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BPSC Combined Competitive Examination Previous Papers

The commission publishes the preliminary booklet, a provisional key for objections and a final key for every cycle.

BPSC Combined Competitive Examination · checked 19 September 2026

BPSC Combined Competitive Examination 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

BPSC Combined Competitive Examination: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    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

  2. 02

    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

  3. 03

    Final result 20 June 2026 — 2,009 recommended against 2,017 posts; unreserved cut-off 528 of 1,020

    70th cycle

  4. 04

    Bihar Public Service Commission, Patna

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Past papers

BPSC Combined Competitive Examination — Reading previous papers properly

What is on record

  • 71st preliminary, 13 September 2025 — the general studies paper with its provisional key of 19 September and final key of 31 October 2025; the cut-offs above were set on that key.
  • 70th preliminary, 13 December 2024 — and the re-examination of 4 January 2025, with provisional and final keys in January 2025.
  • Earlier cycles and mains papers — the commission’s question booklet page lists papers by examination and year, the mains papers among them.
  • Mains answer booklets — candidates’ own unevaluated booklets are opened for a week after the mains — 24 to 29 August 2026 for the 71st — and evaluated booklets after the result.

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