TSPSC Group 1 Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility

The scheme is set by G.O. Ms. No. 55, General Administration (Ser.A) Department, 25 April 2022, as amended by G.O. Ms. No. 29 of 8 February 2024.

Preliminary Test (screening)

Main Examination (descriptive, Honours Degree standard)

• Medium: English, Telugu or Urdu, chosen in the application form. All six papers must be written wholly in it; any switch, even within a paper, invalidates your candidature.
• You must sit every paper. Missing one disqualifies you.
• The Commission may use digital or paper question papers, and digital or conventional evaluation.

Answer key and OMR sheets

The Preliminary key goes up after the test. Objections are online only, within the window; an Expert Committee decides, and the final key can't be challenged. Marks for deleted questions are shared out proportionately, to three decimals. Your OMR image is downloadable from your login; keep it, as duplicates aren't issued. Wrong bubbling of booklet series or hall ticket number, whitener, eraser, blade or chalk powder, or a tampered barcode invalidates the sheet.

Phones, calculators, tablets, Bluetooth devices, pen drives, smart watches and cameras are banned even switched off. Malpractice under the Telangana State Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractices and Unfair Means) Act, 1997 carries three to seven years' jail and a fine of ₹5,000 to ₹1,00,000.

The full scheme and syllabus is Annexure-II of Notification 02/2024.

Preliminary: thirteen heads

1. Current Affairs, regional, national and international.
2. International Relations and Events.
3. General Science; India's achievements in Science and Technology.
4. Environmental Issues: Disaster Management, prevention and mitigation.
5. Economic and Social Development of India.
6. World Geography, Indian Geography and Geography of Telangana.
7. History and Cultural Heritage of India.
8. Indian Constitution and Polity.
9. Governance and Public Policy in India.
10. Policies of Telangana State.
11. Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts and Literature of Telangana.
12. Social Exclusion: gender, caste, tribe, disability, and inclusive policies.
13. Logical Reasoning: Analytical Ability and Data Interpretation.

Mains

Paper VI

• 1948 to 1970. The States Reorganisation Commission and Dr B.R. Ambedkar's views on it; the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1956 and the Telangana Regional Committee; violated safeguards and migration from Coastal Andhra; Ravindranath's fast; the 1969 agitation; the Telangana Praja Samithi; the All Party Accord, G.O. 36, and the Eight Point and Five Point Formulas.
• 1971 to 1990. The Mulki Rules judgments; the Jai Andhra Movement; the Six Point Formula of 1973; Article 371-D; the Presidential Order of 1975; the Jayabharat Reddy Committee and G.O. 610 of 1985; the Naxalite movement in North Telangana; regional parties in the 1980s; the Madiga Dandora and Tudum Debba movements.
• 1991 to 2014. The Warangal Declaration; the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, 2001; the Girglani and Pranab Mukherjee Committees and the Political JAC of 2009; Sakala Janula Samme and the Million March; the Srikrishna Committee and the Andhra Pradesh State Reorganization Act, 2014.

Qualification, held and declared by 19 February 2024

A bachelor's degree from a recognised university for most posts. The result must have been declared by the notification date; sitting the exam or awaiting results isn't enough. Exceptions:

Age, on 1 July 2024

G.O.Ms.No.30 of 8 February 2024 raised the limit from 44 to 46. G.O.Ms.No.31 of the same date gave uniformed services a further two years on top of the five granted in 2022.

Nobody at superannuation age after relaxations is eligible.

Reservation

Under Rules 22 and 22(A) of the State and Subordinate Service Rules and G.O.Ms.No.35 of 13 February 2024.

• ST raised from 6 to 10 per cent (G.O.Ms.No.130 of 9 November 2022 with G.O.Ms.No.135 of 23 November 2022).
• Women and Meritorious Sportspersons are horizontal; the sports quota of 2 per cent lapses if unfilled.
• Disability reservation applies to all posts except 02, 04, 07 and 09; only HH and OH for 03; VH, HH and OH for 10. The State Medical Board's finding is final.
• Post 07 is for men only.
• BC-E is subject to pending litigation, including Civil Appeal Nos. 2628-2637 of 2010.
• Certificates must come from a Tahsildar or above in Telangana. Without a BC non-creamy-layer certificate on the day, you're treated as open category. Candidates from other states get no reservation.
• SC, ST, BC, EWS and PBD candidates who use age relaxation are still considered for open posts.

Local status: 95 per cent

Under Para 8 of G.O.Ms.No.124 of 30 August 2018, the Telangana Public Employment (Organization of Local Cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 2018.

You're local if you studied four consecutive years in the area up to the qualifying exam (the post's, or Class VII, whichever is lower), or lived there four years if you didn't study; failing that, a seven year test applies. For visually or hearing impaired candidates who went to special schools, the parents' native place decides.

1. Preliminary Test: shortlisting only.
2. Main Examination: 900 counted marks.
3. Certificate verification, Multi-Zone, community and category wise.
4. Medical examination.

No interview.

Shortlist for Mains

Fifty times the vacancies in each Multi-Zone, not statewide. If a reserved category falls short, more are taken beyond 1:50 under Rules 22 and 22(A) of the Telangana State and Subordinate Service Rules 1996. In a multi-session CBRT, scores are normalized (formula from an Experts' Committee, to 5 decimal places) and only normalized marks go into the General Ranking List.

Minimum marks

If SC and ST candidates don't reach the minimum, they're selected by rank anyway. Reaching it doesn't guarantee anything.

Tie-break

Certificate verification and web options

Bring all originals on the day; anything missing or mismatched means rejection. You submit web options for post and Multi-Zone there, and they're final: you can't be allotted any post or zone you didn't list. Allotment follows Mains merit, eligibility, preference, reservation and local status, and you must be willing to serve anywhere in Telangana.

No waiting list (G.O. Ms. No. 81 of 22 February 1997, G.O. Ms. No. 544 of 4 December 1998, Rule 6 of the TSPSC Rules of Procedure). Unfilled posts carry forward to the next recruitment.

Government employees must inform their head of office in writing and give an NOC when asked. False information can bar you from future TGPSC exams; impersonation bars you permanently from every PSC in India; canvassing disqualifies you.

The top scale covers 208 of the 563 vacancies; the lowest covers 315, including MPDO (140) and Assistant Audit Officer (41).

Multi-Zone split, selected posts

Online only, after One Time Registration (OTR) on the TGPSC website.

1. Create or update your OTR and upload certificates. The OTR as it stands when you submit is what counts; later OTR changes are ignored.
2. Log in with your ID, date of birth and an OTP, check the fetched details, and add centre, qualification and declarations.
3. Pay by net banking, card or UPI.
4. Download the PDF; quote its Reference ID in any correspondence.

Fees aren't refunded, and an unpaid fee rejects the form. An edit window opens after the closing date. BC non-creamy-layer certificates must be in Form VII-B, in your name with only your father's or mother's name. Apply early; the site slows down in the last days.

The governing law includes the Telangana State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1996, Rule 3 of the TSPSC Rules of Procedure (order of merit), and the 1997 Malpractices Act, Act No. 25 of 1997, with Rules in Telangana Gazette No. 60 of 28 December 2015.

Contact

• Queries: call centre 040-22445566 or 040-67445566, 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on working days.
• Online application and hall tickets: 040-23120301 or 040-23120302.
• Office: 040-24747577.

The Commission also runs Group-II, III and IV exams and departmental tests; their schemes differ, so check the notification number.

You choose centres for both Preliminary modes. Choices are final, but the Commission can move you or change centres. If you're far from Hyderabad, plan a week's stay for the seven Mains papers.

About nineteen months from notification to provisional selection. Notification 04/2022 was cancelled, so the state has completed one Group-I cycle in four years. No new notification has been issued as of now; watch TGPSC's recruitment notifications.

Hall tickets download from the TGPSC website from seven days before the exam until four hours before it starts. Nothing is posted, and the Commission sends no individual messages: every update, from edit windows to certificate verification lists, is on the website only.

The Preliminary marks are never published. For the Mains, everyone's total goes on the TGPSC website, and your paper-wise Memorandum of Marks is in your login for one week only. Download it.

Recounting of written papers: online, within 15 days of the provisional marks, ₹1,000 per paper. No revaluation (Rule 3(ix)(d)). Rejected or disqualified candidates get no marks memo, and their fees are forfeited.

The 2024 provisional selection list (25 September 2025), based on the Mains of 21 to 27 October 2024 and the ranking list of 30 March 2025, is subject to Writ Appeal No. 1066 of 2025 and other pending cases, as well as fitness, character checks and original certificates.

The Commission doesn't publish cut-off marks for Group-I, and doesn't publish Preliminary marks at all. You can work out your own raw Preliminary score from the final key and your OMR image, but in a multi-session CBRT only normalized marks count.

What is fixed: 40, 35 or 30 per cent by category in General English and in the Mains aggregate, and the 1:50 shortlist per Multi-Zone. The General Ranking List and selection list appear on the TGPSC website.

1. Write, under time. There's no interview: 900 marks of descriptive answers decide everything, across seven three-hour papers.
2. Treat Paper VI as a subject. It names committees, G.O.s and events, from the Gentlemen's Agreement to the Million March. National GS material won't cover it.
3. Count the Telangana content. Paper VI, a full part of Paper II, a part of Paper IV, and three Preliminary heads: close to half the syllabus.
4. Prioritise Paper I. The General Essay is the first marks tie-breaker in the Mains.
5. Don't ignore General English. It's easy, but failing it ends your candidature. Practise precis, expansion and letters.
6. Attempt every Preliminary question. There's no negative marking, and the marks never count.
7. Know your Multi-Zone. It decides your shortlist and local status.
8. List every post you'd accept in your web options.
9. Get certificates in the right form early: Tahsildar-issued, Form VII-B for BC.

No sample papers are available for this exam as of now. After each Preliminary Test the Commission posts the initial and final answer keys, and your OMR image, on the TGPSC website.

The full scheme and syllabus are in Annexure-II of Notification 02/2024, listed under recruitment notifications.

• Telangana Public Service Commission: OTR, hall tickets, Results, Keys and OMR Downloads, Selection List, certificate formats, Know Your ID
• Notifications for All Recruitments: Notification 02/2024 (19 February 2024) with its seven annexures, and the Provisional Selection Notification of 25 September 2025

Is there an interview?

No. Selection is on the Mains written papers alone.

What is the total?

900 marks: six papers of 150. General English is qualifying.

Is there negative marking?

The notification prescribes none.

Will I see my Preliminary marks?

No. Only the key and your OMR image are published.

Can I write in Telugu?

Yes, or Urdu or English, but all six papers in the one medium you chose in the form.

What is the age limit?

Up to 46 for most posts, 35 for DSP, Jails and Excise.

What is the fee?

₹200, plus ₹120 if you're employed.

Can I get my paper revalued?

No. Recounting only, at ₹1,000 a paper.

Is there a waiting list?

No.

When is the next notification?

Not yet announced. The last was 02/2024.