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Group 3 rewards candidates who are already tested rather than candidates who start testing when the notification appears.
TGPSC Group 3 · 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; no interview
Three in recent cycles — general studies and general abilities, history, polity and society, and economy and development
Practice
The gap between a Group 3 notification and its examination is not always generous. A candidate who has been sitting full-length objective papers regularly for other TGPSC recruitments arrives with the format already familiar and only has to adjust the paper count. A candidate starting from scratch is learning exam craft and subject matter at once.
A general mock dilutes the Telangana questions across a full paper, which hides how you are doing on them. Pull them out: a twenty-question test on state geography, history, schemes and the statehood movement, sat fortnightly, gives you a reading on the block that most differentiates candidates. It is also the fastest score to move, because the material is finite and the questions repeat.
| Pattern in the result | The likely cause | The correction |
|---|---|---|
| Paper I weak, Papers II and III fine | Current affairs and the reasoning block, which decay without weekly contact. | Twenty minutes daily on current affairs; two timed reasoning sets a week. |
| Paper II weak | The Constitution and social policy studied by reading rather than by questions. | Move to a question bank on polity and society for a fortnight; stop rereading. |
| Paper III weak | National economic concepts understood, state application not. | Work through the state’s own economic publications and tie every concept to a state example. |
| All three within a few marks of each other, and low | A coverage problem rather than a subject problem. | Return to finishing subjects one at a time. Rotation across three subjects at once is the usual cause. |
| Good on topic tests, poor on full papers | Stamina and pacing, not knowledge. | Sit full papers back to back on one day, weekly, until the drop-off disappears. |
Keep the marks from every mock in one sheet with the date, and plot nothing else. The useful signal is the slope over two months, not any single score. A candidate whose scores move sideways for eight weeks is revising rather than learning, and the correction is to replace reading time with question time — not to sit more mocks.
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Read the syllabus, attempt a free mock, then fix the section that costs you the most marks.
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