Day 3 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
Polity: Fundamental Rights, Duties, DPSP
- Articles 12–35 group-wise
- Article 21 and 21A; writs under Article 32
- Fundamental Duties (Art. 51A); 42nd and 86th Amendments
- DPSP: Gandhian, socialist, liberal principles
- FR vs DPSP: Kesavananda, Minerva Mills
Quant
HCF and LCM, indices and surds
- HCF × LCM = product of two numbers
- HCF and LCM of fractions
- Least number exactly divisible / leaving a remainder
- Laws of indices; negative and fractional powers
- Surds: simplification and rationalisation
Reasoning
Coding-decoding I (letter shift, letter to number)
- Forward and backward letter shift
- Reverse and opposite-letter coding
- Letter-to-number coding
- Mixed coding
English
Prepositions (time, place, fixed prepositions)
- Time: at, on, in, since, for, by
- Place and movement: in, into, on, onto, across, through
- Fixed prepositions: according to, different from, based on, consist of
- Confusing pairs: beside / besides, between / among
- Spotting the preposition error; phrasal verbs (take after)
Odia
ବିପରୀତ ଶବ୍ଦ I (antonyms)
- ଉପସର୍ଗ ଯୋଗେ ବିପରୀତ (ସୁ / କୁ, ଅ / ଅନ୍)
- ସାଧାରଣ ବିପରୀତ ଶବ୍ଦ
- ଭ୍ରମାତ୍ମକ ବିକଳ୍ପ ଚିହ୍ନଟ
- ଭୁଲ ଯୋଡ଼ି ଚିହ୍ନାଅ; ବାକ୍ୟରେ ବିପରୀତ ଶବ୍ଦ