The paper
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the Agniveer General Duty paper runs to 50 questions in four sections.
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- General Knowledge — 15 questions.
- General Science — 15 questions.
- Mathematics — 15 questions.
- Logical Reasoning — 5 questions.
The Tradesmen and Women Military Police papers share this shape under the same documents, with the section order varying and the counts unchanged. Under the ARO rally notifications for the 2027 intake, the paper is answered in one hour.
General Knowledge — the Army's own words
The scope below is quoted from the Army's published syllabus document, and the wording is identical across the General Duty, Tradesmen and Women Military Police documents. We quote rather than paraphrase, because a paraphrase of a syllabus is somebody's reading of it.
Questions relating to India and its neighbouring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography and who's who. In addition Abbreviations, Sports, Awards and prizes, Terminology, Indian Armed Forces, Continents and Sub Continents, Inventions and Discoveries, the Constitution of India, International Organizations, Books and Authors, Knowledge of Important events that have happened in India and at world level in the recent years, Current important world events, Prominent personalities etc.
A few things are worth drawing out of that.
"India and its neighbouring countries" is a deliberate framing. The geography and history asked are oriented around India and its region rather than being global in the abstract.
"Indian Armed Forces" is named explicitly as a topic. Ranks, structure, and the services themselves are in scope.
"Recent years" and "current important world events" mean this section has a moving part. A candidate cannot finish General Knowledge months in advance and leave it.
"etc." is doing real work at the end of that list, and we come back to it below.
General Science — the Army's own words
Again quoted verbatim, and again identical across those documents.
Topics related to Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Based on fundamentals and day to day activity — difference between the living and non-living, basis of life: cells, protoplasms and tissues, growth and reproduction in plants and animals, elementary knowledge of human body and its important organs, common epidemics, their causes and prevention etc.
The phrase to notice is "based on fundamentals and day to day activity". The named topics lean heavily biological, and the framing points at understanding rather than at recall of advanced material.
Mathematics
The published scope for the 10th-standard papers covers Number Systems, Fundamental Arithmetical Operations, Algebra, Geometry and Mensuration.
This is Class 10 mathematics as a candidate will recognise it. What changes in an exam is not the difficulty but the pace: under the notifications for the current cycle the whole paper is fifty questions in one hour, so the fifteen Mathematics questions have to be done in roughly a quarter of that.
Logical Reasoning — and here we have to be straight with you
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the Pattern table for General Duty lists four sections, and Logical Reasoning is one of them at five questions.
The Syllabus section beneath that table scopes only three — general Knowledge, General Science and Mathematics each have a topic list. There is no fourth. The same holds across the General Duty, Tradesmen and Women Military Police documents.
So Logical Reasoning is examined and unscoped. Its topics are published nowhere in the documents we have read.
What that means for you, said plainly:
- Anyone presenting a Logical Reasoning "syllabus" for this paper is presenting their own selection, not the Army's.
- That includes us. Where we cover Reasoning, we cover it at CBSE level, on our own reading of what such a paper normally asks, and we say so wherever it appears.
- The only adjacent official signal is the Technical paper, which merges the two into a single "General Knowledge and Reasoning" section and scopes only the General Knowledge half.
We would rather tell you that a topic list is our editorial judgement than present it as syllabus. Five questions of fifty is worth preparing for, and it is not worth being misled about.
The boundary that no material may cross
The Army's own syllabus document states it, and we quote it because it governs everything above:
The above syllabus is not a comprehensive list of topics pertaining to the subject… At times questions may be asked other than the above topics but definitely within the syllabus of CBSE.
So the published list is indicative, and the real boundary is the CBSE syllabus.
This has a consequence for how you should read any preparation material, including ours. No material can claim to cover this paper. The Army has said in terms that the paper is not confined to the published list. What material can honestly say is that it covers every topic the Army publishes, with the CBSE boundary stated. That is what we say. A source telling you it covers everything is contradicting the Army's own document.
What to do
- Read the syllabus document for your own category, from your ARO's notification.
- Work from the verbatim scope above, rather than from a paraphrase.
- Keep General Knowledge running, because the current-affairs component moves.
- Treat any Reasoning topic list as editorial, including ours.
- Use the CBSE syllabus as the outer boundary, because the Army says that is what it is.
Related reading
- How the Army Agniveer CEE Actually Runs — Length, Sections, Languages and Normalisation
- What "Within the Syllabus of CBSE" Means — and Why No Guide Can Claim to Cover the Army Paper
- The Army Agniveer Categories, and Why the Category Decides Your Paper
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