Choose the plan by how much you have already studied, as well as the time left. If calculus and economic theory are new, the 24-week plan gives you room to learn them. If you have covered the subjects in college and need organised revision, use the 12- or 8-week plan.
Use the 24-week plan if you need to learn some subjects for the first time or study them again in detail. The shorter plans assume you have studied the syllabus before. They give more revision time to the areas that appeared most often in past papers.
For JAM 2027, the exam is on 14 February. If you are starting in late October 2026, a full 24-week schedule will not fit before it. The longer plan is suitable for a later attempt. Official brochure
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Before you begin
Before choosing a timetable, check which topics need fresh study and which only need revision. This will help you decide where to start and how much time to give each subject.
Go through the syllabus and note the topics you have not studied. For topics you have studied, try a few PYQs without notes. You could start with derivatives, consumer choice, probability and national accounts.
Use what happens to plan your next study sessions:
- You do not know how to start: Study the concept and work through solved examples before attempting more PYQs. For example, revise derivatives and constrained optimisation before numerical consumer-choice problems. Our book guide gives the reading references.
- You remember the method after looking at your notes: Revise that topic, then try another question with the notes closed. Give it revision time in your timetable.
- You know the method but lose marks through calculation errors or slow working: Spend more time solving questions and checking your steps. Begin timed practice once you can solve them accurately.
If several subjects need fresh study, our 24-week plan gives you time to build the basics. If you have studied the syllabus but need substantial revision, choose our 12-week plan. Choose our 8-week plan if your notes are ready and you mainly need revision and exam practice. Check the weekly hours below before deciding.
How much time do you need each week?
Here’s how you can divide your study time each week. This includes time to solve questions and check your answers.
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| Activity | 24-week plan: hours per week | 12-week plan: hours per week | 8-week plan: hours per week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learning or revising concepts | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Worked problems and PYQs | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| Revision and checking test answers | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Time for unfinished work | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Total each week | 18 | 24 | 28 |
For example, 18 hours could be two hours on each weekday and four hours on each weekend day. Choose a routine you can manage alongside college or work.
A full mock needs three hours, plus time to review it. In a mock week, replace some of the regular question-practice and revision sessions with the mock and its review.
24-week study plan
The early weeks build the methods used later. Begin Indian Economy reading in week 5 with one short session each week; weeks 19–20 bring those notes together.
| Weeks | Main study | Questions and practice |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Functions, graphs, logarithms, differentiation and basic economic terms | Work out slopes, elasticities and marginal quantities; draw the functions you use |
| 3–4 | Partial derivatives, curvature, constrained optimisation; descriptive statistics | Solve interior and corner optima; calculate and interpret averages, dispersion and index numbers |
| 5–6 | Consumer choice, demand, revealed preference and the Slutsky equation | Attempt consumer-theory PYQs; explain which constraint or price change drives each result |
| 7–8 | Production, costs, competitive firms and market equilibrium | Derive cost and supply from numerical examples; practise tax and surplus questions |
| 9–10 | Probability, random variables, distributions and joint distributions | Choose the distribution before calculating; include conditional-probability and expectation problems |
| 11–12 | Sampling, estimation, tests and regression | Practise confidence intervals, test decisions and OLS interpretation; take a mixed test on subjects covered so far |
| 13–14 | Monopoly, oligopoly, games, exchange, welfare and market failures; matrices | Solve best responses and sequential decisions; compare private and social outcomes; solve linear systems |
| 15–16 | National accounts, consumption, investment, money and labour markets | Work through accounting identities and intertemporal budget problems; connect equations to their assumptions |
| 17–18 | Integration and basic difference/differential equations, followed by growth; IS–LM, AD–AS and inflation | Solve steady states and check stability; compare short-run policy changes |
| 19–20 | Open-economy macroeconomics, Indian Economy, linear programming and remaining topics | Compare exchange-rate regimes; consolidate sectoral changes; solve constrained-allocation problems |
| 21–22 | Mixed revision and the first full papers | Attempt one full paper each week; use the review to decide which two or three topics need another session |
| 23–24 | Remaining full papers, revision and exam-interface practice | Attempt one or two full papers per week if you can review them properly; reduce new work in the final days |
In weeks 17–18, study the mathematical method before applying it to growth. If this is your first exposure to dynamics, use some of the unfinished-work hours for extra worked examples.
12-week revision plan
Microeconomics and macroeconomics accounted for just over half the marks across the six papers in our PYQ analysis. The timetable also includes statistics, mathematics and Indian Economy.
| Weeks | Main revision | Practice alongside it |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Calculus and optimisation refresh; consumer theory, production and costs | Solve micro PYQs with the full working; include boundary cases, not just familiar interior solutions |
| 3–4 | Markets, games, welfare and information; national accounts, consumption and investment | Mix market-structure problems with accounting and intertemporal questions |
| 5–6 | Money, labour, inflation, short-run policy, open economy and growth; probability | Alternate macro problems with probability sets; attempt one full paper at the end of week 6 |
| 7–8 | Estimation, hypothesis tests, regression; matrices and dynamics | Practise selecting a test and interpreting a coefficient; solve equilibrium systems and stability questions |
| 9–10 | Indian Economy, linear programming and remaining topics; mixed revision | Attempt one full paper each week; revise the topics responsible for the largest avoidable losses |
| 11–12 | Full-paper practice and final revision | Attempt another two or three full papers in total; leave the last few days for familiar material and rest |
Give Indian Economy a short reading session each week before weeks 9–10.
8-week revision plan
Choose this plan if your notes are ready and you can already solve basic problems from every subject. If most of a subject is new to you, allow more time to learn it and reduce the number of mocks.
| Weeks | Main revision | Practice alongside it |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Microeconomics, calculus and optimisation | Revise through PYQs; attempt one full paper in week 2 to find gaps outside micro as well |
| 3–4 | Macroeconomics and probability | Work through model-based numerical questions; take one full paper in week 4 |
| 5–6 | Statistics, regression, remaining mathematics and Indian Economy | Cover the unfinished topics; attempt one full paper each week and check every doubtful answer |
| 7–8 | Mixed revision, weak areas and final papers | Use one or two full papers per week only if review time permits; keep the final days lighter |
How to use the six previous papers
Reserve two or three papers you have not seen for later timed attempts. Use questions from the others during topic study. If you already know every paper, they remain useful for revision, but a repeated-paper score will overstate how quickly you can solve unfamiliar questions.
After a test, choose the next task from what actually went wrong. If you chose the right probability distribution but used its variance incorrectly, practise that calculation. If you could not identify the distribution at all, return to the assumptions first. The mock review guide gives more examples.