RAS Answer Key 2026: Objection Fee, Fifth Option Rule, Past Keys

There is no RAS 2026 answer key yet, because the Preliminary examination is on 6 December 2026. In the previous cycle RPSC put the model answer key for RAS 2024 Prelims on its website on the exam day itself, 2 February 2025, and took objections from 3 to 5 February 2025 (till 12 midnight).

When will the RAS 2026 model answer key come?

RPSC has not announced a date. Going by its press notes, the key for RAS 2024 appeared on 2 February 2025, the day of the exam, and the key for RAS 2023 Prelims (held 1 October 2023) was issued with a press note dated 1 October 2023. Watch for a press note titled "Online Objection on Model Answer Key".

How to object to a RAS model answer key

The RAS 2024 press note of 2 February 2025 set these conditions:

• Route: log in to the SSO portal, choose the Recruitment Portal and use the Question Objection link for the exam.
• Fee: ₹100 per question, plus service charge, paid at an e-Mitra kiosk or through the payment gateway on the Recruitment Portal. The fee is not refunded and objections without fee are not accepted.
• Proof: each objection must carry proof from standard, authentic books; objections without proof are not considered.
• Numbering: enter objections in the question order of the model question paper posted on the RPSC website.
• Objections are accepted only online and only once. Objections from anyone who did not take the exam are ignored.
• Technical problems: [email protected] or 9352323625 and 7340557555.

RAS Prelims marking scheme

The RAS Prelims scheme dated 9 January 2026 has one paper, General Knowledge and General Science, of 200 marks and 3 hours, with 150 multiple-choice questions carrying equal marks. One-third of a mark is deducted for each wrong answer. The Prelims is only a screening test; its marks do not count in the final merit.

The OMR sheet has a fifth option. Under the RAS 2026 advertisement:

• Each question has five circles marked 1 to 5; darken circle 5 if you are not attempting the question.
• If none of the five circles is darkened, one-third of the marks of that question is deducted.
• A candidate who leaves all five circles blank in more than 10% of questions is disqualified. An extra 10 minutes are given to check this.

The rule is applied: the RAS 2024 Prelims result listed 1680 candidates declared disqualified for leaving more than 10%, that is more than 15 questions, with none of the five options marked. When you check your responses against the key, count the blank-bubble questions separately from attempted ones.

What happens after the objections

The RAS 2026 advertisement says the result prepared on the final answer key of the Commission's panel of subject experts is binding on all candidates, and no dispute on it is entertained. For RAS 2024 the Prelims result came on 20 February 2025 and the final answer key was published on 24 February 2025; RPSC's results page lists the Prelims marks on the same day, 24 February 2025. For RAS 2023 the final key was marked for the result issued on 20 October 2023.

RAS answer key in past cycles