TNPSC Group 4 Result 2025: How to Check It, What Came After, and When to Expect the 2026 Result

The paper is out of 300, and two minimums apply to every community: at least 60 of 150 in Part A (Tamil), or Parts B and C aren't marked at all, and at least 90 of 300 overall. Clearing them makes you eligible. It doesn't get you a post. In 2025 about 11.4 lakh candidates wrote the exam (the exam-day figure reported by Hindu Tamil Thisai) for a few thousand posts, so it's your rank that decides things.

• Overall rank is your place among everyone who wrote.

• Communal rank is your place within your own community (BC, MBC/DC, SC and so on). The reserved turns are filled from it.

• Special-category rank applies if you claimed a category with its own share. The 2022 selection list, for instance, marks PSTM (Tamil-medium) candidates in its special-category column.

How the last rank called in each slot turns into a "cut-off" for each community and post is explained in Group 4 cut-off marks.

TNPSC doesn't revalue answer sheets. The notification says plainly that requests for revaluation, or for the reasons someone failed, won't be entertained. Answer-key mistakes are handled earlier, through the online challenge window after the tentative keys come out.

Notification No. 07/2025 came out on 25 April 2025 with 3,935 vacancies. The exam was held on 12 July 2025 at 38 district centres, and 13,89,738 candidates were admitted to it.

What the dates show:

• The result came when TNPSC said it would. The press release notes that the website had announced October 2025 for the result, and the marks went up on 22 October, 102 days after the exam.

• Posts kept arriving after the result. The 645 posts were added on 3 December, when counselling lists were already out. With the 727 added in September, TNPSC's own running total reached 5,307 posts, against 3,935 at the start (Addendum 7C/2025).

• Counselling runs in rounds. After each round TNPSC publishes the vacancies still unfilled and calls more candidates from further down the rank list. A year after the exam it was still at it: Phase IV in July 2026, and the forest posts (Forest Guard, Forest Watcher), which need a physical test, got their onscreen verification list on 19 June 2026 and a sportsperson-quota counselling list on 14 August 2026.

The 2024 cycle went the same way: exam on 9 June 2024, result on 28 October 2024, the onscreen verification list on 7 November, the first counselling list on 8 January 2025, and the final selection list for Junior Assistant, Typist and Steno-Typist posts on 18 December 2025 (TNPSC results page).

The 2026 notification sets out the same steps, in this order.

1. Onscreen certificate verification (CV) list. TNPSC shortlists by rank, your claims and the reservation rules: three candidates per vacancy in the general turn and two in the reserved categories for VAO, Junior Assistant, Typist and Steno-Typist posts, and six per vacancy for the forest posts.

2. Upload your certificates through OTR. You get 10 calendar days. If something is missing or defective, TNPSC gives another 10 days to re-upload it. Miss the first window and you drop out of the selection. Miss the re-upload window and the claim that document supports (community, PSTM, a higher qualification and so on) is rejected.

3. Forest posts only: a physical standards test and an endurance walk, held only in Chennai.

4. Physical certificate verification and counselling. Candidates are called by rank again, at 1:3 (general) and 1:1.5 (reserved) for VAO, Junior Assistant and Steno-Typist, and 1:3 and 1:2 for Typist. Bring every original you uploaded. For the 2025 exam this was held at the TNPSC office in Chennai.

5. Choose your post. You pick in rank order when your turn comes. A post chosen at counselling cannot be changed, and if you miss your date there is no second chance.

6. Selection list. The final list of selected candidates comes after counselling ends.

The certificates to keep ready are listed in our Group 4 notification 2026 guide.

TNPSC has not said. As of 24 October 2026, neither the notification nor the annual planner gives a result date; the planner, published on 3 December 2025, lists only notification and exam dates (TNPSC annual planner). TNPSC also keeps a tentative selection schedule with expected months for results. That is the page to watch after the exam.

What the 2026 notification does fix:

• Tentative answer keys within six working days of the exam, and online challenges within seven days of their publication.

• The final answer key before the result. In 2025 the final keys came on 17 November, after the result.

For comparison, here is how long the last three results took:

The 2022 wait was the long one. About 18.36 lakh candidates sat that exam, and TNPSC explained that its new two-part OMR sheets had to be scanned and checked for errors separately (TNPSC press release). If the wait after 10 January 2027 falls anywhere in the range of the last three cycles (102 days to eight months), the result would come between late April and September 2027. That's arithmetic on past dates, not a TNPSC date, and we'll update this page when TNPSC announces one.

There is nothing to check until 2027. The 11 weeks before the exam are what decide your rank.

Spend them where the marks are. Part A carries half the marks and decides whether the rest of your paper is marked at all, and every answer left blank costs 0.5 mark. You can pick up our 90-day study plan midway, and the Group 4 syllabus lists every unit. Thervu's Group 4 mock tests are timed, in Tamil and English, and marked the moment you submit, with a score for each subject. The questions you get wrong come back in your revision queue.

Thervu is independent and not affiliated with TNPSC. For the exam pattern and eligibility, see the TNPSC Group 4 exam guide.