SSC CPO 2025 Exam Pattern For SI & ASI (Delhi Police, CAPFs) & CISF Posts

Candidates who want to crack the SSC CPO exam must go through the SSC CPO exam pattern. Paper 1 of SSC CPO comprises 200 objective-type questions on topics from General Knowledge, General Intelligence, English, and Quantitative Aptitude. In Paper 2, candidates are required to answer objective-type questions on English Language and Comprehension. Only those candidates who qualify the Paper 2 exam are called for PET/PST. Candidates qualifying PET/PST are called for Paper 2. Knowledge of SSC CPO exam pattern helps candidates to strategise their preparation.

Stages of SSC CPO Exam Pattern

Candidates can check the stages of SSC CPO exam pattern below.

SSC CPO Paper 1 Exam Pattern 2025

All candidates who register successfully for the exam are required to appear in Paper 1. The exam comprises four sections: General Intelligence and Reasoning, General Knowledge and General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension. Each section will have 50 questions. The paper will have total of 200 objective-type questions. The test paper will be set in Hindi and English. The duration of the test is 2 hours. Each section of Paper 1 will carry 50 marks. The total mark of the test is 200. Candidates can check the detailed SSC CPO exam pattern for Paper 1. 

Part	Subject	Number of questions	Marks
I	General Intelligence and Reasoning	50	50
II	General Knowledge and General Awareness	50	50
III	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50
IV	English Comprehension	50	50

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SSC CPO Paper 2 2025 Exam Pattern

This paper comprises objective-type questions from English Language and Comprehension. There are 200 questions in the paper. Candidates need to complete the paper within 2 hours. Questions are designed to test the candidates' understanding and knowledge of English Language. 

SSC CPO 2025 PET/PST Exam Pattern

PST/ PET will not carry any marks but will be of qualifying/ elimination nature. Those candidates who are declared not qualified in Physical Standards, i.e. height and chest, may prefer an appeal, if they so desire, to the appellate authority present on the PET/ PST ground. The decision of the appellate authority will be final and no further appeal or representation in this regard will be entertained.

For male candidates

• 100 metre race in 16 seconds
• 1.6 Kms race in 6.5 minutes
• Long Jump: 3.65 metre in 3 chances
• High Jump: 1.2 metre in 3 chances
• Shot put (16 Lbs): 4.5 metre in 3 chance

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For female candidates 

• 100 metre race in 18 seconds
• 800 metre race in 4 minutes
• Long Jump: 2.7 metre in 3 chances
• High Jump: 0.9 metre in 3 chances

Physical Standard Test (for all Posts)

Category	Height	Chest  (in cm)
		Unexpanded	Expanded
For male candidates only (UR)	170	80	85
For candidates belonging to Hill areas of Garhwal, Kumaon, Himachal Pradesh, Gorkhas, Dogras, Marathas, Kashmir Valley, Leh & Ladakh regions of J&K, North-Eastern States and Sikkim	165	80	85
For all candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes	162.5	77	82
For Female candidates only (UR)	157	-	-
For female candidates belonging to Hill areas of Garhwal, Kumaon, Himachal Pradesh, Gorkhas, Dogras, Marathas, Kashmir Valley, Leh & Ladakh regions of J&K, North-Eastern States and Sikkim	155	-	-
For all female candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes	154	-	-

SSC CPO 2025 Exam Pattern for Medical Exam

Medical exam is conducted for candidates who qualify the Paper 2 exam. Candidates are examined by the medical officer of the CAPF or any other Medical Officer or Assistant Surgeon belonging to Grade I of any Central/State Govt. Hospital or Dispensary. 

Eye sight: The minimum near vision should be N6 (better eye) and N9 (worse eye). The minimum distant vision should be 6/6 (better eye) and 6/9 (worse eye) of both eyes without any correction like wearing glasses or surgery of any kind to improve visual acuity. 

Candidates must not have knock-knee, flat foot, varicose vein, or squint in eyes and they should possess high colour vision.

Finally, selected candidates for the posts of Sub-Inspector and Assistant Sub-Inspector as a part of the training curriculum have to pass seven obstacles:

• Jumping over the Vertical Board
• Holding the rope on jumping from the Board
• Tarzan Swing
• Jumping on the Horizontal Board
• Parallel Rope
• Monkey Crawl
• Vertical Rope

The marking scheme of SSC CPO has been revised. The revision has been made in the negative marking section. The revised negative marking is given below:

• There is a negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer in Paper 1 and 2. Earlier, the negative marking was one-third.
• For the correct answer, candidates score one mark
• Marks scored by candidates is normalised to prepare the result

SSC CPO Normalisation of Marks

Marks scored in Computer Based Examination are normalised. Such normalised scores are used to determine the final merit and cut off marks. Normalisation is done since the exam is conducted in multi-shifts and to take into account any variation in the difficulty levels of question papers across different shifts.

Download notice  to check normalisation of marks.

SSC CPO syllabus comprises the following topics:

General Intelligence and Reasoning: Questions are asked from analogies, similarities and differences, space visualization, spatial orientation, problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning and figural classification, arithmetic number series, non-verbal series, coding, and decoding, etc. 

General Knowledge and General Awareness: The test include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity, Indian Constitution, scientific Research, etc. 

Quantitative Aptitude: Questions are asked from whole numbers, decimals, fractions and relationships between numbers, Percentage, Ratio and Proportion, Square
roots, Averages, Interest, Profit & Loss, Discount, Partnership Business, Mixture and Allegation, Time and distance, Time & Work, Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra and Elementary surds, etc. 

English Comprehension: This section assesses a candidate's ability to understand basic English, Comprehension & Writing Ability. 

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