UP Police Constable Exam Pattern 2026

UP Police Constable Exam Pattern

The written exam is an offline, OMR-based objective test. It has 150 multiple-choice questions for 300 marks and lasts 2 hours. Each correct answer gives +2 marks, each wrong answer costs 0.5 marks, and unanswered questions get no marks. The paper is bilingual (Hindi and English).

Written exam at a glance

Item	Details
Mode	Offline, pen-and-paper (OMR)
Questions	150
Total marks	300
Duration	2 hours
Marking	+2 for correct, −0.5 for wrong
Language	Hindi and English
Shifts (June 2026)	10 am – 12 noon and 3 pm – 5 pm

Subject-wise split

Subject	Questions	Marks
General Knowledge	38	76
General Hindi	37	74
Numerical and Mental Ability	38	76
Mental Aptitude, IQ and Reasoning	37	74
Total	150	300

Physical tests

Stage	Male	Female	Nature
PST height	168 cm (Gen/OBC/SC); 160 cm (ST)	152 cm (Gen/OBC/SC); 147 cm (ST)	Qualifying
PET run	4.8 km in 25 minutes	2.4 km in 14 minutes	Qualifying

How the merit is made

Because the exam runs in several shifts, the board uses normalised scores.
Candidates are called for DV/PST in a ratio based on vacancies. In the 2025 cycle, 76,184 candidates (about 2.33 times the vacancies) were called.
PST and PET are only qualifying. The final merit list is based on the written exam score.

Source: Careers360 (cut-off 2026), AglaSem (pattern and syllabus), Exam With Arihant (syllabus), Arihant (physical standards, pattern), Rojgar Live (vacancy, age, PET details), Careers360 News (written result)