UP Police Constable 2025: exam pattern, marks, negative marking, age limit and cut-off

Every figure on this page is copied from an official document linked next to it, with the date we last checked it. Pattern, age limit and dates are from the Constable Recruitment 2025 notification; cut-offs are from the official result write-ups of earlier years. Last verified: 15 October 2026.

At a glance

Selection stages: Written test (OMR based) → Document Verification and Physical Standard Test (DV/PST) → Physical Efficiency Test (PET)
First stage: Questions / Marks / Time: 150 / 300 / 120 min
Negative marking: Not stated in the notice
First stage dates: 8 June 2026 to 10 June 2026
Tentative vacancies: 32,679 (as on 31 December 2025)

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Exam pattern

Written test (OMR based)

Applies to: All posts: Constable Civil Police, PAC / Armed Police, Special Security Force, Women Battalion, Mounted Police and Jail Warder

Written test

Section	Questions	Marks each	Marks	Time (min)
General Knowledge, General Hindi, Numerical and Mental Ability, Mental Aptitude / IQ and Reasoning (one combined paper)	150	2	300	—
Total	150		300	120

Time allowed: 120 minutes. Negative marking: Not stated in the notice.

Objective questions with four options each. The notice names four subjects but does not give a question count or marks for each subject.
Questions in all subjects except General Hindi are set in Hindi and English; if there is any doubt, the English version is taken as correct.
Minimum marks to be eligible: 30% for Unreserved, 25% for EWS and OBC, 20% for SC and ST.
In 2026 the test was held in 6 shifts over three days, and marks were normalised across shifts. Final merit is decided by the normalised written-test score and the candidate's order of preference.
The notice does not mention any deduction for wrong answers; check the official notice before assuming either way.

Document Verification and Physical Standard Test (DV/PST)

Applies to: Candidates called on merit after the written test

Document Verification and Physical Standard Test

This part is qualifying only: it does not add to the merit score.

Qualifying in nature. The Board decides how many candidates to call; in this cycle 76,184 candidates (about 2.33 times the advertised posts) were called.
Men, height: 168 cm for General, OBC and SC; 160 cm for ST. Chest: 79 cm unexpanded and 84 cm expanded for General, OBC and SC; 77 cm and 82 cm for ST. A chest expansion of at least 5 cm is compulsory.
Women, height: 152 cm (147 cm for ST). Weight: at least 40 kg.

Physical Efficiency Test (PET)

Applies to: Candidates who clear the DV/PST

Physical Efficiency Test

This part is qualifying only: it does not add to the merit score.

Qualifying in nature: men must finish a 4.8 km run in 25 minutes; women must finish a 2.4 km run in 14 minutes. Candidates who miss the time are out of the selection.

Source: Notice no. PRPB-B (Constable PAC and other cadres)-07/2025 dated 31 December 2025: direct recruitment to Constable Civil Police and equivalent posts-2025 (UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board) ↗ · Last verified: 15 October 2026 · Report an error

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Syllabus: subjects tested

The subjects in short, as the official syllabus lists them. The exam body's own notification is final.

General Knowledge: General science, Indian history, the Indian Constitution, the Indian economy and culture, agriculture, commerce and trade, population, environment and urbanisation, the geography of India and the world, and natural resources. Uttar Pradesh specifics: education, culture and social practices, and the revenue, police and general administrative system. Also human rights, internal security and terrorism, India’s relations with its neighbours, current events of national and international importance, national and international organisations, demonetisation and its effects, cyber crime, goods and services tax, awards and honours, countries, capitals and currencies, important days, research and discoveries, books and authors, and social media communication.
General Hindi: Hindi and other Indian languages; the basics of Hindi grammar — alphabet, tadbhav and tatsam words, synonyms, antonyms, words with several meanings, one word for a phrase, look-alike words with different meanings, correcting incorrect sentences, gender, number, case, pronoun, adjective, verb, tense, voice, indeclinables, prefixes, suffixes, sandhi, samas, punctuation, idioms and proverbs, ras, chhand and alankar; unseen passages; well-known poets, writers and their works; and awards in Hindi.
Numerical and Mental Ability: Number system, simplification, decimals and fractions, HCF and LCM, ratio and proportion, percentage, profit and loss, discount, simple and compound interest, partnership, average, time and work, time and distance, use of tables and graphs, and mensuration. Also logical items such as logical diagrams, symbol–relationship interpretation, perception tests, word formation, letter and number series, word and alphabet analogy, common sense, direction sense, logical interpretation of data, forcefulness of argument and determining implied meanings.
Mental Aptitude, IQ and Reasoning Ability: Relationship and analogy tests, spotting the dissimilar, series completion, coding and decoding, direction sense, blood relations, problems on the alphabet, time sequence, Venn diagrams and chart-type tests, mathematical ability and arranging in order. Also analogies, similarities and differences, space visualisation, problem solving, analysis and judgement, decision making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, concepts, arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series, and handling abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships.

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Age limit and qualification

As on 1 July 2025 the notice sets 18 years completed and not yet 22 for men, and 18 and not yet 25 for women. A corrigendum of 5 January 2026 added a one-time relaxation of 3 years for all categories, so General and EWS men must be born between 2 July 2000 and 1 July 2007, and General and EWS women between 2 July 1997 and 1 July 2007. SC, ST and OBC candidates who are UP natives get 5 more years (men born from 2 July 1995, women from 2 July 1992). Age is counted as on 1 July 2025.

Posts	Requirement
All posts (Constable Civil Police, PAC / Armed Police, Special Security Force, Women Battalion, Mounted Police and Jail Warder)	Class 12 pass from a board established by law in India, or an equivalent qualification recognised by the government. A candidate must hold the qualification when applying. Preferential qualifications (a computer certificate from DOEACC / NIELIT, two years in the Territorial Army, or an NCC certificate) carry no marks and only break ties.

Minimum marks in the written test: 30% for Unreserved, 25% for EWS and OBC, 20% for SC and ST.

Important dates

Event	Date	Source
Online applications and fee payment	31 December 2025 to 30 January 2026	official notice ↗
One-time application modification window	From 6 am on 31 January 2026 to 6 am on 3 February 2026	official notice ↗
Written test (6 shifts)	8 June 2026 to 10 June 2026	official notice ↗
Document Verification and Physical Standard Test	17 August 2026 to 31 August 2026	official notice ↗
Physical Efficiency Test	1 October 2026 to 11 October 2026	official notice ↗
Final selection result published	14 October 2026	official notice ↗

Source: Tentative vacancies ↗ · Last verified: 15 October 2026 · Report an error