Professional Knowledge (discipline-specific: e.g. Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Geology, Finance, HR, Marketing) & General Awareness and General Knowledge
Solve 150 discipline-specific questions across the three priority sub-topics and rewrite missed concepts in your own words
Complete two timed 25-question professional sets and record accuracy and time per question
Commit 20 static general-awareness facts per day (polity, geography, history, basic science) to a revision deck
Identify the two error patterns that cause the most lost marks
Your checkpoint
Two timed professional set scorecards with accuracy logged, and a 140-card static general-awareness deck built and reviewed once
Professional Knowledge (discipline-specific: e.g. Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Geology, Finance, HR, Marketing) & General Awareness and General Knowledge
Re-solve every missed question from weeks 1-2 without notes until each is correct twice
Move to the next three priority sub-topics and solve 150 questions on them
Compile a 60-item current-affairs digest from the last three months and self-test on it
Explain two tricky professional concepts aloud in under two minutes each as a teaching drill
Your checkpoint
A closed error log showing every week 1-2 mistake re-solved correctly, plus a dated 60-item current-affairs digest
Professional Knowledge (discipline-specific: e.g. Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Geology, Finance, HR, Marketing) & General Awareness and General Knowledge
Sweep the remaining professional sub-topics at survey depth so nothing is unseen
Sit one full-length professional sectional mock under exam timing and analyse it section by section
Convert the 60-item current-affairs digest into 40 recall questions and score above 70%
Reduce the priority weak list from five sub-topics to two
Your checkpoint
A full professional sectional mock score with a written section-wise analysis and a down-to-two priority weak list
General Awareness and General Knowledge & Reasoning and General Intelligence
Learn and drill the standard reasoning families (series, analogies, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction, syllogism, seating) with 40 questions per family
Complete three timed 30-question reasoning sets and cut average time per question below 60 seconds
Extend the general-awareness deck to 300 cards and review it daily
Write down the reasoning question type where accuracy is lowest and drill 50 of them
Your checkpoint
Three timed reasoning scorecards with per-question timing, plus a 300-card general-awareness deck reviewed daily for the week
Quantitative Aptitude and Numerical Ability & Reasoning and General Intelligence
Drill arithmetic, percentages, ratio, averages, time-work, speed-distance and mensuration with 200 solved problems
Memorise tables to 25, squares to 30 and common fraction-percentage conversions, and verify with a timed sprint
Take two timed 25-question quantitative sets and two 30-question mixed reasoning-quant sets
Revisit the weakest reasoning family from week 5 and push its accuracy above 75%
Your checkpoint
A quantitative error sheet plus four timed scorecards showing accuracy improving between the first and second attempt in each pair
English Language & General Awareness and General Knowledge
Revise grammar rules, sentence correction, fill-in-the-blanks, synonyms-antonyms and one-word substitutions with 150 practice items
Write two short précis or para-jumble exercises daily and self-correct against a rule checklist
Condense the general-awareness deck into a 100-item final revision sheet covering only high-frequency facts
Take one timed 30-question English set and log every error by rule
Your checkpoint
A one-page grammar rule checklist with an error log, and a 100-item condensed general-awareness revision sheet
Professional Knowledge (discipline-specific: e.g. Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Geology, Finance, HR, Marketing) & General Awareness and General Knowledge & Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Numerical Ability & English Language
Sit three full-length mocks in exam conditions with the real section order and no breaks
Re-solve every mock error and update formula sheets and error logs the same day
Review all condensed revision sheets twice, once at the start and once two days before the exam
Finalise a time-allocation strategy per section and rehearse it in the last mock
Your checkpoint
Three full-length mock scorecards with an upward score trend, a written per-section time-allocation plan, and all revision sheets reviewed twice
Milestones
Week 2: Professional Knowledge accuracy at or above 55% on timed sets and static general-awareness deck of at least 140 cards built
Week 4: Full professional sectional mock completed under timing with a written analysis; general-awareness self-test at or above 70%; no more than two unresolved priority weak sub-topics
Week 6: Reasoning and quantitative timed accuracy both at or above 60% with average under 60 seconds per reasoning question
Week 8: Three full-length mocks taken, most recent overall score at least 15 percentage points above the week 1 diagnostic, and every section attempted within its time budget