The paper
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the Agniveer Technical paper runs to 50 questions in four sections, and two of those sections appear in no other Army category.
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- General Knowledge and Reasoning — 10 questions, as one combined section.
- Mathematics — 15 questions.
- Physics — 15 questions.
- Chemistry — 10 questions.
Under the ARO rally notifications for the 2027 intake, the paper is answered in one hour.
Why this matters before you study anything
Set that against the General Duty shape under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle — General Knowledge 15, General Science 15, Mathematics 15, Logical Reasoning 5.
Twenty-five of the fifty Technical questions are Physics and Chemistry, and neither subject appears as a section in the General Duty paper at all. Meanwhile General Knowledge shrinks from fifteen questions to ten shared with Reasoning.
A candidate who prepares from generic Army Agniveer material has prepared for the wrong half of this paper. That is the single most useful thing this article can tell you.
Who may sit it
Under the Army's published eligibility criteria for the current cycle, the Technical category requires 10+2 in Science with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English. The marks required are fifty per cent in aggregate and forty per cent in each of those subjects. Alternatively, 10+2 in Science together with a one-year ITI course at NSQF level 4 or above.
Note that the per-subject requirement is separate from the aggregate. A candidate can clear one and fall short on the other.
Mathematics — the extended scope
The Technical paper's Mathematics goes beyond the 10th-standard scope used in the General Duty and Tradesmen papers. In addition to the arithmetic, algebra, geometry and mensuration those carry, the published scope for Technical adds:
- Matrices and Determinants
- Analytical Geometry
- Trigonometry
- Integral and Differential Calculus
- Probability and Statistics
That is 10+2 mathematics. A candidate revising Class 10 material for this section is revising the wrong syllabus.
Physics and Chemistry
These are 10+2 subjects, at the standard the eligibility criteria require a candidate to have studied. Under the published documents for the current cycle, Physics carries fifteen questions and Chemistry ten, which is half the paper between them.
The most useful framing for preparation is that these two sections are testing material a Technical-eligible candidate has already covered at school, under time pressure. Under the notifications for the current cycle the whole paper is fifty questions in one hour, so twenty-five Physics and Chemistry questions have to be done in roughly half of it.
General Knowledge and Reasoning — a combined section, half-scoped
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the Technical document merges what the General Duty document keeps apart, into a single General Knowledge and Reasoning section of ten questions.
It then scopes only the General Knowledge half — the reasoning component has no published topic list, in this document or in any other we have read.
This is the same gap the General Duty paper has, in a different shape. Any Reasoning topic list you see for this paper — ours included — is somebody's editorial judgement rather than the Army's syllabus, and we label ours as exactly that wherever it appears.
The General Knowledge half is scoped, and its wording is the same as in the other categories. It covers India and its neighbouring countries, on history, culture, geography and who's who. It adds abbreviations, sports, awards, terminology and the Indian Armed Forces. It also covers inventions and discoveries, the Constitution of India, international organisations, books and authors, and recent events in India and worldwide.
The boundary
The Army's own syllabus document says it, and 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.
No material can claim to cover this paper — the Army has said 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. A source telling you it covers everything is contradicting the Army's own document.
What to do
- Check the per-subject eligibility, not just the aggregate.
- Revise 10+2 mathematics, including calculus, matrices and trigonometry — not Class 10 material.
- Give Physics and Chemistry half your preparation, because they are half the paper.
- Treat any Reasoning topic list as editorial, including ours.
- Read the syllabus document attached to your own ARO's notification.
Related reading
- The Army Agniveer Categories, and Why the Category Decides Your Paper
- What "Within the Syllabus of CBSE" Means — and Why No Guide Can Claim to Cover the Army Paper
- How the Army Agniveer CEE Actually Runs — Length, Sections, Languages and Normalisation
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