Syllabus
SSC CPO Syllabus 2025: Paper 1
Staff Selection Commission: Central Police Organisation (Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and CAPFs)
SSC publishes an indicative syllabus for Paper 1 in the 2025 recruitment notice. Paper 1 has four separately timed sections with 50 questions and 50 marks each, giving a total of 200 questions for 200 marks in 2 hours.
General Intelligence and Reasoning
50 questions, 50 marks, 30 minutes- • Semantic, symbolic, number and figural analogies and classification
- • Semantic, number and figural series
- • Coding and decoding, word building, numerical operations and symbolic operations
- • Problem solving, analysis, judgment and decision making
- • Spatial orientation and visualization, visual memory, discrimination and observation
- • Relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning, Venn diagrams and drawing inferences
- • Punched-hole and pattern folding or unfolding, embedded figures and figural pattern work
- • Address, date and city matching, indexing, centre-code and roll-number classification
- • Critical thinking, emotional intelligence and social intelligence
General Knowledge and General Awareness
50 questions, 50 marks, 30 minutes- • General awareness of the environment and its application to society
- • Current events
- • Everyday observations and experience in their scientific aspect
- • India and neighbouring countries: history, culture, geography and economic scene
- • General polity and the Indian Constitution
- • Scientific research
Quantitative Aptitude
50 questions, 50 marks, 30 minutes- • Whole numbers, decimals, fractions and relationships between numbers
- • Percentage, ratio and proportion, square roots and averages
- • Interest, profit and loss, discount, partnership business, mixture and alligation
- • Time and distance, time and work
- • Basic algebraic identities, elementary surds and graphs of linear equations
- • Triangles, circles, quadrilaterals, regular polygons, congruence and similarity
- • Prism, cone, cylinder, sphere, hemisphere, rectangular parallelepiped and pyramids
- • Trigonometric ratios, degrees and radians, standard identities, complementary angles, heights and distances
- • Histogram, frequency polygon, bar diagram and pie chart
English Comprehension
50 questions, 50 marks, 30 minutes- • Understanding correct English
- • Basic comprehension
- • Writing ability
Paper 2 comes later
Candidates who qualify the physical stage take Paper 2, an English Language and Comprehension paper with 200 objective questions for 200 marks in 2 hours. The repository syllabus surface for this batch is aligned to the four Paper 1 section names above.
Official source
The Paper 1 topics and examination pattern above follow the Staff Selection Commission notice for Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and CAPFs Examination, 2025. SSC CPO 2025 recruitment notice.
Frequently asked questions
What is the SSC CPO syllabus?
It runs to 4 sections: General Intelligence and Reasoning, General Knowledge and General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension. 27 named topics are listed on this page beneath them, each taken from the official syllabus rather than inferred from past papers.
How many questions are there in the SSC CPO paper, and how long is it?
The Paper 1 stage is 200 questions for 200 marks in 120 minutes. Wrong answers are penalised 0.25 per question. Knowing that alongside the syllabus is what turns a topic list into a plan: it tells you how many marks each section is actually worth and how many minutes you can afford per question.
How do I practise the whole SSC CPO syllabus?
Sit a full mock first, before working through the topic list. A syllabus tells you what can be asked; it does not tell you which parts of it are costing you marks, and most candidates find that is not where they expected. There are 12 free tests for SSC CPO here, and the sectional ones let you rebuild a single section once the full paper has shown you which one to rebuild.
Is this SSC CPO syllabus current?
It is taken from SSC CPO 2025 recruitment notice, cited and linked at the foot of this page, rather than from another preparation site, so you can check it against the source yourself. Syllabuses do change between cycles, usually through a corrigendum to the notification rather than a fresh document, so confirm against the current notice before planning a whole revision cycle around any topic list, including this one.