UPPSC HEO Syllabus 2025: Exam Pattern, 150 Questions, 450 Marks

The UPPSC Health Education Officer (Swasthya Shiksha Adhikari) screening test is a single two-hour objective paper of 150 questions for 450 marks, in two parts: General Studies and Social Science subject knowledge. The Commission set out this scheme in notice No. 743/02/DR/S-06/2025-26, dated 15 April 2026, for the 221 posts under Advertisement D-6/E-1/2025. Candidates who qualify then face an interview of 50 marks.

Screening test pattern

The UPPSC notice on the HEO exam scheme (15 April 2026) gives this structure:

• Duration: 2 hours for the whole paper.
• Each question carries 3 marks.
• Every question has four alternative answers.
• Negative marking: one third (0.33) of the marks assigned to a question is deducted for each wrong answer.

Marking rules and OMR sheet

The Advertisement No. D-6/E-1/2025 adds the rules that apply to the objective screening test:

• Marking more than one answer is treated as a wrong answer even if one of them is correct, and the same penalty applies.
• A question left blank carries no penalty.
• The Commission evaluates the OMR answer sheet only on the basis of the circles blackened on it.
• Whitener, blade, pin or rubber must not be used on the OMR answer sheet.

Minimum marks and weightage

SC and ST candidates must score at least 35% in the screening test, and candidates of other categories at least 40%, to be placed in the merit or select list; anyone below this standard is treated as disqualified. Only candidates who qualify in the screening test are called for interview.

Syllabus

The 15 April 2026 notice says the syllabus for this exam is available on the Commission's website, uppsc.up.nic.in. When checked on 29 October 2026, the Commission's post-wise syllabus page showed 5 records, none of them for Swasthya Shiksha Adhikari, so the topic-wise syllabus is not reproduced here.

Part II is titled Social Science subject knowledge. For reference, the eligibility for the post is a Master's degree in Sociology or any subject of Social Science, and the advertisement quotes a government letter of 30 October 2024 listing those subjects as Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Political Science, Geography, History and Economics.

The screening test under Advertisement D-6/E-1/2025 was scheduled for 4 October 2026 on this pattern.