Day 17 of the 70-day plan. Each subject has its own 30-question test — study a topic from the checklist, then attempt it straight away. Or take all 150 questions together (117 minutes). A wrong answer costs 0.25 marks. From Day 3, five of the 30 General Studies questions are current affairs.
General Studies
Governance: ARC reports, civil service, RTI, e-governance
- Second ARC reports
- Civil service history: Macaulay, Northcote-Trevelyan, Santhanam
- RTI Act 2005
- e-Governance and Sevottam
- Odisha schemes and 5T
Quant
Statistics: mean, median, mode
- Mean of grouped data; missing variate
- Median of a distribution
- Mode of a frequency table
- Variance, quartiles and GM basics
Reasoning
Non-verbal series, figure analogy
- Figure series patterns
- Figure analogy
- Rotation and addition of elements
English
Sentence rearrangement (PQRS)
- Opening and closing sentences
- Linking words and pronouns
- Mandatory pairs
- Paragraph ordering
Odia
ବାକ୍ୟ ରୂପାନ୍ତର, ବାଚ୍ୟ, ପ୍ରତ୍ୟକ୍ଷୋକ୍ତି
- ସରଳ ↔ ଜଟିଳ ↔ ଯୌଗିକ ପୁନର୍ବିନ୍ୟାସ
- କର୍ତ୍ତୃ, କର୍ମ, ଭାବ ବାଚ୍ୟ
- ପ୍ରତ୍ୟକ୍ଷୋକ୍ତି ଓ ପରୋକ୍ଷୋକ୍ତି
- ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ, ଆଦେଶ, ପ୍ରାର୍ଥନା ବାକ୍ୟ