Bihar Police SI 2023 Exam - Dates, Notification, Registration, Admit Card, Syllabus & Exam Pattern

The exam conducting authority determines the eligibility criteria of Bihar Police SI 2026 taking the age and educational qualification for the candidates into consideration. Candidates must fulfil the eligibility criteria of Bihar Police SI before they fill the application form. 

Bihar Police SI Eligibility Criteria 2026 - Age as on January 1, 2026

• General category male candidates must be between 20 and 37 years of age.

• BC and Ext. BC category male candidates must be between 20 and 40 years of age.

• Female candidates belonging to general, backward and extremely backward categories must be between 20 and 40 years of age.

• Both male and Female candidates belonging to the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe must be between 20 and 42 years of age.

Bihar Police SI Eligibility Criteria 2026 - Educational Qualification as on January 1, 2026

Candidates must hold a graduation degree in any stream from a recognised university.

The application form of Bihar Police SI 2026 was released on July 9, 2026, by the examination authority in online mode at bpssc.bihar.gov.in. The last date for the Bihar Police SI application form is August 9, 2026. Before filling the application form of Bihar Police SI, candidates must fulfil the eligibility criteria. Along with filling the Bihar police SI application form 2026, candidates must also pay the prescribed application fee in online mode as per their category.

Application fee 

Candidates can pay the Bihar police SI application fee by using net banking, debit card and credit card. 

In order to fill the application form, candidates must have an active Email ID and mobile number. They must follow the steps given below to fill the application form of Bihar Police SI 2026.

Step 1 - Registration

Step 2 - Filling of details

Step 3 - Uploading of Documents (photograph and signature)

The preliminary exam of Bihar Police SI 2026 is conducted in offline mode. The exam contains 100 objective questions of 2 marks each. Candidates are given 2 hours to complete the preliminary exam of Bihar Police SI 2026. The exam is based on questions from General Awareness and Current Affairs. For each wrong answer given by the candidates, 0.2 marks are deducted. No marks will be deducted if the question is left unanswered.

Bihar Police SI Exam Pattern 2026 - Preliminary Examination

All those candidates who qualify in the prelims exam are eligible to appear in the mains exam of Bihar Police SI 2026.

The mains exam of Bihar Police SI 2026 is conducted for only those candidates who qualify in the prelims examination.  The mains exam of the 2026 Bihar police SI is conducted for two papers - Paper I and II. Bihar police SI Paper I is based on questions from general Hindi, while Paper II will contain questions from general studies, general sciences, Indian history, civics, geography, maths and mental ability. Candidates are allotted 2 hours for each paper. Each question carries 2 marks each while 0.2 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer given by the candidates.

Bihar Police SI Exam Pattern 2026 - mains examination

The exam conducting authority releases the admit card of Bihar Police SI 2026 for the preliminary exam in online mode.  Candidates can download the admit card of Bihar Police SI using their registration ID and password. Only those candidates will be issued the admit card of Bihar Police SI who successfully fill the application form. The admit card of Bihar Police SI 2026 contains the details regarding the candidates and the exam, like the names of the candidates, dates of birth, date and time of examination, and exam centre. 

Candidates must check all the details mentioned on the admit card of Bihar Police SI 2026. A printout of the prelims admit card 2026 must be taken out by the candidates and carried to the exam centres. Along with the admit card of 2026 Bihar Police SI, candidates must also carry one of the prescribed photo identity proofs - Aadhaar card, voter ID card, driving license, PAN card, passport, Employee ID card, and College/University ID card.6

The Bihar police SI 2026 mains admit card will be released on the official website. The admit card is issued to the candidates who qualify the preliminary exam of Bihar Police SI. Candidates must download the Bihar police 2026 mains admit card using their registration number and password.

The Bihar police SI mains admit card 2026 contains the candidate's name, roll number, dates and time of the mains exam, and exam centre. Candidates must carry the Bihar Police mains admit card 2026 to the exam centre on the day of the examination along with the prescribed photo ID proofs. It must be kept in mind that no candidates will be allowed to appear for the exam without the Bihar police SI admit card.

The prelims result of Bihar Police SI  2026 is released online at bppsc.bihar.gov.in. Candidates can check the Bihar police SI 2026 result by filling in the registration number and password. The result of Bihar Police SI 2026 will contain the marks scored by the candidates and their qualifying status. Those who score less than 30% will be referred to as unqualified. As many as 20 times the number of vacancies will be shortlisted for the Bihar police SI mains exam based on their performance. 

The result of Bihar Police SI is declared in online mode on the official website. All those candidates who score 305 and more are referred to as qualified. Candidates as many as 6 times the number of vacancy get shortlisted for the physical test round. The final merit list is prepared by taking the marks of the mains exam into consideration. 

The cut off of Bihar Police SI is released by the exam conducting authority in order to shortlist the candidates for the next round of the selection process. Bihar Police SI cut off 2026 is the minimum marks that the candidates must score in order to qualify for the exam. The cut off 2026 of Bihar Police SI is determined by taking the category of the candidates into consideration. 

Various other factors are taken into consideration while determining the cut off of Bihar Police SI 2026 - total number of vacancies, number of candidates who appeared, and the difficulty level of the question paper. All those candidates who score the minimum cut off of Bihar Police SI 2026 in the prelims exam will be shortlisted to appear in the mains exam of Bihar.

The cut off for the Bihar Police SI 2026 mains exam will be released only for those candidates who appear for the mains exam. Candidates must score the Bihar Police SI cut off score as per their category in order to qualify for the next round of the selection process. Candidates belonging to the SC/ST category must score at least 35.5% marks, Ext.BC/BC category candidates must score 30% marks, whereas candidates belonging to the general category must score 40% to qualify for the mains exam of Bihar Police SI 2026.