BSF tradesman syllabus and selection process

The order of selection for Constable (Tradesman)

BSF has changed the sequence of rounds between notices. In the most recent recruitment the physical rounds came first, and the stages were reported in this order:

1. Physical Standard Test (PST): your height is taken, and men also have chest size checked.
2. Physical Efficiency Test (PET): the timed run, which you either finish within the limit or fail.
3. Document verification: age, class 10 certificate, ITI or trade certificates, caste and domicile papers.
4. Trade test: you demonstrate practical skill in the trade named on your form. Pass or fail, no marks.
5. Written test: the 100 mark paper that decides merit.
6. Detailed medical examination; anyone found unfit can ask for a review medical.

Because merit comes from the written score, you need both: fitness to survive the early rounds and enough marks to rank inside the vacancies for your trade and state.

BSF tradesman exam pattern and marks per part

You get over sixty seconds for each item, a generous allowance for class 10 level items, so accuracy matters more than speed. The merit list only includes candidates who reach 35% (unreserved, EWS, ex-servicemen) or 33% (SC, ST, OBC).

Part by part topics

General awareness

• Recent happenings in India and abroad, especially around security and the borders
• Indian history, culture and the freedom struggle
• Rivers, states, capitals and neighbouring countries of India
• Basic polity, the Constitution and the Indian economy
• Science in daily life, sports, prizes and famous writers

Elementary mathematics

• Whole numbers, fractions, simplification, LCM with HCF
• Percentages, averages, ratios
• Shopkeeper sums on cost price, selling price and discount
• Simple interest, plus compound interest for two or three years
• Time and work, trains and speed
• Areas of simple shapes and reading a small table

Analytical aptitude

• Analogies and odd pick questions
• Series of numbers or letters, codes
• Direction sense, family relations, order and ranking
• Figure series, mirror images, hidden figures and spot the pattern items

English or Hindi

You answer one language. English asks for word meanings and opposites, correct spellings, blanks to fill, faulty sentences to fix and a short passage. Hindi covers sandhi, samas, paryayvachi, vilom, ling, vachan, muhavare and shuddh vakya.

Physical standards and running test

Lower heights apply to Scheduled Tribe candidates and to listed hill, north eastern and other regions. The full relaxation table runs to many rows, so look up your own community and state in the notice.

Trade test and trade wise qualification

No marks are given for the trade test. It exists so the force knows a recruit can genuinely work in the trade, for example cut and stitch a garment as a tailor, cook a basic meal as a cook or give a haircut as a barber. Recent reports say a few posts, cook, water carrier and waiter among them, were cleared on a valid certificate instead of a separate test, but treat your own notice as final. You can apply for one trade only.

• Carpenter, plumber, painter, electrician, pump operator, upholsterer: class 10 pass plus a two year ITI in the trade, or a one year ITI or vocational course with a year of experience.
• Cobbler, tailor, washerman, barber, sweeper, cook, waiter, water carrier and similar: class 10 pass and proficiency in the trade.

Unreserved applicants must fall within 18 to 25 years on the counting date BSF announces, and reserved and listed categories receive the upper age concessions given in the notice.

A ten week plan that fits around physical training

Most of your early energy goes into running, so keep the written study light but daily.

• Weeks 1 to 3: run in the morning; in the evening revise class 8 to 10 maths chapters on percentage, ratio, interest and mensuration.
• Weeks 4 to 6: one reasoning topic a day with 30 practice items, and 15 minutes of current affairs from a daily newspaper.
• Weeks 7 to 8: language grammar for whichever of English or Hindi you will attempt, plus static GK on India's geography and polity.
• Weeks 9 to 10: full 100 question papers in 2 hours, twice a week, then go over every mistake.

For BSF general awareness, NCERT texts from middle school onwards in civics, history, geography and science answer most general awareness items this paper sets. Keep practising your trade too, because a weak trade test ends the process before the written score is counted.

BSF tradesman syllabus in Hindi

बीएसएफ ट्रेड्समैन का सिलेबस दसवीं कक्षा के स्तर का है। ट्रेड्समैन पेपर के 100 बहुविकल्पी प्रश्नों का कुल पूर्णांक 100 है और इन्हें हल करने को 2 घंटे का समय मिलता है। चार भाग हैं, हर भाग में 25 प्रश्न: सामान्य ज्ञान, प्रारंभिक गणित, विश्लेषणात्मक योग्यता (रीज़निंग) और अंग्रेज़ी या हिंदी का बुनियादी ज्ञान। न्यूनतम अंक सामान्य, ईडब्ल्यूएस और पूर्व सैनिकों के लिए 35 प्रतिशत तथा एससी, एसटी और ओबीसी के लिए 33 प्रतिशत हैं। लिखित परीक्षा से पहले शारीरिक माप, दौड़ (पुरुष 5 किमी 24 मिनट में, महिला 1.6 किमी साढ़े 8 मिनट में) और ट्रेड टेस्ट होता है। यही बीएसएफ ट्रेड्समैन का सिलेबस है, पर अंतिम नियम नई अधिसूचना में ज़रूर देखें।

Related BSF and police pages

If you have passed class 12 and type well, the clerical BSF HCM syllabus is another route into the same force. For constable posts with a broader paper, compare the SSC GD syllabus, which recruits for BSF general duty as well, or open the defence and police hub to see every force we cover.