Where CAPF Paper I and Paper II concentrate their marks, by subject and sub-theme
A planning aid, not a guarantee. CAPF papers vary year to year, but the centre of gravity is stable. Weightages below are indicative based on the recurring shape of recent CAPF AC Paper I papers; treat them as a study-prioritisation guide.
| Subject | Rough share | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| General Mental Ability (reasoning + quant + DI) | high | Most scoring section; pure skill, no syllabus to "finish" |
| Indian Polity | high | Dense, high-yield, factual; Constitution and rights recur |
| Geography (India + World) | high | Map facts, physical processes, India economic geography |
| History of India | medium-high | Modern / freedom struggle dominates; some ancient and medieval |
| General Science | medium-high | Everyday science, biology, IT, biotech, environment |
| Indian Economy | medium | Basics of growth, money, banking, budget, schemes |
| Current Events | medium | National and international, last 12 months |
Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles, Parliament and State legislatures, the Union and State executive, the judiciary, federalism and Centre-State relations, constitutional bodies (ECI, CAG, UPSC), amendments, human rights and the NHRC, citizenship, the Preamble and key features.
The freedom struggle (1857 to 1947), the moderate and extremist phases, Gandhian movements, revolutionary nationalism, the Acts ladder (1909, 1919, 1935), Partition and Independence; plus the high points of ancient (Indus, Vedic, Mauryan, Gupta) and medieval (Delhi Sultanate, Mughals, Bhakti-Sufi) India.
Physical geography (geomorphology, climate, oceanography), Indian physiography (Himalayas, plains, peninsula, rivers, monsoon, soils), Indian economic geography (agriculture, minerals, industry), world physical and political geography, borders and neighbours (the CAPF angle), straits and chokepoints.
Human body and health, everyday physics and chemistry, biology and biotechnology, space and defence technology, IT and computing fundamentals, environment and ecology.
National income and growth, money and banking and the RBI, inflation, the budget and fiscal basics, taxation and GST, planning and major schemes, the external sector.
Number system, percentage, ratio, average, time-speed-distance, time and work, profit-loss, simple and compound interest, data interpretation, series, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction, syllogism, seating arrangement, non-verbal reasoning.
Internal security, border management, the five forces and their mandates, AFSPA and disturbed areas, human-rights law and the NHRC, disaster response (NDRF), and India's security relationships with neighbours. This is where CAPF diverges from a generic GK syllabus, and where Paper II essays are won. The long-form treatment of this layer sits in the deep notes module (the security cluster), and the durable, structural slice of current affairs sits in current affairs (thematic).
uncovered or partial is the first to fix.See syllabus index for the clause-by-clause map and master index for the catalog.