Checked 7 October 2026. Pass rules are from the Commission’s syllabus sheets and Notification 04/2026. Counts are from the four published result pages (Nov 2024 to May 2026). The November 2026 results will not exist before the sitting ends on 23 November 2026; the Commission’s page prints no release dates, so none is promised here.
A TGPSC departmental test result is not a mark sheet. It is a list of hall ticket numbers of candidates "provisionally declared to have passed", one list per test, hosted on the Commission’s website and later published in the Telangana Gazette. There is no merit list, no rank and no cut-off, because there is no seat to fill: a pass is a pass. This guide explains the rules that decide it, what you can and cannot get on paper afterwards, and how many entries each test’s pass list carried in the last four sessions.
Where other pages get this wrong
There is no cut-off and no certificate. The pass mark is fixed, 40 out of 100 in a paper, and the Commission issues no pass certificate at all.
Commonly published instead: Pages that print "cut-off marks" for departmental tests or tell candidates to wait for a pass certificate.
Notification 04/2026 para IX: "No individual pass certificate/Confirmation Certificate will be issued by the Commission." The result bulletin on the Commission’s website is the authentic publication "for extending all benefits" under G.O.Ms.No.591, General Administration (Services A), dated 20-10-2011, until it appears in the State Gazette. Para X adds that an "Attendance / Appearance confirmation certificate" will not be provided either.
Notification 04/2026 para IX and X, the syllabus sheets, and the four result pages (official). Counts are ours: entries are hall ticket numbers on published pass lists, not people.
- Art. 38: both sanction and funds needed
- Unused sanction lapses in 1 year (Art. 50)
- 12 traps and a 12-question self-test
- Arrear claims: 1 year; ₹500 within 3 years
- Pay on last working day; bill 5 days early
- Recoveries capped at one-third of pay
The pass rules
Almost every objective paper has a pass mark of 40 out of 100. What differs is whether a test of several papers can be passed in parts.
| Rule | Tests | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Each paper on its own: 40 of 100 | Most objective tests: Accounts Tests (PC 8, 10, 141), Revenue Test, Treasuries & Accounts (each paper), Subordinate Accounts Service Examination, State Audit, Prisons, Local Bodies, Agriculture, Marketing and others | Syllabus sheets (official) |
| Pass both papers at a time | Education Gazetted Officers (PC 88 + 97); Fire Service Part I (PC 16 + 25); Power utilities AO/AAO (PC 41 + 59); Translation Test (PC 19 + 28) | Syllabus sheets: "pass both papers at a time" |
| 40% for both papers taken together | Forest officers’ tests (PC 17 + 26, 42 + 61, 76 + 86) and Forest ministerial Part I (PC 107 + 125); Excise Test-C and Test-D (read from the scanned sheet) | Forest sheets (typed), Excise sheet (scanned) |
| All parts of a language test at a time | Second Class (PC 5), Gujarathi (PC 6), Marwari (PC 7), Third Class (PC 155), Special Language Lower Standard (PC 36, 49, 67) | Notification para II(H), G.O.Ms.No.190 GA (Ser.C), 18.04.2002 |
| All three papers in the first attempt | Deputy Inspectors Test (PC 2, 12, 20); afterwards each paper may be taken separately | Notification para II(D); syllabus sheet |
| Each paper separately, plus training | TGPSC staff (PC 149, 161): benefits only after the compulsory training and its post-training written test | Syllabus sheet, G.O.Ms.No.211, 22.10.2025 |
| 40% each paper and 45% in the aggregate | Works Accounts Service: legible on the scanned sheet only; the sheet’s printed duration is unclear to us | Scanned sheet; verify with the Commission |
Two cautions on the table. First, "pass-together" applies to marks of a single sitting; the sheets for the Fire and Education tests tell candidates to pass the papers at a time, which we read as the same sitting. Second, for the descriptive language and survey papers the scans we read give 40 as the minimum in each part, but the Annexure III footnote about "combination papers" is underlined on the page and the underlines do not survive text extraction, so the safest reading is the one on the syllabus sheet for your own test.
What the result page publishes
| Item | What you see | Our note |
|---|---|---|
| The list | A PDF per test titled with the session, notification number, test name, paper codes and the date held, followed by hall ticket numbers "provisionally declared to have passed" | Candidates are published by hall ticket number only; this guide prints none |
| "NIL" result | A common PDF saying no candidate passed | Appears for tests nobody passed or nobody sat |
| Bulletin | "Udyoga Samacharam" format list by district, 33 districts, by the candidate’s working address in the application | The Departmental Test Bulletin page indexes these back to 2014 |
| Response sheets | Objective candidates’ responses on the Commission’s website | Available until results are announced; keep your copy, duplicates are not issued |
| Gazette | Publication in the Telangana Gazette | The website bulletin counts as authentic until then (G.O.Ms.No.591 of 2011) |
- Art. 38: both sanction and funds needed
- Unused sanction lapses in 1 year (Art. 50)
- 12 traps and a 12-question self-test
- Arrear claims: 1 year; ₹500 within 3 years
- Pay on last working day; bill 5 days early
- Recoveries capped at one-third of pay
After the result: marks, recounting and certificates
| Request | Fee | Window | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marks for an unsuccessful candidate | Rs 200 per test | Within one month of the date the result is displayed | Crossed IPO or bank draft to the Secretary, TGPSC, with a photocopy of the hall ticket |
| Recounting of marks | Rs 100 per paper | 15 days from publication of results | Conventional (written) tests only; IPO or draft; hall-ticket copy |
| Revaluation or re-verification of answer sheets | Not available | Not available | "will not be entertained under any circumstances" |
| Pass certificate or appearance certificate | Not available | Not available | Use the website bulletin and the Gazette; your department takes it on record |
Official, Notification 04/2026 paras IX and X. Requests that do not follow these conditions "shall not be entertained under any circumstances".
One practical point about a fail: passed marks are not supplied. The memorandum of marks goes only to candidates who were not successful. If you passed, the list entry is your proof; ask your office to record it from the bulletin.
How many people passed: four sessions of pass lists
The Commission publishes no applied, appeared or pass-percentage figures that we could find. What it does publish is each test’s pass list, so we counted the entries. Read the figures as "hall ticket numbers on the pass list", never as pass rates: we do not know how many sat. A candidate who passed two tests appears on two lists, and a language test’s written and viva-voce lists are separate.
| Session | Notification | Pass lists published | Of which NIL | Sum of entries (our count) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2024 | 04/2024 | 61 | 16 | 13,519 |
| May 2025 | 03/2025 | 62 | 12 | 16,323 |
| Nov 2025 | 04/2025 | 61 | 12 | 16,988 |
| May 2026 | 02/2026 | 62 | 11 | 19,159 |
Our count of hall ticket numbers on each published pass list. The Local Bodies list roughly doubled between Nov 2024 (1,759) and Nov 2025 (3,487), which is the largest absolute swing in the table (a larger relative swing is Accounts Subordinate Officers Part II, 230 to 659).
The table below gives the counts for the larger tests (the biggest pass lists in the four sessions); smaller tests are left out here, and a dash where the Commission published no list for that session. "NIL" appears as 0.
| Test | Nov 2024 | May 2025 | Nov 2025 | May 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounts Test for Executive Officers (PC 141) | 3378 | 4342 | 3825 | 3634 |
| Education Gazetted Officers (PC 88, 97) | 2485 | 2548 | 1900 | 2593 |
| Accounts Test for Local Bodies (PC 146, 148) | 1759 | 2075 | 3487 | 3179 |
| Accounts Subordinate Officers Part I (PC 8) | 1781 | 2129 | 1714 | 1683 |
| Accounts Subordinate Officers Part II (PC 10) | 230 | 659 | 1142 | 972 |
| Revenue Test (PC 18, 27, 43, 62) | 707 | 778 | 809 | 771 |
| Deputy Inspectors Test (PC 2, 12, 20) | 669 | 624 | 542 | 521 |
| Accounts Test for PWD Officers (PC 137, 142) | 750 | 795 | 659 | 296 |
| Criminal Judicial Test (PC 98, 108, 127, 136) | 67 | 311 | 256 | 425 |
| Civil Judicial Test, Part II (PC 145, 147) | 236 | 259 | 309 | 355 |
| Special Language Test, Higher Standard (PC 37) | 139 | 239 | 408 | 264 |
| Indian Evidence Act Test (PC 77) | 122 | 193 | 417 | 283 |
| State Audit Department Test (PC 84, 93, 105, 123) | 42 | 95 | 107 | 173 |
| Excise Department Test (PC 3 to 71) | 12 | 57 | 39 | 176 |
| Fire Service Department Test (PC 16, 25, 39) | 8 | 19 | 233 | 141 |
| Commercial Taxes Officers (PC 92, 102) | 16 | 256 | 158 | 163 |
| Subordinate Accounts Service Examination | 11 | 17 | 185 | 56 |
| Office Automation (PC 162) | - | - | - | 2528 |
The Office Automation test (PC 162) carried 2,528 entries in its first session, which would put it fourth in the table if included in the chart’s top ten.
Three readings of the numbers, all ours. The accounts and education tests, which are the open-to-all or very large cadres, produce thousands of passes each session while the technical departmental tests produce a handful, so a single-digit or small list is normal for the small technical tests. The number of NIL lists has fallen from 16 to 11 over the four sessions (our count); we do not know why. And the PWD Accounts Test fell from 659 in November 2025 to 296 in May 2026 without any change in the rules we could find; we cannot explain it from the Commission’s documents.
- Art. 38: both sanction and funds needed
- Unused sanction lapses in 1 year (Art. 50)
- 12 traps and a 12-question self-test
- Arrear claims: 1 year; ₹500 within 3 years
- Pay on last working day; bill 5 days early
- Recoveries capped at one-third of pay
The results timeline we can document
| Session | Examinations | Results | Source status |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 23.05.2026 to 01.06.2026 (the Commission’s table; 28.05.2026 papers postponed by web note; a TSUpdate report gives 03.06.2026 as the last day, reported only) | Pass lists are on the results page; a TSUpdate report gives 24 June 2026 (reported only); a Commission memo of 23.06.2026 on a malpractice case in PC 123 shows the Commission was already acting on the session | Page official; the date reported |
| Nov 2025 | 08.11.2025 to 16.11.2025 | Pass lists and bulletin on the Commission’s pages; the pages print no release date | Official |
| May 2025 | 10.06.2025 to 24.06.2025 | Pass lists on the results page; no date printed | Official |
| Nov 2024 | 25.11.2024 to 03.12.2024 | Pass lists on the results page; no date printed | Official |
We state no result date for November 2026 because the Commission’s own pages do not print dates for earlier sessions, and a pattern we cannot document is a guess.
Malpractice and debarment: what a result can lose you
A passed paper can be cancelled. The notification lists the grounds for debarment, "permanently or for such term of years as the Commission may think fit": false information in the application, malpractice in the hall, improper behaviour towards officials, impersonation, and applying during a debarment. A Commission memo of 23.06.2026 shows how it is applied: one candidate in the State Audit Department Test Paper IV (PC 123) was debarred for two years, which the memo equates to four sessions, from all TGPSC tests and from other Public Service Commissions, for carrying a mobile phone into the hall and using it to find answers, with a recommendation of disciplinary action by the employer.
Frequently asked questions
What is the pass mark in a TGPSC departmental test?
40 marks out of 100 per objective paper on the syllabus sheets we read. A few tests must be passed together, in which case the rule on the sheet applies.
Is there a cut-off or rank?
No. Results are lists of those who passed. We found no cut-off, rank, merit list or topper list in the Commission’s documents.
Will I get a pass certificate?
No. The Commission says it issues no individual pass or confirmation certificate. The website bulletin is treated as authentic until the Gazette notification.
How do I get my marks?
Only unsuccessful candidates can request marks: Rs 200 per test by crossed IPO or bank draft within one month of the result display, with a photocopy of the hall ticket.
Can I ask for revaluation?
No. Revaluation and re-verification are not entertained. Recounting is allowed for conventional (written) tests only, Rs 100 per paper within 15 days.
How many people pass each session?
The Commission does not publish totals. Our count of entries on the published pass lists is 13,519 (Nov 2024), 16,323 (May 2025), 16,988 (Nov 2025) and 19,159 (May 2026); people who pass several tests appear several times.
What does a NIL list mean?
A common PDF saying no one passed that test. It was used for 11 to 16 tests per session in the four we counted.
When will the November 2026 results come?
Not announced. The examinations end on 23 November 2026 and the Commission’s pages do not publish a result schedule in advance.
Sources
- official — TGPSC Notification No. 04/2026, dated 24.09.2026 (November 2026 session): eligibility, scheme, timetable (Annexure I), fee, instructions, list of tests and paper codes (Annexure III)
- official — TGPSC departmental tests scheme and syllabus index (58 distinct PDFs by paper code), tspscdeptltest.telangana.gov.in
- official — TGPSC departmental test results, May 2026 session (Notification 02/2026): one pass list per test; we count entries only
- official — TGPSC departmental test results, November 2025 session (Notification 04/2025)
- official — TGPSC departmental test results, May 2025 session (Notification 03/2025)
- official — TGPSC departmental test results, November 2024 session (Notification 04/2024)
- official — TGPSC Departmental Test Bulletin (Udyoga Samacharam format) index, 2014 to November 2025
- official — TGPSC Memo No. 33/DTM/Notification/Malpractice Cases/2026 dated 23.06.2026 (one candidate debarred for two years, four sessions; we cite the penalty only, no name)
- reported — TSUpdate: TGPSC departmental tests May 2026 (Telangana education news site; the only source we found for the 24 June 2026 result date)
official = a document published by the conducting body. reported = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.
