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Village Administrative Officer Syllabus

The syllabus is Group 4’s. What a VAO aspirant should read twice is the part of it that is the job.

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Village Administrative Officer · checked 19 September 2026

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Checked 19 September 2026

Village Administrative Officer: the facts that matter now

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218 posts in the 2025 cycle, now in counselling; no window open; the planner’s next Group 4 date is 6 October 2026
Current status
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TNPSC Group 4 — the Combined Civil Services Examination-IV, post code 2025
Recruited through
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A pass in SSLC — the same as Junior Assistant; no degree, no typewriting
Qualification
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21 to 32 for general candidates; 21 to 42 for reserved communities, with no higher-qualification relaxation
Age

Syllabus

Village Administrative Officer — What the syllabus covers

The Group 4 paper: Part A, Tamil at SSLC standard, 100 questions; Part B, general studies at SSLC standard, 75 questions; Part C, aptitude and mental ability, 25. Set out in full on the Group 4 syllabus page.
What matters most for the VAO inside it: The Indian polity and the state’s administration — the revenue department, the district and taluk structure, the panchayat raj system; the Indian economy and the development administration of Tamil Nadu — the state’s welfare and rural schemes a VAO delivers; and the geography of Tamil Nadu — its districts, rivers, soils and crops.
What the standalone VAO papers examined: Before 2017 the VAO paper carried a section on village administration — land records, the revenue village, the duties of the officer. That section no longer exists as such, but its content sits inside the general studies units and recurs.