BPSC Screening Test study guide
BPSC Screening Test · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The BPSC Screening Test - also called the BPSC Prelims or PT - is the first written hurdle for candidates seeking Bihar government civil service posts through the Bihar Public Service Commission. It is a screening stage: a strong enough score advances you to the Mains written examination, while a weak one ends your attempt for that cycle regardless of how well you might have done later. The BPSC Screening Test study guide has 5 sections and about 1,528 words.
01General Studies: Indian History, Polity, Geography, Economy, Science and Current Affairs
General Studies is the backbone of the BPSC screening paper. History, polity, geography, economy, science and current affairs together supply the largest block of the 150 objective questions, and Bihar-specific items are threaded through every one of them.
328 words, about 2 min02General Science: Physics, Chemistry and Biology at NCERT Level
General Science in the BPSC screening test tests understanding of class 9-10 NCERT concepts rather than research-level detail. Expect questions on units, motion, light, electricity, elements and compounds, acids and bases, the human body, nutrition, disease and environment.
297 words, about 1 min03Mathematics and Quantitative Aptitude: Arithmetic, Mensuration and Data
Quantitative Aptitude in the BPSC screening test is arithmetic-heavy and time-bound. The recurring topics are number system, HCF and LCM, percentage, ratio and proportion, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time and work, pipes and cisterns, speed and distance, mensuration, and simple data interpretation from tables or bar charts.
322 words, about 2 min04Reasoning and Mental Ability: Verbal, Analytical and Non-Verbal
Reasoning and Mental Ability rewards pattern recognition rather than calculation. BPSC mixes verbal items (series, analogy, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, ranking, syllogism) with analytical puzzles (seating arrangement, scheduling) and non-verbal items (mirror and water images, figure series, paper folding, counting figures).
272 words, about 1 min05Bihar-Specific General Knowledge and Current Affairs
Bihar-specific General Knowledge carries real weight in the BPSC screening test because the Commission expects an officer to know the state's history, geography, institutions, culture and current schemes. Questions are factual and often tied to a district, a river, a dynasty or a recent state programme.
309 words, about 2 min