Set up your exam profile (onboarding)

Right after your first sign-in, Dooit asks six quick questions to build your exam profile — the foundation of your personalised study plan. This guide shows every step in order, what each answer changes, and how to adjust things later.

Before you begin

Onboarding starts on a welcome screen headlined Engine Primed. Mission Ready. Tap START TRAINING to begin. A few things to know:

• You cannot skip it — the answers feed your study plan, so the app requires them once. The whole thing takes under two minutes.
• Each step shows a CONTINUE button that stays dimmed until you pick an option, plus a step counter and progress bar at the top.
• Going back a step (the back chevron or your phone's back button) keeps your earlier answers.

The six steps, in order

Step 1 — Choose Your Medium

Pick English or हिन्दी. As the screen explains, UPSC Mains can be written in English or Hindi, and this choice sets the language of your AI coaching, MCQ practice and study material — the whole app follows it. You can change it later from Settings (see Choose English or Hindi).

Step 2 — Define Your Mission

Select your current preparation stage: Beginner (first attempt), Intermediate (6–12 months of prep), Advanced (1+ year) or Repeater (appeared before). This tailors your daily performance metrics and study intensity.

Step 3 — Choose Your Specialization

This is your educational background: Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Commerce, Pure Science or Other (law, medicine, agriculture and so on) — so your profile reflects where you are coming from academically.

Step 4 — Set Your Training Volume

Choose the daily study hours you can realistically commit: 2-4h, 4-6h, 6-8h, 8-10h or 10h+. Be honest here — your plan is built around the hours you commit.

Step 5 — Lock Your Target

Pick the exam year you are aiming for: UPSC 2026, UPSC 2027 or UPSC 2028. This determines your preparation intensity and overall timeline.

Step 6 — Choose Your Weapon

Select your optional subject from a grid of 19 (Geography, History, Political Science & IR, Public Administration, Sociology, Philosophy, Economics, Anthropology, Psychology, Law, Mathematics, Hindi Literature, English Literature, Agriculture, Medical Science, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Commerce & Accountancy). The optional carries 500 marks in Mains, so choose thoughtfully — but it can be changed later from your Profile.

The final tap — GENERATE MY PLAN

1. With a subject selected, tap GENERATE MY PLAN. The button changes to GENERATING PLAN... while it works.
2. Your profile is saved and the plan starts building in the background — you land on Home right away and can start exploring.
3. Open the Plan tab any time to watch the plan come together; it shows its own progress banner until ready. More in Generate your study plan.

If you see Failed to save profile. or Failed to generate plan., check your connection and tap the button again. With a plan failure, your profile is usually already saved — you can also retry from the Plan tab.

Changing your answers later

Once you finish, the onboarding screens never appear again — but nothing is locked in forever. Your exam medium can be switched any time in Settings, and your other details can be updated from your Profile; regenerating your plan then uses the updated profile. See Profile & Settings.

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