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Paper 1 has a standard reading list. Paper 2 has to be assembled from the state’s own documents, and that assembly is most of the preparation.
APPSC Group 3 · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
No notification since 2018 — see the notification section
Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission
Panchayat Secretary Grade-IV, a district post under the Panchayat Raj department
A bachelor’s degree; no post codes, no technical requirement
Notes
| Paper | Topic | What to work from |
|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 | General studies | The standard degree-level texts for history, polity, geography, economy and science, and a current affairs digest kept weekly. |
| Paper 1 | Andhra Pradesh layer | The state’s history, geography, economy and administration, and the Reorganisation Act and its implications, from the state government’s own publications. |
| Paper 1 | Mental ability | A reasoning and data interpretation question bank. Volume over source. |
| Paper 2 | Panchayat raj law | The text of the 73rd Amendment and of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, read with a summary of the functions devolved to each tier and the finance commission provisions. |
| Paper 2 | Rural development schemes | The scheme guidelines published by the central rural development ministry and the state Panchayat Raj and Rural Development department. Build a one-page entry per scheme. |
| Paper 2 | Rural economy of Andhra Pradesh | The state’s socio-economic survey and agriculture statistics, for the facts the paper asks — crops, irrigation, credit, employment, migration. |
| Paper 2 | Local-body administration and finance | The Panchayat Raj department’s manuals on accounts, audit and registers, and the roles and responsibilities of the Panchayat Secretary as the department describes them. |
The syllabus names the roles and responsibilities of the Panchayat Secretary as examined content. The best preparation is to compile them from the Act and the department’s own material into a single document — records, accounts, meetings, certificates, scheme implementation, reporting lines — and to revise it as a topic. It is the one part of the syllabus that is literally about the post, and the questions on it are the most predictable in the paper.
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