🌾 APPSC — ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

For: Andhra Pradesh state government posts — Group 1 (Deputy Collector, DSP…), Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, and departmental/technical posts (AEE, etc.). Official site: psc.ap.gov.in.

Confirm the current pattern, syllabus and vacancy details on the official APPSC notification — state PSC patterns are revised periodically.

Group 1 (highest — gazetted)

 SCREENING / PRELIMS — objective (General Studies & Mental Ability)
 MAINS — descriptive papers:
     General Essay · GS Paper I–V (history & culture, polity & governance,
     economy & development, S&T & environment, AP-specific data/administration)
 INTERVIEW

Group 2

 SCREENING (objective) → MAINS
 MAINS papers: General Studies; AP socio-economic, political & cultural history;
 planning & economy; governance & public administration (executive & non-executive posts)

Group 3 & Group 4

• Group 3 (Panchayat secretary, etc.) and Group 4 (junior assistant, typist): objective papers on General Studies + secretarial/subject abilities; Group 4 is largely General Studies + General Aptitude.

Syllabus themes (AP focus added)

• General Studies & Mental Ability, Indian & AP history, geography, polity, economy, S&T, environment, current affairs.
• Andhra Pradesh-specific: AP history & culture, AP geography & economy, AP bifurcation & re-organisation, state schemes & administration.

What to study on this site

• Core GS: Polity · History · Geography · Economy · Environment · Science & Tech
• Reasoning / Mental Ability: CSAT Reasoning & DI · CSAT Maths
• Current affairs: Monthly Digest
• Answer writing (for Group 1/2 Mains): Mains frameworks

AP-specific add-ons (study separately)

AP state history & movements · AP geography (rivers, crops, districts) · AP economy & budget · AP government schemes · current AP affairs. Use APPSC previous papers + a state-GK book/Telugu-medium material.

Official links

• Notification & apply: psc.ap.gov.in
• Live openings: Govt Job Alerts

Overlap with UPSC: ~70% of Group 1/2 GS is the same national syllabus already on this site; the extra ~30% is AP-specific — add that layer on top.