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Reproduced from Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 4-2026/Ext., 7 January 2026 — Personnel Department Notification No. 42/1/2018-5SII, issued under Rule 11(1) of the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008 and superseding the notification of 9 February 2021. Two Preliminary papers, six Mains papers.
The thing worth knowing before you read it: “Related issues of Haryana” is appended to General Studies I, II and III. Haryana is not a chapter in the Mains syllabus. It is a lens applied to three whole papers, and the notification says so in one line that most preparation material leaves out.
The gazette narrows several of these itself: General Science is pitched at "a well educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline"; History emphasises the subject "in its social, economic and political aspects"; Geography emphasises the Geography of India, its physical, social and economic geography, and the main features of Indian agriculture and natural resources; and General Mental Ability is tested as reasoning and analytical ability. Note that the Haryana head is the only one naming a state, and it is broad — economy, people, society, institutions and language.
The gazette pins the level explicitly: basic numeracy covers "numbers and their relations, order of magnitude" at Class X level, and data interpretation covers "charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency" also at Class X level. That ceiling is stated in the document and is worth trusting over any harder practice set.
The gazette states the aim as testing the candidate’s ability "to read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly and correctly in English".
For the essay the gazette says a choice of subjects is given, and credit goes to keeping "closely to the subject of the essay", arranging ideas "in orderly fashion", and writing concisely.
Set in Devnagri script, as the gazette specifies.
A choice of essay subjects is given, as with the English paper.
Culture, history and geography — Indian and world.
Constitution, polity, governance, social justice and international relations.
Economy, agriculture, science and technology, environment and security.
The gazette says this paper tests attitude and approach to "issues relating to integrity, probity in public life" and problem solving in "conflicts faced by him in dealing with society", and that questions "may utilise the case study approach".
Three of the six Mains papers close with the same five words: “Related issues of Haryana.” The notification does not elaborate, which is exactly why it gets skipped — there is no list to memorise. Read it the way the papers it closes are written: for anything in GS-I, GS-II or GS-III, be ready for its Haryana dimension.
Society, culture and geography — Haryana’s own social structure, its position on the questions of women, population and urbanization, and its physical and economic geography.
Governance and institutions — how the state administers, its bodies and schemes, its devolution to local government, and its own transparency and service-delivery record.
Economy and security — agriculture and MSP as they play out in Haryana, its industry and infrastructure, its environmental pressures, and internal-security concerns.
In Prelims, Haryana appears once but broadly — the seventh General Studies head covers the state’s economy and people, its social, economic and cultural institutions, and its language.
The notification above settles the syllabi and nothing else. Read end to end, all five pages contain no marks, no paper duration, no negative-marking clause and no qualifying threshold — it is issued under Rule 11(1), which concerns the syllabi. The pattern comes from the Rules as amended and from the advertisement for a given cycle.
We could copy a marks table from elsewhere. We are not going to, because the tables in circulation do not agree with each other and none of them cites a document you can open. A syllabus you can trust is worth more than a pattern you cannot. For the scheme, read the current advertisement on hpsc.gov.in, and treat any figure that predates it as stale.
No weightage table either, and for the same reason. On our BPSC and EPFO APFC syllabus pages every percentage is counted from question papers we have digitised ourselves. We have not digitised HCS papers, so there is nothing here we could count — and an estimate dressed up as a count is the thing those pages exist to avoid.
Our HCS Mains guidance is built around the papers the gazette actually sets, including the Haryana rider that closes three of them.
The syllabus is notified in the Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 4-2026/Ext. of 7 January 2026, under Personnel Department Notification No. 42/1/2018-5SII, issued in pursuance of Rule 11(1) of the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008 and in supersession of the notification of 9 February 2021. It covers the Preliminary Examination in two parts — General Studies and the Civil Services Aptitude Test — and the Main Written Examination in six papers: English and English Essay, Hindi and Hindi Essay, and General Studies I to IV.
No, and this matters. The notification settles the syllabi only. Read end to end it contains no marks, no paper duration, no negative-marking clause and no qualifying threshold — it is issued under Rule 11(1), which concerns the syllabi. The pattern comes from the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Rules as amended, and from the advertisement for a given cycle. Because we cannot source a pattern from the syllabus notification, we do not print one here; check the current advertisement on hpsc.gov.in instead of trusting a marks table repeated between coaching sites, several of which disagree with each other.
More than the Prelims list alone suggests, and this is the detail most preparation material misses. In Prelims, Haryana is one of seven General Studies heads, and a broad one: economy, people, social, economic and culture institutions, and the language of Haryana. In the Mains it is not a topic at all but a rider — the line "Related issues of Haryana" is appended to the end of General Studies I, General Studies II and General Studies III. That means Haryana can be attached to history, society, geography, polity, governance, international relations, economy, agriculture, science, environment or internal security. It is a lens applied to three whole papers, not a chapter.
It is the exact line the gazette appends to General Studies I, II and III. The notification does not elaborate on it, so it should be read the way the papers it closes are written: for any topic in those three papers, be ready to discuss its Haryana dimension. In practice that means knowing the state’s own position on the things each paper covers — its society and geography for GS-I, its governance and institutions for GS-II, its economy, agriculture, environment and security concerns for GS-III.
The Mains structure is deliberately UPSC-shaped — General Studies I to IV, with GS-IV covering Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude and stating that questions "may utilise the case study approach", which will read as familiar to anyone who has prepared for the UPSC Civil Services Examination. The substantive difference is the Haryana rider on GS-I, GS-II and GS-III, and the two compulsory language papers, English and Hindi, each with an essay.
The gazette states it explicitly, which is useful because it caps how hard you need to practise. Basic numeracy — numbers and their relations, order of magnitude — is specified at Class X level, and data interpretation covering charts, graphs, tables and data sufficiency is also specified at Class X level. The paper additionally covers comprehension, interpersonal and communication skills, logical reasoning and analytical ability, decision making and problem solving, and general mental ability.
Not as a digitised, question-by-question archive — which is why this page carries no subject weightage of its own, unlike our BPSC and EPFO syllabus pages where every percentage is counted from papers we hold. We do publish HCS study material: a Haryana GK sheet, solved Sherlocking analysis of the 2024 prelims, a 2025 prelims marks analysis, and a 2026 paper-versus-notes comparison. Those are linked below.