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DSSSB PRT study plan

DSSSB PRT · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Arithmetical & Numerical Ability & General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability

  • Set up a timed practice log and record a 30-question diagnostic in arithmetic to identify your three weakest sub-areas

  • Drill percentage, ratio-proportion and average conversions until you can solve 20 mixed questions in 25 minutes

  • Learn one shortcut method each for simplification and number-series completion, then apply it to 15 questions

  • Memorise squares up to 30, cubes up to 15, and fraction-to-percentage equivalents for eighths and sixteenths

  • Solve 10 verbal-reasoning analogy and classification items daily and note every error with its rule

Your checkpoint

A one-page error log listing your five weakest arithmetic and reasoning sub-areas with a worked correct solution for each

Week 2

Arithmetical & Numerical Ability & General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability

  • Complete 60 profit-loss, simple-interest and compound-interest questions with formula recall tested from memory

  • Practise time-work and time-speed-distance using the unitary and efficiency methods on 40 questions

  • Work through 30 seating-arrangement and ranking problems, drawing the layout before answering

  • Build a 20-item formula sheet covering mensuration, interest and speed conversions, then self-test it

  • Do one 40-question mixed timed set combining arithmetic and reasoning and review every wrong answer

Your checkpoint

A completed 40-question timed mixed set with a scored review sheet and corrected solutions for all errors

Week 3

General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability & Arithmetical & Numerical Ability

  • Solve 25 syllogism and statement-conclusion items using Venn diagrams drawn for each

  • Complete 20 coding-decoding and blood-relation problems with a written step trace

  • Practise data interpretation on 4 sets of tables and bar charts, computing averages and ratios under time

  • Attempt 15 non-verbal items described in text form (figure series, mirror and paper folding logic) and write the rule you used

  • Review week 1-2 error log and re-solve every missed question without looking at notes

Your checkpoint

A re-solved set of all previously missed questions with a note stating whether the error was conceptual, calculation-based, or time-pressure

Week 4

General Awareness & English Language & Comprehension

  • Compile a dated one-page timeline of major Indian constitutional amendments, acts and post-independence events

  • Memorise the fundamental rights, duties and directive principles list and self-quiz on 25 items

  • Learn 40 English synonyms, antonyms and one-word substitutions and use each in a written sentence

  • Complete 30 error-spotting and sentence-improvement questions, recording the grammar rule behind each correction

  • Read two short editorial passages and summarise each in three sentences to build comprehension speed

Your checkpoint

A 30-item self-made quiz on general awareness and English usage, answered and scored with a target of 22 or above

Week 5

General Awareness & English Language & Comprehension

  • Revise Indian polity, geography and economy facts through 100 rapid-fire questions, marking uncertain answers for review

  • Prepare a one-page summary of current affairs themes from the past six months and test recall on 20 items

  • Practise 25 fill-in-the-blank and cloze passages focusing on prepositions, articles and tense agreement

  • Write two short paragraphs on an assigned topic and proofread them for grammar and spelling errors

  • Complete 20 idiom and phrase-meaning items and use five idioms in original sentences

Your checkpoint

A written 150-word paragraph free of grammar and spelling errors, plus a scored 50-question general awareness set

Week 6

English Language & Comprehension & General Awareness

  • Complete 40 reading-comprehension questions from passages of 200-300 words, timing each passage at six minutes

  • Revise the full general awareness timeline and fact sheets, then self-quiz 50 items with a target of 40 correct

  • Practise 25 sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) questions using connector and pronoun cues

  • Review all English error-log entries and rewrite ten corrected sentences from memory

  • Take one 50-question English sectional test and analyse the time spent per question type

Your checkpoint

A sectional English test scored and analysed, with a written note on which question type consumes the most time

Week 7

Hindi Language & Comprehension & Arithmetical & Numerical Ability

  • Revise Hindi grammar: संधि, समास, उपसर्ग-प्रत्यय and कारक with 40 practice items

  • Practise 20 मुहावरे and लोकोक्तियाँ items and write original sentences for ten of them

  • Complete 15 Hindi comprehension passages (गद्यांश) with answers justified from the text

  • Solve 30 arithmetic questions from weak sub-areas identified in week 1, targeting 80 percent accuracy

  • Take one 50-question Hindi sectional test and review every incorrect answer against the grammar rule

Your checkpoint

A scored Hindi sectional test plus a grammar rule sheet covering संधि, समास and कारक with one example each

Week 8

General Awareness & General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability & Arithmetical & Numerical Ability & Hindi Language & Comprehension & English Language & Comprehension

  • Take three full-length mock tests under exam timing and record section-wise scores and accuracy

  • Analyse each mock within 24 hours, listing every repeated error type and its fix

  • Revise the formula sheet, general awareness timeline, English vocabulary list and Hindi grammar sheet once each

  • Re-attempt all flagged questions from weeks 1-7 and confirm at least 80 percent are now correct

  • Finalise a question-attempt order and a per-section time budget for exam day

Your checkpoint

A mock-test performance tracker showing three full-length scores and a final one-page exam-day strategy sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 60 percent on a 40-question timed arithmetic and reasoning set, with every error logged and corrected

Week 4: Pass your own 30-item general awareness and English quiz with 22 or more correct answers

Week 6: Complete a 50-question English sectional test within 40 minutes with at least 70 percent accuracy

Week 7: Score at least 65 percent on the Hindi sectional test and correctly explain the grammar rule behind every corrected answer

Week 8: Achieve a rising trend across three full-length mocks, with the final mock at or above your target score and no section below 50 percent