Study plan
A 90-Day Study Plan for SSC CGL Tier 1
A realistic three-phase plan: build concepts, practise by topic, then move to full-length papers.
By the SSC Rank editorial team · Updated
This plan assumes about three to four hours of study a day. Adjust the hours to your situation, but keep the three phases in order.
Days 1–40: Build concepts
- Quantitative Aptitude (90 minutes daily): one arithmetic topic every three days — percentage, ratio, average, profit and loss, interest, time and work, speed and distance. Then algebra, geometry and mensuration.
- Reasoning (45 minutes daily): series, analogy, coding-decoding and classification first; these are quick marks.
- English (45 minutes daily): ten new words a day, one grammar rule a day, and one reading passage.
- General Awareness (30 minutes daily): static topics — polity, history, geography — from one standard source.
End each topic with 20 to 30 practice questions.
Days 41–70: Practise by topic and section
- Take one subject test or topic test every day and review every wrong answer.
- Keep a single notebook of mistakes and formulas you forget.
- Start one full previous year paper each weekend.
- Add 15 minutes of current affairs daily.
Days 71–90: Full-length papers
- One full paper every alternate day under a strict 60-minute timer.
- Spend the next day analysing it and revising weak topics.
- In the final week, stop learning new topics. Revise your mistake notebook and re-attempt questions you got wrong earlier.
Weekly check
Every Sunday, look at your subject-wise accuracy. Give the weakest subject an extra 30 minutes a day in the following week. Small, regular corrections work better than a big change of plan.