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TGPSC Group 1 Previous Papers

The paper archive is the most honest description of this examination that exists. It is also the only place the Telangana movement paper has been defined in practice rather than in syllabus lines.

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TGPSC Group 1 · checked 19 September 2026

TGPSC Group 1 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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Checked 19 September 2026

TGPSC Group 1: the facts that matter now

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    Telangana Government Public Service Commission, formerly TSPSC

    Conducted by

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    A bachelor’s degree from a recognised university

    Qualification

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    Prelims (screening) → descriptive Mains. No interview under the current scheme

    Stages

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    Screening only — the marks do not carry into the merit list

    Prelims role

Past papers

TGPSC Group 1 — Reading previous papers properly

Papers issued under the TSPSC name are the same examination. The commission was renamed with the state style in 2024, and the syllabus, structure and standard carried across unchanged. Discarding the older archive because of the label removes most of the available evidence about how this paper behaves.

What to extract, in order

  • The Telangana share of the prelims paper — count the questions across several years that could not have been answered from national material. That count is your minimum state-specific study target.
  • The framing of the mains questions — note whether a question asks you to describe, examine, critically examine or discuss. The verb sets the structure of a scoring answer, and it recurs.
  • The recurring anchors of the movement paper — the Gentlemen’s Agreement, the Six-Point Formula, the 1969 agitation, the revival from 2001 onwards. They come back in different framings, so learn them as an argument you can rebuild rather than as dates.
  • The data interpretation questions inside the science paper — a predictable, learnable block of marks that arts graduates often concede without trying.
  • Where the essay topics came from — state policy, social questions and national debates, in roughly stable proportions.

Work the mains papers by writing full answers to time rather than by reading model answers. Reading a good answer teaches you what one looks like; writing a bad one under a clock teaches you what your own pace is, which is the thing the examination actually tests.

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Building a Group 1 question ledger

  1. Take one paper and one spreadsheet. One row per question. Columns: year, stage, paper, subject, narrow topic, the instruction verb for mains questions, and whether you could answer it today.
  2. Tag topics narrowly. “Six-Point Formula” rather than “Telangana movement”; “Finance Commission” rather than “polity”. A tag broad enough to cover forty questions tells you nothing about where to study.
  3. Repeat across as many cycles as the archive holds. Papers issued under the TSPSC name belong in the same ledger. The commission was renamed with the state style in 2024; the examination it conducts did not change with the letterhead.
  4. Sort by tag count and read the top twenty rows. That list is the syllabus in the order the commission actually weights it, which is not the order the syllabus document prints it in.
  5. Then sort by the “could I answer this today” column. High frequency plus low confidence is the highest-return study available to you. Work down that list and nothing else until it is short.

The ledger has a second use that matters more at the mains. Group the mains questions by their instruction verb — describe, examine, critically examine, discuss, analyse — and write down what each demands structurally. “Examine” wants the case and the counter-case; “critically examine” wants a judgement at the end; “discuss” tolerates breadth. Markers are reading for whether you obeyed the verb, and the verbs recur far more predictably than the topics do.

Exam resources

Everything for TGPSC Group 1

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

TGPSC Group 1 SyllabusTGPSC Group 1 syllabus — the prelims general studies paper and every mains paper, including Telangana Movement and State Formation.TGPSC Group 1 Exam PatternTGPSC Group 1 exam pattern — how the prelims screens, how the six descriptive mains papers are marked, and why the mains decides the result.TGPSC Group 1 Previous PapersTGPSC Group 1 previous papers — what to read from them, and why papers labelled TSPSC are still the right material.TGPSC Group 1 Mock TestsTGPSC Group 1 mock tests — how to use objective mocks for the prelims and written answer practice for the mains.TGPSC Group 1 PreparationTGPSC Group 1 preparation — a realistic plan across the prelims and the six mains papers, with the Telangana layer built in from the start.TGPSC Group 1 Study MaterialTGPSC Group 1 study material — what to read for the general studies spine, and how to assemble the Telangana layer.

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