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About this tool
Live countdown to UPSC Prelims and Mains with a daily study-hour target and prep-time milestones for any exam date.
This countdown shows the live days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining to the UPSC Civil Services Prelims or Mains, then turns that time into a study budget: total study hours at your daily target, hours per week, and the dates by which 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% of your prep time will have elapsed. UPSC customarily holds Prelims on the last Sunday of May with Mains about three months later, and the date field stays editable so aspirants can enter the exact notified date from upsc.gov.in.
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A ticking clock in days, hours, minutes and seconds, plus the weeks-and-days view planners actually use.
Days remaining times your daily target gives total hours left, recalculated as the clock runs.
Automatic 25/50/75/90% elapsed-time dates mark natural switch points to answer writing and revision.
Customarily on the last Sunday of May — the 2025 Prelims was held on 25 May, for example. UPSC publishes its exam calendar about a year in advance, and dates can shift, so treat the pattern as a default and confirm the notified date on upsc.gov.in before planning.
There is no official number; successful candidates commonly report 6 to 10 focused hours a day, with consistency mattering more than peaks. The useful arithmetic is total volume: 300 days at 6 hours is 1,800 hours, and adding one hour a day adds 300 hours — this tool computes that for your exact date and target.
About three months. Prelims results typically arrive within a few weeks, leaving roughly 10 to 12 weeks of dedicated Mains preparation — which is why most aspirants begin answer-writing practice well before the Prelims result.
They are the dates by which a fixed share of your remaining time has elapsed — this tool marks 25%, 50%, 75% and 90%. Anchoring plans to them (syllabus done by 50%, full-length tests by 75%, pure revision after 90%) prevents the common failure of discovering too late that most of the runway is gone.