Free Mock Tests for Other BPSC Exams: Auditor, LDC, ASO, DSO, Head Master, Town Planner

The Bihar Public Service Commission runs far more than the Combined Competitive Examination. In 2025–26 it has held or announced exams for Auditors, Lower Division Clerks, Assistant Section Officers, District Statistical Officers, Assistant Town Planners and school teachers, and candidates keep asking us for free mock tests for each of them.

Here is the practical point: the first paper of almost every BPSC exam is an objective General Studies paper, built from the same material as the CCE prelims (history, geography, polity, economy, science, mental ability and current affairs, with Bihar in each), and since May 2026 every BPSC objective paper is marked the same way: five options, −1/3 for a wrong answer, (E) for a question you skip. So our free tests, written for the 72nd BPSC prelims, are usable practice for all of them. This page gives the pattern and the status of each exam as of 23 October 2026, then the tests to use.

The exams at a glance

Exam pattern

BPSC Auditor exam (Advt. No. 09/2026)

The Auditor posts belong to the Bihar Panchayat Audit Service under the Panchayati Raj Department: 102 posts, advertised in January 2026 with applications in February. The selection has three stages: a preliminary objective test, a main written examination and an interview.

The prelims was held on 5 July 2026 in a single morning shift: one General Studies paper of 150 questions for 150 marks in two hours, on an OMR sheet with the five-option (E) rule. BPSC published the result on 22 August 2026: 10,856 candidates appeared and 1,248 qualified for the Mains on the basis of their General Studies marks. The cut-offs were reported in thirds of a mark, which confirms the 1/3 negative marking. The Mains date has not been announced; coaching sites describe it as General Hindi, two General Studies papers and one optional paper from Economics, Commerce, Mathematics and Statistics, so confirm the scheme from the advertisement before you plan. Eligibility is a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Commerce or Mathematics, or an MBA, CA or ICWA qualification.

What to practise: the prelims is a pure GS paper, so the full-length GS mock tests and the Bihar special test below are the closest match. Those who have cleared the prelims should use the current-affairs sets and the economy quiz for the Mains GS papers.

BPSC Assistant Urban Welfare Officer (AUWO)

There is no Assistant Urban Welfare Officer examination to prepare for yet. The post people mean is the Assistant Town Welfare and Registration Officer (सहायक नगर कल्याण एवं निबंधन पदाधिकारी) of the Urban Development and Housing Department, created by the Bihar Town Welfare and Registration Cadre Rules, 2021. BPSC’s 2026 examination calendar lists 285 posts without an advertisement number and marks the exam as postponed by the department. Under the cadre rules the recruitment test has two papers, one compulsory and one optional, of 100 marks each; the detailed scheme will come with the advertisement. Any graduate can apply, with a minimum age of 21. Until it is advertised, treat any “AUWO mock test” with caution and build the General Studies base that every BPSC paper needs.

BPSC Lower Division Clerk (Advt. No. 43/2025) and the Panchayati Raj clerk question

The LDC recruitment of 2025 was for 26 clerk posts in the Commission’s own office in Patna, not in the Panchayati Raj Department. The scheme allows a prelims if applications cross 40,000; BPSC went straight to the Mains on 20 September 2025: two OMR papers of 2 hours 15 minutes each, General Hindi in the morning and General Knowledge in the afternoon, followed by a typing and computer test. The written result came on 21 November 2025 and the typing and computer tests were held on 17–18 January 2026, with 29 candidates called for document verification. On 21 August 2026 BPSC cancelled those typing tests and the verification “for technical reasons”; fresh dates had not been announced as of 23 October 2026. Eligibility was Intermediate (10+2) with computer typing, age 18 to 37 for unreserved men.

If you are looking for the Panchayati Raj Department’s clerk posts: the Gram Panchayat Sachiv (Panchayat Secretary) recruitment is run by the Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC), not BPSC, and BSSC uses its own pattern, including 1/4 negative marking in its prelims. BPSC has no separate Panchayati Raj clerk exam in 2026. For either exam, the General Knowledge paper is the part our tests cover.

BPSC Assistant Section Officer (Advt. No. 37/2025)

41 posts in the BPSC secretariat, advertised in May 2025. The prelims on 10 September 2025 was a 150-question objective paper of 2 hours 15 minutes in three equal parts: General Studies, General Knowledge and current affairs, and reasoning and mental ability. It carried negative marking; it was held before the (E) rule began. The prelims result came on 23 December 2025, the Mains was written on 27 February 2026, its result and the provisional list for document verification were published on 10 August 2026, and verification ran from late August. The final result is awaited. There is no interview. Eligibility: any graduate, age 21 to 37 for unreserved men.

BPSC District Statistical Officer and Assistant Director (Advt. No. 38/2025)

47 posts in the Planning and Development Department for candidates with a master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Economics. The prelims on 3 August 2025 was an objective General Studies paper of 150 marks in two hours; the result came on 3 November 2025. The Mains was held on 29 and 31 January 2026, its result and the interview shortlist were published on 10 August 2026, and the interview dates are awaited.

BPSC Assistant Town Planner (Advt. No. 89/2025)

35 posts in the Urban Development and Housing Department for post-graduates in town, urban, regional or allied planning. Selection is by a single objective paper of 125 questions in two hours on town planning (urban and regional planning, housing, transport, environmental planning and planning law), followed by document verification; the minimum qualifying marks are 40% for unreserved candidates, 36.5% for BC, 34% for EBC and 32% for SC, ST, women and PwD. The exam was first fixed for 30 January 2026, postponed by a notice of 13 January, and rescheduled with two other departmental exams in the spring; the 2026 calendar listed 9 May 2026. Check BPSC’s notice board for the answer key and result. Because the paper is technical, our GS tests help only with general awareness; use them for that and rely on your planning syllabus for the rest.

BPSC Head Master and Head Teacher

The last recruitments were Advertisement No. 25/2024 (Head Teacher, primary schools, about 40,000 posts) and No. 26/2024 (Head Master, secondary schools, 6,061 posts). Both were single objective papers of 150 questions and 150 marks: 100 questions of General Studies and 50 questions on D.El.Ed (Head Teacher) or B.Ed (Head Master) content such as child development, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment. The exams were held on 28 and 29 June 2024 and the results came on 1 November 2024. Both posts are for serving teachers with the required years of service. As of 23 October 2026 BPSC has issued no new Head Master or Head Teacher advertisement and neither appears in the 2026 calendar; when one comes, expect the five-option (E) rule to apply. The General Studies part is two-thirds of the paper, which is where our tests fit.

BPSC CDPO

Child Development Project Officer last had its own exam under Advertisement No. 03/2021 (55 posts; prelims 2022, final result 2023). Since then CDPO has been filled through the Combined Competitive Examination: the 72nd CCE includes 20 CDPO posts. So “BPSC CDPO mock test” now means the CCE prelims, for which our 72nd BPSC page and the full-length mock tests are the preparation.

School teachers: TRE 4.0

The biggest current BPSC exam is the fourth teacher recruitment, Advertisement No. 15/2026, for 32,388 posts, with applications closing on 26 October 2026. Its paper has a General Studies part of 40 to 120 questions depending on the class group. We have a separate TRE 4.0 guide with the pattern, syllabus and dates.

Syllabus in brief

Across these exams the objective General Studies paper draws on the same list:

• History of India and of Bihar, including the national movement.
• Geography of India and Bihar; environment.
• Indian polity and the Constitution; Panchayati Raj.
• Indian and Bihar economy; the Union and state budgets and economic surveys.
• General science and everyday technology.
• Current affairs of national and international importance, with Bihar news.
• Elementary mathematics and mental ability (a separate part in the ASO prelims and in the teacher exams).

The CCE prelims syllabus on our BPSC syllabus page is the fullest statement of it; the departmental exams test the same subjects with fewer questions per topic.

Free mock tests for the other BPSC exams

Start with a full-length GS mock test to find your weak subjects, then use the subject tests and the Bihar previous-year questions on them. Every test is free and needs no sign-up.

• Head Teacher and Head Master mock test: 100 questions (GS plus pedagogy and school management)
• 72nd BPSC mock test: 100 GS questions
• BPSC GS mock test: 50 high-priority questions
• Bihar special mock test: 100 Bihar GK questions
• Indian history mock test: 100 questions
• Current affairs mock test 1: 100 questions
• Science and current affairs mock test, set 1
• Budget 2026-27 and Economic Survey quiz: 185 questions
• Bihar history previous-year questions: 152 in one test
• 15-test topic-wise practice series (start with Test 1)
• Physics MCQs: light and sound, 75 questions
• Modern Indian history: 150-question test
• Global indices and reports quiz: 100 questions
• Bihar polity and geography previous-year questions
• Bihar economy previous-year questions

Every test here uses the BPSC format: five options, +1 for a right answer, −1/3 for a wrong one and 0 for (E) Not attempted, with the answer and an explanation shown as soon as you choose. The full list is on the free BPSC mock test series page.

How to use the tests

1. Diagnose: one 100-question GS mock under time (one minute a question). Note the subjects where you lost most marks.
2. Repair: the 15-test topic series and the NCERT quizzes for those subjects, with the explanations.
3. Bihar: the Bihar special test and the three previous-year-question sets; Bihar questions are where departmental papers differ most from all-India material.
4. Current affairs: one set a week from the current affairs section.
5. OMR habit: mark (E) on every question you skip. Leaving a row blank costs 1/3 mark, the same as a wrong answer. The negative marking guide explains the rule and when guessing pays.

Status in 2026

BPSC’s notice of 1 May 2026 changed the answer system for all its MCQ-based examinations: every question now has five options, (E) means “not attempted”, choosing (E) scores zero, and a question with none of the five options marked is treated as unanswered and penalised by 1/3 mark. The rule applied from the examinations that followed, including the Auditor prelims of July 2026 and the TRE 4.0 paper, and it will apply to the pending Auditor Mains and any new advertisement. Exams held before May 2026 (the LDC, ASO and DSO papers of 2025 and the Head Master exams of 2024) had four options.

For dates and results, the official source is the notice board at bpsc.bihar.gov.in; our 72nd BPSC page carries a live feed of its notices.

Frequently asked questions

Does BPSC provide separate mock tests for the Auditor, LDC or ASO exams?

No. BPSC publishes advertisements, syllabi and answer keys, not practice tests. The free tests on this site follow the BPSC objective format and cover the General Studies syllabus these exams share.

Is the negative marking the same in all BPSC exams?

Since May 2026, yes: 1/3 mark for a wrong answer and 1/3 mark for a row left completely blank, with option (E) for questions you choose not to attempt. Exams held before May 2026 followed the scheme in their own advertisements.

Is there a BPSC Assistant Urban Welfare Officer exam in 2026?

Not yet. BPSC’s 2026 calendar lists 285 posts of Assistant Town Welfare and Registration Officer, but the department has postponed the requisition and no advertisement has been issued as of 23 October 2026.

When is the BPSC Auditor Mains?

Not announced as of 23 October 2026. The prelims result of 22 August 2026 qualified 1,248 candidates for the Mains.

Which BPSC exam has the most vacancies right now?

TRE 4.0, the school teacher recruitment under Advertisement No. 15/2026, with 32,388 posts and applications closing on 26 October 2026.

Related pages

• BPSC previous year question papers, 56th to 71st, with answer keys
• BPSC cut-off, 65th to 71st, by category
• BPSC TRE 4.0: exam pattern, syllabus, dates and practice tests
• All free BPSC mock tests and quizzes
• BPSC syllabus and exam pattern 2026
• BPSC negative marking and the Option E rule
• 72nd BPSC 2026: notification, vacancies and exam date

Sources: BPSC notices and results on bpsc.bihar.gov.in (Option E notice of 1 May 2026; Auditor prelims result of 22 August 2026; Advertisement No. 15/2026), the BPSC examination calendar 2026, and reports by Careers360, Free Press Journal, Physics Wallah and Testbook for exam dates and schemes where the official PDF was not read directly. Checked 23 October 2026.