A preparation plan should follow the examination as SSC has actually defined it. This page works from the official scheme of the Constable (Executive) Male and Female in Delhi Police Examination, 2025 (notice of 22 September 2025), the newest cycle notified as of 13 November 2026, and ends in a routine you can run every week. Where something is our advice and not SSC's, we say so.
1. Know where the marks are
Only one stage carries marks: the Computer Based Examination (CBE). The physical test and the medical examination are pass or fail. From the notice:
| Part | Questions | Marks | Share of 100 | Tie-break order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. General Knowledge/Current Affairs | 50 | 50 | 50% | First |
| B. Reasoning | 25 | 25 | 25% | Second |
| C. Numerical Ability | 15 | 15 | 15% | Not used |
| D. Computer Fundamentals, MS Excel, MS Word, Communication, Internet, WWW and Web Browsers | 10 | 10 | 10% | Not used |
Three consequences (our reading):
- This is a General Knowledge examination first. Half the marks are in Part A. A plan copied from a paper where Mathematics and Reasoning dominate will put the hours in the wrong place.
- The final merit is the CBE mark. There is no interview and there are no marks for the race or the jumps.
- Certificates add marks at the end. The notice gives NCC certificate holders 5%, 3% and 2% of the maximum marks for 'C', 'B' and 'A', and holders of a Rashtriya Raksha University degree or postgraduate diploma 2% to 5%. On 100 marks that is 2 to 5 marks (arithmetic). SSC's result write-up says these are awarded in the final result to candidates who produce the certificate at the PE&MT/DV. If you already hold one dated on or before the closing date of the form, claim it in the form.
How high do you need to go? In the 2025 CBE result, the cut-off to reach the physical test was 70.05181 for Unreserved and OBC men, 68.54551 for EWS men, 62.83696 for SC men and 60.08088 for ST men; for women it was 63.52622 (UR), 63.05564 (OBC), 61.55681 (EWS), 54.60305 (SC) and 49.06871 (ST). See cut-offs. Those lines admitted around 12 candidates per vacancy, so final selection needs more. They are history, not a forecast.
2. Know your time per question
90 minutes, 100 questions, one clock for the whole paper. That is 54 seconds a question (arithmetic).
The notice sets no sectional timer, so the split is yours. One workable budget, which is our suggestion and should be adjusted from your own mocks:
| Part | Questions | Suggested time | Seconds per question |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. General Knowledge/Current Affairs | 50 | 25 min | 30 |
| D. Computer | 10 | 5 min | 30 |
| B. Reasoning | 25 | 30 min | 72 |
| C. Numerical Ability | 15 | 20 min | 80 |
| Review | 10 min |
The logic: a General Knowledge or computer question is known or not known, so it should be fast, and the time saved goes to figures and calculation. Sixty questions of that kind in half an hour leaves a full hour for the 40 that need working. If a Numerical Ability question has taken two minutes, mark it and move on; it carries the same 1 mark as a one-line General Knowledge question.
3. Decide when to guess
The scheme is +1 for a right answer and -0.25 for a wrong one.
- Break-even chance of being right: 0.25 divided by 1.25, which is 20%, or 1 in 5.
- A blind guess among four options is right 25% of the time. Its expected value is +0.0625 marks a question (0.25 x 1 minus 0.75 x 0.25). Over ten blind guesses that is about half a mark, with a wide swing either way.
- After eliminating one option the expected value is about +0.17 marks a question, and after eliminating two it is +0.375.
This is arithmetic from the marking scheme, not SSC advice, and it assumes four options to a question. Our reading: pure blind guessing is close to a coin toss for your score and not worth the risk near a cut-off, while a guess after ruling out even one option is worth making. In a paper that is half General Knowledge, you will often be able to rule out one or two options without knowing the answer, so this matters more here than in a calculation paper. Track your own "guess accuracy" in the mock log (section 7); your data beats our arithmetic.
Remember the floor: 35 for Unreserved, 30 for SC/ST/OBC/EWS and 25 for ex-servicemen, counted without NCC bonus.
4. A four-phase plan
Move between phases on mock results, not on calendar dates. As of 13 November 2026 we did not find an SSC notice for a 2026 Delhi Police Constable examination, so there is no official CBE date to count back from. Candidates of the 2025 cycle who were shortlisted on 19 June 2026 are in the physical-test stage, which Delhi Police schedules.
Phase 1: Foundation. Go through the syllabus part by part. For General Knowledge, cover school-level history, geography, polity and the Constitution, economy and everyday science once, in that or any fixed order, and start a daily current-affairs habit that you keep until the examination. In Numerical Ability, start with fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio, because interest, profit and loss, discount and time-and-work all rest on them. In Reasoning, learn each question type once, slowly. Start running in this phase (section 6).
Phase 2: Topic practice. Untimed sets by topic, then lightly timed ones. Accuracy first. Use Pareeksha's topic-wise practice (Pro) or any set that tags questions by topic, so you can see which topic leaks marks. Finish the computer part in this phase; it is a short list.
Phase 3: Timed parts. Do one part at a time against the budget in section 2: 50 General Knowledge questions in 25 minutes, 25 Reasoning questions in 30. If figure-based Reasoning or Numerical Ability overruns, this is the phase to fix it.
Phase 4: Full mocks and analysis. Sit full 100-question papers in 90 minutes, in the language you will use in the examination, and spend as long analysing each mock as you spent sitting it.
5. Subject tactics from the syllabus
- General Knowledge/Current Affairs: the notice names sports, history, culture, geography, Indian economy, general polity, the Indian Constitution and scientific research, with India and its neighbours emphasised, and says no special study of any discipline is needed. Keep static subjects to school-level basics, revise them on a schedule (facts fade), and read current affairs daily in short sessions with a weekly revision. Keep a single notebook or file of facts you got wrong in practice; with 50 questions, this file is your most valuable revision material.
- Reasoning: the notice says questions are "principally of a non-verbal type". Practise figure series, figural classification, spatial visualization and orientation, and visual-memory types as much as coding-decoding and number series. Figure questions improve with volume.
- Numerical Ability: the named topics are all arithmetic plus mensuration. Keep a one-page sheet of mensuration formulas and percentage-fraction equivalents. With 15 questions spread over 14 named topics, aim to be able to do the standard question in every topic before you chase hard ones in any.
- Computer: word processing, spreadsheets (cells, functions, formulas), e-mail, and Internet terms such as URL, HTTP, FTP, browser and search engine. Do each item on a real computer or phone once, then learn the common terms and keyboard shortcuts. Ten marks from a closed list is the cheapest tenth of the paper.
6. The physical test
The standards are from the notice; the training advice is ours and is general. If you have a health condition, speak to a doctor before you start.
| Up to 30 years | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Race, 1600 metres | 6 minutes | 8 minutes |
| Average pace (arithmetic) | 3 min 45 s per km, 90 s per 400 m lap | 5 min per km, 2 min per 400 m lap |
| Long jump | 14 feet (about 4.27 m) | 10 feet (about 3.05 m) |
| High jump | 3 feet 9 inches (about 1.14 m) | 3 feet (about 0.91 m) |
| Height | 170 cm | 157 cm |
| Chest | 81 cm with 4 cm expansion | not prescribed |
Metric conversions are our arithmetic. Standards for older age groups and the relaxations are on the exam pattern page.
- Respect the men's race. Four laps of a track at 90 seconds each is a fast 1600 metres for someone who has not trained. Fitness for it is built over months, not in the weeks after the result.
- Build distance before speed. Run easily three or four days a week until 2 to 3 km is comfortable, then add one faster session a week, such as repeated 400-metre laps at target pace with rest between them.
- Time yourself on a measured distance. A 400-metre track is easiest: 1600 metres is four laps.
- Practise the jumps, not just the run. Only those who qualify the race go on to the long jump and then the high jump, and each must be cleared in one of three chances. Both are technique events. Practise the run-up and take-off on a proper pit, with supervision if you can, and not on hard ground.
- Rest days are part of training. Doing too much too soon is a common way to get injured.
- Check your measurements and eyesight now. Height and chest cannot be trained for in the usual sense. The notice also requires vision of 6/12 without glasses in both eyes, no colour blindness, and no correction by glasses or surgery. Know where you stand before you invest a year.
- Men: get the driving licence. A valid LMV licence (motorcycle or car) is needed as on the date of the PE&MT, and a learner's licence is not accepted.
The notice says there is no appeal against disqualification in the race, long jump or high jump.
7. A weekly mock-analysis routine
After each mock, write each wrong or skipped question into a log with one of these tags:
- Did not know the fact: common in Part A. Fix: add it to the facts file and revise the file weekly.
- Concept gap: I did not know the method. Fix: study it, then do 10 questions on it.
- Formula or fact slip: I knew it but misremembered. Fix: put it on the revision sheet.
- Time: I ran out of time or overran a part. Fix: practise that part against its budget.
- Careless: misread the question or an option. Fix: slow the first read, not the whole paper.
- Bad guess: I guessed and lost marks. Fix: check your guess accuracy against section 3.
Count the tags every week. The largest tag is next week's work. Add one line for fitness: your timed 1600 metres and your best jumps that week. Compare your percentile, not just your marks: on Pareeksha every candidate in a cohort sits the same fixed paper, so your percentile shows where you stand against others on identical questions. See how it works.
8. Free and paid practice on Pareeksha
- Free: a 10-question mini-mock to try the format, and the Daily Dangal quiz.
- Pro: full CBE-pattern mocks, previous-year papers and topic-wise practice.
What this page does not have
- A fixed number of months or hours. It depends on where you start, so we do not give one.
- A target score. The 2025 CBE cut-offs are on the cut-off page; the final-result marks of that cycle were not published as of 13 November 2026, and we do not estimate them.
- A medical or fitness prescription. The running and jumping advice is general; the medical standard is in para 13 of the official notice.
- Dates for a 2026 examination. We did not find a notice for one as of 13 November 2026.
Related: Syllabus · Exam pattern · Cut-offs