TGPSC AEE Civil key out: objections until 5 pm on 17 November, Rs 500 a question

Engineers who sat the Telangana Public Service Commission’s test for 222 Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) posts can now check their answers against the commission’s preliminary key. The TGPSC AEE Civil key, along with master question papers for Paper-I and Paper-II, was posted to candidates’ logins on Saturday, 14 November, and the commission will accept objections online until 5 pm on Tuesday, 17 November.

The posts are in the Transport, Roads and Buildings Department and carry a pay scale of Rs 54,220 to Rs 1,33,630. Of the 222 vacancies, 112 fall in Multi Zone-I, which covers the northern and eastern districts, from Adilabad and Nizamabad to Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam. The other 110 are in Multi Zone-II, which takes in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Nalgonda and the Mahabubnagar region. In both multi-zones, 95% of the posts are reserved for local candidates.

Rs 500 for each disputed question

An objection costs Rs 500 for each question challenged, paid through the online gateway. The fee comes back only if the challenge is upheld in the final key. In its web note, the commission said it will not look at objections sent by email, handed in as written representations or filed after the deadline. Objections must be typed in English, because the text box on the site accepts nothing else, and must carry proof that names its source: a book’s author, edition, page number and publisher, or a website address.

TGPSC allotted 29,077 candidates to the computer-based test, held in morning and afternoon sessions on 6 and 7 November at 38 venues. Its attendance notes show that 21,115 of them wrote Paper-I, a turnout of 72.6% and roughly 95 contenders for every post. Paper-I, on general studies and general abilities, carries 150 marks. Paper-II, a degree-level civil engineering paper set only in English, carries 300.

What happens after 17 November

Objections that arrive in time go before a panel of experts, and the final key will be posted only after the commission approves it. No objections are taken against the final key. If a question is dropped, its marks are shared out in proportion to each candidate’s performance on the remaining questions. Since the test ran over several sessions, scores will be normalised and results announced as percentiles.

Selection is based on marks in the written test. Open-category, EWS and sports-quota candidates need at least 40%, Backward Classes candidates 35%, and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and disabled candidates 30%. If too few SC and ST candidates reach that mark, the commission can select them on merit regardless. The web note does not give a date for the final key or the merit list; the commission posts updates on its website.