Tamilnadu Public Service Commission|Combined Civil Services Examination -I(Group I Service)|Post 70

Applications are invited only through online mode for direct recruitment to the posts in Combined Civil Services Examination - I (Group I Services).

1. Important Instructions:

1.1. Candidates to ensure their eligibility for the examination:

All candidates are requested to carefully read the “Instructions to Applicants” available in the Commission’s website www.tnpsc.gov.in and this Notification. The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission to all stages of the examination will be purely provisional, subject to their satisfying the eligibility conditions. Mere admission to the preliminary examination, main examination, certificate verification, interview, counselling or inclusion of name in the selection list will not confer on the candidates any right to appointment. The Commission reserves the right to reject candidature at any stage, after due process even after selection has been made, if a wrong claim or violation of rules or instructions is confirmed.

1.2. Important Dates and Time:

1.3. How to Apply:

1.3.1. One Time Registration and Online Application:

Candidates are required to apply online by using the Commission’s website www.tnpscexams.in. The

candidate needs to register himself / herself first at the One Time Registration (OTR) platform available

on the Commission’s website, and then proceed to fill up the online application for the examination. If

the candidate is already registered, he / she can proceed straightaway to fill up the online application

for the examination.

1.3.2. Application Correction Window:

After the last date for submission of online application, the Application Correction Window will open for three days from 05.05.2025 to 07.05.2025. During this period, candidates will be able to edit the details in their online application. After the last date of the Application Correction Window period, no

modification will be allowed in the online application.

1.3.3. The detailed instructions regarding how to apply and the examination centres are available in Annexure I of this Notification.

1.4. Banned Items:

1.4.1. Candidates are not allowed to bring mobile phone, pager or any electronic equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watches, watches with in-built memory notes, rings with in-built memory notes etc., or camera or Bluetooth devices or communication chips or any other equipment or related accessories either in working or switched off mode capable of being used as a communication device into the examination hall / room. Candidates are not allowed to bring non-electronic devices such as P&G Design Data Book, mathematical and drawing instruments, log tables, stencils of maps, slide rules, books, notes, loose sheets, guides, rough sheets, handbags into the examination hall / room.

1.4.2. If they are found to have any such things or instruments, they will not be allowed to write the examination, besides invalidation of the answer sheet and/or debarment and/or rejection of candidature. If it is considered necessary, they will be subjected to a thorough physical search including frisking on the spot.

1.4.3. Candidates are advised, in their own interest, not to bring any of the banned items including mobile phones to the venue of the examination, as arrangements for safekeeping of the same cannot be assured.

2. Warning:

2.1. All the recruitments by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission are purely merit-based. The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission hereby cautions the candidates against touts and agents who may cheat, by making false promises of securing jobs through unfair means. The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission shall not be responsible or liable for any loss that may be caused to any candidateon account of indulging in any sort of dealings with such unscrupulous elements.

2.2. Candidates are solely responsible for their claims in the online application. They cannot blame service providers like internet cafes / browsing centers / common service centers for the mistakes made while applying online for recruitment. Candidates are advised to check the filled-in online application before finally submitting the same.

3.1. The number of vacancies notified is tentative and is liable for modification, until the publication of the results of the main examination. Whenever the vacancies are revised, the number of candidates selected for the successive stages will also be revised commensurately.

3.2. The Commission reserves the right to include additional posts with different nomenclature and having similar eligibility conditions, as announced in this notification.

4. Eligibility Conditions:

4.1. Age Limit: (as on 01.07.2025)

The candidates should have completed the minimum age of 21 years for all posts. The category wise maximum age limit and age concession details are given below.

4.1.3. The above mentioned age concession will not apply to the Ex-Servicemen candidates who have already been recruited to any class or service or category.

4.1.4. Supporting Documents:

4.1.4.1. The date of birth will be verified against the tenth standard (SSLC) or twelfth standard (HSC) mark sheet, issued by the Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education and Tamil Nadu Board of Higher Secondary Education respectively. Those candidates whose date of birth is not mentioned in their tenth standard / twelfth standard mark sheet must upload / produce their Birth Certificate / Transfer Certificate / Degree Mark Sheets, instead of the tenth standard or twelfth standard mark sheet. Any other form of evidence will not be accepted. Failure to upload / produce such a document shall result in the rejection of candidature after due process.

4.1.4.2. Candidates claiming age concession should upload / produce the supporting documents for such a claim. Failure to upload / produce such a document shall result in the rejection of candidature after due process.