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Police Recruitment · checked 19 September 2026

Police Recruitment at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Police Recruitment: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    State police recruitment boards; SSC and RRB for certain central and railway forces

    Conducted by

  2. 02

    Constable and Sub-Inspector, with department-specific variants

    Common posts

  3. 03

    Written test → physical efficiency test → physical standard test → medical examination

    Typical stages

  4. 04

    Class 10 or 12 for constable posts; a degree for most sub-inspector posts

    Written level

Practice

Police Recruitment — Using mock tests as a measurement

A generic competitive-exam mock gives you roughly a quarter of its questions in general knowledge. Police papers commonly give you far more, and correspondingly less arithmetic. Practising in the wrong proportions trains the wrong pacing and, more importantly, points your study in the wrong direction.

What your written analysis should show

  • General knowledge accuracy — the largest section and the most improvable. Track it separately from everything else.
  • State content accuracy — if your recruitment includes it, track it as its own line.
  • Errors from guessing — most police papers apply a deduction; count what your guesses net out to.
  • Reasoning speed — a section where practice volume converts almost directly into marks.

What your training log should show

  • Running distance and time, weekly — progressing towards the prescribed standard with margin rather than exactly.
  • Event practice — long jump, high jump or shot put where your recruitment requires them.
  • Consistency — gaps in training cost more than low intensity does.
  • Injury management — building too fast is the commonest reason candidates lose training months.

A weekly routine across both tracks

  1. Two timed written sessions In the proportions your paper uses, with the correct deduction applied. Enough to keep the material sharp without letting written practice crowd out the training.
  2. Running on most days Progressing towards the prescribed distance and time with margin rather than exactly meeting it. A candidate who can just meet the standard in training frequently misses it at the rally.
  3. Event practice where required Long jump, high jump, shot put or strength events. These are technique as well as fitness, and a few sessions of actual event practice are worth more than general conditioning.
  4. Daily general knowledge and state content Short frequent passes over themed sheets, since both are recall-based and respond to frequency rather than duration.

Build the training gradually, because injury is a real and common way to lose a recruitment cycle. Candidates who start late and then add distance quickly are the ones who develop the shin and knee problems that cost them the training months they were trying to make up. Starting in week one at a modest distance is both safer and faster than starting in month three at an ambitious one.

Keep the training log beside the mock scores

Candidates who track their study and treat training as something that happens when there is time reliably let the training slip first. Recording running distances and times week by week, in the same place as your written practice, is a small administrative habit that protects the stage where written preparation counts for nothing.

Reading a police recruitment practice result across both tracks.
PatternCauseCorrection
General sections fine, state questions missedThe block that differentiates candidates is under-prepared.Build the state file and test it separately, fortnightly.
Arithmetic and reasoning slowFamiliar material, insufficient drilling.Short daily sets rather than occasional long ones.
Law questions concededUnfamiliarity treated as difficulty.Work the prescribed acts and past questions; the material is closed.
Physical events untested under timingGeneral fitness mistaken for readiness.Rehearse the events themselves, weekly, above the standard.
Training paused during written preparationThe two tracks are being run sequentially rather than together.Keep the training log beside the mock scores and never pause one for the other.

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