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UPSSSC PET · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
Advt 16-Exam/2026, 1 August 2026; applications 3 August to 7 September; exam 23, 24 and 25 October 2026, 10 to 12 and 3 to 5
Applications and corrections closed; admit cards to follow; PET 2025 scores in use for the 2026 mains
Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission
100 questions, 100 marks, two hours, OMR; a quarter off per wrong answer; normalised across shifts
Pattern
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| 100 questions, 100 marks, two hours | OMR; fifteen heads. |
| Negative marking | A quarter mark per wrong answer. |
| Normalisation | Across shifts under the 2019 notice; the normalised score to two decimals is the score. |
| Validity | Three years from the result’s upload; highest valid score used. |
| Shortlist | Fifteen per post per category for each mains, ties included; zero or negative scores excluded. |
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
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
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