UPSC CDS Last Minute Preparation Tips 2025: Check Study Plan & Strategy

UPSC CDS Last Minute Preparation Tips: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct CDS 1 Exam 2025 on April 13 , 2025. As the exam is around the corner, aspirants must have started their preparation. Rather, they should be about to finish their study. However, it is also important that they practice questions and take as many mock tests as possible. It will help them find their weak areas and improve their time management.

**Steps to attempt a UPSC CDS mock test are mentioned below in this article.

However, some of them may lose confidence as soon as the exam is near. To help such candidates, we have provided some last-minute preparation tips in this article. Applicants can check these preparation tips and the exam-taking strategy to get higher scores in the CDS 1 exam. Read this article to know more.

UPSC CDS Last Minute Preparation Tips 2025

Apart from the usual revision, applicants should concentrate on creating an exam day strategy, which should include how many questions they need to attempt within the provided time limit, keeping a printout of the admit card and other documents on hand, and so on. Go through the UPSC CDS last-minute preparation tips below:

• By now, candidates must have the best study material like books, previous year’s question papers, practice questions, and notes.
• Aspirants must have made notes by themselves by now. If they haven’t, then start making one right away. The notes are very helpful and will reduce the burden by 80%, as aspirants won’t have to search for important topics in those 1000-page reference books.
• Quickly make a timeline book. A timeline book is a book which has all the events, whatever aspirants have to learn, arranged in a chronological way.
• Go through all the previous year’s question papers and assess performance.
• Certain questions follow a certain path, a common trend that will appear in the paper. Some of them are government relations with its neighbours, government schemes, important awards winners etc. If candidates have gone through the previous years’ question papers, they can actually see this.
• Mathematics is not at a very high level, and at this point, candidates must try their best to get all the relevant mathematical formulae at their fingertips. They can easily sail through if they are up to date with all the formulae and have a basic idea of solving mathematical problems.
• Take practice/mock tests online. At Embibe, we offer mock test series that deals only with CDS-level questions and that test result can be more or less the same as the final result. So, aspirants can take mock tests to assess themselves.
• Finally, don’t hurry now to complete the uncovered portions. This is when aspirants must strengthen what they have already learned. Brush up everything, and they’re good to go.

How To Attempt Embibe’s UPSC CDS Mock Tests?

Know the steps to take the UPSC CDS mock test series below:

• 1st Step: Visit Embibe’s official website, i.e., embibe.com.
• 2nd Step: Use the mobile number/email to log in.
• 3rd Step: Click on the menu bar “Getting a Government Job”.
• 4th Step: Select the Goal “Defence” from the dropdown and click on “Next”.
• 5th Step: Search and select “UPSC CDS” on the search bar and click on “Next”.
• 6th Step: Select the preferred language and click on “Done”.
• 7th Step: Click “Test” from the header section.
• 8th Step: Scroll down to the “Subjects” section.
• 9th Step: Click on any UPSC CDS subjects.
• 10th Step: Scroll down to click on the chapters from the selected subject to begin the test.

Do’s & Don’ts for CDS 2025 Exam Day

The following are the things they must avoid on exam day in order to be stress-free:

1. Candidates Should Bring the Important Documents

Candidates should try to stay comfortable and calm on the day of the exam, and assemble all necessary documents such as the CDS admit card, photo ID, and all other required documents one night before the exam. To avoid any ambiguity, they should take print a hard copy of the additional hall ticket.

2. Be On Time

Candidates must arrive at the exam centre on time as the official document states that “late arrivals are not allowed”. If the allotted CDS exam centre is in another city, candidates must arrive early to familiarise themselves with the location and other services.

3. Attempt Questions Candidates’ Are Comfortable

Candidates can save time by answering simple questions first. They should avoid getting carried away with difficult questions. They should try to choose quality over quantity when attempting the questions.

4. Beware of Negative Marking and Avoid Guess Work

Candidates usually try to increase the number of attempts by selecting answers with guesswоrk, which leads to a low score. They should answer questions that they are confident about. If they choose the incorrect answer, 0.33 marks will be deducted. Candidates must develop a proper strategy and attempt only those questions that will assist them in passing the exam with excellent marks.

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FAQs on UPSC CDS Last Minute Exam Tips 2025

Aspirants can check some of the commonly asked questions on the UPSC CDS 2025 exam last-minute tips below:

We hope that this detailed article on UPSC CDS Last-minute Preparation Tips 2025 helps you. Stay tuned to embibe.com for the latest updates on UPSC CDS 2025 Recruitment!