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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 7 October 2026.</strong> From Notification 04/2026 (24.09.2026) and its Annexure I timetable for 14 to 23 November 2026. The Commission may "alter and modify" terms, change dates and shift centres; hall tickets appear seven days before the first paper. PC 162 and PC 155 are undated.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">A TGPSC departmental test is identified by a <strong>paper code (PC)</strong>, not by a name. The application form, the hall ticket, the timetable and the pass list all use the code, and one test can have up to six of them. This guide lists what the code means, how the paper is conducted, what you can carry in, and where each paper falls in the <strong>14 to 23 November 2026</strong> sitting.</p>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">A departmental test is not an OMR paper any more: objective tests are computer-based, and so are the question papers of the descriptive tests.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> Guides that still describe an OMR answer sheet and a paper booklet for every paper.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">Notification 04/2026, para I.4: "Examinations shall be conducted in online mode in computer Based Test (CBT) method of examination." Para III(vi) adds that even the conventional papers show the question paper on the screen after login, with a pen-and-answer-book OMR sheet for the written answers. Notification 04/2024 (November 2024) already described the same online CBT mode.</p></div>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">100</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">marks in an objective paper</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">2 hours</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">objective paper (10.00 am or 2.30 pm start)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">40</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">marks to pass a paper (syllabus sheets)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">3 hours</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">descriptive paper (PC 5: two hours; PC 162: one hour)</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Notification 04/2026 para III and the scheme-and-syllabus sheets, official.</p>

<p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:6px 0 18px">Official (Notification 04/2026 para III, para VIII; syllabus sheets). Our count of descriptive codes comes from para III(iv). No negative marking is mentioned in the notification or in the syllabus sheets we read; none is claimed here. The 40 pass mark is from the syllabus sheets we read; we did not confirm a pass mark for the papers shown as 200 marks (PC 6 and 7), so do not assume 40 there.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Every paper in Annexure I is tagged <strong>WITH BOOKS</strong> or <strong>WITHOUT BOOKS</strong>. Of the 146 papers that carry a date, <strong>89 are with books and 57 without</strong> (our count of Annexure I). The rule for a with-books paper is narrow: "THE CANDIDATE IS PERMITTED TO BRING BARE ACTS ONLY. GUIDES, BOOKS CONTAINING COMMENTARIES, MADE EASY, WRITTEN OR ROENOED BOOKS, & XEROX COPIES, DIARIES, NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE TRAINING INSTITUTES & HAND BOOKS ARE NOT PERMITTED." Where a syllabus sheet lists "books to be allowed" (PC 8, PC 10), those are the codes and manuals the Commission has in mind.</p>

A with-books test is not an easy test: the code in your hand only helps if you can find the right rule inside the paper’s time, which is why familiarity with the layout of the book matters. The "without books" papers tend to be technical or manual-based ones, for example the Forest first papers, the Divisional Test Part I, the Fire Service manual, the Sericulture papers, the Survey tests and PC 162.

Annexure III of the notification groups the codes. The pass-together rule printed beside a test is from the Commission’s syllabus sheet; "separately" means each paper can be passed in a different session.

<p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:6px 0 18px">Official, from Notification 04/2026 Annexure III. Fourteen numbers below 162 (11, 38, 50, 55, 72, 73, 91, 109, 111, 116, 118, 120, 133, 154) are not in the November 2026 notification. The notification says the Commission may cancel Andhra-region survey papers (PC 55, 72, 109, 118, 111, 120, 116, 133) and that PC 154 was repealed by G.O.Rt.No.09 of 06.01.2017; we could not find an official reason for the other five numbers.</p>

The sitting runs for nine days with 22 November left empty. These counts are ours, from Annexure I of the notification; the paper-by-paper list is in the lookup tool below and on the Commission’s notification.

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Papers per day, November 2026 (our count of Annexure I)</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">14 Nov (Sat)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">21</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:72.4%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">15 Nov (Sun)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">2</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:6.9%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">16 Nov (Mon)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">29</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">17 Nov (Tue)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">22</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:75.9%;height:12px;background:#8e3b8e;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">18 Nov (Wed)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">21</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:72.4%;height:12px;background:#c2553a;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">19 Nov (Thu)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">2</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:6.9%;height:12px;background:#2a8f8f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">20 Nov (Fri)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">28</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:96.6%;height:12px;background:#6b6f2a;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">21 Nov (Sat)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">16</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:55.2%;height:12px;background:#5b6472;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">23 Nov (Mon)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">5</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:17.2%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">The two heaviest days, 16 and 20 November, carry 29 and 28 papers; 15 and 19 November carry two each: 15 November has PC 141 (Accounts Test for Executive Officers, forenoon) and PC 8 (Accounts Test for Subordinate Officers Part-I, afternoon); 19 November has PC 88 and PC 97 (Education Department Gazetted Officers, first and second paper).</p></figure>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Three timetable facts worth planning around</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>The big open tests are on their own days.</strong> PC 141 (Accounts Test for Executive Officers) is on 15 November forenoon, PC 8 (Accounts Subordinate Part I) the same afternoon, and PC 88 and 97 (Education Gazetted Officers) on 19 November. The two Accounts tests therefore do not clash with each other.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>PC 10 (Accounts Subordinate Part II)</strong> is on 16 November forenoon, so a candidate taking Parts I and II has Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, in that order.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Multi-paper tests spread over days.</strong> The Treasuries & Accounts examination uses 14, 16, 17, 18 and 20 November; the Revenue Test uses 17 and 18 November. Check each paper’s day, not only the test’s.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Our reading of Annexure I (official).</p></div>

On the day: what the notification requires

A conflict worth knowing about: paragraph VIII(xii) says calculators, including scientific ones, are not allowed except for the Survey departmental tests, while the descriptive-examination instructions say candidates "are permitted to use calculators for Descriptive examination" and that an on-screen calculator is provided inside the examination interface. The notification does not reconcile the two. Do not carry a physical calculator unless your descriptive paper is a Survey paper and the hall ticket says so.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">More in this series</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/tgpsc-departmental-tests-which-test-for-your-department" style="color:#255a45">Which departmental test applies to your post</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/tgpsc-departmental-tests-syllabus-paper-wise" style="color:#255a45">Syllabus by paper and the G.O. behind each</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/tgpsc-departmental-tests-results-pass-marks-pass-lists" style="color:#255a45">Results, pass marks and pass-list counts</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/tgpsc-departmental-tests-notification-fee-how-to-apply" style="color:#255a45">Notification, fee, how to apply and session calendar</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/exam-alert-and-updates-for-tspsc-departmental-tests" style="color:#255a45">Alerts and updates for TSPSC / TGPSC departmental tests</a></li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://websitenew.tgpsc.gov.in/preview/UFJFU1NOT1RFL05vdGlmaWNhdGlvbjIwMjYwOTI0MTUyNjQ2LnBkZg==r95v17a0y2d8i13v" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">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)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://websitenew.tgpsc.gov.in/preview/UFJFU1NOT1RFL1dlYl9ub3RlMjAyNjA5MjQxNTI5MDkucGRmr95v17a0y2d8i13v" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">TGPSC web note for Notification 04/2026: apply 26.09.2026 to 17.10.2026 by 5.00 PM; examinations 14.11.2026 to 23.11.2026 except 22.11.2026; PC 162 dates later</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://websitenew.tgpsc.gov.in/preview/UFJFU1NOT1RFL05vdGlmaWNhdGlvbjIwMjYwMjI2MTcwNzAwLnBkZg==r95v17a0y2d8i13v" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">TGPSC Notification No. 02/2026 (May 2026 session, 26.02.2026): same fee and scheme; G.O.Ms.No.237 and 238 on the office-automation test</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://tspscdeptltest.telangana.gov.in/HomePages/Syllabus.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">TGPSC departmental tests scheme and syllabus index (58 distinct PDFs by paper code), tspscdeptltest.telangana.gov.in</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://websitenew.tgpsc.gov.in/departmentalTest.jsp" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">TGPSC Departmental Examinations page: session table 2021 to 2026, twice a year (May and November), Notification 04/2026 window</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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Paper code list for every TGPSC departmental test, the CBT pattern (100 marks, 2 hours, pass 40), with-books and without-books papers, the 14 to 23 November 2026 timetable and a clash checker.