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Maharashtra Technical Posts Exam Pattern

Two routes: a commission examination with a mains and an interview, or one online test at a board.

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Maharashtra Technical Posts · checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Technical Posts 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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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Technical Posts: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Combined prelims 9 November 2025; result 4 March 2026; mains Advt 003/2026, 16 May 2026; result awaited

    MPSC civil 2025

  2. 02

    Prelims held; mains notified 17 April 2026 as Advt 012/2026

    MPSC electrical 2025

  3. 03

    208 engineering posts among 11 cadres; 100 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutes, a quarter off per wrong answer; examined 28 February to 5 March 2026

    MJP 2025-26

  4. 04

    MPSC for the departments’ engineering services; MJP, the utilities and the zilla parishads directly

    Recruiting bodies

Pattern

Maharashtra Technical Posts — How the paper is structured

Side by side.
FeatureMPSC engineering servicesMJP and boards
StagesPreliminary, mains, interviewOne online test, verification
PaperObjective, 200-mark papers100 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutes
Technical weightThe mains50 of 100 questions
Negative markingA quarter, as reportedOne-fourth of the question’s marks
QualifyingCut-offs by category45 per cent for the merit list
InterviewYesNone

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.

Exam resources

Everything for Maharashtra Technical Posts

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

Maharashtra Technical Posts SyllabusMaharashtra engineering posts syllabus — the discipline at degree level for MPSC’s services and diploma level for junior engineer boards, and general sections.Maharashtra Technical Posts Exam PatternMaharashtra engineering posts exam pattern — MPSC’s preliminary, two-paper mains and interview, and the boards’ 200-mark online test with negative marking.Maharashtra Technical Posts Previous PapersMaharashtra engineering posts previous papers — the commission’s engineering services papers and keys, and the boards’ sample handouts.Maharashtra Technical Posts Mock TestsMaharashtra engineering posts mock tests — 200-mark objective papers on the discipline, and the board paper with fifty technical questions in two hours.Maharashtra Technical Posts PreparationMaharashtra engineering posts preparation — following the commission’s service-by-service cycles, the boards’ short windows, and the pending civil mains result.Maharashtra Technical Posts Study MaterialMaharashtra engineering posts study material — degree and diploma texts by discipline, GATE-level objective banks, and Marathi and English readers.

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