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Telangana Departmental Tests Syllabus

Each paper is set on a named document — a code, a manual or an act. The syllabus is that document, which is both the difficulty and the opportunity.

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Telangana Departmental Tests · 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.

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Telangana Departmental Tests: the facts that matter now

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Pass or fail against a prescribed standard — not a merit list
Result
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Telangana Government Public Service Commission, formerly TSPSC
Conducted by
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Serving state government employees, as their service rules require
Who sits them
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Declaration of probation, promotion, and increments conditional on passing
Purpose

Syllabus

Telangana Departmental Tests — What the syllabus covers

Account tests: Government accounting procedure, the treasury and financial codes, budget and expenditure control, drawal and disbursement of funds, audit objections and their settlement, and the rules governing pay, allowances, advances and pensions. Set directly on the codes and rules rather than on an accounting textbook.
Executive officers’ tests: The acts and rules an executive officer administers, together with the procedure for exercising the powers the post carries. Content differs by the service the test is prescribed for.
District office manual and procedure: The handling of correspondence, files, registers and records; the movement and disposal of papers; delegation and reporting; and the office procedure that governs day-to-day administration.
Departmental papers: The specific legislation, rules and manuals of the department — revenue, education, forest, commercial taxes, panchayat raj and others. Each paper names the documents it is set on.
Special language tests: Proficiency in the prescribed language at the standard the post requires, typically covering comprehension, translation and drafting rather than literary study.

The practical consequence of a syllabus that names documents is that guides are a poor substitute for the documents themselves. A question set on a rule is answered from the rule, and a summary that paraphrases it has already lost the wording the question turns on.

The paper list is in the notification

The commission publishes the papers included in each session with their codes, along with which are conducted with books. Register against that list and against your service requirement rather than against a previous session — both the papers offered and their conditions can change.

The families the papers fall into. Which of them you must pass is decided by your service rules, not by this table.
Family	What it covers	How it is prepared
Account tests	Financial rules, treasury and accounts procedure, budgeting, and the codes governing government expenditure.	By learning the structure of the code and the location of provisions, then working past questions against it.
Executive and departmental papers	The acts, rules and manuals of a specific department, and the procedure its officers are expected to follow.	By reading the department’s own manual and tabbing what past papers keep returning to.
Revenue and district administration papers	Land revenue, records, survey and settlement, and the procedures of district and mandal administration.	By procedure rather than by theory — what is done, in what order, under which provision.
Language and general papers	Where the service rules prescribe them for the post.	By past papers, because the standard is stable and the syllabus narrow.

The single most important thing to establish before preparing anything is which papers your own service rules require and by when. The list differs by department, by service and by post; the period within which the tests must be cleared is set by rule; and the consequence of not clearing them — deferred probation, withheld increments, a promotion that does not happen — follows from that rule rather than from the commission. Your department, not a general guide, is the authority on your own list.

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