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TNPSC Group 1 Previous Papers

TNPSC publishes its papers, including the descriptive ones. Group 1 has one of the fullest official archives of any state commission.

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TNPSC Group 1 · checked 19 September 2026

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Checked 19 September 2026

TNPSC Group 1: the facts that matter now

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Notification 05/2026 — 46 posts; applications closed 29 July; prelims 27 September 2026 at 38 district centres, hall tickets on the OTR dashboard…
Current cycle
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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Conducted by
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A bachelor’s degree; preferences by post, and a law degree raises the age ceiling for the commercial taxes post
Qualification
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Objective prelims at 1:20 → Tamil paper plus three descriptive general studies papers → 100-mark interview
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Past papers

TNPSC Group 1 — Reading previous papers properly

The commission’s descriptive-papers page holds the Group 1 mains — the Tamil eligibility test and General Studies I, II and III — for the cycles examined in December 2025, December 2024, August 2023, March 2022 and July 2019. Its answer-keys page holds the prelims papers with final keys for 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014 and 2013. That is enough to see how the descriptive questions are phrased, how the Tamil Nadu units are set, and how the prelims weights have held.

How to work the archive

Write the mains papers to time, by hand — three hours, the question paper’s own word limits, then compare with the next cycle’s paper to see what recurs.
Sit the prelims papers with the blank rule — option E for every unknown, half a mark off for every blank, no penalty for a wrong answer. The habit is the point.
Track the Tamil Nadu questions across cycles — the economy and administration unit and the history and movements unit are ninety questions a paper. Collected across cycles, they are a syllabus of what the commission actually asks.
Work the Tamil eligibility papers early — five cycles of them show the level — SSLC — and the composition tasks. The gate is the easiest paper in the archive to prepare from.