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Bihar Police Sub-Inspector Exam Pattern

Two hundred to get in, two hundred to rank, and a ground that only qualifies.

Bihar Police Sub-Inspector · checked 19 September 2026

Bihar Police Sub-Inspector 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

Bihar Police Sub-Inspector: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Advt 05/2025, 23 September 2025 — 1,799 posts; prelims 18 and 21 January 2026; mains 27 May; 10,759 to PET

    2025 round

  2. 02

    PET and verification postponed until further orders by the notice of 28 August 2026; final result pending

    Status

  3. 03

    Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission, Patna

    Recruiting body

  4. 04

    100 questions, 200 marks, two hours; 30 per cent to qualify; twenty per post; 0.2 off per wrong answer

    Prelims

Pattern

Bihar Police Sub-Inspector — How the paper is structured

The rules.
RuleDetail
Prelims 20030 per cent; twenty per post; normalised.
Hindi 200Qualifying at 30 per cent; not counted.
General studies 200The merit; category minimums of 40, 36.5, 34 and 32 per cent.
Negative marking0.2 per wrong answer at both stages.
PETSix per post; race, high jump, long jump, shot put; qualifying.

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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