How to prepare when time is less?

Less time doesn’t mean there's no chance. It means no room for mischief.

When the clock is ticking, you can’t switch around five books, ten YouTube playlists, and a “I’ll start properly next week” mindset. You need some serious focus.

Pick one source and stick to it. Prioritize high-weightage topics like arithmetic and algebra in QA. Reading comprehension in VARC and for DILR focus on sets that actually appear most often. Tables, bar graphs, arrangements, and logical puzzles. Don’t waste time chasing obscure topics you may never see.

Make mocks your syllabus. Take them early, analyze them hard and use every mistake to find what to fix. And honestly, even I struggle with this. The urge to scroll, to find a shortcut that doesn't exist. But on days when time is less, the only thing that actually helps is sitting down and solving. Even if it's just 10 questions. Even if they go wrong.

You just need to start and the rest follows.