UP Police Constable 2026 syllabus: section-wise topics for every stage

• History, culture and art of India with a heavy Uttar Pradesh slant: UP's history, architecture, festivals, fairs, folk dances and literature
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh: rivers, soil, climate, natural resources, forests and wildlife
• Indian economy and the economy of Uttar Pradesh, agriculture, industry and development schemes
• Indian Constitution and polity: Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, panchayati raj, public administration and good governance
• Current affairs, national and international, and major awards and sports events
• Human rights and their protection
• Internal security and law and order: terrorism, left-wing extremism, organised crime, narcotics and cyber crime
• Population, environment and urbanisation, with emphasis on Uttar Pradesh
• Basic science and everyday technology

Tip: UP-specific questions carry real weight here, so revise UP history, geography and current schemes separately from national GK.

General Awareness notes and practice · 14 topics

• हिंदी वर्णमाला और वर्तनी (spelling)
• व्याकरण: संधि, समास, उपसर्ग और प्रत्यय
• पर्यायवाची और विलोम शब्द
• अनेकार्थी शब्द और तत्सम-तद्भव
• मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियाँ
• वाक्य शुद्धि: अशुद्ध वाक्यों को शुद्ध करना, व्याकरणिक त्रुटियाँ
• अपठित गद्यांश (unseen passage): बोध और प्रश्न
• वाक्य विच्छेद और वाक्य रचना

English Comprehension notes and practice · 14 topics

• Number system, LCM and HCF
• Percentage, profit and loss, discount
• Simple and compound interest
• Ratio and proportion, average, mixture
• Time and work, pipes and cisterns
• Time, speed and distance, trains and boats
• Mensuration: area, perimeter and volume of basic figures
• Basic algebra and geometry at the Class 10 level
• Data interpretation: tables, bar graphs and charts
• Mental ability: number and letter series, odd one out, missing numbers

Quantitative Aptitude notes and practice · 23 topics

• Mental aptitude (मानसिक अभिरुचि परीक्षण): public interest, law and order, communal harmony, discipline, character and integrity, interest in the police job, sensitivity towards minorities and weaker sections, adaptability
• Decision making: everyday situations calling for a judgment between options
• IQ: analogies, classification, series completion, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, mathematical operations, Venn diagrams
• Verbal reasoning: syllogism, statement and conclusion, statement and assumption, ranking and order
• Non-verbal reasoning: mirror images, paper folding and cutting, embedded figures, space visualisation

Tip: Decision-making sets are a UP Police favourite, so practise these sets specifically.

General Intelligence & Reasoning notes and practice · 20 topics