30 Days Study plan for Micro economics (UGC-NET-Economics)


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Here is a 30-Day Microeconomics Revision Plan for UGC NET Economics (Paper II)
Designed specially for serious aspirants targeting June 2026.This plan assumes:

  • 3–4 hours daily study
  • Concept + PYQ + Practice approach
  • Weekly revision + mock integration

📅 WEEK 1: Consumer Theory (Foundation Building)

🔹 Day 1

  • Cardinal Utility Theory
  • Marshallian Demand
  • PYQs from utility & consumer equilibrium
🔹 Day 2
  • Ordinal Utility Theory
  • Indifference Curve properties
  • MRS & budget constraint
🔹 Day 3
  • Income & Substitution Effect
  • Hicks vs Slutsky method
  • Slutsky Equation (Important)
🔹 Day 4
  • Revealed Preference Theory
  • Weak & Strong Axiom
  • Applications
🔹 Day 5
  • Duality in Consumption
  • Hicksian vs Marshallian demand
  • Expenditure function
🔹 Day 6
  • Numerical Practice (Slutsky, Demand derivation)
  • Solve 40–50 PYQs
🔹 Day 7 (Revision Day)
  • Revise entire Consumer Theory
  • Attempt 1 sectional test

📅 WEEK 2: Producer Theory & Cost

🔹 Day 8

  • Production Function (Cobb-Douglas, CES)
  • Returns to scale
🔹 Day 9
  • Cost minimization
  • Expansion path
🔹 Day 10
  • Cost Curves (SR & LR)
  • Envelope curve
🔹 Day 11
  • Duality in Production
  • Shephard’s lemma
🔹 Day 12
  • Profit maximization
  • Hotelling’s lemma
🔹 Day 13
  • Numerical practice
  • PYQs (last 15 years)
🔹 Day 14 (Revision + Test)
  • Full revision
  • Sectional mock

📅 WEEK 3: Market Structure + Game Theory🔹 Day 15Perfect Competition
  • SR & LR equilibrium
  • Shutdown condition
🔹 Day 16Monopoly
  • Price discrimination
  • Lerner index
  • Welfare loss
🔹 Day 17Monopolistic Competition
  • Excess capacity
  • Chamberlin
🔹 Day 18Oligopoly Models
  • Cournot
  • Bertrand
  • Stackelberg
🔹 Day 19 Game Theory
  • Nash equilibrium
  • Dominant strategy
  • Mixed strategies
🔹 Day 20 Advanced Game Theory
  • Repeated games
  • Subgame perfect equilibrium
🔹 Day 21 (Revision + Test)
  • 2 hour sectional mock
  • Analyze mistakes

📅 WEEK 4: General Equilibrium + Welfare + Market Failure

🔹 Day 22 Edgeworth Box

  • Exchange equilibrium
  • Contract curve
🔹 Day 23 Pareto Optimality
  • First & Second Welfare Theorem
🔹 Day 24 Social Welfare Function
  • Bergson-Samuelson
  • Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
🔹 Day 25 Externalities
  • Pigouvian tax
  • Coase theorem
🔹 Day 26 Public Goods
  • Free rider problem
  • Lindahl equilibrium
🔹 Day 27 Information Economics
  • Adverse selection
  • Moral hazard
  • Principal-agent
🔹 Day 28 Factor Pricing
  • Euler’s theorem
  • Ricardian rent
  • Monopsony

📅 FINAL 2 DAYS (Exam Simulation)

🔹 Day 29

  • Full Microeconomics Mock (3 hours)
  • Deep analysis
🔹 Day 30
  • Formula revision
  • Model summary revision
  • Mistake notebook revision

🎯 Daily Study Structure (Very Important)Each day follow this format:
  1. 60% Concept clarity
  2. 30% PYQs
  3. 10% Error revision

🔥 High Priority Topics (Revise Twice)
  • Slutsky Equation
  • Cournot & Bertrand
  • Nash Equilibrium
  • Pareto Optimality
  • Price Discrimination
  • Cost minimization
  • Arrow’s theorem
  • Externalities