When is the UPSSSC Lekhpal result 2026?
It was published on 11 September 2026. The examination of 21 May 2026 for 7,994 posts, followed by the provisional key in late May and the revised key in early July, produced a shortlist of 28,409 candidates for qualification and document verification, at a cut-off of 58.75 for the unreserved. The shortlisted upload their documents from 15 to 29 September 2026; the final selection follows verification, and there is no interview.
What is the UPSSSC Lekhpal exam pattern?
Under the 2025 advertisement, one paper of 100 questions and 100 marks in 120 minutes, objective, with a quarter mark deducted per wrong answer: Part 1, subject knowledge, 65 — history, polity, geography, economy, rural society, current events and science at five each, environment and disaster management ten, data interpretation ten, general Hindi ten; Part 2, computer and information technology, 15; Part 3, Uttar Pradesh, 20. The 2022 paper had four sections of 25 — Hindi, mathematics, general knowledge and village society.
How many posts were in UPSSSC Lekhpal 2025?
7,994 permanent posts at pay level 3 — 4,165 unreserved, 1,446 SC, 150 ST, 1,441 OBC and 792 EWS — with 1,592 reserved horizontally for women, 391 for ex-servicemen, 152 each for freedom fighters’ dependants and sportspersons, and 499 across the disability categories. The figure of 7,794 sometimes quoted is a misprint.
What is the UPSSSC Lekhpal eligibility?
The intermediate examination of the Uttar Pradesh Board or an equivalent, age 18 to 40 on 1 July 2025 with the usual relaxations, and a PET 2025 score card with a positive score. Two years in the Territorial Army or an NCC B certificate earn preference. The commission shortlists fifteen candidates per post on the PET score.
What was the Lekhpal 2025 cut-off?
For the shortlist to the mains, on the normalised PET 2025 score: 55.12 for the unreserved, SC, OBC and EWS categories and 47.50 for ST, with 38.63 for freedom fighters’ dependants, 1.01 for sportspersons and 0.24 for ex-servicemen — 3,66,712 candidates in all. The written-examination cut-off, published with the result of 11 September 2026, was 58.75 for the unreserved, 55.75 OBC, 55.25 EWS, 51.25 SC and 44.00 ST, with 49.25 for women, 30.50 for ex-servicemen and 34.25 for freedom fighters’ dependants — well below the 2022 round’s 75.75, 73.75 and 66.50, on the harder new scheme.
What is the Lekhpal fee?
₹25 processing fee to apply, for every category. The shortlisted then pay the mains examination fee before the admit card — ₹200 for unreserved and OBC candidates, ₹80 for SC and ST, and nothing for PwD — as the notice of 4 May 2026 set it.
Is there an interview for Lekhpal?
No. The advertisement’s selection clause rests on the Group C direct recruitment rules of 2015, the interview-abolition rules of 2017 and the two-tier order of 2020: selection is on the written examination alone, followed by document and qualification verification.
What happened in the Lekhpal 2022 recruitment?
Advertised for 8,085 posts on PET 2021 with 13.9 lakh applications, examined on 31 July 2022 after two postponements, and finalised on 30 December 2023 with 7,897 selected, subject to fourteen pending writs. The Supreme Court in Ritesh Kumar Singh ordered the appellants re-marked on the revised key without disturbing the selected: 114 more were selected on 23 July 2025, two on 19 December 2025, and twenty on 7 April 2026 under a contempt order of 11 March 2026.
