UPSSSC PET Question Paper 2026 PDF (25 October Shift 1 and 2) with Answers and Paper Analysis

The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) held the first day of the Preliminary Eligibility Test (PET) 2026 (Advertisement No. 16-Exam/2026) on 25 October 2026 in two shifts. The remaining shifts are on 30 October and 1 November 2026. This page has the question papers of both shifts of Day 1, the section-wise question numbers, a section-wise difficulty review, the topics asked and answers to the static (non-current-affairs) questions.

Download UPSSSC PET 2026 question paper PDF (25 October)

Shift	Time	Booklet series	Download
Shift 1	10 AM–12 noon	NH8	Shift 1 question paper (PDF, 3.8 MB)
Shift 2	3 PM–5 PM	GJ4	Shift 2 question paper (PDF, 3.1 MB)

These are scans of candidates’ question booklets. Pen marks on the pages were made by the candidate and are not the answer key. Each booklet series has its own question order, so match your booklet series before checking answers.

Section-wise question numbers in both shifts

Both shifts followed the 15-section PET pattern with the same number of questions per section, but the order of sections was different. Shift 1 opened with general awareness, while Shift 2 opened with Indian economy. The table below shows where each section sits in each booklet, which helps when comparing answers with the official key later.

Section	Questions	Shift 1 (NH8)	Shift 2 (GJ4)
Indian History	5	26–30	96–100
Indian National Movement	5	16–20	26–30
Geography	5	31–35	71–75
Indian Economy	5	96–100	1–5
Constitution & Public Administration	5	71–75	31–35
General Science	5	66–70	11–15
Elementary Arithmetic	5	86–90	66–70
General Hindi	5	81–85	86–90
General English	5	76–80	91–95
Logic & Reasoning	5	11–15	21–25
Current Affairs	10	36–45	36–45
General Awareness	10	1–10	46–55
Graph Interpretation	10	56–60 (pie charts), 91–95 (bar graph)	16–20 (pie chart), 61–65 (bar graph)
Table Interpretation	10	21–25, 61–65	6–10, 56–60
Hindi Unseen Passage	10	46–55 (two passages)	76–85 (two passages)

UPSSSC PET 25 October 2026 paper analysis: difficulty level

Both shifts of Day 1 were easy to moderate. General studies questions were mostly direct and drawn from standard school-level topics, with a few detail-based questions in history, the national movement and economy. Current affairs covered events from about mid-2025 to mid-2026, which made it the hardest general section for candidates who had not revised recent months. The 40 data-based questions (graphs, tables and the Hindi passages) were not conceptually difficult, but the graph and table sets needed careful reading and calculation, so time management decided the attempts.

Section	Shift 1	Shift 2
Indian History	Easy	Moderate
Indian National Movement	Easy to Moderate	Moderate
Geography	Easy to Moderate	Easy to Moderate
Indian Economy	Easy to Moderate	Easy to Moderate
Constitution & Public Administration	Easy to Moderate	Easy
General Science	Easy to Moderate	Easy
Elementary Arithmetic	Moderate	Easy
General Hindi	Easy	Easy to Moderate
General English	Moderate	Easy
Logic & Reasoning	Easy to Moderate	Easy to Moderate
Current Affairs	Easy to Moderate	Moderate
General Awareness	Easy to Moderate	Easy to Moderate
Graph Interpretation	Easy to Moderate	Moderate
Table Interpretation	Easy to Moderate	Moderate
Hindi Unseen Passage	Easy to Moderate	Easy

• Shift 1: easy to moderate. General Hindi and the Hindi passages were the most scoring. Arithmetic and the pie-chart set needed longer calculations.
• Shift 2: easy to moderate. Polity, science, arithmetic and English were direct. History and the national movement had detail-based questions (Al-Biruni in 1017, the Prayag Prashasti, the withdrawal of the Rowlatt Satyagraha), and the table and bar-graph sets were calculation-heavy.
• Option E matters: every question had “None of the above” as option E, and in some questions E is the correct answer (for example, Shift 2 Q43 on the FIFA World Cup 2026 hosts and Q74 on the continent crossed by the Equator and both Tropics).

Topics asked in Shift 1 (25 October 2026, booklet NH8)

• General awareness (Q1–10): date of World Forestry Day, a country outside the eurozone, the Amrit Dharohar scheme for Ramsar sites, the author of The Great Indian Novel, the first Lok Sabha Speaker, India’s land neighbours, the 1921 flag design, Padma Vibhushan 2025 (literature and education), NavIC and the Wimbledon venue.
• Logic and reasoning (Q11–15): odd one out, letter-value coding (SPECIAL and CONNECT), seating in a row, a repeating calendar (2016) and a blood relation.
• National movement (Q16–20): Khudai Khidmatgar, the Secret Congress Radio of the Quit India Movement, Dadabhai Naoroji’s British constituency, institutions created by the Government of India Act 1935, and the eight lotuses on the Swadeshi-era flag.
• Indian history (Q26–30): land categories in the Ain-i-Akbari, Indika, the ruler of Kannauj (606–647 CE), Sree Narayana Guru, and the Noble Eightfold Path.
• Geography (Q31–35): the mesosphere, tributaries, mosses, the boundary of the Central Highlands, and international boundary lines (Radcliffe, McMahon, Durand, 24th parallel).
• Current affairs (Q36–45): the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi (March 2026), AB PM-JAY services on WhatsApp (June 2026), the World Water Day 2026 theme, SpaDeX, the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Mother Mary Comes to Me, Exercise MAITREE-XV, Sweden’s honour for the Prime Minister (May 2026) and a NASA telescope named after the “Mother of Hubble”. One question on the fiscal deficit also sat in this block.
• Hindi unseen passages (Q46–55): two passages, on परोपकार (altruism) and अनुशासन (discipline).
• Graphs and tables: two pie charts on graduate and postgraduate students in seven institutes, a bar graph of morning and evening customers in five branches, a table of product sales in January and February, and a table of fitness-centre visitors and memberships.
• General science (Q66–70): quicklime, peristalsis, Snell’s law, mechanical advantage and the mass of one mole of oxygen atoms.
• Constitution and public administration (Q71–75): Article 39A, the head of district revenue administration, the calligrapher of the Hindi Constitution, the first High Court (1862) and the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
• English (Q76–80): antonym of “conceal”, a conditional verb form, a modal and a short passage on Albert Einstein.
• General Hindi (Q81–85): वाक्यांश के लिए शब्द (आपादमस्तक), विलोम (उग्र), शुद्ध वर्तनी, संधि-विच्छेद (परमौज) and the idiom “आँखें बिछाना”.
• Arithmetic (Q86–90): an algebraic identity, number of factors of 840, the largest square from 1,000 trees, population growth over two years and an average.
• Indian economy (Q96–100): a tax subsumed into GST, the committee behind NABARD, the model of the First Five-Year Plan, the “Hindu rate of growth” and the bank that became the State Bank of India.

Topics asked in Shift 2 (25 October 2026, booklet GJ4)

• Indian economy (Q1–5): ISI mark, Hallmark, Eco Mark and BIS standard mark (match the following), the Raja Chelliah Committee, a 2004 food-for-work programme, the launch date of the e-Shram portal and the repo rate.
• General science (Q11–15): an amphoteric oxide, normal blood pressure, the organ that absorbs most nutrients, the SI unit of magnetic flux density and uses of a convex lens.
• Logic and reasoning (Q21–25): rank in a class, clock hands in a straight line, number coding (ROSE, CHAIR, SEARCH), a blood relation and an odd number group.
• National movement (Q26–30): the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, the withdrawal of the Rowlatt Satyagraha, the Lucknow Pact, the Cabinet Mission and the sequence of events before the Civil Disobedience Movement.
• Constitution and public administration (Q31–35): Fundamental Duties, Directive Principles, reservation for women in Panchayati Raj, the date of adoption of the Constitution and the District Collector (1772).
• Current affairs (Q36–45): a January 2026 book on Srila Prabhupada, the start of the Unified Pension Scheme, the World Health Day 2026 theme, an ISRO analog mission in Ladakh, a Uttar Pradesh bird sanctuary named India’s 99th Ramsar site (April 2026), the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, the BRICS Youth Council Summit 2026, and static questions on the first Chief Justice of India, the FIFA World Cup 2026 hosts and the WEF venue.
• General awareness (Q46–55): the 53rd Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the Rangaswami Cup, the EU headquarters, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Rani Lakshmibai’s samadhi, Yakshagana, international days, Anandamath, the “Father of the Lok Sabha” and the “Land of the Thunder Dragon”.
• Graphs and tables: a table of department-wise employees and salaries, a pie chart of students’ modes of transport, a table of bank-branch applications received and approved, and a bar graph of units sold and returned by five stores.
• Arithmetic (Q66–70): reciprocal of a fraction, square roots of decimals, averages, a cube root and a win percentage.
• Geography (Q71–75): Hirakud Dam, Mont Blanc, the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, the continent crossed by the Equator and both Tropics, and the doldrums.
• Hindi unseen passages (Q76–85): the Chipko movement, and science and technology as a “दोधारी तलवार”.
• General Hindi (Q86–90): विलोम युग्म, वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द (अवध्य), शुद्ध वर्तनी (कुमुदिनी), क्रिया-विशेषण and संधि-विच्छेद (स्वस्ति).
• English (Q91–95): a passage on Antarctica, “which/who”, the antonym of “mitigate” and the plural of “brother-in-law”.
• Indian history (Q96–100): the Satnami movement, Al-Biruni’s arrival in Ghazni (1017), the Rajput dynasty in Delhi before the Chauhans, the Prayag Prashasti and the first bhikkhuni of the Buddhist Sangha.

Answers to static questions: Shift 1 (booklet NH8)

The answers below cover questions on static topics whose answers can be checked in standard textbooks and official sources. Current affairs and data interpretation answers are left out until the official key is released.

Q. no.	Question (short)	Answer
1	World Forestry Day	(C) 21 March
2	Country without the euro	(C) Sweden
4	The Great Indian Novel	(A) Shashi Tharoor
5	First Lok Sabha Speaker	(A) G.V. Mavalankar
6	No land border with India	(A) Sri Lanka
7	1921 flag design	(B) Pingali Venkayya
9	NavIC developed by	(A) ISRO
10	Wimbledon venue	(B) London
11	Odd one out	(A) Jaipur (a city; the others are states)
12	CONNECT in the SPECIAL = 65 code	(D) 74
14	Same calendar as 2016	(B) 2044
15	S is related to Q as	(D) Wife
16	Khudai Khidmatgar also known as	(B) Red Shirt Movement
17	Secret Congress Radio	(C) Usha Mehta
18	Dadabhai Naoroji’s constituency	(B) Finsbury Central
19	Created under the GoI Act 1935	(D) Federal Court of India
20	Eight lotuses on the Swadeshi flag	(B) Eight provinces of British India
26	Land cultivated every year (Ain-i-Akbari)	(C) Polaj
27	Indika written by	(D) Megasthenes
28	Ruler of Kannauj, 606–647 CE	(C) Harshavardhana
29	“One Caste, One Religion, One God”	(C) Sree Narayana Guru
30	Not part of the Eightfold Path	(D) Right Devotion
31	Coldest layer of the atmosphere	(D) Mesosphere
32	River joining a larger river	(B) Tributary
33	Moss is	(B) A small green plant lacking flowers or true roots
34	Western boundary of the Central Highlands	(B) Aravalli Range
35	Correctly matched boundary lines	(B) I and III only
38	Total borrowing requirement	(A) Fiscal deficit
66	Quicklime	(B) CaO
67	Moves food through the alimentary canal	(D) Peristalsis
68	Law of refraction	(D) Snell’s law
69	Mechanical advantage (200 N load, 50 N effort)	(B) 4
70	Mass of one mole of oxygen atoms	(C) 16 grams
71	Article 39A	(D) Equal justice and free legal aid
73	Calligrapher of the Hindi Constitution	(D) Vasant K. Vaidya
74	First High Court of British India, 1862	(C) Calcutta
75	Ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha	(C) Vice-President of India
76	Opposite of CONCEAL	(C) Reveal
77	If the students had completed …	(A) would have given
78	Modal: you ___ get some rest	(B) should
81	आपादमस्तक	(D) पैर से सिर तक
82	उग्र का विलोम	(C) सौम्य
83	शुद्ध वर्तनी	(D) अतिथि
84	परमौज का संधि-विच्छेद	(B) परम + ओज
85	आँखें बिछाना	(D) प्रेमपूर्वक स्वागत करना
86	a² + b² if a − b = 4, ab = 12	(D) 40
87	Positive factors of 840	(C) 32
88	Trees left after the largest square from 1,000	(D) 39
89	Net population growth in two years (2.5% − 0.5%)	(C) 4.04%
90	Value of x (average 10)	(C) 16
96	Tax subsumed into GST	(A) Octroi
97	Committee that recommended NABARD	(D) B. Sivaraman Committee
98	Model of the First Five-Year Plan	(C) Harrod-Domar Model
99	“Hindu rate of growth” coined by	(A) Raj Krishna
100	Converted into SBI on 1 July 1955	(B) Imperial Bank of India

Answers to static questions: Shift 2 (booklet GJ4)

Q. no.	Question (short)	Answer
2	Post-reform tax reforms committee	(B) Raja Chelliah Committee
3	2004 wage-employment programme for backward districts	(C) National Food for Work Programme
4	e-Shram portal launched on	(A) 26 August 2021
5	Repo rate	(A) Rate at which the RBI lends short-term funds to banks
11	Amphoteric oxide	(A) Al2O3
12	Normal adult blood pressure	(D) 120/80 mm Hg
13	Absorbs most nutrients	(B) Small intestine
14	SI unit of magnetic flux density	(B) Tesla
15	A convex lens is used as a	(A) Magnifying glass
21	Girls ranked below Shreya	(E) None of the above (24)
22	Clock hands in a straight line, opposite, in a day	(B) 22
23	SEARCH in the ROSE/CHAIR code	(B) 214673
24	Woman’s relation to the man	(A) Wife
25	Odd number group	(C) 26, 52, 105
26	Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms	(A) Government of India Act, 1919
28	Lucknow Pact, 1916	(D) Congress and the Muslim League
29	Not in the Cabinet Mission	(C) Lord Mountbatten
30	Sequence before the Civil Disobedience Movement	(D) Irwin Offer → Purna Swaraj → Eleven Demands → Salt March
31	PM when Fundamental Duties were added	(D) Indira Gandhi
32	Directive Principle	(C) Uniform Civil Code
33	Women’s reservation in PRIs	(C) Not less than one-third
34	Constitution adopted on	(B) 26 November 1949
35	District Collector introduced in 1772 by	(A) Warren Hastings
42	First Chief Justice of India	(D) Harilal J. Kania
43	FIFA World Cup 2026 hosts	(E) None of the above (USA, Canada and Mexico)
44	WEF annual meeting held in	(B) Switzerland
46	53rd Dadasaheb Phalke Award (for 2021)	(D) Waheeda Rehman
47	Rangaswami Cup	(C) Hockey
48	EU headquarters	(A) Brussels
49	Winter capital of J&K	(D) Jammu
50	Rani Lakshmibai’s samadhi	(C) Gwalior
51	Yakshagana	(B) Karnataka
52	Incorrectly matched day	(B) World Tourism Day (27 September)
53	Novel with “Vande Mataram”	(B) Anandamath
54	“Father of the Lok Sabha”	(C) G.V. Mavalankar
55	“Land of the Thunder Dragon”	(D) Bhutan
66	Fraction whose reciprocal is proper	(A) 9/7
67	√2.25 + √0.0064 + √2.89 + 1	(A) 4.28
68	Eighth number	(D) 44
69	Value of x	(B) 27
70	Matches played (10 wins = 40%)	(B) 25
71	Hirakud Dam river	(C) Mahanadi
72	Mont Blanc range	(B) Alps
73	Mangrove biosphere reserve of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta	(A) Sundarbans
74	Continent crossed by the Equator and both Tropics	(E) None of the above (Africa)
75	Equatorial low-pressure belt	(B) Doldrums
86	विलोम युग्म जो सही नहीं	(A) तनय – तनुज
87	जिसका वध न किया जा सके	(B) अवध्य
88	शुद्ध वर्तनी	(C) कुमुदिनी
89	“अधिक” किस प्रकार का क्रिया-विशेषण	(B) परिमाणवाचक
90	स्वस्ति का संधि-विच्छेद	(D) सु + अस्ति
93	___ of the two boys is taller?	(D) Which
94	Opposite of MITIGATE	(B) Aggravate
95	Plural of brother-in-law	(D) brothers-in-law
96	Founder of the Satnami movement	(C) Ghasidas
97	Al-Biruni brought to Ghazni after the conquest of	(B) Khwarizm
98	Rajput dynasty in Delhi before the Chauhans	(C) Tomaras
99	Compared with Kubera, Varuna, Indra and Yama	(C) Samudragupta
100	First woman ordained as a bhikkhuni	(D) Mahapajapati Gotami

How to use the Day 1 papers before the remaining shifts

Candidates appearing on 30 October or 1 November 2026 can use the Day 1 papers as a timed mock. Each shift draws on the same syllabus, so the Day 1 questions show the level and spread to expect, not the exact questions.

• Solve one paper in 2 hours, then check the static answers above and mark the sections that took the longest.
• Revise current affairs from about mid-2025 to mid-2026: awards, days and themes, schemes, defence exercises, space missions and sports events appeared in both shifts.
• Practise one graph set and one table set daily; the 20 graph and table questions in each shift were calculation-heavy.
• Read every option to the end. Option E (“None of the above”) was the correct answer in some Day 1 questions.
• Do not guess blindly: with −0.25 for a wrong answer, four wrong guesses cancel one correct answer.

Preparing for the shifts on 30 October or 1 November, or for the next UPSSSC Mains? Build timed, subject-wise tests in the GSMitra MCQ Test Builder. For the full syllabus and section-wise pattern, see the UPSSSC PET 2026 complete guide; for exam dates and shift timings, see the PET 2026 admit card page.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I download the UPSSSC PET 2026 question paper of 25 October?

The question papers of both shifts held on 25 October 2026 are available as PDFs on this page: Shift 1 (booklet series NH8, 10 AM to 12 noon) and Shift 2 (booklet series GJ4, 3 PM to 5 PM). Both are bilingual and contain all 100 questions.

How was the UPSSSC PET 25 October 2026 paper?

Both shifts were easy to moderate. General Hindi and the Hindi unseen passages were the easiest sections. Current affairs and the 40 data-based questions on graphs, tables and passages took the most time.

Is the question order the same in every shift of PET 2026?

No. Each shift has the same 15 sections and the same number of questions per section, but the order changes. On 25 October, Shift 1 began with general awareness and Shift 2 began with Indian economy, so answers must be matched with the correct booklet series.

When will the official UPSSSC PET 2026 answer key be released?

UPSSSC has not announced a date. The provisional answer key is released after all shifts are over, and the last PET 2026 shift is on 1 November 2026. In PET 2025 the provisional key came two days after the last shift.

Are the answers on this page official?

No. The answers on this page are prepared by GSMitra for static questions only. The provisional and final answer keys published by UPSSSC on upsssc.gov.in are the final authority.

How many sections and questions are there in UPSSSC PET 2026?

PET 2026 has 100 questions in 15 sections: 5 questions each in Indian history, national movement, geography, economy, Constitution and public administration, general science, elementary arithmetic, general Hindi, general English and logic and reasoning, and 10 questions each in current affairs, general awareness, graph interpretation, table interpretation and the Hindi unseen passage.

Sources: question booklets of UPSSSC PET 2026 (25 October 2026, Shift 1 series NH8 and Shift 2 series GJ4); UPSSSC notices on upsssc.gov.in. Shift 1 difficulty ratings also draw on candidate feedback and published analyses.

Prepared by the GSMitra Editorial Team. Last updated 25 October 2026.