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Maharashtra Departmental Examinations Syllabus

The syllabus is the department’s examination rules; the 2021 policy adds four subjects to every promotion syllabus.

Maharashtra Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Departmental Examinations 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.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Each department, from 2021; MPSC only for limited departmental competitive examinations

    Who conducts

  2. 02

    General administration department resolution of 31 March 2021 — post-entry and promotion examinations for state government servants

    Policy

  3. 03

    Three from joining; 50 per cent in every subject; departments fix papers, marks, duration and with-books rules

    Chances and pass mark

  4. 04

    Increment withheld until pass; discharge for gazetted direct recruits and Group C probationers who fail within probation

    Consequences

Syllabus

Maharashtra Departmental Examinations — What the syllabus covers

Post-entry examinations
The codes, manuals, Acts and rules of the department, paper by paper, as its examination rules name them — the Land Revenue Code and manual for the revenue service, the police manual and criminal law for the police, the tax Acts for the tax officers, the financial rules for accounts.
Promotion examinations — mandatory additions
The Right to Information Act 2005; the Maharashtra Public Records Act 2005; chapter 3 of the Maharashtra Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay Act 2005; disaster management.
MPSC LDCE
Each examination’s scheme on the commission’s scheme page — the assistant section officer scheme of June 2025, the excise sub-inspector scheme of June 2025, the women and child development scheme of November 2025, and the sub-inspector scheme with its physical test.

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