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UPSSSC PET Preparation

The PET is the ticket; the mains are the destination. Prepare the ticket to a score that shortlists.

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UPSSSC PET · checked 19 September 2026

UPSSSC PET 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

UPSSSC PET: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    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

    PET 2026

  2. 02

    Applications and corrections closed; admit cards to follow; PET 2025 scores in use for the 2026 mains

    Status

  3. 03

    Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission

    Conducted by

  4. 04

    100 questions, 100 marks, two hours, OMR; a quarter off per wrong answer; normalised across shifts

    Paper

Strategy

UPSSSC PET — How to prepare

From registration to the mains

  1. Check the registration record Corrections to a one-time registration must be made before the next PET; name, date of birth and mobile are locked for PET 2025-linked accounts.
  2. Watch for the exam district and admit card Advance district information and admit cards come from the commission’s portal about a week before the test.
  3. Prepare to a score, not a pass There is no pass mark; the shortlist for each mains is fifteen per post on the normalised score.
  4. Apply for every mains that fits Each mains is a separate ₹25 application on the PET score; the 2026 round had twenty-one.
  5. Sit again to improve The highest valid score is used; a better PET 2026 score replaces PET 2025 for the mains of 2027.

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 UPSSSC PET

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

UPSSSC PET SyllabusUPSSSC PET syllabus — the fifteen heads of the 100-mark paper at NCERT level, from history and the Constitution to Hindi passages, graphs and tables.UPSSSC PET Exam PatternUPSSSC PET exam pattern — 100 questions in two hours, a quarter off per wrong answer, normalisation, a three-year score and the fifteen-per-post shortlist.UPSSSC PET Previous PapersUPSSSC PET previous papers — the shift-wise revised keys of 2025 and 2023, and why the commission publishes keys rather than papers.UPSSSC PET Mock TestsUPSSSC PET mock tests — two-hour 100-question sittings with the fifteen weights, scored at a quarter off, six weeks before 23 October.UPSSSC PET PreparationUPSSSC PET preparation — the six weeks to the October test, the one-time registration, the mains that follow, and using a three-year score well.UPSSSC PET Study MaterialUPSSSC PET study material — NCERT textbooks for the nine core heads, a current affairs digest, and practice in Hindi passages, graphs and tables.

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