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UPPSC RO and ARO Exam Pattern

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UPPSC RO and ARO · checked 19 September 2026

UPPSC RO and ARO 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

UPPSC RO and ARO: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Advt A-7/E-1/2023, 9 October 2023 — 411 posts, 419 at result: review officer 338, assistant review officer 79, accounts 2

    Latest cycle

  2. 02

    Cycle closed with the final result of 6 April 2026; no 2025 or 2026 advertisement; nothing in the 2026 calendar

    Status

  3. 03

    Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

  4. 04

    General studies 140 questions and general Hindi 60, 200 marks; one-third off per wrong answer; re-held 27 July 2025 in one sitting

    Prelims

Pattern

UPPSC RO and ARO — How the paper is structured

The rules.
RuleDetail
Prelims 200General studies 140, Hindi 60; one sitting since 2025; about fifteen per post through.
Negative markingOne-third per wrong answer in every objective paper; blanks free.
Mains 400General studies 120 objective; Hindi and drafting 100 conventional and 60 objective; essay 120.
MeritThe mains total; no interview.
AROTyping at 25 words a minute and a computer certificate as qualifications.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

UPPSC, UPSSSC, the police recruitment 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 UPPSC RO and ARO

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

UPPSC RO and ARO SyllabusUPPSC RO ARO syllabus — general studies with Uttar Pradesh, the general Hindi vocabulary and grammar items, the drafting paper’s heads, and the Hindi essay.UPPSC RO and ARO Exam PatternUPPSC RO ARO exam pattern — 200-mark objective prelims with one-third negative marking, 400-mark mains with drafting and Hindi essay, and no interview.UPPSC RO and ARO Previous PapersUPPSC RO ARO previous papers — the commission’s archive by year, including the 2025 re-examination paper, and the answer-key page.UPPSC RO and ARO Mock TestsUPPSC RO ARO mock tests — 200-question three-hour prelims sittings scored at one-third off, and timed précis, correspondence and essay practice for the mains.UPPSC RO and ARO PreparationUPPSC RO ARO preparation — waiting for the next advertisement, the Hindi-heavy mains, the ARO typing and computer qualifications, and the unfair-means law.UPPSC RO and ARO Study MaterialUPPSC RO ARO study material — general studies with Uttar Pradesh, a Hindi vocabulary and grammar reader, government drafting manuals, and essay practice.

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