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ESIC MTS study plan

ESIC MTS · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

General Intelligence and Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Classify 60 reasoning items into series, analogy, coding-decoding, blood relation, direction sense, and syllogism, and record the exact solving rule you used for each category

  • Solve 40 simplification and approximation items using squares up to 30, cubes up to 15, and fraction-percentage equivalents, timing each set at 45 seconds per item

  • Build a one-page formula sheet covering percentage, average, ratio, and profit-loss conversions, and rewrite it from memory at week end

  • Log every wrong answer with the reason it was wrong: concept gap, calculation slip, or misread question

Your checkpoint

A handwritten error log with at least 50 entries tagged by domain, topic, and error type

Week 2

General Intelligence and Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Solve 50 seating-arrangement and puzzle sets, starting with linear and circular arrangements before floor-based puzzles

  • Complete 40 number-series and alphabet-series items in under 20 minutes total, writing the pattern next to each answer

  • Drill 40 ratio, proportion, and partnership problems, converting every answer back into the original units to catch unit errors

  • Attempt one 25-minute mixed set of 20 reasoning plus 20 numerical items under exam timing

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-item mixed set scored and fully reviewed, with a topic-wise accuracy table

Week 3

General Intelligence and Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Work through 30 syllogism and inequality items using Venn diagrams and the either-or case checklist

  • Solve 40 time-work and time-speed-distance problems, including pipes, trains, and boats, using the unitary and efficiency methods

  • Memorise and apply the standard coding-decoding pattern families, then solve 30 mixed coding items

  • Reduce average solving time per reasoning item to under 60 seconds across two 20-item sprints

Your checkpoint

A timing sheet showing per-topic average seconds for at least six reasoning and arithmetic topics

Week 4

General Awareness & English Language

  • Compile a dated current-affairs digest covering the previous three months from one national newspaper and one monthly compilation, focusing on appointments, schemes, sports, awards, and economy indicators

  • Revise static general awareness by theme: Indian polity articles and schedules, geography of India, and basic science

  • Practise 40 English grammar items on subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions, and tenses, and note each rule violated

  • Learn 60 high-frequency exam words with one synonym, one antonym, and one usage sentence each

Your checkpoint

A current-affairs digest of at least 150 dated bullet points plus a 60-word vocabulary list with usage sentences

Week 5

General Awareness & English Language

  • Answer 100 general awareness items spanning history, polity, geography, economy, and science, and convert every miss into a one-line fact card

  • Solve 30 reading-comprehension passages, practising skimming for the main idea before reading the questions

  • Complete 40 error-spotting and sentence-improvement items, applying the grammar rules learned in week 4

  • Draft 10 precise one-paragraph summaries of news editorials to sharpen comprehension and writing control

Your checkpoint

A set of 100 fact cards and a comprehension accuracy score across 30 passages

Week 6

General Intelligence and Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Revisit the week 1-3 error log and re-solve every logged item without looking at the previous solution

  • Solve 40 data-interpretation sets from tables, bar graphs, and pie charts, estimating before calculating

  • Complete 30 mensuration and geometry problems covering area, volume, and the circle theorems most often tested

  • Attempt two 30-minute sectional tests, one reasoning and one numerical, and compare scores with week 3

Your checkpoint

A before-and-after score comparison on the re-solved error log, showing the percentage of previously wrong items now solved correctly

Week 7

General Awareness & English Language

  • Consolidate the current-affairs digest into 50 revision flashcards and self-test twice without notes

  • Solve 50 cloze-test and fill-in-the-blank items, prioritising collocation and context clues over word familiarity

  • Complete 25 para-jumble and sentence-rearrangement sets, identifying opening and closing sentences first

  • Review the static general awareness fact cards and retire any fact answered correctly three times in a row

Your checkpoint

A trimmed revision deck of no more than 120 cards covering current affairs and static general awareness, with a self-test score recorded

Week 8

General Intelligence and Reasoning & General Awareness & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & English Language

  • Take three full-length mock tests of 200 marks under strict timing and analyse each within 24 hours of taking it

  • Fix a per-section time budget based on mock data, allocating more minutes to the sections with the lowest accuracy

  • Re-solve every item missed in the mocks and confirm each error is resolved or explicitly parked as low-yield

  • Run two final formula, fact, and vocabulary revision passes in the last three days without attempting new topics

Your checkpoint

A mock-test scorecard showing all three scores, section-wise accuracy, and the final time-allocation plan for exam day

Milestones

Week 2: Complete one timed 50-item mixed reasoning and numerical set with at least 60 percent accuracy and a written review of every error

Week 4: Hold a current-affairs digest of 150 or more dated points and a 60-word vocabulary list, and score at least 65 percent on a 50-item general awareness self-test

Week 6: Re-solve at least 70 percent of the week 1-3 error log correctly and finish a 30-minute sectional test in each of reasoning and numerical ability within the time limit

Week 8: Score at least 60 percent overall on the final full-length mock, with no section below 50 percent, and have a fixed exam-day time budget written down