Rajasthan Patwari Syllabus & Exam Pattern
Rajasthan Patwari recruitment is run by the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board, and only candidates who qualified the Board’s Common Eligibility Test (Graduation Level) can apply. Selection rests on one written exam. Here’s the shape of it and the topics tested, taken from the Board’s Patwari Direct Recruitment 2025 advertisement (No. 02/2025), with a link to the advertisement for the exact marks and timing.
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The stages
Common Eligibility Test (Graduation Level)
The gateway to the recruitment. For Patwari Direct Recruitment 2025, only candidates declared qualified in the CET (Graduation Level) 2024 could apply. You also need a graduate degree and one of the computer qualifications listed in the advertisement, such as RS-CIT, NIELIT ‘O’ level, or a diploma or degree in Computer Science or Computer Application.
Written exam
One offline, OMR-based objective paper in five parts, and its marks decide the order of merit. A wrong answer costs one-third of the question’s marks. Each question has five circles, A to D for the answer and E for “question not attempted”: leaving a question with none of the five darkened also costs one-third of its marks, and a candidate who leaves more than 10% of the questions that way is disqualified. 10 extra minutes are given at the end to make sure a circle is darkened for every question.
Eligibility check and document verification
Shortlisted candidates have their eligibility and documents checked before the final result. In the 2025 cycle the Board shortlisted up to twice the advertised posts in each category for this stage.
What’s tested in the written exam
General Science; History, Polity and Geography of India; General Knowledge, Current Affairs
Basic elements of science and everyday science, the human body, food and nutrition, and health care; the main features of ancient and medieval Indian history, and important historical events from the mid-18th century to the present; the Indian Constitution, political system and system of governance, and constitutional development; India’s geographical features, and environmental and ecological changes and their effects; and current national events.
Geography, History, Culture and Polity of Rajasthan
Important events in Rajasthan’s history; the state’s administrative system (Governor, Legislative Assembly, High Court, Rajasthan Public Service Commission, district administration, State Human Rights Commission, State Election Commission, Lokayukta, State Information Commission and public policy); socio-cultural issues; the freedom movement, public awakening and political integration; folk arts, paintings, handicrafts and architecture; fairs, festivals, folk music and folk dances; Rajasthani culture, heritage and literature; religious movements, saints and folk deities; important tourist places; and leading personalities of Rajasthan.
General English & Hindi
Hindi: sandhi and sandhi-viched, prefixes and suffixes, forming and splitting compound words (samas), differences in meaning between word pairs, synonyms and antonyms, correcting misspelt words, correcting grammatical errors in sentences, one word for a phrase, Hindi equivalents of English administrative terms, and idioms and proverbs. English: comprehension of an unseen passage, correction of common errors and correct usage, synonyms and antonyms, and phrases and idioms.
Mental Ability and Reasoning, Basic Numerical Efficiency
Series and analogy, figure matrix, classification, alphabet test, passage and conclusions, blood relations, coding-decoding, direction sense, sitting arrangement, input-output, number ranking, making judgments, logical arrangement of words, and inserting the missing character or number; with mathematical operations, average, ratio, area and volume, percentage, simple and compound interest, unitary method, and profit and loss.
Basic Computer
Characteristics of computers; computer organisation, including RAM, ROM, the file system, input devices, software, and the relationship between hardware and software; operating systems; and MS Office (Word, Excel/spreadsheets and PowerPoint).
The scheme gives the five parts an approximate weightage of 25, 20, 15, 30 and 10 (out of 100), in the order above. The number of questions, marks and timing are set by each recruitment’s advertisement and can change. Treat the subjects above as the shape to study toward, and check RSSB Patwari advertisement No. 02/2025 (PDF).
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What this recruitment is for
Patwari posts for the Board of Revenue, Ajmer, in both the non-scheduled (non-TSP) and scheduled (TSP) areas of Rajasthan. The 2025 advertisement first listed 2,020 posts, and an amendment of 20 June 2025 raised the total to 3,705.
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