UPPSC Answer Key: How Objections Work, PCS Timeline

No UPPSC answer key is live right now: the Commission's "View Answer Key" page showed "0 : Record Found" on 27 October 2026, and the flagship PCS 2026 Prelims is scheduled (proposed) for 6 December 2026. In an answer notice of 4 November 2025, UPPSC posted a scanned question booklet with the correct options marked and took objections on paper, by post or at its counter.

What does a UPPSC answer notice look like?

The clearest recent example is the notice of 4 November 2025 for the Architectural-cum-Planning Assistant (Pre) Exam-2024, held in one session on 18 October 2025. The Commission scanned one question booklet (barcode serial 3000665) with its answers. The correct option under each question was highlighted and underlined in a rectangle, and the scan stayed on uppsc.up.nic.in until 9 November 2025. Candidates were told to check their answers against that displayed booklet (barcode 3000665) and to quote its question numbers in any objection.

How do you file an objection with UPPSC?

The same notice sets out the paper-based process:

• Quote the question number as it appears in the displayed booklet, write the full question, the Commission's answer, and your proposed answer with the option letter (a, b, c, d).
• Use the prescribed format printed with the notice. File separate representations for each part of the paper (there, General Studies Q 1 to 50 and Architecture Q 51 to 150), each with its evidence.
• Put everything in one sealed envelope addressed to the Exam Controller, Atigopan-5 section, UPPSC, Prayagraj-211018. Send it by post or hand it in at the Commission's counter by the deadline, which was 5.00 PM on 11 November 2025.
• Objections without evidence, with illegible or irrelevant evidence, or based on a different barcode number are rejected, as are late ones.

How will this apply to the PCS 2026 Prelims?

UPPSC has not announced any answer or objection schedule for the PCS 2026 Prelims. The scoring rules are already fixed in the PCS 2026 advertisement: one third (0.33) of a question's marks is deducted for each wrong answer and a blank question carries no penalty. Candidates keep the blue candidate's copy of the OMR sheet, which is what you check against the published answers.

What happens after the answers are published?

UPPSC later moves question papers to its previous question papers page with a published date. PCS Pre 2025 General Studies papers and most Assistant Teacher (TGT) Pre 2025 papers carry 15/03/2026, and the Assistant Prosecution Officer Mains 2025 papers carry 10/09/2026. Marks and cut-offs follow much later: the PCS 2025 Prelims press note of 1 December 2025 said they would be released only after the final selection result, and that RTI requests on them would not be entertained.

UPPSC answer releases in past cycles