TGPSC Answer Key: Group-I Key, Objection Rules, Past Dates

No TGPSC Group-I answer key is pending. For the latest cycle (Notification 02/2024), the Preliminary key came out on 13 June 2024, objections were taken until 5:00 p.m. on 17 June 2024, and the final key was placed in candidates' logins on 7 July 2024. The Group-I Mains is a conventional (descriptive) exam, so it has no key. Each exam's own web note announces its key and objection window.

Where does TGPSC publish its keys?

Under para 11 of the Group-I notification, TGPSC publishes the Preliminary key on its website after the exam. For Group-I 2024, the web note of 12 June 2024 put the Preliminary Key and the Master Question Paper in each candidate's login. Scanned OMR sheets were added to the login on 24 June 2024. In Group-II and Group-III, TGPSC later published the final keys alongside the Master Question Papers, OMR images and the General Ranking List.

How do you object to a TGPSC key?

• Online, through the link in your login. Objections by email, in person or in any other form are not considered, and nothing is accepted after the deadline.
• In English only. The objection text box works only in English.
• With proof. Upload copies of your evidence and name the source: author, edition, page number, publisher or website URL.
• One round only. An Expert Committee decides on the objections, and no objections are taken on the final key.

If a question is deleted, its marks are shared out proportionately among all candidates and worked out to three decimal places.

How is your Prelims score worked out?

The Group-I Prelims has 150 questions for 150 marks, in 2½ hours. It is a screening test only. Its marks do not count for ranking and are not notified until the final result. TGPSC called 50 times the vacancies in each multi-zone to the Mains. If the Prelims is held as a CBRT in several sessions, scores are normalised under Annexure VII, worked to 5 decimal places, and only normalised marks are used for the General Ranking List. Equal Prelims marks are ranked by local status first, then age (older first), then the date of passing the qualifying exam.

What happens after the final key?

For Group-I 2024, the final key and the Prelims result came together on 7 July 2024: 31,382 candidates were provisionally admitted to the Mains. TGPSC said Prelims marks and cut-offs would be put up only after the final result.

TGPSC answer key dates in past exams