UP Police Constable Syllabus 2026

UP Police Constable Syllabus

The written exam has four sections for a total of 150 questions and 300 marks. The official syllabus is printed in the UPPRPB notice on uppbpb.gov.in. The topics below follow the published syllabus for this exam.

1. General Knowledge (38 questions, 76 marks)

• General science; Indian history, polity, economy, culture, agriculture, trade and population
• Environment and urbanisation; Indian and world geography
• Uttar Pradesh: education, culture, revenue and administration
• Human rights and internal security; India's relations with neighbouring countries
• National and international organisations and current affairs
• Demonetisation, GST and cyber crime
• Awards, countries, capitals and currencies, important days, discoveries, books and authors, media

2. General Hindi (37 questions, 74 marks)

• Unseen passage (apathit gadyansh)
• Alankar, ras, chhand, samas, sandhi
• Paryayvachi and vilom shabd, tatsam and tadbhav
• Muhavare and lokoktiyan, one-word substitution, sentence correction
• Grammar: ling, vachan, karak, kaal, vachya, upsarg, pratyay, punctuation
• Hindi literature, poets, writers and awards

3. Numerical and Mental Ability (38 questions, 76 marks)

• Number system, decimals and fractions, HCF and LCM, simplification
• Percentage, averages, ratio and proportion, partnership
• Profit and loss, discount, simple and compound interest
• Time and work, time and distance, mensuration, tables and graphs
• Mental ability: logical diagrams, letter and number series, analogy, direction sense, data interpretation, strength of arguments

4. Mental Aptitude, IQ and Reasoning (37 questions, 74 marks)

• Mental aptitude: public interest, law and order, communal harmony, crime control, the police system, mental toughness, sensitivity towards minorities and gender
• IQ: analogies, odd one out, series, coding-decoding, blood relations, Venn diagrams, ordering
• Reasoning: similarities and differences, space visualisation, problem solving, decision making, visual memory, classification

Section summary

Source: Exam With Arihant (syllabus), AglaSem (pattern and syllabus)