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BSSC Inter Level Exam Pattern

Six hundred marks in one paper, with a book on the desk and a mark off for every wrong answer.

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BSSC Inter Level · checked 19 September 2026

BSSC Inter Level 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.

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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

BSSC Inter Level: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    No preliminary date, admit card or result as at 11 September 2026; the commission is procuring a computer-based test agency

    Status

  2. 02

    Bihar Staff Selection Commission

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    Advt 02/23 of 19 September 2023, re-advertised as 02/23(A) on 27 September 2025 — 26,426 posts after corrigenda; applications closed 16 February 2026

    2nd round

  4. 04

    150 questions, 600 marks, 2 hours 15 minutes; one mark off per wrong answer; five per post; one textbook per section allowed

    Prelims

Pattern

BSSC Inter Level — How the paper is structured

The rules.
RuleDetail
Prelims 150 × 4600 marks in 2 hours 15 minutes; one off per wrong answer; equalised across shifts.
TextbookOne per section — NCERT, Bihar board or ICSE.
Five per postCategory-wise, to the mains.
MainsA separate advertisement with post preferences; on the commission’s pattern, Hindi qualifying and general knowledge the merit.
Category minimums40, 36.5, 34 and 32 per cent.
InterviewNone.

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.

Exam resources

Everything for BSSC Inter Level

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

BSSC Inter Level SyllabusBSSC Inter Level syllabus — general studies, general science and mathematics at matric level, and mental ability, as the re-advertisement sets them.BSSC Inter Level Exam PatternBSSC Inter Level exam pattern — 150 questions at four marks with one off per wrong answer, five per post, a textbook allowed, and a mains to be advertised.BSSC Inter Level Previous PapersBSSC Inter Level previous papers — the 1st round of 2014, the commission’s published papers on the same scheme, and the graduate-level papers as models.BSSC Inter Level Mock TestsBSSC Inter Level mock tests — 150-question sittings in 2 hours 15 minutes at four marks with one off, with a textbook to hand.BSSC Inter Level PreparationBSSC Inter Level preparation — waiting for the 2nd round’s date, the typing qualification, the mains advertisement to come, and the notice board as the source.BSSC Inter Level Study MaterialBSSC Inter Level study material — the NCERT and Bihar board matric textbooks allowed on the desk, a Bihar general knowledge book, reasoning and typing.

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