The examination centres for the UPPSC PCS Pre 2022 are set up in 28 districts of the state including Agra, Ghazipur, Jyotibaphule Nagar, Maharajganj, Mainpuri, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Shahjahanpur, Prayagraj, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Ghaziabad, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Kanpur Nagar, Lucknow, Barabanki, Meerut, Moradabad, Rae Bareli besides Varanasi, Sitapur, Mirzapur, Mathura, Deoria and Mau.
For the Meerut district, the candidate turnout for this year's UPPSSC was merely 52%, Almost half of the students have failed to appear in the first shift of the examination for this district.
For this exam 6,03,536 candidates have registered themselves for nearly 350 posts in which 39 posts of SDM, 93 deputy SP and 36 BDO will be recruited through the UPPSC PCS-Pre 2022 examination. The PCS (Pre)-2022 is being organized in two shifts- 9.30 AM to 11.30 AM and 2.30 PM to 4.30 PM.
The UPPSC secretary, however, has informed that the total posts to be filled through this exam could change and details of vacant posts received by the commission before declaring the results would also be filled through this recruitment exam.