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The Staff Selection Commission(SSC) conducts all India Recruitment tests for the selection of SI in Delhi Police, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in CISF. Through SSC Central Police Organisation(CPO) recruitment drive candidates are selecting for the post of Sub Inspector in Delhi Police, Sub Inspector in CAPFs, Assistant Sub Inspector in CISF, Inspector posts and Sub Inspector Posts. The SSC CPO examination has three stages screening – Stage 01 Computer-Based Test, Physical Standard Test (PST)/ Physical Endurance Test (PET), Stage 03 Descriptive Test and Detailed Medical Examination (DME). Here the candidates can download SSC CPO Question Paper from previous years for free and the exam patterns.
SSC CPO application will be active from 16th June 2025 to 7th July 2025. The Staff Selection Commission has invited applications from eligible graduates below 25 years towards the Central Police services. The SSC conducts the CPO recruitment test to select candidates towards Sub-Inspector (SI) in Delhi Police, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in CISF. The SSC CPO Exam Dates will be conducted from 1st September 2025 to 6th September 2025.
SSC CPO 2025 Exam Pattern
The SSC CPO Selection process has two stages of written examinations, physical efficiency test, and physical endurance test, followed by the medical test before the final selection. The first stage is a Computer Based Test(CBT), and the successful candidates from this CBT stage shall appear for the Physical Efficiency Test (PET) (/Physical Endurance Test). The PET is mandatory to all and of qualifying nature only. The successful candidates from the PET will be called for the Paper-II. The mandatory medical test is the final stage in the selection process.
Preliminary Examination Pattern
| Paper 01 | Subject | Mode of Exam | Exam Duration |
Maximum Number of Questions
|
Maximum Marks |
| Part A | General Intelligence and Reasoning | Computer based-Objective type | 02 hours | 50 | 50 |
| Part B | General Knowledge and General Awareness | 50 | 50 | ||
| Part C | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | ||
| Part D | English Comprehension | 50 | 50 | ||
| Total Marks:200 | |||||
- For every wrong answer, 0.25 marks will be deducted.
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SSC CPO Physical Standard Test and Physical Endurance Test
Physical Standard Test (for all Posts)
| SL NO | Category of Candidates | Height (in cm) |
Chest (in cm)Unexpanded | Chest (in cm)Expanded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | For male candidates only (UR) | 170 | 80 | 85 |
| 02 | 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. |
160 | 80 | 85 |
| 03 | For all candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes |
162.5 | 77 | 82 |
| 04 | For Female candidates only (UR) | 157 | – | – |
| 05 | 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 | – | – |
| 06 | For all female candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes |
154 | – | – |
Physical Endurance Test (PET) (For all posts)
For male candidates only
- 100-meter race in 16 seconds
- 1.6 km race in 6.5 minutes
- Long Jump- 3.65 meters in 3 chances
- High Jump- 1.2 meters in 3 chances
- Shot put (16 Lbs)- 4.5 meters in 3 chance
For female candidates only
- 100-meter race in 18 seconds
- 800-meter race in 4 minutes
- Long Jump- 2.7 meters in 3 chances
- High Jump- 0.9 meters in 3 chances
PST/ PET will not carry any marks but will be of qualifying nature.
SSC CPO Descriptive Paper: Stage 03
| Subject | Mode | Time Duration | Number of Questions
|
Maximum Marks |
| English language & Comprehension | Objective | 2 hours | 200 | 200 |
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SSC CPO Question Papers – 2025 Updated
1: In a certain code language, ‘ROK’ is written as ‘44’ and ‘MIG’ is written as ‘29’. What will be the code for ‘TAL’ in that code language?
Interested candidates can now download the SSC CPO Question paper from previous years pdf for free from here:
SSC CPO Question Paper with Answers 2019-2020
| SSC CPO Previous Question Papers | |
| 8 Nov 2020 | |
| 26 July 2020 | |
| 27 September 2019 | |
| 8 October 2019 |
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