As you know DSSSB Tier 1 consists of two papers, Paper-1 and paper 2. DSSSB paper 1 consists of 5 subjects, Hindi, English, Maths, Reasoning and general awareness. Because of mathematics and reasoning together account for 40 marks, students from non-mathematical background find it bit difficult to score 50 plus marks in first attempt. Now the best idea is to get 50 plus marks in paper 1 is to make a good plan depending upon strength and weakness.

Identify your strength and weakness for DSSSB paper 1

You can’t be equally weak or strong in all subjects. Identify your strengths first. Choose one language Hindi or English depending upon your medium of education. For example if your

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medium of education in high school was English go for English if your medium was Hindi, go for Hindi. Similarly focus on reasoning if your mathematics is weak. The truth is nobody can be weak in reasoning it’s only about practice and this is a subject in which you can score really well.

How to solve the DSSSB paper 1

First solve the language in which you are stronger. After that solve general awareness questions. Once you are done with both go for the language in which you are weaker. Out of 60 questions try as many as you can. Note that maximum time you should spend for one question in 30 seconds. Thus you will be able to complete 60 questions in 25 minutes.

Prepare your strong language really well, If your language is Hindi you will able to score 15 marks by studying 40-50 hours, while you may almost ignore your English except reading comprehension part, in English reading the passage will take 3-4 minutes. certainly you can find 2-3 more questions those you can just look and answer in English section scoring 5-6 marks.  if English your stronger subject you can give a glance at all the Hindi questions. You will be able to get 12-13 marks in English and 7-8 marks in Hindi easily. You won’t be able to solve all the questions even if you study for 200-300 hours of GA. So best strategy is to prepare from any coaching notes and keep on reading 10-20 minutes of current affairs daily and study the notes, you will be able to score 5-10 marks easily.

In this way you will score 25-35 in just 25 minutes.

How to prepare for DSSSB if your mathematics is weak

If your mathematics is weak, focus on reasoning give almost 70-80 hours to reasoning. Prepare all the topics prepare it well,  try speed tests in between. You will be easily able to score 14-18 marks depending upon the level of question paper in 20-25 minutes.

Now when it comes to mathematics it is the only subjects that guarantees almost 100% accuracy. However if you suffer from math anxiety planning is the key.

1. Do not try to prepare 100% course, leave 3-4 topics you find difficult.
2. Watch a sport like cricket and keep on calculating the average of players and run rate on every ball.
3. Practice each topic you want to prepare for10-12 hours depending upon your speed.
4. Don’t loose hope, mathematics is all about breaking the problem into smaller steps once you learn the tactic to break the problem you will be able try solve it.

Thus you will be able to score another 25-30 marks, taking your total to 50-65 marks.

With a 200 hours of self preparation. If you can give 24 hours in a week you will be able to finish whole course in 2 months. But if you already have strong background in mathematics you can complete this preparation in only 150 hours. less than 20 hours a week is needed.

However if you join a good coaching institute for DSSSB can cut this time in half plus you would be able to solve your doubts. Wishing you all the best for your preparation.