How to prepare for Government Jobs?
If you are here, I understand that you've decided to get a good government job and understand the Pros and Cons of government jobs. According to a study report, the average time required by an aspirant to prepare for a government job is 39 months. But one can reduce this time by using the right strategy. With the right material and guidance, it is easy to overcome the stumbling blocks.
As government job recruitment exams are ready to resume this year just a few months ahead, here is an authentic and quick strategy on how to prepare for SSC, Banks, UPSC, Railways, and Defense along with other upcoming government job exams.
There are generally two types of aspirants: Early risers who start preparing at the right time to achieve the desired result and late risers who start late but target to score the same as early risers. So if you fall in the first category then this article is going to help you in sharpening your techniques but if you fall in the latter category then this article is going to help you make a good strategy to start.
Steps for preparation:
- Examining the whole syllabus
- Choose the exams whose subjects are of your knowledge i.e. subjects in your secondary school or higher secondary or graduation.
- Most preferably choose those exams whose syllabus (70-80) % overlaps with each other.
- Examine the number of Tiers/Phases and cutoff for the selected exam.
- Understanding the difficulty level
- Now collect the previous year's question papers for the selected exams.
- Arrange the topics and questions according to their difficulty level.
- Make a list of easy and hard topics separately.
- Repetitive and high-scoring topics first
- Select the high-scoring topics first to learn as they provide maximum benefit.
- Make a list of these repetitive and important topics.
- Keep the formulae on tips and brush up on all concepts for all the topics under the list.
- Practice more and more on these topics so that they take less time.
- For memorizing the concept you can use mnemonics.
- Solving previous year's question papers
- Progress to solve previous year's questions for important topics first.
- Try to solve these questions in a limited period.
- As it will help you to boost confidence and self-esteem for further preparation.
- Now less important or less occurring topics
- Now make a list of a few topics according to their occurrence and weightage.
- As these topics are less occurring, then less attention they require. But preparing them as well may give you more score. So neglecting them completely is not a good idea.
- But practice relevant questions only to save time.
- Move toward Mock test
- Solving mock tests will benefit you in improving speed and accuracy.
- It will give you a basic idea about where you are lacking and need more attention.
- One week before exam
- Do not practice or start new topics as it may disturb the overall mindset.
- Deeply analyze your preparations and improve the parts where you are falling short.
- Just improve your basics and concepts and maximize the output.
- Revise formulae and questions which are highly important.
- Do not stress and practice yoga/meditation every day to remain calm.