UPSI Syllabus and Exam Pattern for UP Police Sub Inspector

The selection process

1. Written examination: objective, 400 marks. It decides merit.
2. Documents and PST: certificates are checked and the board measures men's height and chest, and women's height and weight.
3. PET: one timed run, judged only as pass or fail.
4. Medical examination before final appointment.

Men must run 4.8 km in 28 minutes and women 2.4 km in 16 minutes. Minimum height for men is 168 cm (160 cm for ST), and for women 152 cm (147 cm for ST); men's chest must be 79 cm unexpanded with 5 cm expansion (77 cm for ST). Women need a minimum weight of 40 kg.

UP SI exam pattern

Each correct answer gets 2.5 marks. Questions appear in Hindi and English, apart from the General Hindi section. The latest exam was held on OMR sheets in more than one shift; the mode can change, so read your admit card instructions.

UPSI syllabus section by section

1. General Hindi

• Hindi varnamala, tatsam and tadbhav words, origin of words
• Synonyms, antonyms, words with many meanings, one word substitution
• Sandhi, samas, upsarg and pratyay
• Sangya, sarvanam, visheshan, kriya, ling, vachan, karak, kaal, vachya, avyay
• Sentence correction, punctuation, idioms and proverbs
• Ras, chhand and alankar
• Unseen passage, famous poets and writers with their works, Hindi literary awards

2. Basic Law, Constitution and General Knowledge

• Criminal law under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
• Laws protecting women, children and Scheduled Castes; human rights, environment, wildlife and traffic laws
• RTI, Prevention of Corruption Act, IT Act and cyber crime, public interest litigation, land and revenue laws
• Constitution: fundamental rights, directive principles, duties, Parliament, Centre and state powers, local bodies, elections, schedules
• Indian history and freedom struggle, Indian and world geography, economy, agriculture, science, health and environment
• Uttar Pradesh: education, culture, society, revenue, police and administration
• Current affairs, India's relations with neighbours, computer and ICT basics

3. Numerical and Mental Ability

• Number system, simplification, decimals and fractions, HCF and LCM
• Percentage, ratio, proportion, discount, profit and loss, partnership
• Average, interest (simple as well as compound)
• Work and time problems, trains and boats, mensuration, tables and graphs
• Mental ability: letter and number series, analogies, direction sense, data interpretation, logical diagrams, word formation, statement based reasoning

4. Mental Aptitude, Intelligence and Reasoning

• Mental aptitude: interest in public service, law and order, communication, public relations, adaptability
• Intelligence: analogies, classification, coding and decoding, blood relations, Venn diagrams, series completion
• Reasoning: spatial visualisation, figure based problems, analysis and judgement, decision making, visual memory

What changed in the law part

The latest syllabus names the new criminal laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, in place of the old Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code. If you are using older notes or papers, update every law topic: section numbers and some definitions have changed, and questions now refer to the new codes.

Where to put your hours

• General Hindi is the scoring base. Grammar topics such as sandhi, samas, synonyms and muhavare are finite and can be mastered; aim for 80 plus here.
• Law and GK is the widest section. Split it into three blocks: constitution, new criminal laws and UP specific GK. Read UP topics separately, as they are easy to neglect.
• Two sections test reasoning. Mental ability questions inside section 3 overlap with section 4, so one reasoning routine serves 60 or more questions.
• Mental aptitude questions are situational. Read them as a sensible police officer would act: calm, lawful and helpful to the public.

A five month study plan

• Month 1: Hindi grammar basics, constitution, arithmetic foundations (percentage, ratio, average).
• Month 2: new criminal laws and other acts in the syllabus, reasoning chapters, interest and time and work.
• Month 3: history, geography and UP GK; mensuration and data tables; ras, chhand and alankar.
• Month 4: current affairs revision, mental aptitude practice, one full paper a week.
• Month 5: two complete practice papers each week from the UP SI previous year papers, with special checks on each section's 35 mark floor.

Keep running from month one so the 4.8 km PET does not become a last minute worry. More state and central police recruitments are grouped in the defence and police hub.

Books, in general terms

Use the official syllabus as your checklist. NCERT books of classes 6 to 12 cover history, geography, polity and science well. Add a class 10 level Hindi grammar book, a bare act or simple guide to the new criminal laws, a UP general knowledge book and a school level arithmetic book.

UP SI syllabus in Hindi

यूपी एसआई की लिखित परीक्षा में चार खंड होते हैं: सामान्य हिंदी, मूल विधि संविधान एवं सामान्य ज्ञान, संख्यात्मक एवं मानसिक योग्यता, और मानसिक अभिरुचि बुद्धिलब्धि एवं तार्किक क्षमता। चारों खंड 100 100 अंक के हैं और प्रत्येक में 40 सवाल पूछे जाते हैं, यानी पूरा पेपर 400 अंक का है जिसे दो घंटे में हल करना होता है। हर खंड में कम से कम 35 प्रतिशत और कुल 50 प्रतिशत अंक लाना ज़रूरी है। विधि वाले भाग में भारतीय न्याय संहिता और भारतीय नागरिक सुरक्षा संहिता पढ़ें, साथ में उत्तर प्रदेश का सामान्य ज्ञान भी तैयार करें।

Whether you look for the upsi hindi syllabus, up si ka syllabus or the syllabus of up si, the four sections stay the same, and the up si syllabus in English matches the Hindi version. The question paper itself is bilingual, except for the General Hindi section.