UPPSC RO ARO Syllabus for Prelims and Mains

Stages of the RO and ARO recruitment

The selection has no interview. It moves through these steps:

1. Preliminary exam: one objective sitting with two parts, used to shortlist candidates for mains.
2. Main exam: four written papers, three of them centred on Hindi.
3. Typing test: a qualifying Hindi typing test for ARO and similar posts that involve office drafting work.
4. Document check: before the final appointment list.

For a few specialised posts such as Samiksha Adhikari (Hindi) or (Urdu), an extra translation paper is added at the mains stage. The ro/aro syllabus on paper is one list, yet the advertisement tells you which posts you are applying for, since the paper list changes with the post.

RO ARO exam pattern for prelims

Both parts are taken in one sitting of 3 hours (about two hours for GS and one for Hindi in the commonly reported split). A wrong response costs a third of that question's mark, which means three misses erase one hit. Risk an answer on RO ARO prelims items when you have already eliminated a pair of the options.

UPPSC RO ARO mains syllabus and papers

The Hindi and Urdu review officer posts carry an extra conventional translation paper; reports describe it as 100 marks in 3 hours, but take its marks, time and any qualifying score from the advertisement for those posts.

General Studies topics (prelims and mains)

The same GS list serves both stages, so one round of preparation covers two papers.

• General science of everyday life
• Indian history, along with the freedom struggle
• Indian polity, economy and culture
• Indian agriculture, commerce and trade
• Population, ecology and urbanisation in the Indian context
• Geography of the world and of India, with natural resources
• Current national and international events
• General intelligence and reasoning
• Special knowledge of Uttar Pradesh: education, culture, agriculture, industry, trade, living and social customs

The UP portion is often decisive. Make a separate notebook for the state's districts, rivers, schemes, folk arts and administrative set-up.

General Hindi, drafting and essay in detail

Prelims General Hindi (60 questions)

• Vilom (opposites) and paryayvachi (synonyms)
• Vakya shuddhi (sentence correction)
• Vakyansh ke liye ek shabd
• Words of similar use and nature, noun and adjective forms

Mains paper II, part 1 (100 marks)

• Heading, precis and explanation of underlined parts of a passage
• Precis of a government letter in a tabular form
• Official correspondence: official and demi-official letters, office memo, circular, notification, report and reminder
• Administrative and commercial terms, English to Hindi and Hindi to English
• Muhavare and lokoktiyan
• Computer knowledge

Mains paper II, part 2 (60 marks)

Objective vocabulary questions on opposites, sentence correction, one word substitution, words of similar use and words formed from nouns and adjectives.

Mains paper III, Hindi essay (120 marks)

Three sections, each offering a choice of topics: literature, society and politics; science, environment, economy and agriculture; national and international events, disasters and development plans. Pick one topic per section and write about 600 words on it; each essay is marked out of 40.

Where your marks really come from

Add up the mains and you see the pattern: 280 of the 400 marks sit in Hindi papers. A candidate who is average in GS but writes clean drafts and strong essays often finishes ahead of a GS expert with weak Hindi.

• Drafting formats (letter, memo, circular) follow fixed structures; learn them once and practise them weekly.
• The vocabulary paper and the prelims Hindi part draw on the same word lists, so revision serves both.
• In prelims, GS is 70% of the marks; use it to cross the screening line and let Hindi lift your score.

Study plan built around Hindi

1. First month: GS foundations through the NCERT texts (class 6 upward), UP GK notes, and 30 minutes of Hindi grammar daily.
2. Second month: one drafting format every two days and one essay per week, checked against word limits.
3. Third month: full prelims mocks of 200 questions, timed at 3 hours, with an eye on negative marks.
4. After prelims: shift almost entirely to mains writing and start Hindi typing practice if you have applied for ARO posts.

The syllabus of ro aro becomes clearer once you study past papers, which are on the commission's website and show the type of drafting and essay topics set. Use them before you buy any extra material, and look at the UPPSC previous papers page for how to work through them.

UPPSC RO ARO syllabus in Hindi

समीक्षा अधिकारी और सहायक समीक्षा अधिकारी भर्ती में दो लिखित चरण होते हैं। प्रारंभिक परीक्षा में सामान्य अध्ययन के 140 और सामान्य हिंदी के 60 प्रश्न आते हैं, कुल 200 अंक, और गलत उत्तरों पर ऋणात्मक अंकन (एक तिहाई) लागू है। मुख्य परीक्षा 400 अंकों की है: सामान्य अध्ययन 120, सामान्य हिंदी एवं प्रारूपण 100, सामान्य शब्द ज्ञान 60 और हिंदी निबंध 120 अंक। सामान्य अध्ययन में विज्ञान, इतिहास, राजव्यवस्था, अर्थव्यवस्था, भूगोल, समसामयिकी और उत्तर प्रदेश की विशेष जानकारी शामिल है। सहायक समीक्षा अधिकारी पद के लिए हिंदी टंकण 25 शब्द प्रति मिनट आवश्यक है। साक्षात्कार नहीं होता।