Content update policy

When and why pages are updated

• Examination cycle changes. Patterns, syllabuses, eligibility rules and schedules change from cycle to cycle. Pages carrying examination facts are reviewed ahead of every cycle, and updated as soon as an official announcement — from bodies such as NMC, NBEMS, NTA or AIIMS — makes it necessary.
• Curriculum changes. When a curriculum or a widely followed textbook edition changes what students are expected to know, the affected pages are revised and re-reviewed, not patched in passing.
• User feedback and error reports. Readers are often the first to notice that something is out of date or unclear. Confirmed reports lead to corrections under our Corrections policy at /corrections-policy/, and questions that recur in reader mail often lead us to rewrite or expand a page so it answers better.

Minor and substantive changes

Not every update is equal. A corrected typing error changes nothing a student learns, and is made quietly with a new "last updated" date. A changed syllabus point, a re-explained answer or a new examination pattern is substantive: the page is revised, re-reviewed by the PrepElephant Academic Review Team, and both its "last reviewed" and "last updated" dates change. Substantive corrections are also noted on the page itself.

What the dates on each page mean

• First published — the date the page first went live on the website.
• Last reviewed — the date the Academic Review Team last verified the page's content, whether or not anything changed.
• Last reviewed can therefore be more recent than last updated — the date the page's text last changed — because a page may be checked and found sound. A page that was updated is always re-reviewed before the change goes live.