I do not intend to appear for ESE 2016 but if I were to prepare for it given the time frame, here is how I would go about it.
Exam date is 27 May 2016
So, leaving out the week of exam, we have 15 weeks including this week itself.
Now considering that syllabus can be divided into 12 parts roughly, we dont have time to give 1 topic 1 week. So, we have to already jump to next stage of evolution, which is more demanding, but not impossible.
We have to pickup 1 topic each from both papers and run them in 1 week, so our planning horizon would be of 6 weeks, which gives ample scope for round 2 and revision there after. Only problem is that if one joins test series of any sort then one has to take care to sync plan with test schedule else many topics would be repeated and many topics would go untouched.
Now let me be clear, I am not endorsing any test series, but the fact is that many people seek Made Easy test series. So lets look at their schedule. First, it starts from March and they have put 2 topics from same paper in a week and most of them are heavy weights so, it is possible that one would barely be able to cover them. Besides, as I have pointed in my previous post, the ranking you get in these test series is hardly an indicator of your ability or chance of success, but they should help give you pump and bit of indignation, but not much frustration.
So, we will plan to take a headstart and cover the basic topics first so that, we can easily cope with the test schedule when it starts.
Accordingly,
Week 01: Feb 07-13 SOM BThm
Week 02: Feb 14-20 TOM HMT
Week 03: Feb 21-27 Mtrls ICE
Week 04: Feb 28-05 Mfg PPE
Week 05: Mar 06-12 IPM RAC
Week 06: Mar 13-19 MD Fluids/GD
In this stage, effort will be cover all previous year questions and get the basics right.
Then next stage is to shorten the planning horizon by going for shorter cycle time. On completing the syllabus in above manner, we find that we can club together some subjects and finish them in 1 week.
The target here is to revise previous year question types, go deeper and improve recall capacity.
Week07: Mar 20-26 SOM/TOM/MD
Week08: Mar 27-02 Mtrls Mfg IPM
Week09: Apr 03-09 Bthm HMT RAC
Week10: Apr 10-16 Fluids, Fans, Turbines, GD
Week11: Apr17-23 ICE PPE Steam
Next stage is to bring down 1 paper in a week for revision. Then we keep revising and that's it. All you have to do is, take a white board and start scribbling by recalling the topic and on and on, till you can write down everything straight from your mind.
Then my friends, you will be ready to cruise into the list.
Exam date is 27 May 2016
So, leaving out the week of exam, we have 15 weeks including this week itself.
Now considering that syllabus can be divided into 12 parts roughly, we dont have time to give 1 topic 1 week. So, we have to already jump to next stage of evolution, which is more demanding, but not impossible.
We have to pickup 1 topic each from both papers and run them in 1 week, so our planning horizon would be of 6 weeks, which gives ample scope for round 2 and revision there after. Only problem is that if one joins test series of any sort then one has to take care to sync plan with test schedule else many topics would be repeated and many topics would go untouched.
Now let me be clear, I am not endorsing any test series, but the fact is that many people seek Made Easy test series. So lets look at their schedule. First, it starts from March and they have put 2 topics from same paper in a week and most of them are heavy weights so, it is possible that one would barely be able to cover them. Besides, as I have pointed in my previous post, the ranking you get in these test series is hardly an indicator of your ability or chance of success, but they should help give you pump and bit of indignation, but not much frustration.
So, we will plan to take a headstart and cover the basic topics first so that, we can easily cope with the test schedule when it starts.
Accordingly,
Week 01: Feb 07-13 SOM BThm
Week 02: Feb 14-20 TOM HMT
Week 03: Feb 21-27 Mtrls ICE
Week 04: Feb 28-05 Mfg PPE
Week 05: Mar 06-12 IPM RAC
Week 06: Mar 13-19 MD Fluids/GD
In this stage, effort will be cover all previous year questions and get the basics right.
Then next stage is to shorten the planning horizon by going for shorter cycle time. On completing the syllabus in above manner, we find that we can club together some subjects and finish them in 1 week.
The target here is to revise previous year question types, go deeper and improve recall capacity.
Week07: Mar 20-26 SOM/TOM/MD
Week08: Mar 27-02 Mtrls Mfg IPM
Week09: Apr 03-09 Bthm HMT RAC
Week10: Apr 10-16 Fluids, Fans, Turbines, GD
Week11: Apr17-23 ICE PPE Steam
Next stage is to bring down 1 paper in a week for revision. Then we keep revising and that's it. All you have to do is, take a white board and start scribbling by recalling the topic and on and on, till you can write down everything straight from your mind.
Then my friends, you will be ready to cruise into the list.
Thanks bro for putting up the new post in ESE. Seems very tight schedule. One has to adjust Gen study in between too. But I guess no choice than this. I am really feeling the heat now. Thermo is taking time. MD and Ind Mgmt are also to be tackled.
ReplyDeleteThe schedule has to be tight, as one has to feel the vastness of syllabus and the pressure from now on. Else, a day before exam, give up hone ke chances badh jate hai. For gen studies i suppose one can apply same method that we do in mech here. Buy prev year Q book topic wise and read around it. I dont have motivation to do GS for ESE, apologies. But you can take a look at civils prelims Q compilations at http://opengyan.blogspot.in/2016/01/prelims.html cheers!!
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