First, the arithmetic nobody does
90 ദിവസം കൊണ്ട് എല്ലാം പഠിക്കാൻ കഴിയില്ല. അതാണ് സത്യം.
The ITI Level course carries 514 chapters. In ninety days, studying properly for three hours on weekdays and more at weekends, you will get through a fraction of that with any depth.
So every honest 90-day plan is a plan about selection. Any plan that implies you will cover everything is either assuming you already know most of it, or is not being straight with you.
That is not bad news. The exam does not reward coverage — it rewards marks, and marks are not spread evenly across the syllabus.
Do this before you plan anything: measure the paper
Take four or five recent question papers for the post you are sitting. Go through them with a tally sheet and count how many questions came from each subject. It takes an evening.
You will find something uncomfortable and extremely useful: the subjects students spend the most time on are frequently not the subjects carrying the most marks. Effort tends to follow what is interesting, or what someone taught well once, rather than what the paper weights.
Three hours on a subject worth three marks and one hour on a subject worth twelve is not hard work. It is expensive work.Santhosh Sir
That tally is your plan. Everything below is just a shape to pour it into.
The shape: three blocks of thirty days
Days 1–30 · The heavy subjects, taught properly
Take the top three or four subjects from your tally and do nothing else. Full study, in order, no skipping to the interesting chapters.
The rule for this block: you do not move on from a chapter until you have answered questions on it and read the explanations. Watching a chapter is not finishing it. If that means you cover fewer chapters than you hoped, you have learned something true about your pace, in month one, when it is still cheap to know.
Days 31–60 · The next tier, plus the first real papers
Add the middle-weight subjects. At the same time, start sitting past papers under a clock — not for the score, but for two other reasons.
- The papers tell you which topics genuinely repeat, which is information you cannot get any other way.
- They surface the confusable pairs early, while there is still time to fix them rather than discover them in the hall.
Expect the scores to be discouraging in this block. They are supposed to be. A first past-paper score in week five is a measurement, not a verdict.
Days 61–90 · Revision, mixed practice, and the weak list
Almost no new chapters in this block. If you are still learning new material in week twelve, the plan went wrong in week two and the answer is not to cram — it is to protect the subjects you have already built.
This block is three things on rotation: mixed practice across subjects (never one topic at a time), full papers under exam conditions, and systematic work on whatever your weak list says.
The weekly rhythm inside all three blocks
| When | What | Why it is there |
|---|---|---|
| Weekday evenings | New chapters — study, then questions on that chapter | The main engine. Questions the same evening, not later. |
| One weekday | Nothing new. Revisit last week's chapters cold. | Spacing. This is the session people cut first and should cut last. |
| Saturday | Mixed practice across everything covered so far | Builds the discrimination the paper actually tests. |
| Sunday | One past paper, timed, with negative marking applied | Calibration, and the only true readiness signal you have. |
| Sunday, later | Read every wrong answer's explanation. Update the weak list. | The single highest-value hour of the week. |
That is five commitments, not seven. The two unclaimed evenings are deliberate — a plan with no slack fails the first week something goes wrong, and then it is abandoned rather than adjusted.
What a study evening actually looks like
"Three hours of study" is not a plan, and it is usually how two hours of reading and one hour of scrolling get recorded. A useful evening has a shape:
- First twenty minutes — yesterday, cold. Before anything new, recall what you did yesterday without opening it. This is the highest-value twenty minutes of the evening and the first thing everyone drops.
- Then the new chapter. Study it properly, once. Not twice.
- Then questions on that chapter, immediately. Same evening, not "tomorrow". Tomorrow never comes for the second half of a chapter.
- Then read every explanation for the ones you got wrong, and write the topic — not the question — on your weak list.
- Stop. An evening that ends on a completed loop is repeatable. One that ends at midnight in the middle of a chapter is not.
Notice that roughly half the time goes on material you have already seen. That ratio feels wrong and is correct.
The last week
The final seven days have their own rules, and most of them are about restraint:
- No new chapters. None. A topic learned in the last week is unlikely to survive to the hall, and the hours cost you revision of things that would have.
- One full paper a day, at the real exam time of day if you can. You are training the clock and the concentration, not learning content.
- Work the weak list, not the syllabus. By now the list is the plan.
- Decide your skipping policy in advance. Under negative marking, work out beforehand how sure you need to be before you attempt. Deciding that in the hall, question by question, is how people lose marks they had.
- Sleep. The last two nights matter more than the last two chapters, and this is not a motivational line — recall degrades measurably without sleep.
Two cases where ninety days is not enough
I would rather say this than sell you something that will not work.
- You are starting from close to zero on the technical subjects. Ninety days can consolidate and sharpen. It cannot build a foundation that was never laid. Plan for the next cycle and use these ninety days to build properly rather than to rush.
- You can only give it an hour a day. That is roughly ninety hours. Be honest about what ninety hours buys, pick two subjects, and go deep on those rather than thin on everything.
Neither case is a reason to stop. Both are reasons to change the target rather than pretend the calendar is longer than it is.
If you take one thing from this
Not the block structure — you can find that anywhere. Take the tally sheet. Spend one evening counting what the paper actually asks for, then let that decide where your ninety days go.
It is the cheapest hour in the entire preparation, and almost nobody spends it.