60-Day Day-by-Day Study Plan to Crack CDAC CCAT with a Competitive Rank

Weeks 1–3: Core Fundamentals & Aptitude Foundations

Week 1: Numbers, Logic & C Basics

• Days 1–3: Number Systems, Percentages, Profit & Loss. C data types, operators, and loops.
• Days 4–5: Blood Relations, Direction Sense. C functions and storage classes.
• Days 6–7: Weekly review, 50-question Section A timed drill.

Week 2: Ratios, Series & Pointers Mastery

• Days 8–10: Time, Speed & Distance, Work & Time. Pointers and memory addressing in C.
• Days 11–12: Coding-decoding, Seating arrangements. Arrays and dynamic memory allocation.
• Days 13–14: Structures, unions, and file handling in C.

Week 3: Combinatorics & Linear Data Structures

• Days 15–17: Permutations, Combinations & Probability. Stack operations, postfix evaluation, queues.
• Days 18–19: Syllogisms and Venn diagrams. Singly and doubly linked lists.
• Days 20–21: Timed Section A practice test; Section B foundational review.

Weeks 4–6: Advanced C, DSA, OOP & OS

Week 4: Trees, Sorting & C++ Fundamentals

• Days 22–24: Binary Search Trees, traversals, and sorting complexities.
• Days 25–26: C++ classes, constructors, destructors, copy constructors.
• Days 27–28: Inheritance, operator overloading, and virtual functions.

Week 5: Operating Systems & Networking

• Days 29–31: CPU scheduling algorithms, deadlocks, and process states.
• Days 32–33: Paging, virtual memory, and page replacement algorithms.
• Days 34–35: OSI model layers, TCP vs UDP, IP addressing, and subnetting.

Week 6: Big Data/AI Basics & Section C (If Category III)

• Days 36–38: Core definitions of Big Data & Machine Learning.
• Days 39–40: (Category III only) 8085 architecture, pin diagram, flags, and addressing modes.
• Days 41–42: Comprehensive revision of Section B theory notes.

Weeks 7–8: Timed Mocks & Error Analysis

• Take full-length timed mock tests on CDACPrep under realistic test conditions.
• Analyze incorrect answers and review unattempted questions.
• Revise formula sheets for Quant, pointer quirks in C, and tree traversal algorithms.