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MP PAT study plan

MP PAT · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.