SGPGI Nursing Officer Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility

The Examination Cell published the scheme on 1 June 2026. It's the same scheme the Institute has used since at least 2022-23.

The 40 aptitude marks are the same for all twelve posts in the advertisement. The qualifying mark is on the total, and the total is three-fifths nursing. The advertisement's example of a "core section" is one where "60% questions pertained to the core subject Syllabus", defined by the Examination Section for each exam.

Negative marking

The 2025-26 advertisement doesn't state a deduction, though its tie-break counts "Number of wrong answers / negative marks". The previous advertisement for this post, I-68/Rectt/2022-23, gave 1 mark for a correct answer and deducted 1/3 for a wrong one, and the 2023 cut-offs fall on thirds. Check the scheme notice for your cycle.

Tie-break, then and now

Normalization across shifts

Nursing Officer sat over four days, so Annexure 1 of the advertisement applies. Scores are scaled to the shift with the highest average raw score:

X_n = (S2 / S1) × (X − X_av) + Y_av

S2 is the standard deviation of the base shift, S1 that of your shift, X your raw score, X_av your shift's average and Y_av the base shift's average. If the top shift has far fewer candidates than the others, the next one is used, and a shift below 70 per cent of average attendance can't be the base.

SGPGIMS publishes the syllabus in two parts: Part A, shared by every post in the advertisement, and Part B for Nursing Officer, four pages and sixty-five numbered items under nine heads. Both say the syllabus is "only Indicative".

Part A – General Aptitude, 40 marks

Part B – Nursing Officer core subject, 60 marks

The number in brackets is how many items the document lists under each head.

Table 3 of the detailed advertisement gives two routes. Everything must be held as on 1 January 2025.

Experience counts whether the government or semi-government post was regular, outsourced or contractual, if it's certified (with an affidavit if asked). Only experience after the essential qualification counts. A higher qualification is not a disqualification.

Age

Reservation

Reservation follows Uttar Pradesh policy, not the central rules.

• Reserved status is a UP status. A reserved-category candidate from another state is treated as unreserved. Domicile and reservation certificates must be issued by the UP government and verifiable online on its portal.
• The EWS certificate must be for 2025-26, on financial year 2024-25 income, with a cut-off date of 1 January 2025.
• For a woman, the caste certificate on the father's side is the valid one.
• Horizontal reservation for Divyang applies only to identified posts, under the UP Public Services reservation Act of 1993.

A Divyang candidate who needs a scribe must bring their own; neither SGPGIMS nor the exam agency provides one.

Selection is on the Common Recruitment Test marks alone. There's no interview: the Uttar Pradesh Direct Recruitment to Junior Level Posts (Discontinuation of Interview) Rules 2017 cover Group B (non-gazetted), Group C and Group D posts. Nursing Officer is Group B non-gazetted.

Nothing is checked before the paper. Every application with a fee is accepted provisionally, and age, qualification and experience are verified afterwards. If you're found ineligible at any stage, even after the merit list, the candidature is cancelled and the post forfeited. An admit card doesn't mean you're eligible. Check Table 3 against your own certificates before you pay.

The 2025-26 sequence

1. Online application and fee, provisionally accepted.
2. City intimation slip, at least 15 days before the paper.
3. Final admit card, about 48 hours before your date.
4. Preliminary (Stage-I) computer based test, 22 to 25 June 2026 for this post.
5. Main (Stage-II) for those who clear Stage-I. No re-application, no further fee; dates and centres to be announced.
6. Normalization where a post ran in more than one shift.
7. Merit lists by category. The unreserved list draws on all candidates, including reserved ones; a reserved list only on that category.
8. Backlog vacancies under I/42 filled first; the 1,200 fresh vacancies from candidates lower in the same list.
9. Document verification, then appointment.

There's no skill test for Nursing Officer; that applies only to Stenographer and Senior Administrative Assistant. No TA or DA is paid for any stage, disputes go to the Lucknow courts only, and canvassing disqualifies.

The advertisement gives a pay level and a group, but no rupee figure.

What Level 7 pays

SGPGIMS printed the Level 7 band once, in its Staff Nurse advertisement for the Autonomous State Medical Colleges of Uttar Pradesh: Level-7 (₹44,900 – ₹1,42,400). Same level, same state pay matrix. Allowances come on top and neither document states them.

Where the post sits

It's the highest level of the twelve posts advertised in June 2025, and the only Group B one.

Nuclear Medicine Technologist may be revised to Level 6; no such rider applies to Nursing Officer.

Apply online only, through the portal on sgpgims.org.in. Don't post a printed copy; keep one for yourself.

Fee

The fee is not refundable. Horizontal-category candidates pay by their original category, and each post needs its own application and fee. Pay through the SBI gateway (cards, SBI or other net banking), and pay early: the form can't be printed until the bank has adjusted the fee.

Have ready

• Colour photograph, JPG or JPEG, 80 KB maximum; signature, JPEG, 80 KB maximum
• Class 10 and 12 mark sheets, and diploma, graduation and post-graduation certificates as applicable
• Category and sub-category, domicile and experience certificates where applicable
• An e-mail address and mobile number that stay active until recruitment ends

Steps

1. Read the advertisement, How to Apply, FAQs and helpdesk page.
2. Register under "Registration for New Users". The password comes to your mobile and the user id to your e-mail.
3. Fill personal, communication and qualification details, upload documents, submit and pay.
4. Print the form and keep the Application Sequence Number and password. You need them for the admit card and result.

You can amend the form except the mobile number, e-mail, Aadhaar number and category. After final submission nothing can be changed. If you're in regular employment, you need a No Objection Certificate from your employer.

One institute: the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.

It's a teaching hospital with D.M., M.Ch., M.D. and Ph.D. programmes and a College of Nursing, so you'd work alongside nursing students.

"Common Recruitment Test" means common to the twelve posts in one advertisement. It isn't the AIIMS Common Recruitment Examination, which serves 32 participating institutions, and it isn't NORCET.

SGPGIMS did once recruit for others: the Staff Nurse recruitment for the fourteen Autonomous State Medical Colleges of UP, Advertisement No. I/75/Rectt/Autonomous SMC/2022-23, on state government orders. The Director General Medical Education, UP, handled screening, verification, college allocation and appointment. Don't mix up its papers and cut-offs with this post's.

The Institute can cancel or add cities and centres. Under the earlier I-68 advertisement, the three preferred cities couldn't be changed later, and if no slot was free the closest other city was given.

In 2025-26 city slips for all posts came out on 5 June 2026, updated on 8 June 2026.

The live cycle, from the advertisement and later Examination Cell notices on Current Openings.

It took over a year from advertisement to paper, and the exam's shape was settled less than three weeks before it. Expect a long wait and late changes.

Previous cycle

Book travel off the city slip; the venue comes only with the admit card. Download both from sgpgims.org.in with your registration or application number and date of birth. Neither is posted. Stage-II details will be sent to your registered e-mail and mobile, so keep both working.

Results go up on the Institute's recruitment page, in this order:

1. Raw scores by roll number, no names, not in merit order.
2. Corrigendum and revised scores after grievances.
3. Merit list and cut-off by category.
4. List called for document verification.
5. Selection list, then the list of appointment letters issued.

On 24 August 2026 merit lists came out for eight of the twelve posts, with skill-test and Senior Administrative Assistant lists on 27 August 2026. Nursing Officer and Hospital Attendant Gr-II weren't among them. They're the two-stage posts, so their June paper was only the Preliminary. As at 12 September 2026, no Stage-II date had been set.

Selection stays provisional until documents are verified. A wait list is kept under UP rules.

SGPGIMS publishes category-wise cut-offs, horizontal categories included. These are from its Merit/Cut-off list for the previous cycle, published on 6 August 2024.

Advt. No. I/68/Rectt/2022-23, exam held 18 February 2023

905 posts: ST 19, SC 191, OBC 243, UR 362, EWS 90.

For SC and EWS the cut-off was the qualifying mark itself, just 0.0008 and 0.0007 above it: the Institute ran out of qualified candidates before it ran out of posts. OBC was 1.6676 clear, ST 7.0006, and only UR, 15.0008 above the floor, was set by competition. The 2025-26 floors are the same. The decimals fall on thirds plus a small tie-break increment, so 65 flat was below the line.

Other SGPGIMS posts show the floor leaving seats empty. CSSD Assistant (Advt. I/28/4/Rectt/2023-24, exam 15 December 2023, 20 posts): "None found qualified" in every category. Junior Engineer Telecom (I/28/2): none qualified. Technical Officer (Perfusion) (I/28/7): SC at 65.6670, none in OBC. Technician Dialysis (I/03/2/Rectt/2023-24, 48 posts): 45.6677.

No 2025-26 Nursing Officer cut-off exists yet, because Stage-II hasn't been held.

1. Both halves have to land. 60 marks of nursing, 40 of aptitude, two hours, and a floor of 50 per cent (45 for SC and ST). In three of five categories last time, the last selected candidate was within two marks of the floor.
2. Revise from the Part B syllabus. Community Health Nursing and Medical and Surgical Nursing carry ten items each, Basic Sciences eight, and Psychology, Fundamental Nursing and the administration head seven each.
3. Don't skip the ninth head. Administration, supervision, education and trends in nursing is what clinical candidates neglect, and it's about one item in ten.
4. Treat Part A as a fixed forty. It's the standard staff-selection aptitude syllabus and doesn't change between cycles.
5. Decide your guessing policy before the day. With a one-third penalty, a blind guess among four options is worth (1 × 0.25) minus (0.333 × 0.75), slightly negative. Rule out one option and it turns positive. With no penalty, leave nothing blank.
6. Check the website every week. In this cycle the scheme came eighteen days before the paper, the two-stage notice thirteen days before and the revised schedule ten days before.
7. Read the previous cycle's files. No question papers are released, but the Recruitment Archive has roll-wise raw scores (16 July 2023, revised 7 August 2023) and the cut-off list. Together they show where most candidates scored. Memory-based papers circulate, but none are official.

SGPGIMS doesn't release question papers, answer keys or response sheets for this recruitment.

The Recruitment Archive holds the previous cycle's roll-wise raw scores and cut-off list, and for an earlier cycle it posted a mock-test link (December 2023) to show the exam interface. New notices for the live cycle appear under Current Openings.

Helpdesk

For 2025-26: sgpgimshelpdesk@gmail.com, +91-9942875178, 10:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday. It changes each cycle.

How many Nursing Officer posts are there in the current cycle?

1,272: 1,200 fresh posts under I/08/1/Rectt/2025-26 and 72 SC and ST backlog posts under I/42/1/Rectt/2025-26, filled from one exam.

Can I apply for the 72 backlog posts?

Only by having applied against the June 2025 advertisement. There's no separate form or fee.

Is the exam one paper or two?

Two for this post in 2025-26: a Preliminary, held 22 to 25 June 2026, and a Main whose dates haven't been announced. Stage-II needs no new application or fee.

What is the paper worth and how long is it?

100 marks in 2 hours, multiple choice, English only: 60 core and 10 each of English, General Knowledge, Reasoning and Mathematical Aptitude.

Is there negative marking?

The 2025-26 advertisement doesn't say. The 2022-23 one deducted one third per wrong answer. Check the scheme notice for your cycle.

What are the minimum qualifying marks?

50 per cent for UR, EWS and OBC; 45 per cent for SC and ST.

Do I need experience?

Not with a B.Sc. Nursing or Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing. With a GNM diploma you need two years in a hospital of at least 50 beds, after qualifying.

What is the age limit?

18 to 40 on 1 January 2025, with relaxations for SC, ST, OBC, government employees, ex-servicemen and Divyang candidates.

I have a reserved-category certificate from another state. Does it count?

No. You're treated as unreserved. Certificates must be issued by the UP government.

What does it cost to apply?

₹1,180 for UR, OBC and EWS; ₹708 for SC and ST. Not refundable.

Is there an interview?

No. UP abolished interviews for these posts in 2017. Selection is on the test marks alone.

Is SGPGI Nursing Officer the same as SGPGI Staff Nurse?

No. Nursing Officer, formerly Sister Grade II, is SGPGI's own post. Staff Nurse was a separate recruitment SGPGI ran for the state, under I/75/Rectt/Autonomous SMC/2022-23, for 1,974 posts in fourteen Autonomous State Medical Colleges.

Why has no Nursing Officer result appeared when other posts have?

Because the June 2026 paper was only the Preliminary. No merit list can come until the Main is held.