IPO Exam: How to prepare for IPO Exam?( Strategies that work & Links)

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 October-2021. The dates identified are 30-10-2021 and 31-10-2021 as per the Calendar of Departmental Exams. According to this schedule, 6 months are left over. If you start now immediately, you will have a better chance to be successful in the IP Examination.

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In this post, I will give details as to how to prepare for IPO Examination or Inspector Posts Examination.

What is the IPO Examination Syllabus?

Where to get Previous Year Question papers of IPO?

What is the pattern for the Examination of IPO?

Watch this video to clear all your doubts about IPO Exam Preparation. WATCH RIGHT NOW:

Strategies for IPO Exam Preparation(that works)

1. Practice Noting and Drafting regularly:

Noting and Drafting carry 50 marks and often candidates do not focus much on this. But, if you practice at least one drafting or noting every two days you can get used to such writing practice. For more tips on Noting and drafting check my post on it. Click here.

In Noting and Drafting Demi-Official Letter is important. Watch this Video which clearly enables you to practically know how to draft DO letters in exams and in real life too. Watch it RIGHT NOW:

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Teach SomeOne:

As per the research made by Edgar Dale on Learning Pyramid, teaching happens to be the most powerful technique in the learning process.

How to prepare for IPO Exam-Learning Pyramid

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.

5. ”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.

6. 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: VOLUMES Revision Notes Knowledge Organisers Websites / Google Classrooms Past papers Model answers	REDUCE the amount of information you have down to the essential parts. You could do this by making: Mind maps Flashcards Posters Crib sheets (like pages from a revision guide with key information) Knowledge organizers
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”

Silent. No support. Timed.

What Type of Learner You are?

Genuinely answer the following questions and check the score at the end of the 20th Question. You yourself can identify what type of learner you are by adding the score you got. Once that is done, you can do more of that.

Start Now:

If I have to learn how to do something, I learn best when:
1. I watch someone show me
2. I hear someone tell me how.
3. I try to do it myself.
When I read, I often find that:
1. I visualize what I am reading in my mind’s eye.
2. I read aloud or hear those words inside my head.
3. I fidget and try to “feel” the
When asked to give directions:
1. I see the actual places in my mind as I say them, or I prefer to draw them.
2. I have no difficulty in giving them verbally.
3. I have to point or move my body as I go through them.
If I am unsure about how to spell a word:
1. I write it to see how it looks
2. I spell it aloud to hear if it sounds
3. I write it to see if it feels
When I write:
1. I am concerned with how neat and well-spaced my letters and words appear.
2. I often say the letters and words to myself.
3. I push hard on my pen or pencil and can feel the flow of the
If I have to remember a list of items, I remember it best if:
1. I write them down.
2. I say them over and over to myself.
3. I use my fingers to name each item.
I prefer teachers who:
1. use a board or overhead projector while they
2. talk with lots of
3. provide hands-on
When trying to concentrate, I have a hard time when:
1. there is a lot of clutter or movement in the room.
2. there is a lot of noise in the room.
3. I have to sit still for any length of
When solving a problem:
1. I write or draw diagrams to see it.
2. I talk myself through it.
3. I use my entire body or move objects to help me think.
When given written instructions on how to build something:
1. I read them silently and try to visualize how the parts will fit
2. I read them aloud and talk to myself as I put the parts together.
3. I try to put the parts together first and read directions if I have a problem.
To keep occupied while waiting:
1. I look around, stare, or
2. I talk or listen to
3. I walk around, manipulate things with my hands, or move/bounce my feet as I sit.
If I had to verbally describe something to another person:
1. I would be brief because I don’t like to talk for a long time.
2. I would go into great
3. I would gesture and move around while
If someone was verbally describing something to another person:

1. I would try to visualize what I’m hearing.
2. I would enjoy listening but would want to interrupt my thoughts.
3. I would become bored if the description is too long or

14. When trying to remember people:

1. I remember faces but forget names.
2. I remember names but forget faces.
3. I remember the situation where I met the person rather than the person’s name or face.

Scoring instructions:

Add up the number of responses for each letter and enter the totals below. The area with the highest number of responses is your go-to mode of learning. If your numbers are all close, you can function well in all areas.

Number of 1’s = My Visual Learner Side

Number of 2’s = My Auditory Learner Side

Number of 3’s = My Kinesthetic Learner Side

Fill this up now:

My go-to Learning Style:
My secondary Learning Style:
I learn really well when:
I’m going to start strengthening:

Now, you know what to do. Go ahead.

Do drop a COMMENT in the comments section RIGHT NOW below and tell what type of learner you are and your scorecard for three types of learning.

I can further ADVISE what fits you the most based on your scorecard in the comments section.

What Is The IPO Exam Syllabus?

You can check out the detailed Syllabus of Inspector Posts Examination with links to the reading material required and books here.

What Is The IPO Exam Pattern?

The pattern for IPO Examination is as follows:

a) The examination shall consist of 4 papers viz. Paper I, II, III & IV and each paper shall carry 300 marks.

b) No. of questions:(i) 150 questions of MCQ type in Paper, I, II & III

(ii) 125 questions of MCQ type in Paper IV and Noting & Drafting for 50 marks.

c) Duration of Examination shall be 3 hours for each paper.

d) Qualifying Marks in each paper shall be 40% subject to an overall average of 45% for General

Category and 33% marks in each paper subject to an overall average of 38% for SC/ST.

e) In all cases circulars, orders, and guidelines issued up to 31st December

of the year preceding the year of the examination will be part of the syllabus

except for the Annual Report and Book of information for which the latest report and information available/published on the DoP website will be taken.

f) The examination shall be without the aid of books.

Where to get Previous Year Question papers for the Inspector Posts Exam?

The Previous Exam Question Papers are provided in the given below links:

1. IPO 2019 Question Papers:

2. IPO Question Paper II-2016

3. IPO Question Paper II- 2014

4. Inspector Posts Exam Question Paper II- 2013

5. Inspector of Post Offices Exam Question Paper II-2012

6. IPO Question Paper II-2011

Inspector Posts Exam: Important MCQs Quick Links

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12 thoughts on “IPO Exam: How to prepare for IPO Exam?( Strategies that work & Links)”

SKY says:

April 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm

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1. Admin says:
  
  April 18, 2021 at 4:44 pm
  
  Arafat! By far, You are a Visual Learner.
  1. Visual Learners: The visual learner likes drawing, doodling, making posters, and using colors to think rather than using words.
  Visual learners learn best by using images, pictures, videos, colors, computers, and any other visual media to help them learn. They will frequently say “show me” when they want to learn something new. Use Flashcards; Make Lists; Drawing.
  YouTube videos can be of the best help for them if they use them purposefully.
  Hope this helps.
  
Chaitanya Suresh says:

April 19, 2021 at 2:14 am

Nice guidance sir

1. Admin says:
  
  April 19, 2021 at 6:36 am
  
  Thank You Chaitanya Ji!
  
Naveena vasudevan says:

April 19, 2021 at 4:52 am

All ur suggestions, guidance,materials,mcq ,tips all are
very useful and helpful ji,
Thank you so much..

1. Admin says:
  
  April 19, 2021 at 6:35 am
  
  Thank You, Naveena Vasudevan Ji! Glad you find them useful.
  
Karthikeyan says:

May 24, 2021 at 10:22 am

Thank you

1. Admin says:
  
  May 28, 2021 at 10:14 am
  
  Welcome Karthikeyan!
  
Bhuvana says:

September 2, 2021 at 4:46 pm

Sir how many attempts does a PA get to clear the IP exam

1. Admin says:
  
  September 5, 2021 at 7:57 am
  
  Officials shall be allowed a maximum of 4 chances, irrespective of grade to appear in LDCE.
  Officials belonging to SC or ST shall be allowed a maximum of 6 chances.
  
S a khan says:

September 20, 2021 at 5:29 pm

Good job keep it up

1. Admin says:
  
  September 23, 2021 at 5:47 pm
  
  Thank you sheikharif Ji

Strategies for IPO Exam Preparation(that works)

1. Practice Noting and Drafting regularly:

2. Prepare your own Notes:

3. Revision is the Key:

4. Teach SomeOne:

Retention rate

5. ”Train the Brain” Technique: Play Quizzes- To have Active Recalls:

6. Use Flash Cards:

GATHER(Stage-1)

LEARN(STAGE-3)

40% of your time

High stakes testing:

What Type of Learner You are?

If I have to learn how to do something, I learn best when:

When I read, I often find that:

When asked to give directions:

If I am unsure about how to spell a word:

When I write:

If I have to remember a list of items, I remember it best if:

I prefer teachers who:

When trying to concentrate, I have a hard time when:

When solving a problem:

When given written instructions on how to build something:

To keep occupied while waiting:

If I had to verbally describe something to another person:

If someone was verbally describing something to another person: