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General knowledge first, because it carries the most marks. State-specific content built from your own state’s sources.
Police Recruitment · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
State police recruitment boards; SSC and RRB for certain central and railway forces
Constable and Sub-Inspector, with department-specific variants
Written test → physical efficiency test → physical standard test → medical examination
Class 10 or 12 for constable posts; a degree for most sub-inspector posts
Notes
For police papers, the general knowledge, polity, geography and science notes carry more marks between them than anything else, and they are the ones to work most systematically. Class 10 science in particular is finite and reliably examined, which makes it some of the most predictable material available in these papers.
General knowledge notes Indian polity notes Geography notes History notes Science notes Reasoning notes Quantitative aptitude notes Current affairs
The material for police recruitment overlaps almost completely with what serves SSC GD, RPF and other constable-level examinations, which is worth knowing if you are sitting more than one. Maintaining a single set of themed general knowledge sheets and one arithmetic source, rather than parallel material per recruitment, halves the revision burden without reducing coverage — and the only recruitment-specific document you genuinely need is the state sheet.
State schemes, appointments and developments appear in state recruitment papers and in no national compilation. Ten minutes a day with a state news source, with anything notable added to your state sheet, covers a category of questions that most candidates meet unprepared.
On sequencing the material across a preparation: begin the general knowledge sheets and the physical training in the same week, because both are cumulative and neither can be compressed later. Add the state layer in the second week, once you have read your recruitment’s notification and know how much of it applies. Treat arithmetic and reasoning as finite projects with a beginning and an end — built to reliable accuracy over two or three months, then maintained with weekly practice. Keep the language section as a short daily habit throughout rather than a phase. That division between the habits and the projects is what leaves the final month free for timed mocks and revision rather than for material that should have been finished earlier.
| Area | Read this | Do not spend time on |
|---|---|---|
| General studies | History, geography, polity, economy and general science at the level your state’s paper sets, from one source per subject. | National-level depth beyond what the paper reaches. |
| The state layer | Your own state’s history, geography, economy, administration, schemes and culture — assembled from the state’s own publications and past papers. | National compilations, which do not cover a state at the depth its own paper examines. |
| Reasoning and arithmetic | A question bank drilled in short daily sets; these are quick, reliable marks. | Extended theory. |
| Law and police-specific material | Where the notification prescribes it — basic criminal law, procedure and the acts the force operates under. | Skipping it because it is unfamiliar. It is finite and directly examinable. |
| Physical standards, events and medical | The measurement standards and the events themselves, trained for from the first month, with the document requirements checked early. | General fitness in place of event rehearsal. |
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
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