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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations Syllabus

Each test is set on a named document — a code, a manual, an Act. The commission publishes the syllabus of every test code in one annexure per session.

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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

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Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
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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

Syllabus

Tamil Nadu Departmental Examinations — What the syllabus covers

Account tests: The Tamil Nadu Financial Code, Treasury Code, Account Code and the fundamental rules — budget, drawal and disbursement, audit objections, pay, allowances, advances and pensions — set in two parts for subordinate officers and one for executive officers, sixty per cent objective and forty descriptive with books.
Revenue tests and the Office Manual test: The revenue standing orders, land administration and the district office procedure in three parts, and the Tamil Nadu Government Office Manual — all now fully descriptive with books.
Criminal-law tests: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023, each at general-principles and detailed-application level, with the amending Acts, the Probation of Offenders Act, the Juvenile Justice Act and the workplace harassment Act inside the general-principles syllabus; and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023. The jail, probation and transport tests are set on the same codes.
Departmental tests: Registration in three groups; commercial taxes in three parts; cooperation and cooperative audit; forest law and forest revenue; survey and land records for field surveyors, sub-inspectors and deputy inspectors; local fund audit and subordinate accounts; rural development and panchayat accounts; municipal administration in four papers; the medical code; and the tests of the agriculture, animal husbandry and marketing departments.
Language and translation tests: The second class language test in Tamil with a written part and viva; the third class language test by viva alone; the special and advanced language tests in Tamil for the education department; the general educational test at SSLC standard; and translation tests in six languages.