Thirty days is enough for a one-paper screening test. It is not enough to study everything, which means the plan is mostly a set of decisions about what to leave out.
The order below puts finite, heavily repeated subjects first and unbounded ones later. That is deliberate: a subject you can finish is worth more per hour than one you can only sample.
Assume around two to three hours a day. If you have more, extend the practice blocks rather than adding subjects.
Before day one: two hours of setup
Do not skip this. It decides whether the month works.
- Read your advertisement and syllabus. Number of questions, time allowed, subject breakdown, and the marking scheme. If your post has a specialist portion, find out how large it is.
- Attempt 50 questions cold, across all subjects, untimed. You will score badly. The point is the diagnosis.
- Start your wrong-answer list. One line per mistake, grouped by subject. You will add to it every day for a month.
If your post has a large specialist portion, give it the first slot every day throughout — it is where the field is thinnest.
Week 1 — the finite subjects
The best marks per hour in the whole month.
- Days 1–3: Islamic Studies. Seerah chronologically, then Quran, Hadith, pillars, the Khulafa-e-Rashideen. Build a date table.
- Days 4–7: Pakistan Studies. The Pakistan Movement on a single timeline, then constitutions, geography, and office holders in order.
Attempt questions in each area immediately after studying it, not at the end of the week.
Daily alongside: 20 English vocabulary words, and 10 minutes of current affairs notes.
Week 2 — English and the small subjects
- Days 8–11: English grammar. Tenses, active and passive voice, narration, then prepositions drilled as verb pairs. Finish with common sentence errors.
- Days 12–13: Everyday Science. Tables: vitamins, diseases, instruments and units, chemical names. Short sessions.
- Day 14: Basic maths. Fraction and percentage conversions, tables, squares, until automatic.
Daily alongside: vocabulary and current affairs continue.
Week 3 — General Knowledge and timed practice
- Days 15–18: General Knowledge, driven by past questions rather than by reading. Build comparison tables for geography, organisations, awards and Pakistani general knowledge as the questions reveal gaps.
- Days 19–21: Mathematics and reasoning, timed. Percentages, ratio, averages, profit and loss, time and distance. Forty-five seconds per question from the start.
This is the week the timer becomes permanent. Nothing after this point is attempted untimed.
Week 4 — full papers and the list
No new material after day 24. None.
- Days 22–25: Full practice papers under exam conditions. Correct time, no interruptions, two-pass method, guessing rule applied.
- Days 26–28: The wrong-answer list only. By now it is short and it is precisely the set of things you personally find hard. This is the highest value revision available to you.
- Day 29: Current affairs pages, all of them, plus your date tables — Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies.
- Day 30: Light revision and stop early. Re-read the list of questions you have met more than once. Do not attempt a full paper. Sleep.
When you fall behind
You will. The plan assumes it.
Do not try to catch up by compressing. Drop in this order:
- Drop General Knowledge breadth first. It is unbounded; you were always going to leave most of it. Keep only what your wrong-answer list names.
- Then drop Everyday Science depth, keeping the tables.
- Then drop maths practice, keeping the conversions and tables.
Never drop, whatever happens:
- The full practice papers in week 4
- The wrong-answer list revision
- Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies date tables
Those three carry more marks than anything you would protect instead.
If you only have a week
Skip to week 4. Attempt full papers under time, keep the wrong-answer list, revise only that. A week of attempting teaches more than a week of reading.
Practise here
Every question sits on its own page with its answer, grouped by subject, category and topic, so a day's block is easy to assemble. Use quiz mode with a timer for practice and learning mode for revision passes.
Start at the subject index or search for a topic from your list.