BPSC Exam Pattern 2024, Revised Prelims and Mains Exam Pattern

Bihar Public Service Commission conducts the BPSC Recruitment. The Commission sets the BPSC Exam Pattern, which consists of Prelims and Mains exams. The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) releases the 70th BPSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2024 through an official notification. To prepare for the Combined Competitive Exam (CCE), candidates must download the 70th BPSC Syllabus 2024 and the BPSC Exam Pattern.

BPSC Exam Pattern 2024

The BPSC CCE Recruitment 2024 will fill several openings in a variety of positions. Before designing a preparation plan, aspirants must fully understand and study the BPSC Syllabus. The following are the major changes in the 70th BPSC Exam Pattern:

• The 70th BPSC Prelims Exam will be organized for a total of 150 marks, with 1 mark awarded for each correct answer and 0.25 marks deducted for each wrong answer.
• With the addition of an essay paper, the 70th BPSC Mains Exam will now include 5 total papers i.e., GS I, GS II, Essay, General Hindi, and Optional Paper.
• Along with the General Hindi Paper, the Optional Paper will also have 100 marks and be qualifying nature.
• A total of 900 marks will be used to assess the candidates (from the GS I, GS II and Essay Paper).

BPSC Prelims Exam Pattern 2024

Earlier there was no negative marking in the BPSC Prelims examination. This year BPSC has given 3 options to all the candidates while filling out the BPSC registration form for the 70th BPSC 2024 exam and as per the majority of the suggestions that students give, the Commission decided to start the negative marking provision for every 150 questions uniformly.

BPSC Prelims Minimum Qualifying Marks

The following are the minimum marks required to pass the BPSC Prelims Exam:

The Commission also revised the BPSC Mains Exam Pattern from this year. Earlier only 4 papers were included in the BPSC CCE examination i.e., General Hindi, General Studies Paper I and II and Optional Paper but from now onwards Essay papers will also be included in the BPSC Mains Exam Pattern. This amendment is taken by the commission to resolve the problem of the scaling/normalisation of the optional paper in the main exam.

So, from now onwards BPSC Mains exam pattern will comprise 5 papers out of which the Optional Paper and General Hindi paper will be qualifying in nature. While submitting their application form, candidates have the option to select any subject from a list of 34 disciplines as an optional paper. As Hindi and the optional paper are qualifying in nature, the exam will be conducted for a total of 1100 marks, but candidates will only receive scores out of 900 marks.

Each paper will be conducted for three hours and be subjective in nature (except for the optional paper). There will be Multiple choice questions in the optional paper.

General Studies Papers

Candidates who clear the prelims will be eligible to sit in the prelims examination the following topics will be covered in General Studies Papers I and Paper II in the BPSC Mains examination:

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