CISF Recruitment Exam Pattern 2025: Post-wise Exam Pattern, Negative Marking

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: The Central Industrial Security Force releases the CISF exam pattern 2025 on its official website along with the notification. The exam pattern for CISF may vary according to the post candidate is applying for. The CISF recruitment is for Head Constable (Ministerial), Constable/Driver, Constable/Driver-cum-Pump Operator, Constable/Tradesman, ASI (Stenographer), and other posts. UPSC conducts Exam for

According to the CISF exam pattern, the exam is divided into 4 sections: General Intelligence, General Reasoning, Arithmetic/Quantitative Aptitude, and General English/Hindi. All questions asked in the CISF exam 2025 are of objective type. There is no negative marking in the CISF exam for Head Constable and other posts. The duration of the CISF head constable exam is 2 hours and the total number of questions will be 100 (25 questions in each section).

Students preparing for the exam must be aware of the exam pattern along with the CISF syllabus 2025. The questions asked in the CISF exam are of 10+2 or 10th level depending upon the post candidate applied for.

After the examination is conducted and CISF result 2025 is released, skill tests and detailed medical examinations will also be conducted. Candidates must qualify both CISF Skill Test and medical examination to make it into the final merit list. Students must score at least minimum qualifying marks to be called for the skill test and medical examination. The CISF qualifying marks for UR/EWS/Ex-SM is 35%, and for SC/ST/OBC it is 33%.

CISF 2025: Exam Pattern 

The CISF exam 2025 is conducted for various posts such as Head Constable (Ministerial), Assistant Commandant (Executive), Assistant Sub Inspector (Stenographer), Constable/Driver, Constable/Driver-cum-Pump Operator, and others. It is important to know the post-wise exam pattern for the CISF Recruitment exam as it may vary for each post. 

As per the CISF Recruitment 2025, the process starts with the Height BarT. Candidates who qualify the Height Bar Test (HBT) are called for the Physical Standard Test (PST). Those students who qualify the PST are called for the documentation process following which students can take the CISF written exam.

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: Head Constable 

The Central Industrial Security Force released the CISF Head Constable Exam Pattern last year in September in the official notification. As per the official notification, the CISF Head Constable exam is of 2 hours. There are 100 multiple-choice questions in the CISF head constable exam. Candidates can check the detailed exam pattern in the table below:

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: Assistant Sub Inspector (Stenographer)

The CISF ASI (Steno) exam pattern is as same as Head Constable (Ministerial) exam pattern. Interested candidates can check the CISF Assistant Sub Inspector exam pattern in the table below:

Note: There is no negative marking in the CISF Recruitment 2023 exam.

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: Constable Driver

Candidates who wish to get recruited for the position of CISB Constable Driver have to go through Height Bar Test, Physical Standard Test, and Document Verification. After the document verification process, a driving test will also be conducted. Applicants are required to achieve the minimum qualifying marks in the CISF driving test. The CISF driver exam pattern is tabulated below:

Note: - Because the Trade Test is only qualifying in nature, the marks obtained are not used to determine a candidate's merit position. Candidates must, however, obtain minimum qualifying marks in order to move on to the next stage of the recruitment process. The next stage for the CISF Constable exam is the written examination, the exam pattern of which is as follows:

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: Tradesman 

As per CISF Constable Tradesman exam pattern, the recruitment process is of two stages:

• PST/PET, Documentation & Trade Test. 
• OMR Based /CBT mode written examination which will be bilingual i.e. Hindi & English.

Note: The trade test will be conducted for the job post candidate has chosen. For example, if a candidate wishes to apply for a position of a cook, then he should know Cooking of Chapati & Rice, Cooking of vegetables/Dal/Samber / Idli etc., and Cooking of Meat/Fish/Egg/Kheer, etc. Similarly for other posts like Cobbler, Tailor, Sweeper, and Barber, aspirants have to showcase their skills and achieve minimum qualifying marks.

Once the CISD tradesman trade test is conducted, qualified students will be called for the written test. The CISF tradesman exam pattern is tabulated below:

CISF Exam Pattern 2025: Assitant Constable (AC) (Executive)

As per CISF AC (EXE) LDCE exam pattern, the exam is conducted in two stages. The CISF AC Stage 1 includes questions from General Ability & Intelligence and Professional Skills, while Stage 2 includes questions from Essay and Precis Writing & Comprehension. The Stage 1 & Stage 2 exam pattern for CISF AC (EXE) LDCE is tabulated below:

CISF AC LDCE Exam Pattern: Stage I

The stage 1 question paper has two sections: a) General Ability & Intelligence and b) Professional Skills. Each section has 75 questions. Each question carries 2 marks. The duration of the CISF AC (EXE) LDCE exam (Stage I) is 2.5 hours or 150 minutes. 

CISF AC LDCE Exam Pattern: Stage II

The stage II has again two sections: a) Essay and b) Precis Writing & Comprehension. The essay can be answered in English or Hindi. Each section is of 50 marks. The duration of the CISF AC LDCE exam (Stage II) is 2 hours.