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UIIC Assistant study plan

UIIC Assistant · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning Ability

  • Build a one-page formula sheet covering percentages, ratio-proportion, averages, and profit & loss, then solve 150 mixed arithmetic questions using only that sheet.

  • Solve 20 floor-based and 20 day-based linear seating puzzles, recording time and accuracy for each set.

  • Drill 100 simplification/approximation and 50 number-series questions at one minute per question.

  • Start an error log that records, for every wrong answer, the cause: concept gap, calculation slip, or misread question.

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-question Quantitative sectional scored at 60% or above, supported by the formula sheet and a 40-entry error log.

Week 2

Reasoning Ability & English Language

  • Complete 15 box-based, 15 circular/square arrangement, and 10 scheduling puzzles untimed, then re-attempt 10 of them under a timer.

  • Solve 100 syllogism and 100 inequality questions applying Venn diagrams and priority rules.

  • Read 6 editorial-level passages and answer 30 RC questions, underlining the exact sentence that justifies each answer.

  • Memorise 40 high-frequency exam words and write one usage sentence for each.

Your checkpoint

A 35-question Reasoning sectional (25 minutes) scored at 70% or above, plus a one-page rule sheet for syllogism, inequality, and arrangement types.

Week 3

Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude & English Language

  • Solve 10 table, 8 bar, 6 pie, and 4 caselet DI sets using a percentage-to-fraction table and approximation shortcuts.

  • Complete 40 time-and-work, 30 speed-distance-train, 20 boats-and-streams, and 20 mixture-alligation questions.

  • Work through 60 error-spotting and 60 sentence-improvement questions, naming the grammar rule broken for every miss.

  • Practise 10 cloze tests and 10 para-jumble sets using connector, pronoun, and chronology cues.

Your checkpoint

A 30-question English sectional scored at 65% or above and a DI log of 28 sets with per-set time and accuracy.

Week 4

Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude

  • Take 2 full-length timed mocks (100 questions in 60 minutes) and finish the error analysis for each within 24 hours.

  • Solve 200 arithmetic questions drawn from the three weakest chapters identified in the mock analysis.

  • Complete 15 input-output and 15 data-sufficiency sets using elimination and pattern-spotting.

  • Re-solve every logged error in Reasoning and Quant from weeks 1 to 3.

Your checkpoint

Two mock scorecards showing week-on-week improvement, plus a revised list of the 10 weakest topics ranked by error count.

Week 5

English Language & Reasoning Ability

  • Take 4 English and 4 Reasoning sectionals under strict sectional timing.

  • Read 8 passages and summarise each in three lines to build scanning speed and retention.

  • Complete 100 filler questions and 50 sentence-rearrangement questions.

  • Re-attempt 100 entries from the error log and retire only those solved correctly twice.

Your checkpoint

A sectional scorecard showing English at 70% or above and Reasoning at 75% or above in the best of four attempts.

Week 6

General Awareness (with emphasis on insurance and financial sector) & Computer Knowledge

  • Memorise insurance fundamentals: types of insurance, principles of insurance, IRDAI's role, public-sector insurers, GIPSA, and major government insurance schemes.

  • Learn 60 banking and financial terms alongside RBI policy tools such as CRR, SLR, repo rate, reverse repo, and MSF.

  • Build a dated six-month timeline of insurance and financial-sector current affairs.

  • Cover computer fundamentals (generations, memory units, input/output devices) and 100 standard abbreviations.

Your checkpoint

A 100-question General Awareness plus Computer test with at least 70% in each section and a one-page dated current-affairs digest.

Week 7

Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude & General Awareness (with emphasis on insurance and financial sector)

  • Solve 5 mixed Quantitative sets of 35 questions in 25 minutes each, covering all arithmetic and DI chapters.

  • Complete 250 General Awareness questions across insurance, banking, and current affairs, grouping repeated misses into themes.

  • Drill MS Office, networking, internet, and cyber-security topics through 150 Computer Knowledge questions.

  • Refresh current affairs up to the latest week and add every new insurance or RBI item to the digest.

Your checkpoint

A combined 75-question sectional (Quant + GA + Computer) scored at 70% or above and a final 30-item fact sheet of recurring misses.

Week 8

Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude

  • Take 3 full-length mocks under exam conditions and complete same-day error analysis for each.

  • Re-solve the 60 most frequent error patterns collected across weeks 1 to 7.

  • Revise the formula sheet, rule sheet, and current-affairs digest twice, out loud on the second pass.

  • Rehearse a fixed section-wise attempt order across two mocks and keep the version that clears every sectional cut-off.

Your checkpoint

Three mock scorecards with the final attempt at 65% or above overall and no section below its cut-off benchmark.

Milestones

Week 2: Solve a 35-question Reasoning sectional in 25 minutes at 70% or above without leaving any puzzle set unattempted.

Week 4: Score at least 55% overall on two full mocks with sectional cut-offs cleared in Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, and English.

Week 6: Reach 70% or above in both a General Awareness test and a Computer Knowledge test taken back to back.

Week 8: Final mock at 65% or above overall, every section above its benchmark, and fewer than 10 unanswered questions.