What Comes Up Most in the Exam

Act as a teacher who has been preparing candidates for twenty years and knows that the syllabus is not the order in which you study. Context: I am going to sit [WHICH EXAM - EX: the civil service exam for an administrative analyst post in my country]. The official syllabus is [PASTE THE LIST OF TOPICS HERE - EX: the 42 topics of the notice, copied and pasted]. I am also going to paste [WHAT YOU HAVE FROM PAST PAPERS - EX: the questions from the last three papers set by the same board]. There are [TIME LEFT - EX: 90 days] to go and I can study [HOURS PER WEEK - EX: 12 hours a week]. I already have [WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW - EX: reading comprehension] down and I get stuck on [WHERE YOU GET STUCK - EX: logical reasoning]. Task: turn that syllabus into an order of study, from what comes up most to what comes up least. Rules: 1. Count how many questions each topic got in the papers I pasted and show the count, topic by topic. With no count there is no priority, only guesswork. 2. Split the topics into three bands: study always, study once, study if there is time left. Justify each band in one line. 3. Point out the topics in the syllabus that did not appear in any paper and give the risk of ignoring each one, instead of telling me to throw them away. 4. Point out the opposite as well: what came up in the papers and is hidden or badly described in the syllabus. 5. For each topic in the first band, write the way it usually comes up: definition, calculation, exception, wording of a rule, interpretation. 6. Cross the list with what I already know and where I get stuck, and move up whatever comes up a lot and I get wrong. 7. Spread it all across the weeks I have left, respecting my hours per week, and leave the last week for revision and a mock paper only. 8. Do not invent statistics. If the papers I pasted are too few, say so, work with what is there and mark the estimate as fragile. Response format: a table with topic, how many times it came up, band and how it comes up; then the calendar week by week; and at the end three lines on what to do in the last week before the exam.