Thirty days is enough for one solid pass of the high-value NET-Engineering chapters and six timed full papers, if you study about six hours a day. It is not enough to study all 25 Mathematics and 21 Physics chapters properly, so this plan ranks them, sits a full paper every few days, and stops new material on day 25.
Key facts
- NET-Engineering: Mathematics 50%, Physics 30%, English 20%
- 200 MCQs in 180 minutes, no negative marking
- Derived question counts: 100 Mathematics, 60 Physics, 40 English
- The syllabus page lists 25 Mathematics and 21 Physics chapters
Source: NUST subjects and weightings page, checked October 2026
Who this plan is for
You have finished your board exams, or you can give NET six hours a day, and your test date is about a month away. If you have three months, use the 3-month plan. If you have two weeks, use the 14-day crash plan.
The plan is written for NET-Engineering. For NET-Applied Sciences, put Biology in the Mathematics column and Chemistry in the Physics column, and keep the rest.
Why Mathematics gets most of the days
NUST publishes weightings, not question counts. If you take the 200-MCQ total and apply the weightings, you get roughly 100 Mathematics, 60 Physics and 40 English questions. Spread those across the chapters on the syllabus page and an average Mathematics chapter is worth about 4 questions, an average Physics chapter about 3.
Mathematics: 100 derived questions / 25 chapters = 4 per chapter
Physics: 60 derived questions / 21 chapters = about 2.9 per chapter
These are averages, not a promise about any paper. But they explain the plan: a day on a Mathematics chapter usually buys more marks than a day on a Physics one, and a day on English vocabulary buys the most marks per hour because those questions take seconds.
How a study day runs
| Block | Time | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | 2.5 hours | Mathematics chapter: concepts, then 30 MCQs timed |
| Midday | 1.5 hours | Physics chapter: same pattern |
| Afternoon | 1 hour | Review today's wrong answers |
| Evening | 1 hour | English: 20 new words, 20 old ones, one grammar set |
On full-paper days, the paper replaces the morning and midday blocks, and the afternoon goes to marking it.
The 30 days
| Day | Mathematics | Physics | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full paper 1 (diagnostic) | ||
| 2 | Functions and Graphs | Force and Motion | Vocabulary |
| 3 | Theory of Quadratic Functions | Force and Motion | Vocabulary |
| 4 | Limit and Continuity | Work, Energy and Power | Analogies |
| 5 | Differentiation | Circular and Rotational Motion | Analogies |
| 6 | Differentiation | Waves and Vibrations | Grammar and usage |
| 7 | Further Differentiation | Waves and Vibrations | Vocabulary |
| 8 | Full paper 2 | ||
| 9 | Integration | Electrostatics and Current Electricity | Vocabulary |
| 10 | Integration | Electrostatics and Current Electricity | Grammar and usage |
| 11 | Analytical Geometry | Electromagnetism | Analogies |
| 12 | Conic Section | Electromagnetism | Vocabulary |
| 13 | Trigonometric Identities | Heat and Thermodynamics | Grammar and usage |
| 14 | Full paper 3 | ||
| 15 | Review of papers 1 to 3 | Vocabulary | |
| 16 | Permutations and Combinations | Simple Harmonic Motion | Vocabulary |
| 17 | Sequences and Series | Physical Optics | Analogies |
| 18 | Matrices and Determinants | Alternating Current | Grammar and usage |
| 19 | Complex Numbers | Quantum Physics | Vocabulary |
| 20 | Full paper 4 | ||
| 21 | Vectors in Space | Measurements | Vocabulary |
| 22 | Weakest chapter from papers | Nuclear and Particle Physics | Analogies |
| 23 | Weakest chapter from papers | Weakest chapter from papers | Grammar and usage |
| 24 | Full paper 5 | ||
| 25 | Fix the chapters paper 5 exposed | Vocabulary | |
| 26 | Fix the chapters paper 5 exposed | Vocabulary review | |
| 27 | Full paper 6, on the CBNET simulator if you sit CBNET | ||
| 28 | Rework every wrong answer from papers 4 to 6 | ||
| 29 | Light review, documents, travel | ||
| 30 | Test day |
Chapters not in the table, such as Partial Fractions, Differential Equations, Kinematics, Solids and Fluid Dynamics and Special Theory of Relativity, are the ones to pick up on days 22 and 23 only if your papers show you losing marks there. Otherwise leave them. Thirty days forces trade-offs, and the table makes them for you.
How to use the six full papers
The site has six NET-Engineering full-length papers, which is exactly one for each paper day above. Sit each one in a single 180-minute sitting with your phone in another room.
The score matters less than the list it gives you. After each paper, write down every question you got wrong or guessed, and the chapter it came from. By day 15 you will have three lists, and the chapters that appear on all three are your days 22 and 23.
Do not re-sit a paper you have already seen. You will remember the answers, and the score will lie to you.
When the plan slips
It will. A family event, a bad day, a chapter that takes three days instead of one. Two rules:
- Never drop a full-paper day. Push a chapter instead.
- If you are more than two days behind by day 18, cut the Physics chapters on days 16 to 19 down to MCQs only, and keep the Mathematics ones.
For the final days in more detail, see the last week before NET.
FAQ
Can I prepare for NET in one month?
You can prepare well enough to score properly on the chapters you cover, if you study around six hours a day. You will not cover every chapter in depth, so cover the high-weight ones and sit timed full papers.
How many hours a day should I study for NET in 30 days?
This plan assumes about six. With three or four hours, cut the Physics column to MCQ practice on alternate days and keep the full-paper days fixed.
Which chapters should I skip if I only have a month?
Skip by evidence. Leave out the chapters that do not show up in your full-paper mistakes, starting with Physics ones, since an average Physics chapter carries fewer derived questions than a Mathematics one.
Is English worth studying in the last month?
Yes. English is 20% of NET-Engineering and the questions are short, so an hour of vocabulary a day gives marks you can collect in seconds on test day.
