What is the MP Patwari exam?
MP Patwari is the recruitment examination conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MP ESB), formerly known as Vyapam, to select Patwaris for the state's Revenue Department. A Patwari is the village-level revenue official who maintains land records, measures agricultural holdings, records mutation and ownership changes, and assists the Tehsildar in revenue collection and relief work — making it one of the most sought-after field-level government jobs in Madhya Pradesh.
Selection is based on a single online computer-based test (CBT). The paper carries 200 objective questions for 200 marks over 3 hours and spans General Knowledge, General Aptitude, General Mathematics, General Hindi, General English, General Reasoning and General Computer Knowledge. In the representative model used here there is no negative marking. Because the test runs in multiple shifts, scores are normalised across shifts, and final merit is built from the CBT alone followed by document verification — there is no interview.

