UPRVUNL Staff Nurse Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility

One objective Computer Based Test, three hours:

• One mark per question. (The Assistant Review Officer paper in the same advertisement gives two, with half a mark off.)
• 0.25 deducted per wrong answer. Nothing for a blank.

A blind guess on four options gains 0.25 on average and loses 0.1875, so it's slightly in your favour. Rule out one option and it's clearly worth answering.

Qualifying percentage

That's the floor, not the selection line (see Cut-off details).

No normalisation

The Staff Nurse paper ran in a single shift, so marks are raw. Only Technician Grade-II Electrician was normalised in this advertisement.

The advertisement doesn't print a topic list. It defines the syllabus as the Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery recognised by the U.P. Nursing Council, which is your own qualifying course. The Commission published a separate syllabus only for Assistant Review Officer (25 August 2020), none for Staff Nurse.

Part-I: nursing and midwifery, 150 questions

The council-recognised GNM course runs three years plus internship. Its subjects:

Part-II: 50 questions

General Hindi, General Knowledge and Reasoning, with no split given.

• General Hindi: grammar, vocabulary, idiom, error correction, comprehension.
• General Knowledge: current affairs, polity, history, geography, economy, science, and Uttar Pradesh in particular.
• Reasoning: series, analogy, classification, coding, blood relations, direction, syllogism, seating arrangement, non-verbal.

Qualification

A Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery recognised by the U.P. Nursing Council, with U.P. Nursing Council registration.

• Distance learning diplomas aren't accepted.
• The diploma or provisional diploma must be complete when you apply.

The registration certificate is checked at document verification.

Hindi

You need a thorough knowledge of Hindi in Devanagari. If you haven't passed High School in Hindi, you must clear the exam held by the Pariksha Niyamak Pradhikari (formerly Registrar, Departmental Examinations), Uttar Pradesh, within three years of joining.

Age, as on 1 January 2020

You get one relaxation only, whichever helps most.

Reservation

• SC, ST, OBC (NCL), dependants of freedom fighters, ex-servicemen and EWS, as per UP rules.
• Only original residents of Uttar Pradesh can claim reservation. Others can apply as unreserved.
• The category in your application can't be changed later.

Two more conditions

• A candidate with more than one living spouse isn't eligible.
• If you already work for a government or semi-government body, you need a no objection certificate at appointment.

Vacancies

The ex-serviceman post is horizontal, carved out of the other categories. No ST post either time. The same notice raised Assistant Engineer (Trainee) E&M to 35, Janpad to 14 and Pharmacist to 18. The Nigam can change vacancy numbers as needed.

Staff Nurse has the shortest route in the advertisement:

1. Apply online in three steps, paying last through SBI Collect.
2. CBT. You're admitted provisionally on what you declared; admission gives no right to selection.
3. Qualify at 28 per cent (SC/ST) or 33 per cent (others).
4. Shortlisting at one and a half times the vacancies, category wise. Everyone tied at the last rank is called.
5. Document verification at Lucknow, against originals. Bring originals, copies of your uploads and the application printout. A mismatch with what you uploaded can cancel the candidature.
6. Final list on merit, category wise.

Ties

1. More marks in Part-I (nursing).
2. Then more in Part-II.
3. Then the older candidate.

A candidate who did one year's training in the Nigam under the Apprentices Act 1961 gets preference on equal marks: apprentice first, then earlier completion, then age.

If wrong information comes to light later, even after appointment, the Nigam can cancel without giving reasons.

Allowances follow the Nigam's rules; the advertisement doesn't list them. Staff Nurse is one level above Pharmacist.

• No pension. Contributory provident fund only.
• Shift work at a thermal project. Only Janpad, Accounts Officer and Assistant Review Officer are exempt; Staff Nurse isn't.
• No bond. The Rs 3,00,000 five-year bond applies to the Assistant Engineer and Accounts Officer posts, not Staff Nurse.

Fee

• Non-refundable, and not carried over to any future recruitment.
• Paid only through SBI Collect by net banking or card. Bank charges extra.
• The payment gateway opens 24 hours after you submit the form, so you can't pay in the same sitting. That's the commonest way to miss the deadline.

Steps

1. Register with personal and contact details; login details go to your email.
2. Complete personal and qualification details and the declaration.
3. Pay the fee, after 24 hours.

Once submitted, the form can't be edited or withdrawn.

Uploads (JPG or JPEG only)

Rules that catch people out

• Register once. With several registrations, only the highest registration number counts.
• Don't post a hard copy.
• Keep your email and mobile active; everything comes by email.
• Use the same signature throughout, and keep at least six copies of your photo.
• Status can be checked two days after paying.

Expect a posting at a generating station, not the Lucknow headquarters. The Nigam's site lists its thermal power houses.

The CBT was held in nine Uttar Pradesh cities: Lucknow, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Noida and Greater Noida. The list can be cut, extended or changed.

Document verification is in Lucknow district. For Staff Nurse it was on 25 September 2021. No travelling or daily allowance is paid.

There's no Staff Nurse cycle open now. The last one, Advertisement No. U-37/UPRVUSA/2019:

Applications stayed open almost five months, through the first lockdown, and the paper came a year after that, with a postponement notice in April 2021. There's no fixed season. Watch the recruitment notices page; the archive, read on 12 September 2026, shows nothing newer.

Admit cards are downloaded from www.uprvunl.org, never posted. You're told by email at the address in your application.

For the 5 July 2021 paper, the notice of 16 June 2021 opened downloads from 22 June 2021. The sittings it fixed:

Bring the printed admit card, two passport photos identical to the one on your application, and a valid photo ID (passport, driving licence, voter ID, Aadhaar, PAN, photo bank passbook or other government ID). If the name doesn't match your application, you may be turned away.

The answer key goes up on the Nigam's website within two to four days of the paper, and you have three days from upload to object, with evidence. That window ran for the CBTs of 4 and 5 July 2021.

No separate merit list was published. The result record is the cut-off notice of 8 December 2021. Disputes go to the courts at Lucknow.

From Table-B of the notice of 8 December 2021, Total CBT Cut-off Marks out of Max. Marks 200:

Only the unreserved Staff Nurse line was published. The other columns are dashes, and the notice doesn't say why.

128.75 is 64.4 per cent, 62.75 marks above the 66-mark qualifying floor. Pharmacist, on the same paper structure, closed at 92.50, so Staff Nurse was 36.25 marks higher. These are raw marks; the only normalised line in the notice is Technician Grade-II Electrician (post code 11) at 142.96.

1. Aim for about 130 out of 200, not 66. 128.75 took the post in 2021.
2. Put most of your time into Part-I. It's 150 of 200 marks, and it breaks ties first.
3. Revise your own diploma. The syllabus is your U.P. Nursing Council course, so your own notes and the council or university papers you sat are the closest thing to a model paper.
4. Don't skip General Hindi. It's a real share of Part-II.
5. Answer what you can narrow down. The quarter-mark penalty makes educated guesses worth it.
6. Practise full papers at 54 seconds a question: 200 questions, 150 nursing and 50 general, three hours, with the penalty applied. A 100 question set won't teach you the pacing.
7. Note your answers so you can use the three-day objection window.
8. Get your documents in order before applying: completed diploma, council registration, category and UP domicile certificates. Nothing can be fixed after submission.

No question paper has been released for this recruitment. The only Staff Nurse paper so far was held on 5 July 2021.

The answer key was put up on uprvunl.org for a few days after the paper, and a future key will appear on the recruitment notices page. Download it the day it appears; it isn't kept as a permanent file.

• Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited
• Recruitment Notices, where every notice is published
• Advertisement No. U-37/UPRVUSA/2019, 4 March 2020
• Notice of 4 July 2020: vacancy revised to 23
• Notice of 16 July 2020: final date extension
• Notice of 16 June 2021: CBT on 5 July 2021
• Notice of 8 December 2021: cut-off marks
• Career, the Nigam's recruitment landing page

Is a UPRVUNL Staff Nurse recruitment open now?

No. The last one, U-37/UPRVUSA/2019, closed with the cut-off notice of 8 December 2021, and nothing newer appears on the notice archive.

How many posts were there?

23 after revision: 13 UR, 3 OBC, 6 SC, 1 EWS, plus 1 ex-serviceman post. No ST post.

What qualification is needed?

A Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery recognised by the U.P. Nursing Council, with registration. Not by distance learning, and complete when you apply.

Is there an interview?

No. The CBT decides, then document verification.

What was the cut-off?

128.75 out of 200, unreserved. No other category line was published.

What breaks a tie?

Part-I marks, then Part-II, then age.

Can a candidate from outside Uttar Pradesh apply?

Yes, as unreserved only.

Is it a pensionable post?

No. Contributory provident fund only, with shift work at thermal projects.

Is there a service bond?

Not for Staff Nurse.