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TNPSC Group 4 Previous Papers

The commission publishes the Group 4 paper and its key every cycle. Six papers of the current shape are there to work.

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TNPSC Group 4 · checked 19 September 2026

TNPSC Group 4 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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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

TNPSC Group 4: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    2025 cycle in counselling; no window open; the planner’s next notification date is 6 October 2026

    Current status

  2. 02

    Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    A pass in SSLC for most posts; typewriting and shorthand certificates for Typist and Steno-Typist; HSC science for Forest Guard

    Qualification

  4. 04

    One — Tamil 100 questions for 150 marks, then general studies and aptitude 100 questions for 150; 300 in all

    Paper

Past papers

TNPSC Group 4 — Reading previous papers properly

The answer-keys page holds the Group 4 papers with final keys for the cycles examined on 12 July 2025, 9 June 2024, 24 July 2022, 1 September 2019, 11 February 2018 and 6 November 2016, and the standalone VAO examinations of 2012, 2014 and 2016 before the post was merged into the combined examination. The 2025 paper is published in both its Tamil-and-general-studies and its English-and-general-studies versions.

How to work the archive

  • Sit each paper in one three-hour sitting with the blank rule — option E for every unknown, half a mark off per blank, and Part A scored first to see whether the gate is cleared.
  • Track the Tamil units across cycles — grammar, literature and comprehension in roughly stable proportions. The 2024 and 2025 papers are the current shape.
  • Collect the Tamil Nadu general studies questions — districts, rivers, dynasties, movements, schemes — into one file across the six papers.
  • Time Part C separately — twenty-five aptitude questions in the minutes left after 175 others is a pace problem the archive teaches.

Practise with

Group 4 2025 question paper Group 4 2025 final key Group 4 2024 final key Objective papers with final keys — all cycles Previous-year papers library

Exam resources

Everything for TNPSC Group 4

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

TNPSC Group 4 SyllabusTNPSC Group 4 syllabus — the Tamil part that is half the paper, the SSLC-standard general studies units and the aptitude section.TNPSC Group 4 Exam PatternTNPSC Group 4 exam pattern — one 300-mark paper, the Tamil gate at 60, the 90-mark pass, the blank-answer deduction and the counselling ratios.TNPSC Group 4 Previous PapersTNPSC Group 4 previous papers — six cycles of the paper with final keys, published by the commission, and the standalone VAO papers before them.TNPSC Group 4 Mock TestsTNPSC Group 4 mock tests — full 200-question sittings with the Tamil gate and the blank rule scored the commission’s way.TNPSC Group 4 PreparationTNPSC Group 4 preparation — a plan for a single-paper examination with a Tamil gate, notified in October and examined in December if the planner holds.TNPSC Group 4 Study MaterialTNPSC Group 4 study material — the SSLC textbooks that are the syllabus, and how to build the Tamil Nadu layer.

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