Andhra Pradesh Police Preparation

A twelve-month plan

1. Months one to three — the foundation and the track Arithmetic and reasoning to SSC standard, general studies at the Constable or degree level as your post requires, and a running programme that starts wherever your fitness is. Run three times a week from the first week; the standard is reachable in months and not in weeks.
2. Months four to six — state layer and language Andhra Pradesh history, geography, economy and administration, which national material does not cover. Sub-Inspector candidates add weekly descriptive writing in English and their chosen language.
3. Months seven to nine — full papers under the clock Weekly timed papers in the final-examination format, scored against the last cycle’s cut-off for your zone and category. Physical work continues; armed-post candidates start timing the 100 metres and measuring the long jump.
4. Months ten to twelve — hold and sharpen Maintenance rather than new material. The gap between notification and preliminary test has been under three months in recent cycles, and the gap after that is unpredictable — the Constable physical tests waited two years. A routine you can hold indefinitely beats a peak timed to a date that moves.

What the last cycle taught

• Certificates decide the Stage-II window — the second application opens for a short period after the preliminary result and requires uploaded certificates. Candidates who clear the paper and miss the window are out.
• Women candidates for Civil posts compete for a third of the vacancies — the horizontal reservation is 33⅓ per cent, and in the last Constable cycle 1,063 of 3,580 Civil posts went to women.
• Home Guards have their own quota and their own age rule — a 15 per cent quota in Civil Constable and 25 per cent in APSP, with an upper age of 34, for those with 360 days’ duty in the preceding two years.
• Local status is half the merit list — a non-local candidate competes only for the combined-merit share of posts — 30 per cent for Civil SI, 20 per cent for Civil Constable — which is a materially harder cut.