MP PAT study plan
MP PAT · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Agriculture (crop production, horticulture, plant protection, animal husbandry, agricultural economics and extension)
Build a crop-calendar table giving sowing window, harvest window, seed rate and average yield for 10 major Madhya Pradesh field crops (wheat, paddy, soybean, chickpea, mustard, maize, lentil, pigeon pea, cotton, sugarcane).
Explain the roles of N, P, K, S and Zn in plant nutrition and match each to two recognisable deficiency symptoms in the field.
Write the five-step sequence for seed treatment, nursery raising and transplanting in paddy and in tomato, and state the spacing used for each.
Compare flood, furrow, sprinkler and drip irrigation on water-use efficiency, suitable crop type and relative cost, and justify one choice for a 2-hectare vegetable plot.
Classify 15 horticultural crops grown in MP into fruits, vegetables, flowers and spices, and name one propagation method (seed, cutting, grafting, layering, sucker) for each.
Your checkpoint
A single A4 chart containing the 10-crop calendar table and the 15-crop horticulture classification, then a closed-book 30-question self-quiz drawn only from that chart, scored at 70% or above.
Agriculture (crop production, horticulture, plant protection, animal husbandry, agricultural economics and extension)
Identify 12 major insect pests by host crop, damage symptom and the insecticide group normally recommended against them (organophosphate, pyrethroid, neonicotinoid, biopesticide).
Diagnose 10 crop diseases from written symptom descriptions (leaf spot, blight, rust, wilt, mosaic, smut) and name the pathogen type causing each: fungus, bacterium or virus.
Distinguish contact, systemic and fumigant action, then calculate the grams of a 50% wettable-powder fungicide needed for a 200-litre spray at 0.2% concentration.
Explain the components of integrated pest management and list five common weeds with the mechanical, cultural or chemical control used for each.
State the Indian pesticide toxicity colour-code triangles and define pre-harvest interval and waiting period with one worked example each.
Your checkpoint
A 30-card pest-and-disease deck (organism | host crop | symptom | control measure) plus a timed 40-question plant-protection quiz scored at 70% or above.
Agriculture (crop production, horticulture, plant protection, animal husbandry, agricultural economics and extension)
Classify 12 cattle and buffalo breeds of MP and India as milch, draught or dual purpose, and name the state's own recognised breeds.
State the roughage-to-concentrate ratio and the feeding schedule for a crossbred milch cow and compute feed conversion ratio from a supplied feed-intake and milk-yield figure.
Compute cost of cultivation, gross margin, net return, benefit-cost ratio and break-even yield for one 2-hectare wheat example, itemising seed, fertiliser, labour, irrigation and machinery.
List the vaccination schedule (age and booster interval) for foot-and-mouth disease, haemorrhagic septicaemia and black quarter, and state two biosecurity practices for a cattle shed.
Describe the roles of KVK, ATMA and the village-level extension worker, and outline four extension teaching methods: result demonstration, method demonstration, farmers' field school and exposure visit.
Your checkpoint
A worked 2-hectare wheat cost-of-cultivation sheet showing all five economic measures, cross-checked against a textbook answer, plus a 40-question animal-husbandry and agricultural-economics quiz scored at 70% or above.
Physics
Solve 20 numericals on the equations of motion, relative velocity and projectile range without looking at the formula sheet.
Apply Newton's three laws to pulley, inclined-plane and friction-block problems, and draw the free-body diagram for each of 10 set-ups.
Use conservation of mechanical energy for a pendulum and a freely falling body, and calculate work, power and efficiency in 10 mixed problems.
Convert between SI and CGS units, compute least count and percentage error, and express 10 results with correct significant figures.
Solve 10 calorimetry numericals on specific heat, latent heat and thermal expansion.
Your checkpoint
A one-page formula sheet written from memory and a 40-question timed physics set (40 minutes) scored at 70% or above, with every wrong item re-solved on the same sheet.
Physics & Chemistry
Solve 15 numericals on Ohm's law, series-parallel resistance networks and Kirchhoff's rules, and state the colour code for 6 resistors.
Apply the mirror and lens formulae to 10 cases and compute magnification and image nature for each.
Explain the photoelectric effect and the de Broglie relation, and solve 5 numericals on threshold frequency and stopping potential.
Compute moles, molarity, normality, empirical formula and limiting reagent for 10 stoichiometry problems.
Explain periodic trends in atomic radius, ionisation energy and electronegativity across period 3 and down groups 1 and 17, and draw Lewis structures with hybridisation and shape for 10 molecules including CH4, NH3, H2O, CO2 and BF3.
Your checkpoint
A 50-question mixed physics-and-chemistry timed set (50 minutes) scored at 65% or above, with a written reason for every incorrect option chosen.
Chemistry
Assign oxidation numbers and balance 10 redox equations by the ion-electron method in acidic and basic media.
Predict the direction of shift for 6 equilibrium systems using Le Chatelier's principle and write the expression for Kc and Kp for each.
Draw and name 15 structures using IUPAC rules across hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.
Distinguish aldehydes from ketones using Tollens', Fehling's and 2,4-DNP tests, and write the esterification and saponification reactions with conditions.
Calculate cell EMF using the Nernst equation for 5 electrochemical cells and state the products of electrolysis of three common aqueous solutions.
Your checkpoint
A one-page organic reaction map linking functional groups to their tests and conversions, plus a 40-question chemistry set scored at 70% or above.
Mathematics & Biology
Solve 15 trigonometry problems, including identities and heights-and-distances, and memorise the standard values table.
Differentiate and integrate 15 standard functions, evaluate 5 definite integrals, and compute the slope and equation of a tangent to a curve.
Solve 10 coordinate geometry problems using distance, section formula, straight-line forms and the equation of a circle.
Compute mean, median, mode, standard deviation and simple probability for 8 small data sets.
Draw and label a plant cell and a human heart, and solve 5 monohybrid and dihybrid crosses with Punnett squares, stating the Mendelian laws each illustrates.
Your checkpoint
A one-page mathematics formula card written from memory, a 30-question maths set scored at 65% or above, and 5 fully worked genetics crosses with ratios shown.
Biology & Agriculture (crop production, horticulture, plant protection, animal husbandry, agricultural economics and extension)
Describe the human digestive, respiratory, circulatory and excretory systems by tracing the path of food, air, blood and urine through each in sequence.
Explain energy flow in an ecosystem, the food chain and food web, and three nutrient cycles (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen) in a labelled diagram each.
List eight biotechnology and plant-science applications relevant to agriculture: tissue culture, Bt cotton, biofertiliser, biopesticide, vaccine, hybrid seed, micropropagation and somatic hybridisation.
Re-attempt all previously wrong questions from weeks 1 to 7 and log each error under one of five causes: concept gap, formula forgotten, misread question, calculation slip, guessing.
Sit two full-length timed mocks and review each within 24 hours, converting every error into a one-line correction note.
Your checkpoint
Two completed full-length mock scores plus an error log in which 100% of Agriculture-domain mistakes are re-solved and labelled by cause.
Milestones
Week 2: Timed 50-question Agriculture mock covering crop production, horticulture and plant protection, scored at 70% or above with no more than 5 questions left unanswered.
Week 4: Physics checkpoint: 40-question timed set at 70% or above, plus a 20-question Agriculture retention quiz from weeks 1-3 at 80% or above; if either fails, reallocate 2 hours from week 5.
Week 6: Sectional mock of 60 Agriculture + 30 Physics + 30 Chemistry questions in 90 minutes, scoring 65% overall and at least 60% in every section.
Week 8: Two full-length 2-hour mocks at 60% overall or better, with the second mock at least 10 percentage points higher than the first, and a complete error log with every Agriculture error re-solved.