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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Previous Papers

A thin archive of old papers, a fuller one of keys, and — the useful part — every session’s descriptive question papers, released with the tentative key.

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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

Tamil Nadu 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.

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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

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    Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

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    Two a year — May and December

    Sessions

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    Notification No. 3/2026 for the May 2026 session; results published 10 September 2026

    Latest

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    ₹200 per test, plus a ₹30 registration fee

    Fee

Past papers

Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations — Reading previous papers properly

The commission’s previous-papers page holds the May 2016, May 2017 and December 2017 sessions. Its keys page holds the final keys for every session from December 2018 to December 2023. For each recent session it releases the descriptive question papers alongside the tentative keys, which is where a candidate for a written test finds the last three years of actual papers.

How to practise

  • For a descriptive with-books test, work the released papers with the allowed books — the skill is finding the provision under time, and it can only be rehearsed with the permitted material on the desk.
  • For an objective test, use the keys with the old papers — the 2016 and 2017 papers with their keys show the question habits; the recent keys show the answer distribution.
  • For the criminal-law tests, work only from the new codes — the papers before December 2024 were set on the old Acts and are useful for question style, not content.

Practise with

Previous question papers Final answer keys by session

Exam resources

Everything for Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations

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

Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations SyllabusTNPSC departmental examination syllabus — what the account, revenue, criminal-law, registration, survey and language tests examine, under the current annexure.Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Exam PatternTNPSC departmental examination pattern — computer-based objective parts, written descriptive parts, the 45-mark pass rule and the with-books list.Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Previous PapersTNPSC departmental examination previous papers — the 2016 and 2017 papers, the keys from 2018 to 2023, and the descriptive papers released with each session.Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Mock TestsTNPSC departmental examination mock tests — rehearsing each part of a split test to its own pass mark, with only the allowed books.Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations PreparationTNPSC departmental examination preparation — choosing the right test codes, passing them before you need them, and preparing a with-books paper.Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Study MaterialTNPSC departmental examination study material — the codes, manuals and Acts each test is set on, and the allowed-books list.

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