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Uttar Pradesh Police Exam Pattern

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Uttar Pradesh Police · checked 19 September 2026

Uttar Pradesh Police 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

Uttar Pradesh Police: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Advt 07/2025, 31 December 2025 — 32,679 posts; written 8 to 10 June 2026; 76,184 called to DV/PST from 17 August; run proposed for September

    Constable 2025

  2. 02

    Advt 03/2025, 12 August 2025 — 4,543 posts; written 14 and 15 March 2026; final result 14 July 2026

    Sub-inspector 2025

  3. 03

    Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board

    Recruiting body

  4. 04

    150 questions, 300 marks, two hours — general knowledge, Hindi, numerical and mental ability, reasoning; normalised across shifts

    Constable paper

Pattern

Uttar Pradesh Police — How the paper is structured

Side by side.
FeatureConstableSub-inspector
Paper150 questions, 300 marks, two hours160 questions, 400 marks, two hours
Qualifying30, 25 and 20 per cent by category35 per cent per section and 50 overall
ShortlistAbout 2.33 to 2.5 times the posts to DV/PSTAbout 2.7 times
Run4.8 km in 25 minutes; 2.4 km in 144.8 km in 28; 2.4 km in 16
MeritNormalised written marks by preferenceThe same; no waiting list

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 Uttar Pradesh Police

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

Uttar Pradesh Police SyllabusUP Police syllabus — the four constable subjects and four sub-inspector sections, with the law section’s BNS, BNSS and special Acts, from the advertisements.Uttar Pradesh Police Exam PatternUP Police exam pattern — 300-mark constable and 400-mark sub-inspector papers normalised across shifts, qualifying physical tests, and merit by preference.Uttar Pradesh Police Previous PapersUP Police previous papers — the final keys of the 2023 and 2025 constable tests and the 2025 sub-inspector test, behind the board’s candidate portals.Uttar Pradesh Police Mock TestsUP Police mock tests — 150-question constable and 160-question sub-inspector sittings in two hours, scored to the section floors, and the run against the clock.Uttar Pradesh Police PreparationUP Police preparation — the physical stage of the 2025 constable round, ranking the preferences, the standards to meet, and waiting for the next advertisement.Uttar Pradesh Police Study MaterialUP Police study material — Hindi grammar, arithmetic and reasoning workbooks, Uttar Pradesh and Indian general knowledge, and the criminal codes for SIs.

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