Delhi Police AWO/TPO Syllabus

The Delhi Police AWO/TPO syllabus covers five CBE subjects and preparation for later practical assessments. The official notice calls the written syllabus indicative. Use it as the authority for the named areas, then expand each area into a personal revision checklist. The study order and practice exercises below are preparation suggestions, not extra official syllabus rules.

This page follows the 2025 recruitment notice. It does not assume that a future notification will repeat every detail. Keep a copy of the notice you are applying under, mark any later corrigendum and review your topic list before buying materials or following a coaching timetable.

Table of Contents

Syllabus and Study Priorities

Study time should reflect both marks and your present level. A strong mathematics student may need more science revision than someone returning to algebra after several years. Begin with evidence from a diagnostic test rather than copying another candidate’s timetable.

General Awareness: Build a Usable Revision System

The awareness section tests understanding of events and the environment around you, including India and neighbouring countries. Organise static material into history and culture, geography, economy, polity and scientific developments. Keep each topic connected to a question you can answer, rather than copying long descriptions.

For current events, note what happened, the institution involved and why it matters. When a news story concerns a constitutional body or a geographical location, revise the related static fact at the same time. This connects new information to existing knowledge and makes later recall easier.

Use a short weekly self-test to find what you have forgotten. Retain difficult facts in a compact revision list and remove duplicates. A large folder of unread current-affairs files is not evidence of coverage. Check whether you can retrieve the information without opening your notes.

General Science: Physics and Chemistry

The notified physics areas include motion and mechanics, gravity, pressure, thermodynamics, heat, sound, measurement, electricity, magnetism, electronics, fibre optics and communication. Revise the meaning of each quantity before applying a relation. Use sketches where they make a circuit, force or communication process easier to understand.

For electricity, practise identifying the quantities in a question, checking units and deciding whether the relation applies. For mechanics, draw the situation and separate the given values from what is being asked. A correctly remembered formula can still produce the wrong answer when a value is substituted in the wrong unit.

The chemistry list includes everyday chemicals and their uses, changes and reactions, catalysts, acids, atomic numbers, element symbols and electrochemistry. Create a table connecting a substance to its common use or property, then test yourself in both directions. Review the difference between physical and chemical change through examples.

Do not assume that every topic in a generic science book has equal relevance. First complete the official indicative areas, then use relevant previous questions to judge depth. Keep factual recall and numerical understanding in separate practice sets before combining them.

Mathematics: From Basics to Mixed Questions

• Number work: Build confidence with simplification, number systems, fractions, percentages and ratio. These skills support later arithmetic and data interpretation.

• Applied arithmetic: Practise averages, interest, profit and loss, discounts, time and work, and speed-distance situations. Write what each percentage is a percentage of.

• Algebra: Revise equations, indices, surds, graphs and sequences. Check a solution by substitution when practical.

• Shape and measurement: Connect geometry, mensuration and trigonometry to clear diagrams. Label units and distinguish length, area and volume.

• Counting and data: Study the notified permutation-combination and data-interpretation areas. Read headings and units before calculating.

Use untimed examples to learn a method, then introduce a time limit. If speed work begins before the method is stable, you may simply repeat the same mistake faster. Keep one corrected example for each recurring problem in your AWO/TPO study notes.

Reasoning: Learn the Structure of the Question

The indicative list includes analogy, series, coding-decoding, blood relations, directions and ranking, syllogisms, Venn diagrams, seating arrangements, inequalities, input-output, data sufficiency, critical thinking and non-verbal figures. Group your practice by the underlying task: finding a rule, organising conditions, comparing statements or rotating and matching shapes.

For arrangements, translate every statement into a compact diagram and distinguish a confirmed position from a possibility. For syllogisms, test only what follows from the stated relationships. Do not add everyday assumptions. For series and coding, check the rule against every given term before selecting an option.

Use short mixed sets after individual question families are familiar. Record whether a missed question came from a wrong representation, a missed condition or an unsupported inference. That diagnosis is more useful than labelling the whole section weak.

Computer Knowledge and Practical Computer Work

CBE topics include word processing, spreadsheets, email, internet services, websites, web browsers and related fundamentals. Learn what common functions do and when they are used. For spreadsheets, distinguish a cell, a range and a formula; for word processing, connect formatting terms to an actual document.

Later computer proficiency work requires practical action, so build a separate task list. Type from a printed passage, save the file under a specified name, format a paragraph, insert a table and practise basic spreadsheet and presentation operations. Objective knowledge and practical fluency reinforce each other, but neither fully replaces the other.

The reading-and-dictation trade test is another separate skill. Practise listening accurately, preserving message meaning and reading Hindi and English passages clearly. Do not confuse that task with the English word-processing test.

Overlap Between Written and Later Stages

This overlap is a planning aid, not a change to the selection scheme. Continue preparing for stage-specific tasks even when they carry no written marks. A qualifying requirement remains compulsory.

A Phased Syllabus Completion Plan

In the first phase, identify missing prerequisites and complete one manageable topic at a time. End each study session with a few closed-book questions. Track topics as not started, learned, practised and revised rather than simply completed. The extra distinction prevents a first reading from being mistaken for mastery.

In the second phase, combine topics in sectional practice and return to weaknesses identified by mistakes. Use the AWO/TPO mock-test guide to plan analysis as well as attempts. A test without review tells you where you stand but does little to change it.

In the final phase, rotate full papers, revision and practical work. On Testkart, check whether any available resource follows the AWO/TPO subjects before using it. Avoid assuming that a generic police test covers the required science and computer areas. Testkart resource descriptions should be compared with your own checklist, not used as a substitute for the official syllabus.

Coverage Checks Before You Call a Topic Complete

A topic is not complete merely because you watched a lesson. First explain the central idea without notes. Then solve a straightforward question, a question with changed wording and a question mixed with another topic. This progression checks understanding, recognition and transfer separately.

For example, after revising percentages, solve a direct percentage calculation, a successive-change problem and a data-interpretation item that uses percentages inside a table. If the last task fails, the issue may be recognising the method rather than remembering the formula. Record that distinction in your revision list.

For reasoning, revisit an arrangement with one condition altered instead of memorising a finished diagram. For computers, explain the purpose of an application function and then perform a small task using it. For science, predict what changes when a quantity increases before substituting values into a relation.

Keep an uncovered-topics list separate from your error log. The first records material you have not studied. The second records mistakes in material you thought you knew. Both matter, but they need different actions. Use the AWO/TPO exam overview to keep the full recruitment sequence visible while working through these subject-level details.

Official Syllabus and Updates

Check the official AWO/TPO recruitment notice for the complete rules and Delhi Police recruitment updates for stage-specific instructions. The rules described here belong to the 2025 recruitment cycle; do not transfer its age reference date or application window to a future notification.