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Tamil Nadu Technical Posts · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
CTSE Interview Posts, No. 08/2026 — 170 posts; applications 7 September to 6 October 2026
Non-interview degree posts; interview degree posts; diploma and ITI posts — each its own notification
Paper I: Tamil 150 with a gate at 60, general studies and aptitude 150; Paper II: the subject, 300; interview 60 where it applies
Notes
| Paper | Standard | What to work from |
|---|---|---|
| Tamil | SSLC | The state board Tamil textbooks for the ninth and tenth standards, and the Tamil sections of the published TNPSC papers. |
| General studies and aptitude | SSLC | The state board science and social science textbooks to the tenth standard, a current affairs digest, and an aptitude question bank. |
| Engineering — degree level | Bachelor’s | The core textbooks of the engineering degree, unit by unit against the annexure, and the published 2025 and 2026 subject papers. |
| Town planning | Post-graduate | The planning curriculum — urban and regional planning, transport, housing, planning law — and the state’s own planning framework. |
| Diploma-level civil | Diploma | The state technical board’s diploma curriculum texts and the published diploma-stream papers. |
The syllabus for each subject paper is the annexure of its notification, identified by subject code, and it names the units. The curriculum of the degree or diploma the post asks for, read against that annexure, is the reading list.
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