MAT 10-Day Plan

Seating Arrangement and Puzzles: Linear, circular, and square seating arrangements with directional facing; complex puzzles involving multiple parameters like age, colour, profession - a high-scope reasoning section in RBI Phase I with moderate to high difficulty.

Blood Relations and Direction Sense: Family tree problems, coded blood relations, cardinal directions, shadow-based direction problems, and distance-direction combined questions - direct and scoring if practiced thoroughly.

Coding-Decoding: Letter coding, number coding, mixed coding, sentence coding, and new pattern coding - a speed-intensive section testing pattern recognition skills with increasing complexity in recent exams.

Syllogism and Logical Arguments: Premise-conclusion relationships, Venn diagrams for syllogism, possibility cases, reverse syllogism, and logical consistency checks - a conceptual section requiring practice of rules.

Input-Output and Machine Input: Sequences derived from rearrangement patterns, step-by-step transformation rules, and analyzing output to determine input - tests logical sequencing ability.

Data Sufficiency: Problems from various reasoning topics presented as data sufficiency questions - tests ability to evaluate whether given statements are sufficient to answer a question without actually solving it.

Inequalities and Comparisons: Direct inequalities, coded inequalities, relationship-based comparisons, and ranking-order problems - straightforward when concepts are clear.

Verbal Reasoning: Statement-assumption, statement-argument, statement-course of action, cause and effect, and critical reasoning - tests higher-order reasoning and decision-making ability.

Current Affairs - National: Major government policies, schemes (PM-KISAN, Digital India, Make in India), legislative updates, and important national events from the past year - a high-weight area in RAS Prelims General Knowledge.

Current Affairs - International: Important summits (G20, BRICS, ASEAN), international organizations, global economic developments, conflicts, treaties, and India foreign policy engagements.

Rajasthan-Specific GK: Districts, capitals, tourist places, folk traditions, famous personalities, sports achievements, and current events specific to Rajasthan - direct and scoring questions in RAS Prelims.

Awards and Honors: Major national awards (Padma, Bharat Ratna), international awards (Nobel, Oscar, Grammy), sports awards (Arjuna, Khel Ratna), and recognition for Rajasthan achievers.

Science and Technology: Government S&T missions, space program (ISRO), IT and cybersecurity developments, defence achievements, recent inventions, and science awards - increasing weight in GK section.

Sports GK: Major sporting events, Indian and global athletes, cricket world events, Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games results, and sports-related awards and records.

Important Days and Themes: International and national days of significance (Environment, Health, Education), their themes, and why they matter in the context of government schemes and policies.

Books and Authors: Important books by Indian and world authors, literary awards (Jnanpith, Booker), Rajasthani literature and authors - a minor but distinctive area in GK.