Lucknow. The UPSSSC PET 2026 exam was held on 25 October 2026 in two shifts. The exam was conducted in offline mode, with candidates given a paper of 100 multiple-choice questions. Total marks were 100 and the duration was 2 hours. The exam was held in both Hindi and English.
As per feedback from candidates who appeared, both shifts of today’s paper were overall Easy to Moderate. General Knowledge and Current Affairs were Easy to Moderate, General Hindi and English were Easy, Elementary Arithmetic and Reasoning were Easy to Moderate, while Data Interpretation and graph-based questions took slightly more time. The paper carried 10 questions each from Current Affairs, General Awareness, Hindi passages, graph interpretation and table interpretation, and 5 questions each from Indian Economy, Constitution, General Science, Elementary Arithmetic, General Hindi, General English, Logic and Reasoning, Indian History, Indian National Movement and Geography.
How to download the question paper: Visit upsssc.gov.in, open the Exam Dashboard link on the homepage, select UPSSSC PET Exam 2026 and click the question paper link to download the PDF. Note that the PET 2026 exam is also scheduled on 30 October and 1 November, so today’s paper will also help candidates appearing in later shifts understand the pattern.
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