UPSSSC Lower PCS study plan
UPSSSC Lower PCS · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.