Preparation

Exam-wise syllabus & pattern packs

What is inside each pack

There are packs for 27 exams, holding 1913 topics and 565 practice questions between them. Each pack's size is below, largest syllabus first, so you can see how much reading each exam actually asks for.

How to use these packs

• Count the sections first, then the topics. The table above says how many sections an exam has and how many topics in total. That, not the exam's reputation, is the real size of the reading.
• Every pack also names what the official document does not say. Each one ends with a section listing the things the notification simply does not state — cut-offs, the exact negative-marking value, physical standards. We leave those blank rather than guess them.
• The practice questions follow the pattern, not a memory drill. Each pack's questions are built on that exam's own pattern, so you can check your understanding immediately after reading rather than weeks later.
• Look at the exams next to yours as well. Several syllabuses overlap heavily — the six SSC packs with each other, the four Railway packs with each other. Preparing one leaves the next one half-prepared.
• Check that year's official notification before you apply. Patterns and syllabuses do change between years, and the final authority is always the commission's own document.

Every pattern and syllabus here is checked against the official notification. Even so, always confirm with that year's official notice before you apply — rules can change.

By SarkariReady Editorial Team · Updated: 09 Sep 2026