UP Police Jail Warder Syllabus 2026

UP Police Jail Warder Syllabus

The Jail Warder written exam in the 2025 cycle was the common Constable-level paper. It has four parts. The full official syllabus is in the notification on uppbpb.gov.in; the main topics are listed below.

1. General Knowledge

• Indian history and the freedom struggle
• Indian Constitution and polity
• Geography of India and the world
• Indian economy
• Current affairs (national and international)
• History, culture and general knowledge of Uttar Pradesh

2. General Hindi

• Grammar: sandhi, samas, alankar
• Sentence correction and formation
• Synonyms (paryayvachi) and antonyms (vilom)
• Idioms and proverbs (muhavare, lokoktiyan)
• Unseen passage (gadyansh) based questions

3. Numerical and Mental Ability

• Percentage, profit and loss
• Simple and compound interest
• Average, ratio and proportion
• Time and work
• Mensuration and basic statistics

4. Mental Aptitude, Intelligence and Reasoning

• Number and letter series
• Classification (odd one out) and analogy
• Coding-decoding
• Direction sense and blood relations
• Seating arrangement
• Problem solving

Preparation tips

• General Hindi and Uttar Pradesh GK carry high weight; revise them regularly.
• Remember the 0.5 negative mark per wrong answer; avoid blind guessing.
• Start running practice early. The PET (4.8 km for men, 2.4 km for women) is qualifying and cannot be skipped.

Source: CollegeDekho (syllabus), Careers360 (cut-off), Patrika (PET, 2025)