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BPSC Combined Competitive Examination Exam Pattern

Two hours that only screen, four papers that decide, and an interview worth just under an eighth.

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BPSC Combined Competitive Examination · checked 19 September 2026

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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

BPSC Combined Competitive Examination: the facts that matter now

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Advertised 5 May 2026; applications 7 to 31 May; 1,187 posts after corrigenda of 6 May, 27 May and 3 September; preliminary postponed from 26 July…
72nd cycle
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Preliminary 13 September 2025, 13,368 qualified of 3,16,905; mains 25 to 29 April 2026; result due August to September 2026
71st cycle
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Final result 20 June 2026 — 2,009 recommended against 2,017 posts; unreserved cut-off 528 of 1,020
70th cycle
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BPSC Combined Competitive Examination — How the paper is structured

How the 1,020 marks fall.
Component	Marks	Share of merit
General studies paper I	300	29.4 per cent
General studies paper II	300	29.4 per cent
Essay, or the descriptive optional for the separate posts	300	29.4 per cent
Interview	120	11.8 per cent
Preliminary, General Hindi, objective optional	—	Qualifying only

What the recent cut-offs looked like.
Cycle	Stage	Unreserved	Unreserved women	EWS	BC	EBC	SC	ST
71st	Preliminary, of 150	88	78	82.33	84	81	72	71.33
70th	Mains written, of 900	445	444	428	430	420	396	403
70th	Final, of 1,020	528	521	528	528	523	493	508

Confirm the structure against your own notification

BPSC, BSSC, the constable board and the state’s other recruiting bodies revise schemes, ratios and dates between cycles, and the advertisement for your cycle is the document that binds. The figures here are from the latest documents on the official sites at the date checked and are labelled where they come from an older cycle.

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