An Easy-To-Follow IAS Study Plan For Working Professionals

 The UPSC conducts civil service exams every year. Since the age limit is pretty generous (Gen: 32 yrs, OBC: 35 yrs, SC/ST: 37 yrs) there are several cases where even working individuals or people who already have a job has applied for the IAS exams.

Time management for studying and taking care of health simultaneously while working a 9 hour job is the greatest difficulty faced by the working examinees. This article, specially devised for working individuals, divides the syllabus into manageable bits and creates an effective study plan

For those with less preparation time

It is usually recommended for examinees to spare 14 months time for preparation of the civil service exams. Considering that you have less time and still want to crack the exam, you may follow the following Routine:
Time not fit for studying → 9 hours office, 1-hour traveling, 1 hour for washing and eating, 8 hours for sleep. This makes a total of 19 hours.
Time to study → 24 hours – 19 hours = 5 hours
Following this timetable, you get 5*6 = 30 hours a week for studying and you can add 10-12 hours during Sunday depending on your capacity and dedication. Keeping this in mind, an examinee will get 40-42 hours of study time during a week. This amount of time is quite suitable for cracking the exam if followed religiously.
Now, this timetable is for people who are trying to crack the exam in half the time i.e. 6-7 months. It is obvious that if you have more weeks at hand then you can reduce the number of hours put in each week. Regularity is the key here.

For those with proper preparation time

Even those examinees who have more time at hand try to put in at least 4 hours each day, if not 5. The rest of the schedule is more or less same as the previously mentioned schedule for people with less time. You may reduce the 10 hours during Sunday to a generous 7 hours if you have ample weeks at hand. More time should not lead to slowing of pace, it simply means that you have more time to revise which is of extreme importance.

1.General study plan

Divide the 4 or 5 hours you decide to devote each day into shifts and assign some important bits of the syllabus to each bit. If you cannot study 4 or 5 hours at a stretch, you may wake up early and study half the time and put in the rest of the time later in the day. Since, the gap between prelims and mains is only 120 days we need to take an integrated approach towards the entire syllabus.

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