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MPSC Group C Exam Pattern

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MPSC Group C · checked 19 September 2026

MPSC Group C 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

MPSC Group C: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Advt 017/2026, 25 June 2026 — 5,707 posts after the corrigendum of 22 July; applications closed 5 August

    2026 round

  2. 02

    Maharashtra Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    3 January 2027, offline OMR, by press note of 9 September 2026; the mains date is to be re-announced

    Preliminary

  4. 04

    One paper, 100 questions, 100 marks, one hour; a quarter off per wrong answer; screening only

    Prelims

Pattern

MPSC Group C — How the paper is structured

The rules.
RuleDetail
Prelims 100, one hourScreening; not counted.
Mains 400Marathi and English 200; general studies 200; one hour each.
AMVI 300One engineering paper of 150 questions in 90 minutes.
Negative markingOne-fourth per wrong answer; multiple answers wrong; blanks free.
TypingCertificate held by the mains application; no test, no marks.
InterviewNone.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

MPSC and the state’s other recruiting bodies revise schemes, ratios and dates between cycles, and the advertisement for your cycle is the document that binds. The figures here are from the latest documents on the official sites at the date checked and are labelled where they come from an older cycle.

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