UP Police Jail Warder Exam Pattern 2026

UP Police Jail Warder Exam Pattern

In the 2025 cycle, Jail Warder candidates took the same written exam as Constable candidates. The pattern below is for that common exam held on 8–10 June 2026.

Written exam

Mode: offline, OMR based, objective multiple choice
Questions: 150; Marks: 300 (2 marks per question)
Duration: 2 hours
Negative marking: 0.5 mark for each wrong answer; no penalty for an unanswered question
Scores across shifts are normalised

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

Note: one report gives the last two subjects as 35 and 40 questions. The total of 150 questions and 300 marks is the same in all reports; check the official notice for the exact split.

Physical Standard Test (PST)

Height and chest are measured at DV/PST. These standards were reported for the 2024 Constable cycle and are the usual UPPRPB standards:

Category	Male height	Male chest (unexpanded / expanded)	Female height
UR, OBC, SC	168 cm	79 / 84 cm	152 cm
ST	160 cm	77 / 82 cm	147 cm

Women need a minimum weight of 40 kg; no chest test for women.

Physical Efficiency Test (PET)

Candidate	Run	Time limit
Male	4.8 km	25 minutes
Female	2.4 km	14 minutes

PST and PET are qualifying only. The final merit is prepared from the (normalised) written exam marks.

Source: CollegeDekho (syllabus), Careers360 (cut-off), Careers360 (vacancy and dates), Careers360 Hindi (physical standards, 2024 cycle), Patrika (PET, 2025), The Week (PTI, 3 Feb 2026)

UP Police Jail Warder Exam Pattern 2026