IPO Exam: How to prepare for IPO Examination? The dates for Inspector Posts Exam have been scheduled by the Department of Posts for the month of September 2024. The dates identified are 21-09-2024 and 22-09-2024 as per the Calendar of Departmental Exams. According to this schedule, 5 months are left over. If you start now immediately, you will have a better chance to be successful in the IP Examination.
1. Prepare your own Notes:
I strongly recommend preparing your own notes as it would help you to revise the topic with ease. Align the topic either into a table or a particular sequence that will enable you to remember well in long term. Furthermore, you would like to give an example of a live scenario wherever feasible to make it long-lasting in the brain.
2. Revision is the Key:
I don`t feel exhausted even if I repeat this statement multiple times. That said, minding the gap is key.
Revision can be in the following way:
(i) Read on day one simultaneously taking key points in notes (mind you handwritten notes only not typed computer notes){ 2 hours}
(ii) Revise on the next day about notes written as key points. {20 minutes}
(iii) Revision-retrieve or recall after 1 month { 10 minutes only}
Repeat this for every topic to be well-versed by the time you get nearer to the exam and you get through the exam effortlessly.
3. Teach Some One:
As per the research made by Edgar Dale on Learning Pyramid, teaching happens to be the most powerful technique in the learning process.
Retention rate | Learning activity before the test of knowledge |
| 90% | Teach someone else/use immediately. |
| 75% | Practice what one learned. |
| 50% | Engaged in a group discussion. |
| 30% | Watch a demonstration. |
| 20% | Watch audiovisual. |
| 10% | Reading. |
| 5% | Listening to a lecture. |
So, try to teach someone, may it be your friend or a candidate who prepares or does a combined study with you.
Why teaching is regarded as the best technique in learning?
To teach someone, you may have to become an expert on that subject first. Furthermore, teaching involves a lot of active recall of the subject learned. So, make the best use of this technique.
4. ”Train the Brain” Technique: Play Quizzes- To have Active Recalls:
Researchers revealed that active recall is one of the fine-tuned techniques to remember the topics well for the exam. Quizzes are extremely helpful in the active recall method. It is just the ”Train the Brain” Method.
Here I give you the Quizzes and reshuffle all not only questions but also the answers to Train your Brain.
This Technique works well as each time the Brain has some work to retrieve from the hippocampus.
The hippocampus, located in the brain’s temporal lobe, is where episodic memories are formed and indexed for later access.
5. Use Flash Cards:
You may use flashcards for important and difficult topics.
What you do is to write questions on one side and answer on another side.
Try to recall the answer without seeing the reverse of the card and then check what you have learned.
GATHER(Stage-1) | FILTER(Stage-2) |
| Session 1: After the first time you have revised a topic you need not go any further ‘gathering’. | Session 2: After the 2nd or 3rd time you have revised a topic, you should not need to do any more filtering. |
| 10% of your time | 30% of your time |
You will need:
| REDUCE the amount of information you have down to the essential parts. You could do this by making:
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| Before you start, RANK the topics you need to cover from most to least confident. Begin with the topics lowest on the list. READ through and become familiar with the information you need to know. IDENTIFY any gaps in your knowledge and see your teacher( co-learner maybe) help fill these gaps. | Try writing the ‘perfect’ exam answer from your notes. Complete a Flow chart or activities to represent the information you have learned. |
| Gathering IS NOT a REVISION – don’t spend ages on this stage! | Copying out information word for word is NOT filtering OR learning! |
LEARN(STAGE-3) |
| Session 3: Give yourself a variety of activities and change where you work from time to time. Don’t forget to revise with friends sometimes too! |
40% of your time |
| Use some of the following strategies to learn the information you have filtered so that you can recall it easily: Look/say/cover/write/check RE-PRESENT the information you have gathered and filtered (if you’ve made flashcards, can you now create a crib sheet from memory?) |
| Complete individual exam questions and then self-mark. Make corrections or fill in the blanks in a different colour. Revise the bits you missed again. |
| TEST(STAGE -4) |
| Session 4 onwards: As you approach your exam date, spend more and more time on the testing phase and make the tests more challenging |
| 20% of your time |
| Low stakes testing: Easy, quick quizzes which test small pieces of knowledge: facts, dates, keywords, vocabulary, important formulae( pension, pay fixation, leave rules, LTC, etc.) (Quizlet) You must complete low-stakes testing within 24 hours of revising to anchor learning in your memory. |
High stakes testing:Longer exam-style questions which APPLY knowledge you would have to in the exam. Noting and drafting fall under this category. These should be completed within 48-72 hours of revising a topic and then repeated to keep it “fresh” |
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