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UP Police SI · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Numerical ability and mental aptitude (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Solve 40 mixed arithmetic questions (percentage, ratio, average) under a 45-minute timer and log every wrong answer with its error type.

  • Memorise tables up to 25 and squares up to 30, then recite them in a 10-minute self-test with 90% accuracy.

  • Build a one-page formula sheet for percentage, profit-loss and simple/compound interest from your own worked examples.

  • Set up a weekly error log template with columns for topic, trap, and correction.

Your checkpoint

A dated error log with at least 40 solved questions classified by error type and a completed one-page formula sheet.

Week 2

Numerical ability and mental aptitude (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & General awareness and reasoning (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Complete 30 time-work and time-speed-distance problems, showing the unitary method step for each.

  • Practise 25 reasoning items on series, analogy and coding-decoding without a calculator.

  • Review week 1 errors and re-solve every one of them correctly on a fresh sheet.

  • Time yourself on one 25-question mental aptitude set and record the score and time taken.

Your checkpoint

A timed 25-question aptitude set scored, with re-solved corrections for all week 1 errors.

Week 3

General awareness and reasoning (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Compile and memorise 60 high-yield general awareness facts (Indian polity firsts, national symbols, major days, key appointments) in your own words.

  • Solve 50 reasoning questions covering blood relations, direction sense, ranking and syllogism.

  • Draw a diagram-based note for seating arrangement and puzzles and solve 10 such puzzles.

  • Write a 10-line summary of each of five current national events from the past month.

Your checkpoint

A 60-fact general awareness notebook plus 10 solved puzzles, self-quizzed with at least 80% recall.

Week 4

General Hindi and law/legal awareness (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Revise Hindi grammar rules for sandhi, samas and tatsam-tadbhav with 20 self-made examples each.

  • Practise 30 synonym-antonym and muhavara-lokokti items and record unfamiliar ones.

  • Draft 15 legal-awareness one-liners on fundamental rights, FIR, arrest and bail in your own words.

  • Complete one 30-question Hindi section under exam timing.

Your checkpoint

A timed Hindi section score plus a 15-item legal-awareness card set you can recite from memory.

Week 5

Basic law, constitution and current affairs (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & General Hindi and law/legal awareness (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Map the Constitution's key articles (12-35, 36-51, 124-147, 214-231) onto a one-page chart from memory.

  • Explain in writing the difference between fundamental rights and directive principles with two examples each.

  • Solve 25 legal-awareness questions on IPC/BNS basics, CrPC/BNSS procedure and evidence, logging gaps.

  • Write 10 Hindi precis or passage-based answers within a 12-minute limit each.

Your checkpoint

A hand-drawn article map reproduced from memory with at least 90% accuracy, plus 25 scored legal questions.

Week 6

Basic law, constitution and current affairs (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & General awareness and reasoning (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Summarise the past three months of current affairs into 40 dated bullet points, covering appointments, schemes, sports and awards.

  • Revise the article chart and self-test 30 polity questions without notes.

  • Solve 40 mixed reasoning questions from previous-error topics only.

  • Read one newspaper editorial daily and note five new words with usage sentences.

Your checkpoint

A 40-point current affairs digest with dates and a 30-question polity self-test score of 80% or above.

Week 7

Numerical ability and mental aptitude (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & General Hindi and law/legal awareness (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Take two full-length numerical ability mocks and analyse each within 48 hours.

  • Re-drill the 20 most frequent error types from your log until each is solved correctly twice in a row.

  • Complete 20 Hindi grammar and comprehension questions under 20 minutes.

  • Recite the legal-awareness card set and update any card you miss.

Your checkpoint

Two analysed mock scores with a written list of the five weakest sub-topics and a fix plan for each.

Week 8

General awareness and reasoning (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & General Hindi and law/legal awareness (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & Numerical ability and mental aptitude (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation) & Basic law, constitution and current affairs (not enumerated in the source; provisional list pending official confirmation)

  • Take three full-length mixed mocks under strict exam timing and record section-wise accuracy.

  • Revise only your error log, formula sheet, fact notebook and article chart; add no new material.

  • Practise 15 minutes of daily Hindi and legal recall aloud to build speed.

  • Finalise an exam-day strategy: section order, time caps per section and skip rules.

Your checkpoint

A one-page exam-day strategy sheet backed by three mock scorecards showing improving or stable accuracy.

Milestones

Week 4: Error log shows at least 100 solved numerical and reasoning questions, and the timed Hindi section is completed within the limit with 60% or higher accuracy.

Week 6: Article chart reproduced from memory at 90% accuracy and the 30-question polity self-test scored 80% or above.

Week 8: Three full-length mocks completed with section-wise accuracy recorded and every error from the log re-solved correctly at least once.