UPSSSC Lower PCS Syllabus and New Exam Pattern

How selection works for lower PCS

1. UPSSSC PET: the common eligibility test for Group C posts. Your PET score card has to be from the cycle the advertisement names and still valid; a zero or negative score rules you out.
2. Shortlisting: the Commission picks candidates in order of normalised PET score, roughly 15 per post in the latest round.
3. Main exam: the 100-mark paper on this page. Final merit is drawn from it.
4. Skill test for posts such as Clerk cum Typist, then document verification and medical check.

The posts include Assistant Treasury Accountant, Auditor, Executive Officer, Assistant Excise Officer, Market Supervisor and others across state departments. The UPSSSC PET syllabus page covers the first step in detail.

UP lower PCS exam pattern

A right answer adds 1 mark, while a wrong one subtracts 0.25. Two hours for 100 short questions leaves room to think, so the real test is precision.

Part 1: subject knowledge and general Hindi

• History of India and its national movement: social, cultural, economic and political history; the rise of nationalism and the path to independence
• Indian polity and Constitution: constitutional development, the political system and governance, Panchayati Raj and local bodies, public policy and community development
• Geography (India and world): the land, people and economic regions of India; agriculture, horticulture, forestry and animal husbandry; population and urbanisation; world geography in outline
• Indian economy and social development: planning and NITI Aayog, sustainable development goals, the budget and financial system, land reforms, liberalisation, industrial policy and infrastructure
• Science and technology: science policy, Indian achievements, space, defence and energy, biotechnology and nanotechnology, intellectual property
• Environment, ecology and disaster management: environmental impact assessment, climate change, the Disaster Management Act 2005 and bodies such as NDMA and NDRF
• Current events from India and abroad
• Data interpretation: reading tables, graphs and diagrams and drawing conclusions from them
• General Hindi: drafting of official letters, orders, notices and circulars; sandhi, samas, prefixes and suffixes; tatsam and tadbhav words; paryayvachi and vilom words, one word for many words, muhavare and lokoktiyan; gender, number, tense and voice; punctuation

Part 2 computer and Part 3 UP GK

Computer and information technology (15)

• How computers developed and are used, hardware versus software, devices for input and output, internet, web and email
• Word processing and spreadsheet basics, operating systems, social networking
• E-governance, digital payments, cyber security
• New technologies such as machine learning, big data and the internet of things, and India's progress in IT

General information about Uttar Pradesh (20)

• History and culture: art, architecture, festivals, folk dances, literature, languages and customs
• Geography: relief, climate, soils, forests, wildlife and minerals
• Economy, tourism, polity and administration of the state
• Current events in Uttar Pradesh

At 20 marks, Part 3 outweighs any single topic inside Part 1. UP GK notes made earlier for the UP lekhpal syllabus or for the UPPSC syllabus carry over directly.

What the lower PCS new syllabus changed

• Removed: general intelligence (reasoning) and elementary mathematics, which were part of the older lower subordinate paper.
• Added: data interpretation, as a small part of Part 1.
• Reshaped: general science is replaced by science and technology with a current, policy-based slant, and environment and disaster management are tested in their own right.
• Fixed blocks: computer knowledge (15) and UP GK (20) now have set weights.

Coming from the old paper? Shift the hours you spent on maths and reasoning towards science and technology, environment and UP GK.

Preparing for the upsssc lower pcs syllabus

Start with the blocks that are both large and stable: UP GK (20), general Hindi and computer (about 25 together). Then spread your time across the Part 1 general studies topics, keeping current events and science and technology for the last two months so they stay fresh.

For the general studies topics, NCERT textbooks of classes 6 to 12 give a dependable base. For Hindi, a standard grammar text with practice on official letters is enough.

Lower PCS syllabus in Hindi

यूपी लोअर पीसीएस (संयुक्त निम्न अधीनस्थ सेवा, स्नातक स्तर) का मुख्य पेपर दो घंटे का है, जिसमें कुल 100 अंक के 100 सवाल पूछे जाते हैं। भाग 1 में इतिहास, राजव्यवस्था, भूगोल, अर्थव्यवस्था, विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी, पर्यावरण और आपदा प्रबंधन, समसामयिकी, आंकड़ों की व्याख्या तथा सामान्य हिंदी से 65 अंक; भाग 2 में कंप्यूटर और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी से 15 अंक; भाग 3 में उत्तर प्रदेश की सामान्य जानकारी से 20 अंक। गलत उत्तर पर 0.25 अंक कटता है। परीक्षा में बैठने के लिए वैध पीईटी स्कोर जरूरी है।