Bihar police constable syllabus and CSBC exam pattern

How CSBC selects constables

1. Written test: an objective OMR paper that you simply need to clear.
2. PST: body measurements, with every candidate's height taken and men's chest measured too.
3. PET: a timed run, the shot put and the high jump, together marked out of 100.
4. Document check and medical examination.

Among those who reach 30 percent, CSBC sends a fixed ratio of candidates to posts, separately for each category, onward to the physical round; reports on the latest advertisement put this at five times the posts. Written marks therefore help you get onto that shortlist, but once you are on the ground they stop mattering. Rank comes from the PET.

Bihar police constable exam pattern

No subject has an announced share of the 100 questions, and the mix has moved from paper to paper. Questions sit at school level, broadly matching what you studied up to class 10 and 12. The board posts a syllabus sheet with every advertisement on its website, and it has recently uploaded a new constable syllabus file, so check that file against the topics below.

Bihar police constable syllabus subject by subject

• Hindi: vyakaran basics such as sandhi, samas and ling, paryayvachi and vilom words, muhavare, shuddh vartani, and short apathit passages.
• English: parts of speech, tense use, articles, error spotting, synonym and antonym pairs, one word for a phrase, and a short reading passage.
• Mathematics: HCF and LCM, simplification, percentages, ratios and averages, gain and loss, simple as well as compound interest, work and wages, trains and boats, mensuration, and basic statistics.
• Science: physics of motion, light, sound and electricity; chemistry of acids, bases, metals and carbon compounds; biology of cells, the human body, nutrition, disease and the environment.
• History: the Indus valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, Delhi Sultans and Mughals, the colonial period, the revolt of 1857, the national movement, and the place of Bihar in it.
• Geography: landforms, river systems, monsoon, soils and minerals, with a Bihar focus.
• Civics: the Constitution, Parliament and the state legislature, courts, elections, panchayati raj.
• Economics: national income, poverty and jobs, the Bihar economy and government schemes.
• GK with current affairs: recent events in Bihar and India, games and tournaments, honours, writers and their works, days of national importance.

Physical standards you must meet first

For women there is also a 48 kg weight floor. The PST carries no marks; you either meet the standard or you are out, so measure yourself early and honestly.

How the 100 PET marks are given

Missing the minimum in any event disqualifies you. Above the minimum, marks rise in bands. For men's running, for example, published versions of the latest advertisement award 50 marks for 5 minutes or less, 40 up to 5 minutes 20 seconds, 30 up to 5 minutes 40 seconds and 20 up to 6 minutes. The shot put and high jump also have bands, ending at 25 marks for a throw beyond 20 feet or a jump of 5 feet for men. The women's bands are on the same lines; read them in the advertisement.

Splitting your months between books and the ground

A score of 50 to 60 in the written test is a comfortable target for most candidates and leaves room for a bad day. Class 9 and 10 NCERT books for science and social science, a school level maths practice book and a monthly digest of news are enough to get there.

The same body also recruits for other constable posts with their own syllabus files, and the sub inspector exam is run separately. Compare all of them on our Bihar police syllabus page, and see past written and PET marks on the Bihar police cut off page. Trying other states as well? Much of this list repeats in the UP police constable syllabus, while every force we cover is grouped in one police and defence hub.