UP Police Assistant Operator study guide

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

GK in this paper blends static facts with the last 12–18 months of news, and it carries a clear Uttar Pradesh tilt. Expect Indian offices and appointments, awards, sports, defence exercises, space missions, government schemes, international organisations and their headquarters, plus UP-specific geography, culture and GI tags.

General Science

Questions sit at Class 9–10 level across physics, chemistry and biology: units and measurement, motion, light, electricity, acids and bases, metals, periodic-table basics, human body systems, vitamins and deficiency diseases, plant and animal classification, and everyday health and nutrition facts. SI units: force - newton; pressure - pascal; work and energy - joule; power - watt; frequency - hertz; resistance - ohm.

Indian History and Indian Polity/Constitution

History runs from the Indus Valley to 1947; polity covers the Constitution, its sources, rights and duties, the union executive, Parliament, the judiciary, panchayati raj and constitutional bodies. Harappan: planned towns, Great Bath at Mohenjodaro, dockyard at Lothal, seals and script.

Indian Geography and Economy

Expect physical, Indian and world geography: rivers, mountains, climate, soils, crops, minerals, industries, population and transport. Rivers: the Ganga begins as the Bhagirathi at Gangotri, the Yamuna at Yamunotri, and the Brahmaputra enters India as the Tsangpo from Tibet.

Reasoning and Mental Ability

Number, letter and mixed series; analogy; classification; coding-decoding; blood relations; direction sense; syllogism; seating arrangement; order and ranking; clocks, calendars; and non-verbal series. Series: test differences first, then ratios, then alternate interleaved series, then squares and cubes with a constant offset.

Numerical Ability and Elementary Mathematics

Simplification, number system, HCF and LCM, percentage, ratio and proportion, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time and work, speed–distance–time, mensuration and elementary data interpretation. Percentage change = (change ÷ original) × 100.

Hindi Language and Comprehension

English Language and Comprehension

Grammar and usage, error spotting, sentence improvement, fill in the blanks, synonyms and antonyms, one-word substitutions, idioms and phrases, sentence rearrangement (parajumbles), and a reading comprehension passage. Subject–verb agreement: each, every, either and neither take a singular verb.

Computer Fundamentals

Generations of computers, hardware and peripherals, memory hierarchy and units, number systems, logic gates, software categories and basic terminology. Generations: first - vacuum tubes; second - transistors; third - integrated circuits; fourth - microprocessors; fifth - artificial intelligence and ULSI.

Operating Systems and Office Applications

Know the functions of an OS (process, memory, file and device management), its types (batch, multiprogramming, time-sharing, real-time), Windows desktop elements, file and folder operations, extensions and shortcuts. Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+A select all, Alt+F4 close window, Ctrl+Shift+Esc Task Manager, F2 rename, F5 refresh.

Computer Networking

A network links devices to share data and resources. By span: PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN.

Internet and Cyber Awareness

The internet is a network of networks, while the web is a service running on it. Core ideas: IP addresses, domain names and DNS resolution, URL structure (protocol://host/path), HTTP and HTTPS, browsers, search engines, email fields (To, Cc, Bcc) and cloud storage.