UPSC EPFO Syllabus for APFC and EO/AO

UPSC EPFO exam pattern and selection

The notice does not fix the question count in its main text, so read the scheme in its appendix. Past EPFO papers have had 120 questions. With a one third penalty, every three bad guesses cancel a correct answer, so blind guessing hurts.

The nine areas of the EPFO syllabus

1. General English
2. Indian culture, heritage and freedom movements
3. Developmental issues and present trends in the Indian economy
4. Governance and the Constitution of India
5. General science and basic knowledge of computer applications
6. Elementary mathematics, statistics and general mental ability
7. Industrial relations, labour codes and social security in India
8. Principles of accountancy, auditing and insurance
9. Current events of importance in India and the world

The official list stops at these headings. The notes below explain what the questions inside each one tend to test, based on how past EPFO papers have been framed.

What each area asks in practice

• General English: reading passages, spotting errors, improving sentences, word meanings and opposites, idioms, and cloze blanks.
• Culture and freedom movement: art, architecture, religion and literature through the ages, and the national movement from 1857 to independence.
• Economy: growth, inflation, budget, banking, poverty and employment, and recent government schemes.
• Governance and Constitution: fundamental rights and duties, directive principles, Parliament, executive, judiciary, federal relations, constitutional bodies.
• Science and computers: everyday physics, chemistry and biology, health, and computer basics such as hardware, software, internet and security.
• Maths and mental ability: percentages, ratio, interest, averages, data interpretation, basic statistics, series and puzzles.
• Labour and social security: the four labour codes on wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety, the EPF and pension schemes, ESI, ILO conventions and trade unions.
• Accounting, audit and insurance: journal and ledger, final accounts, depreciation, basic auditing standards, life and general insurance concepts.
• Current events: appointments, reports, summits, awards and policy news of the past year.

Why labour codes deserve extra time

This is the area that sets the EPFO test apart from other graduate level exams, and it ties straight to the job. Older papers drew on separate labour Acts; the latest syllabus names the labour codes, so study the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. Know the EPF, pension and deposit linked insurance schemes in detail, since they are the core of EPFO's work.

A ten week plan around the UPSC EPFO syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 3: labour codes, social security and the EPF schemes, with your own one page notes.
2. Weeks 4 and 5: polity and economy from the class 9 to 12 NCERT texts.
3. Week 6: culture and the freedom movement.
4. Week 7: accountancy, auditing and insurance basics.
5. Week 8: maths, statistics and reasoning practice, plus English drills every day from now on.
6. Weeks 9 and 10: full two hour mocks using past EPFO papers from the UPSC site, and a daily news recap.

UPSC EPFO syllabus in Hindi

यूपीएससी ईपीएफओ भर्ती परीक्षा दो घंटे की वस्तुनिष्ठ परीक्षा है। ग़लत विकल्प चुनने की सज़ा उस सवाल के तिहाई अंक हैं। इसके बाद 100 अंकों का साक्षात्कार होता है। फ़ाइनल सूची बनाते समय लिखित टेस्ट को तीन चौथाई और इंटरव्यू को एक चौथाई महत्व मिलता है। पाठ्यक्रम में नौ विषय हैं: सामान्य अंग्रेज़ी, भारतीय संस्कृति और स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन, भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था, शासन और संविधान, सामान्य विज्ञान और कंप्यूटर, प्रारंभिक गणित और मानसिक योग्यता, औद्योगिक संबंध, श्रम संहिताएँ और सामाजिक सुरक्षा, लेखा, अंकेक्षण और बीमा, तथा समसामयिक घटनाएँ।

Eligibility in brief

The UPSC EPFO eligibility and syllabus go hand in hand. For APFC in the latest notice, the essential rule is simply a graduate degree, in any discipline, and a diploma in company law, labour laws or public administration counts as a plus. The maximum age was set at 35 for UR and EWS applicants, 38 for OBC applicants and 40 for those from Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and PwBD applicants get more years on top. EO/AO rounds have had their own, lower age limit, so read that notice separately. For the wider rules UPSC follows, read UPSC eligibility.

Books and the official syllabus

The upsc epfo syllabus official website copy is the appendix of the notice on upsc.gov.in, where past question papers are also posted. NCERT books cover polity, economy, history and science; a standard accountancy text from your graduation covers accounts; and the bare text or official summaries of the four labour codes cover the labour part. For other UPSC recruitment tests, browse the civil services exams hub, and see the UPSC CAPF syllabus if you want a uniformed service.