Bihar Public Service Commission 72nd Combined (Preliminary & Main) Competitive Examination

Official exam info

Bihar Public Service Commission's Combined Competitive Examination — the state's senior administrative-service exam. Mains has 3 compulsory papers (General Hindi, General Studies I & II) that weave genuine Bihar-specific material (Santhal Uprising, 1857 in Bihar, the Birsa/Tana Bhagat movements, the Champaran Satyagraha, Quit India in Bihar, Patna Qalam painting, Bihar's rivers and physical geography, state administration and economy) into the national General Studies syllabus, plus a single optional subject chosen from 34 real options. Study material reuses the verified national content pool and UPSC's own Optional corpus wherever the underlying material is genuinely national, plus 9 chapters authored fresh — 3 for Bihar's own history/culture, geography, and polity/economy, and 6 Bihar-specific addenda layered on top of 9 reuse-verified optional subjects (History, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Public Administration). The remaining 25 optional subjects are real, listed choices without content yet, honestly disclosed rather than silently dropped.