marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Written Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Written Examination will be ten times the number of candidates to be recruited having regard to the rule of reservation of appointments. However, in each reservation group, all the candidates, who secure the same marks as that of the cut off marks of their reservation groups shall also be admitted to the Main Written Examination, though the number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Written Examination may exceed 1:10 ratio.


(II) Posts for which selection is made on the basis of Written Examination and Oral Test

Where the selection is made on the basis of both, Main Written Examination/Written Examination and Oral Test, the Main Written Examination/Written Examination will precede the Oral Test. If the number of vacancies notified/reserved to be filled up for any one or more of the reservation groups (viz., Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Most Backward Classes/ Denotified Communities, Backward Classes or General Turn) is five and above, the number of candidates to be admitted to the Oral Test shall be two times the number of vacancies for which recruitment has to be made against those reservation groups based on the marks obtained by the candidates at the Main Written Examination or Written Examination, as the case may be. Similarly, if the number of vacancies in any one or more of the remaining reservation groups for the same recruitment is four and below, the number of candidates to be admitted to the Oral Test from those particular reservation group(s) shall be three times the number of vacancies for which recruitment has to be made against those reservation group(s). In respect of the posts, the total cadre strength of which is one only and for which the rule of reservation of appointments does not apply, the number of candidates to be admitted to the oral test on the basis of the marks obtained at the Written Examination will be three. The final selection will be made on the basis of the total marks obtained by the candidates at the Main Written Examination or Written Examination, as the case may be, and Oral Test taken together subject to the rule of reservation of appointments wherever it applies. Appearance in all the papers at the Main Written Examination/Written Examination and for Oral Test is compulsory. The candidates who have not appeared for any of the subjects in the Main Written Examination/Written Examination will not be considered for selection even if they secure the minimum qualifying marks for selection.

The marks obtained by the candidates appearing for the Oral Test, both in the Written Examination as well as in the Oral Test will be placed in the Notice Board in the Office of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission in the evening either on the last day fixed for Oral Test or on the succeeding working day. The same will also be made available on the Internet in the Commission’s website www.tnpsc.org


(III) Post for which selection is made on the basis of Written Examination only

The selection will be made on the basis of the marks obtained by the candidates in the Written Examination only, subject to the rule of reservation of appointments.