Bands are drawn to their true weight in the paper — Part A is 30 marks, Part C is 95. Solid fill is what the July paper actually returned. Hatched fill is the December target.
None of this requires mathematics beyond what an M.Sc. already covers. It requires recall speed in Part B, execution in Part A, and restraint in Part C.
7 correct of 15 becomes 14. LCM, simple interest, letter series, cube patterns — none of it was beyond you. Two weeks of format drilling holds this permanently.
12 correct of 25 becomes 18. Same 25 attempts, better accuracy. Attempting more before accuracy rises loses marks to the 25% penalty.
5 exact of 20 becomes 10. Five misses were off by one option, four of those from marking one option too many. Half this gain is discipline, not study.
Written down now, while they are abstract, so they hold in the third hour when they are not.
For each option marked, be able to state the reason it holds or the counterexample that kills it. If you cannot do that for all four options, narrow to what you can defend or leave the question.
Marking 1,2,3,4 happened five times in July and returned zero every time. Only 9 of 60 questions had all four options correct.
Check the marked set as a single claim. On Q111 you marked "S is not compact" and "every open cover has a finite subcover" together — a contradiction visible without any mathematics.
Thirty seconds a question. It would have converted two or three questions in July.
Fixed structure, rotating topic. The summary block is the one people drop first and it is the one doing the recall work this paper tests.
Work the topic from one source. Reproduce the key proofs on paper without looking.
Eight to ten problems mixing textbook and previous-year. Hard cap of 12 minutes each — move on, mark it, return later.
The week's topic in your own notation. Three theorems that matter and the idea of each proof. This becomes the December revision sheet.
One short aptitude set daily from week one. Small, constant, and worth 30 marks.
Linear algebra runs first and runs for three weeks — seven of your 28 misses across Parts B and C sat in that one unit. Click a week to mark it done.
Enter part scores after each timed paper. Same arithmetic as the July baseline, so the numbers stay comparable.