All the TNPSC previous year questions from the 2020 to 2026 prelims papers are now online, in one place, with the answers as TNPSC published them. That is 83 papers and 9,161 General Studies and Aptitude questions, in Tamil and English.
The TNPSC prelims question bank runs in a browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. There is nothing to install.
Two ways to work through the TNPSC previous year questions
Most students come to past papers with one of two questions in mind: what does the whole exam look like? or how much does TNPSC ask from this one topic? The site answers both.
Every question is tagged to the syllabus, down to Unit, Theme and Topic. So you can work through one unit at a time — Unit 4 Indian Polity has 1,140 questions across 17 themes, Unit 7 Aptitude has 1,765 — or narrow it to a single topic such as Fundamental Rights. Themes can be sorted by how many questions TNPSC has asked from each, which tells you where the marks actually are.
The other way is by paper. Open any of the 83 exams and read it from question 1 to the end, the way it was sat. You can also filter inside a paper, to see only the Polity questions from Group II 2023, for example.
Answer first, then check
Questions open in Quiz mode. You pick an option and the page tells you immediately whether it was right, with three attempts before the answer is shown. Switch to Study mode when you would rather revise with the answers visible.
With a free account, every answer is saved. The progress page then shows, topic by topic, what you got right first time, what took a second attempt, and what you have not touched yet. Press Incorrect on any list to go back over only the questions you got wrong.
There is also a Group I accuracy planner: set a target for the 200-question prelims and it works out what each unit has to give you.
Which exams are in it
The archive is not only Group I and Group II. It covers five exam families: 33 Combined Technical Services papers, 30 departmental and other examinations, 8 from Group IV and V–VIII, 6 from Group II / IIA / III and 6 from Group I / IA / IB / IC. A Group IV aspirant and a Technical Services aspirant are revising from the same syllabus units, so questions asked in one exam are worth reading before sitting another.
Three papers were added for 2026: the Assistant Public Prosecutor Grade-II examination held on 15 February, the Combined Technical Services examination for interview posts held on 7 and 8 March, and the Combined Technical Services examination held on 19 September. Each new prelims is added after it is held, with the answer key TNPSC publishes for it.
Ten papers from 2025 are in the free set alongside them, which is where most students start.
What it costs
The 2025 and 2026 papers are free, with no sign-up: 13 papers and 1,494 questions. If you are sitting an exam this year, that alone is two years of recent papers in both languages.
The full 2020–2026 archive is ₹499 for one year, or ₹249 with the code GROUPI2026 until 27 September 2026. One payment, one year, GST invoice included.
Alongside the books
Our printed TNPSC question bank titles are not going anywhere, and plenty of students use both. A book is what you annotate, carry to class and read without a screen. The site is what you use to search all 9,161 TNPSC previous year questions in a second, filter by topic, and keep count of what you have got wrong.
Start with the free papers here: pyqs.tamizhibooks.com
