This page is the aspirant-facing guide to navigating the CAPF (Assistant Commandants) wiki: where to start, a study path that fits the exam, how the layers fit together, and how to read the honesty and currency flags so you never memorise a wrong fact. It is the reader's companion to the catalogue in master index (which lists everything) and the contributor and backend guide in HANDOFF (which explains the machinery). If you are new to the exam itself, start with capf complete beginners guide before anything else.
This wiki is calibrated to the CAPF level: broad command of clean static facts with an explicit security and human-rights emphasis, not the deeper Civil Services pattern. The difference, and why it matters for how you study, is in COMPARISON capf vs cse.
The wiki covers the whole CAPF (AC) selection process:
- Paper I (objective, 250 marks): General Mental Ability, General Science, Current Events, Indian Polity and Economy, History, and Geography, under
paper-1/.
- Paper II (descriptive, 200 marks): the Essay (Part A) and Comprehension and Precis (Part B, English only), under
paper-2/.
- The Physical Standards and Efficiency Tests, the Medical Standards Test, and the Interview, under
physical-medical/ and interview/.
- Exam information (eligibility, pattern, the forces, the selection process), under
exam-info/.
- Supporting layers: deep notes, concept cards, revision sheets, durable current-affairs themes, practice sets and full mocks.
A reading path for someone new to the exam:
- Understand the exam. Read capf complete beginners guide, then exam pattern marking, eligibility, and selection process. Learn the five forces from the five forces.
- Map the syllabus. Open syllabus index to see each official clause mapped to the page that covers it. This is your coverage checklist.
- Learn the subjects. Work through the
00-index page of each Paper I subject, then its topic notes. Each subject's index lists its notes in a sensible order.
- Go deep where CAPF goes deep. Read the
deep-notes/ set, especially the security and human-rights notes (internal security, AFSPA, border management, terrorism, Left-Wing Extremism), since that is the dimension this exam tests most.
- Practise. Drill with the subject sets under
_pyq/ and the subject mini-tests, then attempt the full mocks under test-series/.
- Revise. Sweep the
revision-modules/ sheets in your last week, and the 500 one-liners the night before.
The wiki is built to support a loop, not a single read:
- Learn from the owner notes and the deep notes. These hold the full, sourced treatment of each topic.
- Drill with the practice sets and mocks. Attempt under a clock with negative marking; do not peek at the answer key until you have finished.
- Triage every miss. The test-series method in Index sorts a wrong answer into a knowledge gap, a silly error, an elimination miss, or a time-out. Every mock explanation links to the note that owns the fact, so a miss routes you straight to the fix.
- Revise from the distillation layer: the concept cards (one screen per concept) and the last-minute sheets (one screen per subject). These compress the spine facts for fast recall.
The wiki is a graph, not just a folder tree. The full model is in 00 knowledge graph architecture, but the reader's version is simple:
- Owner notes (under
paper-1/, paper-2/, exam-info/, physical-medical/, interview/) hold the full facts.
- Deep notes synthesise across several owners, mostly on security and the freedom struggle.
- Concept cards distil one concept each, with a link back to the owner. Navigate them through concept index.
- Revision sheets compress the spine facts for the final sweep.
- Practice sets and mocks test you, with every explanation linked to its owner.
- Indexes (this folder) help you navigate: master index lists everything, syllabus index maps the syllabus, topic frequency tells you what is high-yield, and concept index, scheme index and organisation index group the recall-heavy material.
When you are unsure of a one-liner on a revision sheet or a concept card, follow its link to the owner note for the full treatment. That is the single most useful navigation habit.
Two flags appear throughout the wiki. Reading them correctly is part of using it well, because they are what keep you from learning a wrong fact. The full policy is in sources and honesty policy.
- "Authored practice, not a verbatim PYQ." Every practice question and mock in this wiki is authored by the wiki to mirror the CAPF level and the recurring formats. None is presented as a real previous-year question. Use them to drill the pattern and the facts; do not treat them as the exact questions that were asked.
- "Verify the latest." Year-sensitive facts (the exact physical and medical standards, vacancies, cut-offs, current office-holders, RBI rates, sanctioned force strengths, scheme benefit amounts) change with each cycle. Where you see this flag, check the live source named (the UPSC notification on upsc.gov.in, the Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report, an RBI release, the Union Budget) before relying on a number. Never carry a flagged number into the exam as fixed truth.
- General Mental Ability is a skills module: work the methods and the practice set, not facts. See Index and the strategy note.
- Polity is the deepest module and the highest-yield for the security and human-rights lens; learn the Articles, the bodies and the mechanisms. See Index.
- Economy rewards the indicators, institutions and schemes; the scheme spine is in scheme index.
- History and Geography reward the static spine (dates, dynasties, physiography, the monsoon); use the concept cards heavily.
- General Science is everyday phenomena and current science at NCERT level, not deep theory.
- Current affairs here is the durable layer only (institutional facts, the static spine of schemes and indices); a static wiki cannot keep last-week headlines fresh, so pair it with a live source. See how to prepare current affairs for capf.
- Paper II is one essay plus comprehension and precis (Part B in English only); practise from
paper-2/ and the essay theme notes.
If you are extending the wiki or building a study app on it, this page is not your entry point. Read HANDOFF (how to consume the vault), 00 knowledge graph architecture (the model), 01 integration with a backend (the data model and ETL), and the pipelines under how notes are built.