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95 days to the Recruitment Test · 20 December 2026

Everything the APFC paper asks. Nothing it doesn't.

290pages across six subjects
414quiz questions, fully offline
Sep 2026edition, current to this month
Social Security in India

What the employer's 12% is actually split into

p. 9
HeadRateOn ₹15,000
Employee → EPF12%₹1,800
Employer → EPS8.33%₹1,250
Employer → EPF3.67%₹550
Employer → EDLI0.50%₹75
Memory Hook

The employer never pays 12% into EPF. Read it as 8.33 goes to pension first, the rest falls into PF — the pension share is capped at ₹1,250 because the ceiling is ₹15,000.

PYQ Pulse

The 8.33 / 3.67 split has been asked in APFC and EO/AO papers more than any other number in this chapter. Learn the rupee figures, not only the percentages.

Our priority: quality over quantity.

Every line in these notes has to earn its place by helping you answer a question. If it cannot, it is cut. That is the whole editorial rule — and it is why 290 pages beat 900. Prepare today for a better tomorrow.

The same desk, two Decembers apart

Nobody walks into that office by accident. It is built out of ordinary evenings like tonight — the difference is only what sits open on the desk.

A young aspirant studying at his desk at 1:15 a.m., head resting on his hand, with a stack of books on labour laws, social security, economy, constitution, accounting and insurance
The same young man after the exam, smiling at an office desk behind an APFC nameplate that reads Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner
Tonight

One lamp, one mug, a stack of books and a syllabus that does not care how tired you are. This part nobody can do for you. What we can do is make sure the hours you give it are not wasted on pages that were never going to be asked.

The other side

Your name on the plate, files that move because you signed them, and a service that only goes up from here. It is not a fantasy — it is a specific room, on a specific date, that somebody is going to walk into.

We prefer quality over quantity. Prepare today for a better tomorrow

What you are actually writing this paper for

Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, Ministry of Labour and Employment. Here is the job waiting on the other side of 20 December.

Pay and entitlements shown here are indicative and vary with posting, allowances and deductions. Eligibility and service conditions are as per the UPSC notification — always read the official advertisement before you apply.

We counted the 2025 paper before writing a single page

The Recruitment Test is 2 hours, 300 marks, pen and paper, in English and Hindi. Marks are not spread evenly across the syllabus, so the notes are not either. Here is where the questions went last year.

What that means for your 95 days

Polity and history together, English, accountancy and social security carried the paper. Those four areas are where the ₹999 package spends most of its pages — and the two areas the syllabus changed for 2026, Labour Codes in place of Labour Laws, are rewritten from the codes themselves rather than patched from old labour-law notes.

General English is not in the ₹999 package because not everyone needs it. It is sold on its own, so you do not pay for pages you will skip.

Counts are Sagar Prep's own analysis of the 2025 EPFO paper and are indicative, not official. History and culture accounted for roughly nine questions inside the polity-and-history block.

The 2026 syllabus, and where our pages sit on it

One Recruitment Test, 300 marks, 120 objective questions, 2 hours, English and Hindi. Teal cards are covered by the ₹999 package. The two grey cards are honestly outside it — we would rather tell you now than sell you a gap.

Syllabus as notified for the 2026 Recruitment Test. Verify against the official notification.

You do not need a PhD in labour law. You need to pass on 20 December.

There is no shortage of material for this exam. There is a shortage of time. Three ways to cover the same syllabus:

Why most candidates miss it

Five books open at once and no idea which one the question will come from. Every chapter read at the same slow speed, whether it carries fifteen marks or zero. Notes copied but never revised. By November the syllabus is still not finished, so nothing gets a second reading \u2014 and in the hall, four options all look familiar and none feels certain. It was never a shortage of effort. It was a confused mind carrying too much.

Why the ones who clear it, clear it

They read less, not more \u2014 but they read the right thing, and they read it four times. They know before opening a page whether it has ever been asked. They finish the syllabus by October so that November and December are pure revision, and they test themselves instead of re-reading. On the morning of the exam they are not learning anything new. They are only remembering, and remembering is fast.

Recorded lectures

150–250 hrs
₹8,000 – ₹25,000

Thorough, and you will finish in March. Most of it is a teacher reading a slide you could have read in a tenth of the time.

Standard books

6–9 books
₹4,000 – ₹7,000

Written for law students and CA aspirants, not for a 2-hour objective paper. You spend your evenings deciding what to skip.

Sagar Prep notes

290 pages
₹999

One pass in about three weeks, revision in a weekend, and 414 questions to prove you actually remember it. Everything already filtered against past papers.

Hours and prices for the first two routes are indicative market ranges for APFC preparation, given for comparison only.

What ₹999 puts on your phone

Six subject booklets as PDFs, each with its own quiz that runs offline in your browser — no internet, no login, no app. Read a free sample of any subject before you decide.

Judge it before you pay for it

Eight real pages from every one of the ten subjects — the cover, the contents and six pages of actual notes, exactly as they appear in the booklet. Tap a subject to open it. The pages fit your screen; tap a page to zoom in.

Six things a page can do for you

Every chapter is built from the same six devices, so you always know what you are looking at and what to do with it.

At a Glance

The chapter in ten lines. Read it first, read it again the night before.

PYQ Pulse

This exact point has already been asked. The year and the paper are named.

Trap Alert

Where the options are designed to mislead, and how the trap is usually built.

Memory Hook

A hook for the figures and lists you will otherwise lose by December.

Update

What changed in 2025–26, dated, so you are not revising last year's position.

Don't Confuse

Look-alike facts placed side by side before the exam does it to you.

Two packages, ten subjects, yours to keep

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The download opens straight away

You land on the download page the moment payment succeeds. The same link is emailed to you, and it stays valid until the exam.

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Updates until 20 December, free

If a figure changes — the wage ceiling, a budget number, a new notification — the edition is revised and you are told where to download it again.

₹999Essential Pack

All six subjects for the 2026 Recruitment Test. One payment, no subscription.

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    The other four parts of the syllabus. Buy it on its own, or with the essential pack as the ₹1,299 Complete Pack.

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