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UPPSC RO/ARO study plan

UPPSC RO/ARO · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

General Studies & Hindi and English Typing / Computer Knowledge

  • Map the General Studies syllabus into a one-page checklist and mark every subtopic as known, weak, or unknown

  • Complete a 50-question mixed General Studies diagnostic under timed conditions and log the score by subtopic

  • Set up a typing practice routine and record a baseline Hindi and English typing speed (WPM) and accuracy percentage

  • Install a Hindi and English keyboard layout and practice touch-typing the home rows for 20 minutes daily

Your checkpoint

A one-page syllabus checklist with diagnostic scores and a written baseline typing scorecard (WPM and accuracy for both languages)

Week 2

General Studies & Hindi and English Typing / Computer Knowledge

  • Revise Indian Polity fundamentals: Constitution-making, Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, and Directive Principles

  • Build a dated timeline of Indian national movement events from 1857 to 1947 with 40 or more entries

  • Practice 15 minutes of Hindi typing daily using a paragraph-based passage and log accuracy

  • Practice 15 minutes of English typing daily and compare speed against the week-1 baseline

  • Learn core computer fundamentals: hardware, software, input/output devices, and memory units

Your checkpoint

A 40-entry national movement timeline plus a typing log showing at least five timed attempts per language

Week 3

General Studies & Hindi and English Typing / Computer Knowledge

  • Memorize the structure of the Union and State executive, legislature, and judiciary, and self-test with 30 recall questions

  • Revise physical geography: earth movements, atmosphere layers, and Indian rivers and drainage systems

  • Complete 30 computer knowledge questions on operating systems, file management, and shortcuts

  • Type two full-length Hindi passages and two English passages under exam-style time limits

  • Maintain an error log for typing mistakes (matras, capitalization, punctuation) and review it weekly

Your checkpoint

A computer knowledge error log and a typing error log with at least 20 catalogued mistakes each

Week 4

General Studies & General Hindi

  • Revise modern Indian history from 1857 to 1947 and self-test with 40 one-liner questions

  • Revise Indian economy basics: planning, budget, banking, and inflation, and note 25 key facts

  • Revise Hindi grammar: संधि, समास, उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय with 50 practice items

  • Memorize 50 Hindi synonyms (पर्यायवाची) and 50 antonyms (विलोम) with spaced-repetition cards

  • Attempt one 100-question General Studies mock and analyze every wrong answer

Your checkpoint

A mock-test analysis sheet listing each wrong answer, its subtopic, and the corrected fact

Week 5

General Hindi & General English

  • Complete 100 Hindi grammar questions covering मुहावरे, लोकोक्तियाँ, and अनेकार्थी शब्द, and record accuracy

  • Practice 10 Hindi प्रत्यक्ष-अप्रत्यक्ष and कर्तृवाच्य-कर्मवाच्य conversion exercises

  • Revise English grammar: subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles, and prepositions with 100 practice items

  • Memorize 100 English synonyms and antonyms and 50 one-word substitutions

  • Write one 150-word English précis and one 100-word Hindi paragraph to test expression

Your checkpoint

Two graded practice sets (Hindi grammar and English grammar) with accuracy percentages recorded

Week 6

General Hindi & General English

  • Practice 20 Hindi sentence-correction (वाक्य-शुद्धि) and 20 वाक्यांश-के-लिए-एक-शब्द items

  • Revise Hindi वर्तनी (spelling) rules and correct 50 misspelled words

  • Complete 50 English idiom and phrase questions plus 50 error-spotting questions

  • Practice 10 English sentence-rearrangement (parajumbles) and 10 cloze-test passages

  • Review the week-4 mock analysis and re-attempt all previously wrong questions

Your checkpoint

A revised weak-area list showing which Hindi and English subtopics moved from weak to confident

Week 7

General Studies & General Hindi & General English

  • Revise science and technology basics: everyday science, human body, and space and defence current facts

  • Revise environment, ecology, and current affairs of the last 12 months using a monthly digest

  • Attempt one full-length mock covering General Studies, General Hindi, and General English under exam timing

  • Complete 30 Hindi comprehension (गद्यांश) questions and 30 English comprehension questions

  • Type one full Hindi passage and one full English passage at target speed with 95 percent or higher accuracy

Your checkpoint

A full-length mock score report with section-wise scores and a typing accuracy certificate of at least 95 percent in both languages

Week 8

General Studies & General Hindi & General English & Hindi and English Typing / Computer Knowledge

  • Re-attempt the two lowest-scoring subtopics from each domain and confirm improvement

  • Revise all personal fact sheets, timelines, and vocabulary cards in a single consolidated pass

  • Attempt two sectional mocks (General Studies and language sections) and one final typing test

  • Simulate exam-day conditions: one full mock at the scheduled time with no breaks

  • Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering question order, time per section, and typing-section approach

Your checkpoint

A final consolidated revision sheet and a written exam-day strategy note

Milestones

Week 2: General Studies diagnostic score improves by at least 10 percentage points over the week-1 baseline, and both Hindi and English typing speeds show a recorded increase

Week 4: First full General Studies mock completed with an analysis sheet, and at least 100 Hindi grammar practice items attempted

Week 6: Hindi and English grammar practice accuracy reaches 70 percent or higher, and the weak-area list is updated

Week 7: Full-length mock completed within exam time, with typing accuracy at 95 percent or higher in both languages

Week 8: Final mock score is higher than the week-4 mock score in every domain, and the exam-day strategy note is complete