Step 1 — Measure before you schedule
A study plan written before you know your accuracy is a guess. Start with a diagnostic of 10, 25 or 50 questions. It spreads across subjects and difficulty levels and returns a preparation score, a subject-by-subject picture and a list of topics ranked by how much work they still need. Everything below is then sized from that result, and it updates as you attempt more questions.
Step 2 — Set hours you can defend
Pick the band you can keep for seven days straight, not the one you can keep for one. These are the daily minute targets the planner uses for each band; the default is 180 minutes and the ceiling is 480.
| Your real availability | Daily study minutes |
|---|---|
| Less than 1 hour | 120 min |
| 1-2 hours | 150 min |
| 2-4 hours | 240 min |
| 4-6 hours | 330 min |
| 6+ hours | 360 min |
Step 3 — Study in the phase you are actually in
What you should do today depends on how many days remain until your exam date, not on how you feel. The mix below shifts automatically as your target date gets closer: learning carries the early months, revision and tests carry the last fortnight.
| Phase | When | Learn | Practice | Revision | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 90+ days left | 40% | 35% | 15% | 10% |
| Practice | 60-89 days left | 25% | 45% | 20% | 10% |
| Revision | 30-59 days left | 15% | 35% | 35% | 15% |
| Intensive | 7-29 days left | 10% | 35% | 30% | 25% |
| Final revision | Under 7 days | 0% | 20% | 50% | 30% |
Step 4 — Know what a normal day contains
The default daily target is 100 questions, plus 15 revision items and 5 open mistakes cleared, with about 45 minutes of focused learning on top. That is the floor, not a stretch goal — on a light day the revision and mistakes stay and new learning is what gets dropped. A weekly baseline of 10 hours, 500 questions, 5 topics and 1 full-length test keeps the plan honest.
Step 5 — Let your weak areas decide the order
Subject lists tempt you to study what feels familiar. The planner ranks what to open next using fixed weights, so the same logic runs every day:
Weak topics
40%Lowest mastery in the subjects and topics you still need.
Open mistakes
20%Questions you attempted and got wrong, until you clear them.
Revision due
20%Items reaching their 1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 day review.
Syllabus coverage
10%Topics you have never attempted get pushed in.
Recency
10%Long gaps since you last saw a topic raise its priority.
Step 6 — Space the revision, or it never happened
Anything you attempt correctly is queued again at 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days. Miss a review and it stays due until you clear it. That single rule is the difference between a plan that compounds and one where second-year biochemistry is brand new again in the final year.
Step 7 — Check the plan, not your mood
Three signals tell you whether the week is working: the preparation score, which weights accuracy (30%), topic mastery (25%), difficulty (15%) and consistency, revision and time efficiency (10% each); plan completion, how much of what was scheduled you actually finished; and open mistakes still sitting uncleared. Topics themselves are labelled Needs Attention, Developing, Moderate, Strong or Mastered, so you can see whether a subject is genuinely improving or just familiar.
Common questions about NEET-PG preparation
How much time is required to prepare for NEET-PG?
There is no fixed number that fits everyone. What decides it is your starting accuracy, how many hours a week you can actually protect, and how much of the syllabus you have already covered. That is why the plan starts with a diagnostic: 10, 25 or 50 questions tell you which of those three you are dealing with, and the daily hours are set from your real availability, not an ideal timetable.
How do I prepare for NEET-PG while working or interning?
Choose the lowest availability band you can keep for a full week. A 120-minute day is a real plan: roughly 60 questions, your due revision and the mistakes you got wrong. Consistency beats intensity here, because the revision queue only works if items come back on schedule. On lighter days the planner keeps revision and open mistakes and drops new learning.
Can I start preparing for NEET-PG in 2 months?
Two months is short, so the mix changes: almost no new learning, most hours on practice and revision, and regular full-length tests. That is exactly what the Intensive and Final revision phases do. It will not cover everything equally, so it targets your weakest high-weight topics first.
When should I start NEET-PG preparation during MBBS?
The earlier you start, the less you have to compress later. First- and second-year students benefit most because the foundation phase (90+ days out) puts 40% of hours into learning rather than testing. Topics you meet now are queued for spaced revision at 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, so they stay warm instead of becoming a final-year mountain.
How do I know my study plan is working?
Watch three numbers rather than hours: the preparation score (built from accuracy, topic mastery, difficulty, consistency, revision and time efficiency), plan completion for the week, and how many mistakes are still open. A flat score with rising question counts usually means you are practising what you already know.
Turn this into a plan for your own dates
Navaloom Prep builds this for you: a diagnostic to set your starting point, an adaptive question bank across pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical subjects, a study plan for NEET-PG, INI-CET, FMGE and NExT, and analytics that show which weak areas are clearing.
Navaloom Prep supports preparation for NEET-PG, INI-CET, FMGE and NExT. Targets, phases and score weights are configurable per student and per institution, so the numbers above describe the default plan rather than a fixed rule.