UP Police Constable — Syllabus & Exam Pattern

Free preparation for UP Police Constable — the official exam pattern and topic-wise syllabus are below. Start preparing from home.

Exam Pattern

SELECTION STAGES (in order): (1) Written Examination — OFFLINE, OMR-based, objective; the ONLY marks-carrying stage that decides merit. (2) Document Scrutiny (Abhilekhon ki Sanveeksha) + Physical Standard Test (PST) — qualifying only. (3) Physical Efficiency Test (PET) — qualifying only.

WRITTEN EXAM (verified against Appendix-1 and Section 3.1 of the official notification):

Total questions: 150. Total marks: 300. Each correct answer = 2 marks.
Each question has 4 options; one to be marked on the OMR sheet.
Duration: 2 hours (120 minutes).
NEGATIVE MARKING: NONE. The notification prescribes no deduction for wrong answers. (The only scoring formula it gives — (correct answer x allotted marks) / number of valid questions — is solely for redistributing the marks of cancelled/defective questions, not a penalty.)
FOUR subjects, but the official notification gives NO per-subject question/mark breakup — all four subjects sit against a single combined 150 questions / 300 marks: (1) General Knowledge, (2) General Hindi, (3) Numerical & Mental Ability, (4) Mental Aptitude, IQ & Reasoning Ability.
Minimum qualifying marks in the written exam: Unreserved 30%, EWS 25%, OBC 25%, SC/ST 20%.
If held in multiple shifts/dates, marks are normalized per the Board's published normalization procedure.

PST — PHYSICAL STANDARD TEST (qualifying):

Male height: General/OBC/SC = 168 cm; ST = 160 cm.
Male chest: General/OBC/SC = 79 cm unexpanded / 84 cm expanded; ST = 77 cm / 82 cm. Minimum 5 cm expansion mandatory.
Female height: General/OBC/SC = 152 cm; ST = 147 cm.
Female weight: minimum 40 kg.

PET — PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY TEST (qualifying):

Male: 4.8 km run in 25 minutes.
Female: 2.4 km run in 14 minutes.

Syllabus (topic-wise)

1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (Samanya Gyan): General Science; History of India; Indian Constitution; Indian Economy and Culture; Indian Agriculture, Commerce & Trade; Population; Environment & Urbanisation; Geography of India and World Geography and Natural Resources; Specific knowledge of the education, culture and social customs of Uttar Pradesh; Revenue, Police and General Administrative set-up of UP; Human Rights; Internal Security and Terrorism; Relations between India and its neighbouring countries; National and International current affairs; National and International organisations; Demonetisation and its impact; Cyber Crime; Goods and Services Tax (GST); Awards and Honours; Countries / Capitals / Currencies; Important Days; Research and Discoveries; Books and their Authors; Social Media Communication.
2. GENERAL HINDI (Samanya Hindi): (i) Hindi and other Indian languages; (ii) Basic knowledge of Hindi grammar — Hindi varnamala, tadbhav-tatsam, paryayvachi (synonyms), vilom (antonyms), anekarthak, one word for a phrase (vakyanshon ke liye ek shabd), samroopi bhinnarthak shabd (homophones), correcting incorrect sentences (ashuddh vakya shodhan), ling, vachan, karak, sarvanam, visheshan, kriya, kaal, vachya, avyay, upsarg, pratyay, sandhi, samas, viram-chinh (punctuation), muhavare evam lokoktiyan (idioms & proverbs), ras, chhand, alankar, etc.; (iii) Unseen passage comprehension (apathit bodh); (iv) Famous poets, writers and their well-known works; (v) Awards in the Hindi language; (vi) Miscellaneous.
3A. NUMERICAL ABILITY (part of Subject 3 — Numerical & Mental Ability): Number System; Simplification; Decimals and Fractions; Highest Common Factor (HCF) and Lowest Common Multiple (LCM); Ratio and Proportion; Percentage; Profit and Loss; Discount; Simple Interest; Compound Interest; Partnership; Average; Time and Work; Time and Distance; Use of Tables and Graphs; Mensuration; Arithmetical computations and other analytical functions; Miscellaneous.
3B. MENTAL ABILITY (the mental-ability half of Subject 3): Logical Diagrams; Symbol-Relationship Interpretation; Perception Test; Word Formation Test; Letter and Number Series; Word and Alphabet Analogy; Common Sense Test; Direction Sense Test; Logical interpretation of data; Forcefulness of argument; Determining implied meanings.
4. MENTAL APTITUDE, IQ & REASONING ABILITY (Subject 4 — Mansik Abhiruchi, Buddhilabdhi evam Tarkik Kshamta): Relationship and Analogy Test; Spotting out the dissimilar (odd one out); Series Completion Test; Coding and Decoding Test; Direction Sense Test; Blood Relation; Problems based on alphabet; Time-sequence Test; Venn Diagram and chart-type Test; Mathematical ability Test; Arranging in order; Analogies; Similarities; Differences; Space visualization; Problem solving; Analysis and judgement; Decision-making; Visual memory; Discrimination; Observation; Relationship concepts; Arithmetical reasoning; Verbal and figure classification; Arithmetical number series; Abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships.

Official source: https://uppbpb.gov.in/FilesUploaded/Notice/CONSTABLE-VIGYAPTIc7be0cc8-3365-471e-9237-447c528d341a.pdf

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