Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)

Updated: Jan 9, 2024

CAPF is a competitive exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission to recruit the candidates in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). The candidates recruited, join the forces as Assistant Commandant (AC).

The following forces recruit the candidates through this exam.

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
Border Security Force (BSF)
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

EXAM HIGHLIGHTS

CAPF exam is held every year and the exam highlights are given below:

Exam Name	Central Armed Police Forces (Assistant Commandant)
Conducting Body	Union Public Service Commission
Geographical Scope	All India
Exam Frequency	Once in a year
Exam Mode	Offline
Exam Stages	Written+Physical+Interview/Personality Test
Exam Language	English and Hindi
Exam Helpdesk	011-23098543
Official website	upsc.gov.in

EXAM DATES

Event	Dates	Salient Features
UPSC CAPF 2020 Notification	April 22, 2020	The UPSC will issue the official notification and the CAPF application will start
UPSC CAPF 2020 Application End	May 12, 2020	The online application will close on this day.
UPSC CAPF Written Exam 2020	August 9, 2020	The CAPF written exam will be conducted in two sessions.
UPSC CAPF Written Exam Result	September 2020 (tentative)	The UPSC will declare the CAPF written exam result.
UPSC CAPF Physical Standard/ Physical Efficiency Test and Medical Standard Test	October 2020 (tentative)	The Physical/Medical exam will be conducted by an Authority designated by UPSC.
UPSC CAPF Physical Test Result	November 2020 (tentative)	The result will be declared to select the candidates for the CAPF Personality Test
UPSC Interview/personality test	December 2020 (tentative)	The CAPF interview/personality test will be conducted at the UPSC office premises.
UPSC CAPF Final Result 2020	January 2021 (tentative)	The result will be declared after the Personality Test

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

UPSC describes the eligibility criteria for the CAPF exam in the official notification.

Nationality:

The candidate must be a citizen of India.
The candidates who are subject of Nepal and Bhutan are also allowed to apply in the exam.
No other candidate can apply for the UPSC CAPF exam.

Age limit :

The lower age limit for the CAPF exam is 20 years and the upper age limit is 25 years. The age is calculated from August 1 of the exam year. For appearing in the UPSC CAPF exam 2020, the candidates must have been born not earlier than August 2, 1995 and not later than August 1, 2000.

The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable.

Category	Relaxation
Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe	five years
Other Backward Classes	three years
Civilian Central Government Servants	five years Ex-Servicemen will also be eligible for this relaxation.
Domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1989	five year

However, the total relaxation claimed on account of Government Service will be limited to five years.

Educational Qualification :

The candidate must hold a Bachelors degree from any recognised university.

The candidates who appear in the final year of their degree course can also apply for the exam but they have to produce the final year mark sheet of the qualifying exam with the detailed application form.

Possession of NCC ‘B’ or ‘C’ Certificates:

The candidates having the NCC ‘B’ or ‘C’ Certificate will be given preference at the time of Interview. These qualifications will be given consideration at the time of Interview/Personality Test only.

Physical Standards:

The UPSC CAPF notification prescribes the physical and medical standards in a very comprehensive manner. The minimum requirements for the candidate are as follows:

	Men	Women
Height	165 cm	157 cm
Chest(unexpanded)	81 cm (with 5 cm minimum expansion)	(Not applicable)
Weight	50 kg	46 kg

Medical Standards:

(a) Eyesight:
	Better eye (corrected vision)	Worse eye (corrected vision)
Distant vision	6/6 OR 6/9	6/12 OR 6/9
Near Vision	N6 (corrected)	N9 (corrected)

SELECTION PROCESS

After the successful filling up the UPSC CAPF Application form and submitting the exam fees, the admit card will be issued to the candidates online . The UPSC CAPF exam consists of three stages. All the three stages are given below:

UPSC CAPF Exam Stage I - Written Exam - 450 marks

The stage I is the written examination. The written exam consists of two papers-

Paper Name	Marks	Time Duration
Paper-I - General and Mental Ability	250 marks	2 hours
Paper-II - General Studies, Essay and Comprehension	200 marks	3 Hours
Total	450 marks

The paper I will be the objective type question paper and paper II will be the conventional essay type question paper having two parts.

UPSC CAPF Exam Stage II -Physical Standards/Physical Efficiency Tests and Medical Standards Tests

The Physical Efficiency and Medical Standard test are only qualifying in nature. The candidates need to meet the standard prescribed in the CAPF notification.

After passing the Stage I, the candidates need to undergo the Physical Efficiency and Medical Standard Test.

Physical Efficiency Tests (PET)

	Males	Females
100 Meters race	In 16 Seconds	In 18 seconds
800 Meters race	In 3 minutes 45 seconds	In 4 minutes 45 seconds
Long Jump	3.5 Meters (3 chances)	3.0 meters (3 chances)
Shot Put (7.26 Kgs)	4.5 Meters

Pregnancy at the time of PET will be a disqualification and pregnant female candidate will be rejected.

UPSC CAPF Stage III: Interview/Personality Test - 150 marks

The candidates declared passed in the second stage of the CAPF exam, will be called for the interview/personality test. The interview/ personality test will be conducted on the UPSC premises in New Delhi. After the interview/personality test, the final result will be declared.

RESTRICTION ON APPEARING

Any candidate who has been selected as the Assistant Commandant in any of the forces are restricted to apply again in the exam.

CAPF TIE BREAKING PRINCIPLE

UPSC issued new guidelines for the tie-breaking resolving. The candidates having equal marks in the final aggregate total is called a tie situation and such a situation will be resolved based on the age of the candidate. It means that in the case of tie-breaking, the older candidate will be given preference in the rank.

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Contents

EXAM HIGHLIGHTS

EXAM DATES

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

SELECTION PROCESS

RESTRICTION ON APPEARING

CAPF TIE BREAKING PRINCIPLE

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