A weekly study plan for TNPSC and bank exams
Most people preparing for TNPSC or a bank exam are not studying full time. They are fitting it around a job, college or a household. A plan that assumes eight free hours a day is not a plan; it is a reason to give up by the third week. This is the shape I suggest at Bharath Tuition.
Count your real hours first
Before the timetable, write down the hours you can actually give on each day. Two focused hours on a working day is worth more than a five-hour plan you abandon.
Then fill the week with those hours. A plan with empty space in it is a plan you can keep.
The weekly shape
This is a workable skeleton, not a rule. Move the days around to suit your week, but keep one subject per day and one test at the end.
- Monday: Polity and the Constitution.
- Tuesday: History, culture and the freedom movement.
- Wednesday: Geography and environment.
- Thursday: Economy and current affairs.
- Friday: Aptitude and reasoning, or English for a bank exam.
- Saturday: a full mock paper, then review it the same day.
- Sunday: light revision and rest, with the month's current-affairs notes.
Start each session with yesterday
Spend the first ten or fifteen minutes on yesterday's topic before anything new. If you cannot explain it out loud without the book, you have not learnt it yet, and it goes back on the list.
This one habit does more for retention than a longer study day.
Notes you will actually reread
One page per topic, in your own words, with the facts you keep forgetting at the top. Do not copy the textbook. If a page takes an hour to write, it is too long to reread.
Keep a separate sheet for numbers, dates and names. Those are what exams ask for and what memory drops first.
Current affairs without the panic
Pick one monthly magazine or one newspaper and one notebook. Not three sources. Three sources is how people spend six hours a week and remember nothing.
Write five lines a day, and revise the month's notes on the last Sunday. For a bank exam, add the banking awareness pages to the same notebook.
Mock tests are the exam
Sit one full paper a week from the start, not only at the end. Time it, keep the phone in another room, and mark it the same day while you still remember your reasoning.
Keep an error log: the question, why you got it wrong, and the correct idea. Revise the log before the next test instead of rereading the whole syllabus.
The last month
No new topics in the last month. Revision, mock tests and the error log, in that order.
Two full papers a week, with a day in between to fix what went wrong. Sleep on the last two nights; a tired brain loses more marks than a missed chapter.
Studying with us
Bharath Tuition runs TNPSC and bank exam coaching alongside the school classes, and the teaching staff is arranged for each course. If you are already preparing on your own, the plan above is a reasonable thing to bring to a first conversation.
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Written by Amaladevi, who runs Her Happy Journey from Madurai. Trips are planned with the women who are going; no dates or prices are published in advance.
