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UPSSSC Lower PCS study plan

UPSSSC Lower PCS · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

General Studies and General Awareness (including Uttar Pradesh-specific history, geography, polity, economy and current affairs)

  • Build a dated timeline of Uttar Pradesh from the Mahajanapadas (Kashi, Kosala, Vatsa) through the 1857 uprising to the freedom movement, listing at least 40 events with year and one-line significance.

  • Sketch and label the physiographic divisions of UP - Bhabar, Terai, Ganga–Yamuna Doab, Bundelkhand upland and Vindhyan plateau - and name three districts falling in each.

  • Memorise the main river systems (Ganga, Yamuna, Ghaghara, Gomti, Betwa, Ken, Son) and match at least 25 tributaries to the districts where they join.

  • Start a daily 15-minute current-affairs log for UP (state schemes, appointments, awards, sports) and file 15 dated entries by the end of the week.

Your checkpoint

One handwritten page with a 40-entry UP timeline plus a labelled physiographic map, self-checked against a standard reference book and corrected in red ink.

Week 2

General Studies and General Awareness (including Uttar Pradesh-specific history, geography, polity, economy and current affairs) & General Hindi (vyakaran, shabd gyan, muhavare, vaakyansh, apathit gadyansh)

  • Write 30 short notes on UP polity: Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad composition, Governor's discretionary powers, High Court at Prayagraj, and Panchayati Raj in the state.

  • Summarise UP economy in one page: sector-wise contribution to state income, major crops, and the Noida–Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Bundelkhand defence industrial corridors.

  • Revise Hindi संज्ञा, सर्वनाम, विशेषण and क्रिया with 20 practice questions each, rewriting every wrong item with the correct rule.

  • Attempt 50 UP-specific GK MCQs and log each wrong answer with the corrected fact and its source.

Your checkpoint

A 50-item UP GK error log with corrected facts, plus a 30-note polity sheet that can be revised in under 20 minutes.

Week 3

General Hindi (vyakaran, shabd gyan, muhavare, vaakyansh, apathit gadyansh) & General Studies and General Awareness (including Uttar Pradesh-specific history, geography, polity, economy and current affairs)

  • Drill संधि and समास: classify 60 given words by type and write the rule applied to each.

  • Master उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय and वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द with 50 items each, followed by a closed-book self-test.

  • Practise मुहावरे and लोकोक्तियाँ: 60 entries with meaning and one original sentence each.

  • Work through two अपठित गद्यांश daily, answering five questions per passage under an eight-minute clock.

  • Re-read the week-2 error log and revise the weak UP geography areas it exposed (climate, soils, minerals, national parks).

Your checkpoint

A self-test scorecard of 100 Hindi व्याकरण questions with accuracy recorded, targeting at least 70%, and every mistake rewritten with its rule.

Week 4

General Hindi (vyakaran, shabd gyan, muhavare, vaakyansh, apathit gadyansh) & Elementary Mathematics and Quantitative Aptitude (arithmetic, mensuration, data interpretation)

  • Complete the remaining Hindi grammar: कारक, वाच्य, काल and अशुद्धि-शोधन, 25 questions per topic with rule notes.

  • Compile a revision table of मुहावरे, लोकोक्तियाँ and one-word substitutions for fortnightly re-testing.

  • Solve 40 arithmetic problems on percentage, ratio-proportion and average, showing full working for each.

  • Learn mensuration formulas for triangle, circle, cylinder, cone and sphere, then apply them to 30 problems.

Your checkpoint

A sectional test report: 50 Hindi plus 50 GK questions in 60 minutes, with accuracy per topic and a ranked list of the ten weakest topics.

Week 5

Elementary Mathematics and Quantitative Aptitude (arithmetic, mensuration, data interpretation) & General Intelligence and Reasoning (analogy, series, coding-decoding, logical and spatial reasoning)

  • Solve 150 arithmetic questions on time-work, speed-distance, profit-loss and simple/compound interest with a 60-second-per-question timer.

  • Practise data interpretation on five sets of tables, bar charts and pie charts, four questions per set, noting calculation shortcuts used.

  • Work through 100 reasoning series items (number, alphabet, figure) and record the rule behind each answer.

  • Master coding-decoding and analogy variants with 80 questions, writing the pattern for every code type encountered.

Your checkpoint

A maths-plus-reasoning accuracy sheet covering 200 attempted questions, with time per set and a target of at least 65% accuracy.

Week 6

General Intelligence and Reasoning (analogy, series, coding-decoding, logical and spatial reasoning) & General English (grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, sentence correction)

  • Practise seating arrangement, blood relations, direction sense and syllogism, 20 questions each, using diagrams.

  • Learn non-verbal reasoning: mirror image, paper folding, figure completion and embedded figures, 60 items in total.

  • Revise English grammar rules on subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles and prepositions with 25 error-spotting sentences per rule.

  • Build a vocabulary set of 100 words with synonyms and antonyms, and use 20 of them in original sentences.

  • Read two English comprehension passages daily with five questions each under a seven-minute clock.

Your checkpoint

A 100-question English-plus-reasoning mini-mock, scored section-wise with every wrong answer analysed for cause.

Week 7

General English (grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, sentence correction) & Basic Computer Knowledge and Applications

  • Complete 100 English sentence-correction and fill-in-the-blank questions, grouping errors by grammar rule.

  • Write 60 short computer notes covering hardware versus software, memory units, generations of computers, and internet and email basics.

  • Attempt 100 computer MCQs on MS Word and Excel shortcuts, file extensions and storage devices.

  • Re-attempt the two lowest-scoring sections from the week-6 mock, redoing every earlier mistake without notes.

Your checkpoint

A one-page shortcut and terminology cheat sheet plus a 100-question computer MCQ set scored at 70% or above.

Week 8

General Studies and General Awareness (including Uttar Pradesh-specific history, geography, polity, economy and current affairs) & General Hindi (vyakaran, shabd gyan, muhavare, vaakyansh, apathit gadyansh)

  • Condense every earlier error log into one-page summary sheets for all seven subjects and revise them daily.

  • Take three full-length mocks of 100 questions in 90 minutes on alternate days, analysing each within 24 hours.

  • Re-memorise 50 high-yield UP facts (state firsts, flagship schemes, census figures, district-specific features) and 60 मुहावरे.

  • Simulate exam-day sequencing: 25 GK, 20 Hindi, 15 English, 15 maths, 15 reasoning and 10 computer questions in a single timed sitting.

Your checkpoint

Three timed full mocks with a visible score trend, ending at 65% or above overall with no section below 50%.

Milestones

Week 2: Hand over the 40-entry UP timeline, physiographic map and 50-item GK error log; a 25-question self-quiz drawn from your own notes scores at least 20/25.

Week 4: Sectional test of 50 Hindi plus 50 GK in 60 minutes reaches at least 60% in each half, and the ten weakest topics are listed with a revision date.

Week 6: Full mock across domains 1–5 scores at least 60% overall with no section below 50%, and maths plus reasoning accuracy stands at 65% or better.

Week 8: Three full-length mocks completed; final attempt reaches 65% or above overall, no section below 50%, and all seven subjects have a one-page summary sheet.