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TGPSC Group 2 is the most-attempted recruitment in Telangana. It fills degree-level executive and supervisory posts — Assistant Commercial Tax Officer, Sub-Registrar, Excise Sub-Inspector, Assistant Section Officer in the secretariat, Municipal Commissioner Grade III and others — through a written examination alone.
That last point is what defines preparation for it. There is no interview and no descriptive paper: everything rests on objective papers written in a single window, and one of those papers is devoted to the Telangana movement and state formation. A candidate who is strong at general studies and weak on the state paper does not have a stage left in which to recover.
TGPSC Group 2 · 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.
Checked 19 September 2026
Telangana Government Public Service Commission, formerly TSPSC
A bachelor’s degree from a recognised university
Objective papers across a fixed set of subjects; no interview
Four, in the structure the commission has used in recent cycles
Notification
Checked 11 September 2026. The most recent Group 2 cycle is Notification No. 28/2022 of 29 December 2022. The written examination was held two years after the notification, and selection is published but remains provisional against a list of pending court cases.
| Stage | When |
|---|---|
| Notification issued | 29 December 2022 |
| Applications | 18 January to 16 February 2023 |
| Written examination held | 15 and 16 December 2024, after repeated rescheduling |
| General ranking list | 11 March 2025 |
| Provisional selection | 28 September 2025 — 782 vacancies filled, one withheld |
| Withheld vacancy released | 9 October 2025 |
The commission’s selection notifications state that the list is subject to the outcome of six writ petitions and a writ appeal, and that changes will be carried out if court orders require them. No disposal of those cases appears in any commission document, so as things stand the Group 2 selections remain provisional.
As at the date checked above, 28/2022 remains the most recent Group 2 notification — the only earlier one in the commission’s archive is from 2015. Vacancy counts and dates circulating for a new cycle are not from a commission document.
Overview
Group 2 sits between the executive posts of Group 1 and the ministerial posts of Group 4. The appointments it makes are supervisory: a Sub-Registrar running a registration office, an Assistant Commercial Tax Officer assessing tax, an Assistant Section Officer handling files in the secretariat. They are stable, well-regarded posts, and the field competing for them is very large.
The recruitment has been built as four objective papers in recent cycles: a general studies and general abilities paper, a paper on history, polity and society, a paper on economy and development, and a paper on the Telangana movement and state formation. Each is answered in a fixed window on the examination day, and the total across the papers decides the merit list.
Group 1 candidates who write a poor prelims can still recover, because the prelims is discarded and the mains decides everything afterwards. Group 2 has no such reset. Every mark is earned across four objective papers in a single sitting of the examination, which makes full-length timed practice under exact conditions more valuable here than in any other TGPSC recruitment.
Eligibility
| Requirement | What the notification set |
|---|---|
| Qualification | A bachelor’s degree of a recognised university for most posts, held as on the notification date. |
| Degree-specific posts | Assistant Section Officer in Finance required mathematics, economics or commerce; in Law, a degree in law. District Probation Officer required social work or psychology, or a master’s in one of them or in criminology or correctional administration. Assistant Development Officer accepted a degree or a technical board diploma in textile or handloom technology. |
| Age | 18 to 44 years for most posts. Prohibition and Excise Sub-Inspector was 21 to 30 — a materially narrower window than the rest of the recruitment. |
| Age relaxation | Telangana government employees up to 5 years by length of regular service; ex-servicemen 3 years plus service rendered; NCC instructors 3 years plus service; SC, ST, BC and EWS candidates 5 years; persons with disability 10 years. Eligibility ends at 61 years after relaxation. |
| Physical requirements | Prohibition and Excise Sub-Inspector only: men at least 167.6 cm and 86.3 cm chest on full inspiration, women at least 152.5 cm, with relaxed standards specified. No other Group 2 post carries a physical standard. |
| Application processing fee | ₹200, payable by every applicant with no exemption. |
| Examination fee | ₹120, from which unemployed candidates were exempt on filing a declaration. |
Selection process
Each stage in order, and what it actually tests.
| Stage | Format | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Written examination | Objective, multiple papers | Papers covering general studies and general abilities, history, polity and society, economy and development, and the Telangana movement and state formation. Marks across the papers are aggregated to build the merit list. |
| Certificate verification | Documents | Candidates called in order of merit produce proof of age, qualification, category, local status and any claimed relaxation. Discrepancies between the application and the documents end candidacies at this stage. |
| Post allotment | Merit and preference | Posts are allotted by merit against the web options submitted at verification, within the reservation, zonal and local-status rules that apply to the recruitment. Physical fitness for the post is checked at the appropriate stage. |
Exam pattern
| Paper | Subject | Questions | Marks | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper I | General Studies and General Abilities | 150 | 150 | 2½ hours |
| Paper II | History, Polity and Society — socio-cultural history of India and Telangana, the Constitution and politics, social structure and public policy | 150 | 150 | 2½ hours |
| Paper III | Economy and Development — the Indian economy, the economy and development of Telangana, issues of development and change | 150 | 150 | 2½ hours |
| Paper IV | Telangana Movement and State Formation — the idea of Telangana 1948-1970, the mobilisation phase 1971-1990, and the road to statehood 1991-2014 | 150 | 150 | 2½ hours |
Paper IV is the Telangana movement and nothing else — 150 of the 600 marks, examined in three defined periods with their own agreements, organisations and figures. Add the Telangana content inside Papers II and III and the state’s own history, society and economy account for well over a third of the examination. This is the single largest reason a candidate who prepared from national state-PSC material does badly here.
Study plan
Two years passed between the 28/2022 notification and the examination, and selections a year after that are still provisional. Build a routine that survives repeated postponement — the candidates who did well in this cycle were the ones still preparing when the date finally held.
Sources
Checked 11 September 2026. Vacancies, eligibility, fees, qualifying marks and the scheme of examination are taken from Notification No. 28/2022 and the commission’s Group-II scheme and syllabus, with the chronology and the litigation caveat from the commission’s own selection notifications. The commission publishes no Group 2 previous-year question papers — its old question papers archive holds none for this examination in any year.
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Questions
Recent Group 2 recruitments have used four objective papers — general studies and general abilities; history, polity and society; economy and development; and the Telangana movement and state formation — with the marks aggregated across the papers to build the merit list. There is no interview, and certificate verification follows the written result. Question counts, marks, duration and the negative marking rule are set by the notification for your recruitment.
No. Selection rests entirely on the written papers, followed by certificate verification and post allotment. That is why full-length timed practice matters more in Group 2 than in Group 1 — there is no later stage in which a poor written performance can be recovered.
Group 2 fills degree-level executive and supervisory posts across state departments — Assistant Commercial Tax Officer, Sub-Registrar, Excise Sub-Inspector, Assistant Section Officer in the secretariat and Municipal Commissioner Grade III are among the posts that have appeared in recent notifications. The exact list varies with each recruitment.
One whole paper is devoted to the Telangana movement and state formation, and Telangana content also runs through the history, society, geography and economy portions of the other papers. Taken together the state layer is close to a third of the examination, which is why national competitive material on its own is not sufficient preparation.
Yes, and most serious candidates do. The general studies spine, the Telangana content and the movement material are shared across the TGPSC groups; what differs is the number of papers and the way subjects are bundled into them. Prepare the syllabus once and adapt to each group’s paper structure.
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