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Pick your countdown · every plan uses the same priority order · frequency table drives everything

How to pick

Be honest about how many days you actually have — a 3-day plan you follow beats a 7-day plan you abandon on day 4. The full plan assumes 4–5 hours a day; the shorter plans 3–4. Every day lists its hour budget — if you have more time, add another PYQ paper or a second mock, not more reading.

Topic coverage checklist — tick as you go

The exam draws from the six official topics. Whatever plan you follow, make sure each box is ticked by exam day:

  • T1 Observability & Monitoring — read · practiced via Mock-1 M1–M4
  • T2 Data Pipeline Integrity — read · practiced via Mock-1 M5–M8
  • T3 CI/CD & Release Security — read · practiced via Mock-1 M9–M12
  • T4 Reliable AI/LLM Systems — read · practiced via Mock-1 M13–M16
  • T5 Web/API/Infra Fundamentals — read · practiced via Mock-1 M17–M22
  • T6 Applied AI Judgment — the grading guide + one full mock Section 2

This term's paper: 41 of 80 marks are written

Every plan below now includes writing practice — short answers and a timed full mock — because Section 2 (Applied AI Judgment) carries 41 of 80 marks (official structure). Don't skip those steps: the writing method is the fastest block of marks to secure, and it only becomes yours by doing it.

Full plan · 7+ days

Complete coverage. Everything on the site, in priority order.

Day 1 — Know the game + the hottest week (4h)

Day 2 — The fundamentals + their paper (4h)

Day 3 — LLMs + the older paper + writing start (4h)

Day 4 — New content: RAG + agents (4h)

Day 5 — New content: security + ML + more writing (4.5h)

Day 6 — Remaining weeks + both mocks (5h)

Day 7 — Compress + simulate (4.5h)

5-day plan

Everything 🔥🔥 + all PYQs + one mock.

Day 1 — The game + W2 + first paper

Day 2 — W1 + two papers

Day 3 — W3 + old paper + new topics start

Day 4 — Remaining new weeks + practice

Day 5 — Compress + simulate

4-day plan

🔥🔥 topics + PYQs + short notes + one mock.

Day 1 — The game + hottest week + first paper

Day 2 — More papers + LLM week

Day 3 — New topics + last paper

Day 4 — Compress + simulate

3-day plan

🔥 topics + PYQs + short notes. Skim the rest.

Day 1 — The game + W2 + W1 + first paper

Day 2 — More papers + all new topics

Day 3 — Compress + simulate

2-day plan

The guides + short notes + the two hottest papers + GA0.

Day 1 — The game + short notes + first paper

Day 2 — More papers + practice + writing

1-day plan

The guides + short notes + traps. No full papers.

Morning (2 hours)

Afternoon (2 hours)

Evening (1 hour)

  • Practice: short answers — read the model answers, memorise the structure (easy set first)
  • Mock-1 — attempt at least Section 2's three 🟢 questions, timed
  • Cheat sheet — read it twice, print it

Last minute · the final hour

The coloured boxes only. Nothing else.

  • Cheat sheet — every green box, every trap, every wrong belief
  • The marks ramp — remember: no negative marking, answer everything
  • The short-answer template — conclusion → bullets → trade-off
  • The agent-prompt template — role → context → task → constraints
  • The task → tool decision table — 10 rows
  • Skip if you see: OpenRefine (excluded), geospatial (dropped), Seaborn (dropped)