Study Plan, Study Material and books for CAPF Exam Preparation :

History :

  1. History/Culture – Theory for this part has to be done with TN Board books
  2. Medieval History – TN Board books. Don’t spend much time on cramming Dates and facts here.
  3. Modern History – TN Board  or you can skip TN Board books.
  4. Culture – Focus on Important books and their authors. To be done from NIOS book. Download link included at bottom.
    Note : World history is not in the Syllabus.

Science : In this section your focus should be on concepts, principles and their applications in daily life rather than Trivial facts. This must be done with NCERTS

Geography + Environment & biodiversity : Focus on latitudes, longitudes question, Rivers and drainage, climate, Industry and agriculture. For basics refer to NCERT
Environment & biodiversity has found great importance in the last couple of years, don’t leave this topic. Do the basics with NIOS book

Polity : For Polity Read this book by M. Laxmikanth and follow it up with TMH GS Manual MCQs on Polity.

Economy : NCERT Class 11th + 12th + NIOS + TMH GS Manual MCQs or you can skip NCERT and NIOS

Current Affairs : For Current affairs , Read Newspapers – The Hindu/ Indian Express religiously , specially the editorials, Op-eds, World, Business and Sports news.

Aptitude :

  • Quant – NCERT ( for concepts – download link at bottom ) + RS aggarwal ( or any other Quant book – for practice ). After analysing past few years papers we have come to know that no questions were asked from these topics – Trigonometry, Geometry [ Except Areas, Volumes & perimeters ], Coordinate Geometry, Quadratic Equations, Logarithms –  So you may ignore these.
  • Data Interpretation – Not much preparation required, Just brush up your basics on ratio, proportion , Percentage , profit & loss and practice previous year questions.
  • Reasoning – Practice questions from RS Aggarwal book or any other reasoning book that you have. Do see previous year questions.

Essay, Report & Counter Arguments:

Your Newspaper reading habit will come handy. Special Focus must be given to Letters to editor Section , this will help you greatly in Developing Counter Arguments Question. It will broaden your perspective & Improve your analytical abilities. For Essay one can refer to this book –

       

1. Download CAPF Assistant Commandant Exam Last 5 year Papers –

2. Ancient History TN Board –

3. Medieval and Modern History TN Board –

4. Indian Culture NIOS Study Material –

5. Physics NCERT –

6. Chemistry NCERT –

7. Biology NCERT –

8. Geography NCERT –

9. Environment & Biodiversity NIOS Study Material –

10. Economy NCERT –

11. Economy NIOS Study Material –

12. Mathematics NCERT –