UPSC Central Armed Police Forces (AC)

Six Areas (objective, English + Hindi)

• General Mental Ability — logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude including numerical ability, data interpretation
  1. 1.Coding-Decoding
  2. 2.Number Series
  3. 3.Analogies
  4. 4.Syllogisms
  5. 5.Blood Relations
  6. 6.Seating Arrangement
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  1. 7.Classification (Odd One Out)
  2. 8.Mathematical Operations
  3. 9.Alphabet Series
  4. 10.Paper Folding and Cutting
  5. 11.Problems on Ages
  6. 12.Ranking and Order
  7. 13.Figure Patterns
  8. 14.Direction Sense Test
  9. 15.Cause & Effect
  10. 16.Data Sufficiency
  11. 17.Logical Sequences
  12. 18.Puzzles (Logical)
  13. 19.Statements & Assumptions
  14. 20.Input-Output (Machine)
  15. 21.Statements & Conclusions
  16. 22.Mirror & Water Images
• General Science — general awareness, scientific temper, IT/Biotechnology/Environmental Science
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Science and Technology Policy, Achievements and Indigenization
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Space Technology and Digital/IT Technologies
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies
  4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Intellectual Property Rights
  5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biodiversity and Conservation
  6. 6.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Environmental Pollution, Degradation and Impact Assessment
  7. 7.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Climate Change and International Environmental Governance
• Current Events of National and International Importance — culture, music, arts, literature, sports, governance, societal/developmental issues, industry, business, globalisation, interplay among nations
• Indian Polity and Economy — political system, Constitution of India, social systems, public administration, economic development in India, regional/international security issues, human rights
  1. 1.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  2. 2.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  3. 3.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
  4. 4.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  5. 5.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  6. 6.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
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  1. 7.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  2. 8.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  3. 9.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  4. 10.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  5. 11.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism
  6. 12.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power
  7. 13.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation
  8. 14.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself
  9. 15.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA
  10. 16.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment
  11. 17.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution
  12. 18.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility
  13. 19.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy
  14. 20.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad
  15. 21.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union
  16. 22.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity
  17. 23.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive
  18. 24.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link
  19. 25.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor
  20. 26.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction
  21. 27.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court
  22. 28.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure
  23. 29.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's
  24. 30.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 324
  25. 31.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-323
  26. 32.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-323
  27. 33.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism
  28. 34.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-151
  29. 35.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times
  30. 36.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation
  31. 37.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template
  32. 38.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes
  33. 39.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  34. 40.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  35. 41.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  36. 42.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  37. 43.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  38. 44.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
  39. 45.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth
  40. 46.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy
  41. 47.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Development and Extremism — Left-Wing Extremism/Naxalism
  42. 48.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External State and Non-State Actors — Cross-Border Terrorism Linkages
  43. 49.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Cyber Security — Challenges and Institutional Framework
  44. 50.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Media, Social Networking and Radicalization
  45. 51.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Money Laundering and Financial Security
  46. 52.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Border Area Security Management
  47. 53.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Organized Crime and Its Linkages with Terrorism
  48. 54.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Security Forces and Agencies — Mandate and Structure
  49. 55.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Governance, Transparency, and Accountability: E-Governance, RTI, and Citizens' Charters
  50. 56.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Role of Civil Services in a Democracy
• History of India — social, economic, political aspects; growth of nationalism and freedom movement
  1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  2. 2.Rise of Regional States
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal
  5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
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  1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  4. 10.The Revolt of 1857
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
• Indian and World Geography — physical, social, economic aspects, India and World
  1. 1.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  2. 2.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is
  3. 3.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  4. 4.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them
  5. 5.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth
  6. 6.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts
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  1. 7.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  2. 8.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  3. 9.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  4. 10.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
  5. 11.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  6. 12.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  7. 13.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went
  8. 14.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  9. 15.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  10. 16.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
  11. 17.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  12. 18.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number

Part-A · Essay (80 marks, English or Hindi)

• Essay (80 marks, English or Hindi) — modern Indian history especially freedom struggle, geography, polity and economy, security/human rights issues, analytical ability
  1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  2. 2.Rise of Regional States
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal
  5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
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  1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  4. 10.The Revolt of 1857
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
  24. 30.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  25. 31.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  26. 32.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
  27. 33.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  28. 34.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  29. 35.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
  30. 36.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  31. 37.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  32. 38.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  33. 39.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  34. 40.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism
  35. 41.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power
  36. 42.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation
  37. 43.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself
  38. 44.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA
  39. 45.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment
  40. 46.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution
  41. 47.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility
  42. 48.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy
  43. 49.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad
  44. 50.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union
  45. 51.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity
  46. 52.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive
  47. 53.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link
  48. 54.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor
  49. 55.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction
  50. 56.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court
  51. 57.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure
  52. 58.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's
  53. 59.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 324
  54. 60.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-323
  55. 61.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-323
  56. 62.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism
  57. 63.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-151
  58. 64.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times
  59. 65.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation
  60. 66.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template
  61. 67.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes
  62. 68.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  63. 69.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  64. 70.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  65. 71.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  66. 72.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  67. 73.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
  68. 74.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth
  69. 75.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy
  70. 76.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  71. 77.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is
  72. 78.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  73. 79.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them
  74. 80.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth
  75. 81.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts
  76. 82.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  77. 83.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  78. 84.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  79. 85.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
  80. 86.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  81. 87.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  82. 88.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went
  83. 89.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  84. 90.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  85. 91.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
  86. 92.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  87. 93.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
  88. 94.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Pakistan Relations
  89. 95.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-China Relations
  90. 96.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India's Immediate Neighbourhood — Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and the Maldives
  91. 97.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Afghanistan Relations and Central Asia
  92. 98.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-United States Relations
  93. 99.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Russia Relations
  94. 100.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India, the European Union, and Other Major Powers
  95. 101.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Regional Groupings — SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN and SCO
  96. 102.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Global Groupings: G20, BRICS, QUAD, IBSA
  97. 103.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Indian Diaspora and Its Role in India's Foreign Policy
  98. 104.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: International Institutions: the UN, UNSC Reform, and Global Governance Bodies (WTO, IMF, World Bank, WHO)
  99. 105.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Governance, Transparency, and Accountability: E-Governance, RTI, and Citizens' Charters
  100. 106.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Role of Civil Services in a Democracy

Part-B · Comprehension, Precis and Language Skills (120 marks, English only)

• Comprehension, Precis Writing, Developing Counter-Arguments, Grammar and Language Testing (120 marks, English only)