Day 4 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
World Geography: earth's interior, plates, volcanoes, earthquakes
- Crust, mantle, core and discontinuities
- Plate tectonics: boundaries and landforms
- Volcano types; Ring of Fire
- Earthquake waves; seismograph
Quant
Percentage
- Fraction ↔ per cent
- Percentage increase and decrease
- Successive percentage change
- 'A is x% more than B' type
- Population and depreciation
- Price-consumption-expenditure and income-saving
- Exam pass/fail and election questions
Reasoning
Coding-decoding II (word codes, letter values)
- Sentence codes: common word method
- Letter values (Z = 52, ACT = 48 type)
- Substitution coding
English
Tenses I
- Simple, continuous and perfect present
- Simple and continuous past
- Past perfect; 'by this time' and 'already' markers
- Correct verb form in a blank; spotting tense errors
Odia
ଶବ୍ଦ ଓ ରୂପିମ, ପଦର ଶ୍ରେଣୀବିଭାଗ
- ଶବ୍ଦ ଓ ଶବ୍ଦବିଭାଗ (ତତ୍ସମ, ତଦ୍ଭବ, ଦେଶଜ, ବୈଦେଶିକ)
- ରୂପିମ: ମୁକ୍ତ ଓ ବଦ୍ଧ ରୂପିମ
- ବାକ୍ୟ, ପଦ ଓ ପଦର ଶ୍ରେଣୀବିଭାଗ
- ଶବ୍ଦଟି ତତ୍ସମ ନା ତଦ୍ଭବ ଚିହ୍ନାଅ; ଶବ୍ଦରେ କେତୋଟି ରୂପିମ