Bihar Police SI Prelims Question Paper 2026 Out (18 January), Exam Analysis & Paper PDF

Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) conducted the 1st shift of Bihar Police Sub Inspector Preliminary Examination on 18th January 2026 (10 am to 12 noon). Thousands of candidates appeared in the exam, and after connecting with them, the questions are discussed in this article. If you have your Bihar Police SI Prelims Exam in the upcoming shifts, you must go through the questions asked to understand the difficulty level and what could be expected in the shift.

Bihar Police SI Question Paper 2026 (18 January)

Bihar Police SI Prelims Examination under Advt No. 05/2025 is scheduled for 18th and 21st January 2026 in two shifts each day, with lakhs of candidates going to appear for the exam. The prelims exam includes 100 questions from General Studies, History, Geography, Social System of Bihar, and Current Affairs, with a duration of 2 hours.

As the commission will not allow the candidates to carry their question papers along with them, we are sharing memory-based questions after connecting with the candidates who appeared in 1st shift of 18th January 2026. 

Bihar Police SI Prelims Question Paper 2026 PDF

In this section, we shall be sharing the shift-wise BPSSC SI Prelims Question Paper 2026 and helps the candidates to understand what was asked in the exam. If you are waiting to know the difficulty level of the exam and which questions were asked in today’s exam, keep visiting this page and stay updated.

Questions Asked in Bihar Police SI Prelims Exam 2026

Go through the questions asked in the 1st shift of exam held on 18th January 2026.

1. What is the literacy rate of Bihar according to the 2011 Census?
2. Which river joins the Ganga River near Hajipur?
3. What is the Hindi meaning of the word “Plan”?
4. Mathematics: 5–6 questions
5. Percentage, and formulas of Selling Price (SP) and Cost Price (CP)
6. When is National Space Day observed in India?
7. Who is the Chief Information Commissioner of India?
8. Who is the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
9. Through which constitution was the voting age in India lowered from 21 to 18 years?
10. Which Lok Sabha number’s Speaker did Om Birla become?
11. Which Chief Minister got their name registered in the Guinness World Book?
12. What is the capital of Kanishka?
13. When was NITI Aayog established?
14. Who is the Prime Minister of France?
15. A match the following question was asked on mangrove forests.
16. What did Vasco da Gama discover?
17. A statement-based question was asked.
18. Who coined the term “Green Revolution”?
19. Who is the Home Minister of Bihar?
20. Who started the Champaran Satyagraha?
21. Who invited Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran?
22. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Bhagat Singh’s execution?
23. Where is the longest road bridge in Bihar located?
24. In which state are the Jarawa tribe found?
25. Who is the author of Arthashastra?
26. Who discovered the Cape of Good Hope?
27. When was the word “Secular” added to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution?
28. The expansion of which peasant rebellion extended up to Purnia?
29. In which year (AD) did Bakhtiyar Khilji invade Bihar?
30. When did the Telangana Movement take place?
31. Who discovered penicillin?
32. Which award were the martyrs of the Kargil War honoured with?
33. Where is Kanger Valley National Park located?
34. Where was the first Science Centre of Bihar established?
35. What is the use of baking powder?
36. Who is the writer of wealth of nation?
37. Who was the President of France in 2024?
38. Who is known as the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
39. What does the Strait of Malacca separate?
40. What is the chemical formula of alum (fitkari)?
41. What is the capital of Venezuela?
42. INS Varsha is related to which type of defence installation/submarine base?
43. Who is the National Poet of Bihar?
44. What is the cell wall of fungi made of?
45. What is the capital of Kosovo?
46. Who was the author of Urvashi?
47. What honour was conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mauritius?
48. What is Article 106 of the Indian Constitution related to?

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BPSSC SI Question Paper 2026 Difficulty Level

The difficulty level of the BPSSC Sub-Inspector (Prelims) exam held on the 1st shift of 18th January 2026 will be discussed here shortly. The single paper (100 questions, 200 marks) on General Knowledge and Current Affairs tested awareness, history, polity, geography, science, and reasoning with a mix of factual and analytical questions.

Bihar Police SI Prelims Question Paper 2026 Structure

The Bihar Police SI Prelims 2026 is conducted in a Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) format in offline mode. The exam has covered General Knowledge and Current Affairs. The total number of questions is 100, and candidates must complete the exam in 2 hours.

Bihar Police SI Prelims Exam Timings 2026

Overall, the exam is scheduled for 4 shifts on two days (18th & 21st January 2026). Candidates have to report to their respective exam centre atleast 1.5 hour before the exam starts.