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Tamil Nadu Technical Posts Previous Papers

The commission publishes the subject paper within days of the examination. The 2026 civil engineering paper was on its site two days after it was sat.

Tamil Nadu Technical Posts · checked 19 September 2026

Tamil Nadu 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.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Tamil Nadu Technical Posts: the facts that matter now

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    Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

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    CTSE Interview Posts, No. 08/2026 — 170 posts; applications 7 September to 6 October 2026

    Open now

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    Non-interview degree posts; interview degree posts; diploma and ITI posts — each its own notification

    Streams

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    Paper I: Tamil 150 with a gate at 60, general studies and aptitude 150; Paper II: the subject, 300; interview 60 where it applies

    Scheme

Past papers

Tamil Nadu Technical Posts — Reading previous papers properly

The commission’s page of objective papers without keys holds the recent Combined Technical Services subject papers — civil engineering, electrical and electronics, mechanical, town planning and architecture — for the 2025 and 2026 streams. Final keys follow with the results. Its older archive holds Combined Engineering Services papers from 2007 and 2008 in civil, mechanical, chemical, textile and instrumentation engineering, and the CESE 2023 final key is on the dashboard.

How to work the archive

  • Sit the recent subject papers to time — 200 questions in three hours, on a screen. They are the current paper.
  • Use the final keys of the previous stream — the 2025 non-interview key is published; a 2025 paper with its key is a full practice set.
  • Sit a Tamil eligibility paper from any TNPSC examination — the Group 4 papers carry the same SSLC-standard Tamil section, with keys.
  • Read the 2023 CESE paper for the level — the last engineering services paper, on the same scheme.

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