Punjab Patwari study guide
Punjab Patwari · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Punjab Patwari exam is the recruitment test through which the Government of Punjab fills the post of Patwari - the village-level revenue official who maintains land records, prepares jamabandis and girdawaris, and assists in mutation and crop-reporting work. Recruitment to subordinate Punjab government posts is handled by the Subordinate Services Selection Board, Punjab (SSSB), which advertises vacancies under Group B, Group C and Group D on its official site. The Punjab Patwari study guide has 6 sections and about 1,997 words.
01General Knowledge and Current Affairs for Punjab Patwari
This domain mixes fixed facts about Punjab's administration and symbols with a rolling twelve-month news window. The paper is Punjab-first; national and international items form the smaller share.
329 words, about 2 min02Punjab History, Culture and Geography
Punjab slopes from the Shiwalik foothills in the north-east (Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar) down to the semi-arid cotton belt of the south-west (Firozpur, Fazilka, Sri Muktsar Sahib). Three rivers still flow through Indian Punjab - Sutlej, Beas and Ravi - and the interfluves are called doabs: Bist (Beas–Sutlej), Bari (Beas–Ravi), and historically Rachna (Ravi–Chenab) and Chaj (Chenab–Jhelum).
332 words, about 2 min03Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning
Learn percentage–fraction pairs (12.5% = 1/8, 16⅔% = 1/6, 20% = 1/5) to skip long division. Profit and loss: discount always applies to the marked price, profit to the cost price.
337 words, about 2 min04English Language
The English paper covers error spotting, sentence improvement, fill in the blanks (single and cloze), synonyms and antonyms, idioms, one-word substitution, spellings and a comprehension passage. The grammar is standard competitive English: agreement, tense, articles, prepositions, degrees of comparison and parallelism.
321 words, about 2 min05Punjabi Language (Gurmukhi Script and Grammar)
The Painti Akhar has 35 characters: 32 consonants plus three vowel carriers (ੳ, ਅ, ੲ). Vowel sounds are written with matras - ਮੁਕਤਾ (inherent a), ਕੰਨਾ ਾ, ਸਿਹਾਰੀ ਿ, ਬਿਹਾਰੀ ੀ, ਔਂਕੜ ੁ, ਦੁਲੈਂਕੜ ੂ, ਲਾਂਵ ੇ, ਦੁਲਾਵਾਂ ੈ, ਹੋੜਾ ੋ, ਕਨੌੜਾ ੌ.
322 words, about 2 min06Revenue and Land Records Knowledge
The revenue hierarchy runs Financial Commissioner (Revenue) → Divisional Commissioner → Deputy Commissioner, who is the District Collector → Tehsildar or Naib Tehsildar → Kanungo (Girdawar) → Patwari. A patwar circle is a group of villages; several patwar circles make a kanungo circle; the tehsil is the registry unit.
356 words, about 2 min