Andhra Pradesh Departmental Tests Syllabus

Accounts tests

Government accounting procedure, the treasury and financial codes, budget and expenditure control, drawal and disbursement, audit objections and their settlement, and the rules governing pay, allowances, advances and pensions. Separate papers for subordinate officers, executive officers, local-body employees, public works, treasuries and audit — set on the codes and rules rather than on an accounting textbook.

Revenue Test

Three parts covering the revenue laws and the standing orders of the Board of Revenue, land administration, survey and settlement records, and the procedure of the revenue offices.

Criminal Judicial Test and Evidence Act Test — revised

Papers I and II now examine the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 and the special and local criminal laws in place of the Indian Penal Code; Papers III and IV the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 in place of the Code of Criminal Procedure; and the Evidence Act test the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023. The commission’s revised syllabus lists the sections included and maps each old chapter to its replacement.

Departmental papers

Set on the Acts, rules and manuals of the department the officer serves in — excise, fire, forest, jail, registration, commercial taxes, transport, sericulture, fisheries, labour, agriculture, animal husbandry, ports, endowments, marketing, mines and others. Revised syllabi are published paper by paper on the departmental test page.

Language and survey tests

The second and third class language tests, the translation tests, the special language tests for the education department at lower, higher and advanced standard, and the surveyor, draughtsman, survey inspector and computation tests — the conventional papers, written by hand.

For a with-books paper the syllabus and the permitted material are the same document. The preparation is to know the bare Act well enough to find the section under time — its structure, its chapter headings, where the definitions sit — rather than to memorise it.