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APPSC Group 1 Exam Pattern

Three stages, and the first does not count. Knowing which stage carries which marks changes how a year of preparation is spent.

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APPSC Group 1 · checked 19 September 2026

APPSC Group 1 at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

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APPSC Group 1: the facts that matter now

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    Brief Notification No. 07/2026 of 15 September 2026 — 163 provisional vacancies in Group-I Services, online applications tentatively 6 to 27…

    Current status

  2. 02

    Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    A bachelor’s degree; Fire Officer prefers fire engineering, and uniformed posts carry physical standards

    Qualification

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    Objective screening test → seven descriptive mains papers → interview

    Stages

Pattern

APPSC Group 1 — How the paper is structured

What each stage contributes to the final 825.
StageFormatCounts?What it decides
Screening testTwo objective papers, 240 marksNoWho writes the mains, in a ratio the commission fixes
Mains — Telugu and EnglishDescriptive, qualifyingNoWhether the rest of the mains is evaluated at all
Mains — Papers I to VDescriptive, 750 marksYesMost of the rank
InterviewPersonality test, 75 marksYesMovement within a band, and service allotment at the margin

The consequence of that table is a planning rule. The mains is worth ten times the interview and the screening is worth nothing at all, so preparation time should go to writing practice long before the screening result arrives. Candidates who begin mains preparation after clearing the screening are learning to write descriptive answers in the weeks when they should be revising them.

Rules worth reading twice

  • The penalty applies to the screening only — a third of a mark per wrong answer in the objective papers. The descriptive mains carries none.
  • The language papers are qualified individually — each at 40, 35 or 30 per cent by category, before the marked papers count.
  • The interview ratio is two per vacancy — so roughly half of those interviewed are not selected. The mains rank going in is most of the result coming out.
  • The screening is set in English and translated — the English version is authentic where the two differ.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

APPSC revises paper structure, marks, syllabus detail and eligibility between recruitment cycles, and has done so more than once in recent years. Everything here describes the shape the recruitment has held; the notification for the cycle you are sitting is the document that decides it. Read it end to end before you plan around any figure.

Exam resources

Everything for APPSC Group 1

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

APPSC Group 1 SyllabusAPPSC Group 1 syllabus — the two screening papers and the five marked mains papers, with the Andhra Pradesh layer that runs through every one of them.APPSC Group 1 Exam PatternAPPSC Group 1 exam pattern — how the screening shortlists, how the seven descriptive mains papers are marked, and where the 75-mark interview fits.APPSC Group 1 Previous PapersAPPSC Group 1 previous papers — the commission’s archive of mains papers across five cycles, the screening papers as keys, and how to work them.APPSC Group 1 Mock TestsAPPSC Group 1 mock tests — timed screening papers with the penalty applied, and a weekly descriptive habit that starts before the screening.APPSC Group 1 PreparationAPPSC Group 1 preparation — a realistic plan across the screening, the seven mains papers and the interview, with the Andhra Pradesh layer built in early.APPSC Group 1 Study MaterialAPPSC Group 1 study material — what to read for each mains paper, and how to assemble the Andhra Pradesh layer from primary sources.

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