FAQs

Group 1 Services are the top level posts in the Government Sector in the State.

The State Public Service Commission conducts exam for selection to Group 1 Services. To become a Group 1 officer one must get selected through this examination process.

The selection is done in 3 stages.

1. Preliminary Exam – Objective Type – Elimination of candidates

2. Mains Exam – Descriptive Type – Selection of Candidates for Interview

3. Interview – Personality Test – Final Selection

For detailed information about the selection procedure in each stage, click here.

Click Here for the detailed syllabus of Prelims and Mains Examinations.

Prelims – Tata McGraw Hill’s General Studies Manual for Civil Services Preliminary.

Mains – See Question number 28 below.

One must be a graduate from any recognised University in India.

1. Deputy Collector (or) Revenue Divisional Officer

2. Deputy Superintendent of Police

3. Commercial Tax Officer

4. District Registrar

5. Mandal Parishat Development Officer

6. Assistant Excise Superintendent

7. RTO

Other posts will be filled according to the vacancies and will be listed in the notification.

See the Notification for details.

No. The Group 1 examination will be conducted as and when the vacancies arise. Usually, if Congress is in power in the State, then Examination will be conducted (atleast notification will be given) just before the elections. If TDP is in power, forget about government jobs and try your luck in the private sector.

6 to 8 months depending upon your dedication and motivation levels.

Coaching is not necessary if you can read the standard text books and prepare your own notes. But it is a time consuming process. Coaching centers will provide you with ready made material and the chance to listen to subject experts and take down notes in the class room.

If you have the money and time, joining a coaching institute is a good idea.

If you a doing a job or have economical problem, you have an equal chance of selecting if you are motivated.

There are many coaching centers for Civil Services but only few provide coaching for Group 1. R.C.Reddy IAS Study Circle, Hyderabad Study Circle, Ambedkar Study Circle, A.P.Study Circle, etc are some of the popular institutes.

Reservations will not be applicable in the Preliminary stage.

In the Mains and Final Selections, reservations are applied.

tarGET GROUPS.in a website through which we provide Material for Group 1 Examination in English Medium.

We provide only Soft Copies (pdf) for now.

No. There are a lot of books available for Telugu Medium students in the market so we did not prepare material for telugu medium students.

We are not selling the Material in market. If you want the Material you have to be a member of tarGET GROUPS.

We want to provide the Material for a cost which everyone can afford. If we start marketing the books, then additional costs (like the brokerages, advertisement costs, transportation charges, percentage profit to the sellers) will be added to the final cost at which the student has to buy. To reduce these unnecessary costs we are not selling in the open market.

If you are a registered user, You can see a sample of our Material here.

We are providing our phone number in the website. You can always call us and verify. Once you are willing to buy the material, we will be giving you our Bank Account details. We should be worried not you !!!

First of all, there are no good books or material for Group 1 in English medium in the market. If you are reading this, it means that you have been searching a lot for Group 1 Material (because we haven’t advertised about our Material anywhere either in print or electronic media).

Second, we have compiled the material, from standard books and authentic sources, in such a way that one can answer the questions in 10-12 minutes time.

We have printed Material for Paper 3 and 4 only. We are providing online coaching for the rest of the papers. Using your User name and Password and you can access the Material at a time of your choice.

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Please follow the instructions here. If the problem persists, call us.

We have given the answers which you can write within 10 -12 minutes time. You should be having a really fast handwriting to write anything more than what we have given.

If you think our answers are inadequate, you are free to add your own points to them.

Don’t worry about that, it will never happen. No matter how many times you read, you will end up writing the answers in your own words. No body can remember the answers “word-to-word”.

We did not write our own answers, we followed standard text books.

Indian History -

• “Early India” by Romila Thapar
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Indian Polity -

• D.D.Basu’s “Indian Constitution”
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Indian Economy -

• Economic Survey of India
• Mishra & Puri
• Dutt & Sundaram
• Pratyogita Darpan Series

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• Socio-Economic Survey of A.P.
• 50 Years of A.P.
• Y.V.Krishna Rao – for regional disparities
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