APPSC planning for a major change: Prelims could be held only if applications cross 200 times the vacancies

The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) on Monday proposed a major change in the examination process for government job recruitments across various departments in the state.

APPSC is planning to conduct the preliminary exam only if the number of applications received exceeds 200 times the number of posts notified.

This means that if a notification is issued for 100 posts, a preliminary (prelims) exam will be held only if more than 20,000 applications are received. If the required number of applications are not received , the commission may directly conduct a single-stage recruitment process or the mains exam.

Presently, the APPSC conducts prelims and mains examinations if the number of applications crosses 25,000, regardless of the number of vacancies.

However, the Commission has now said that this leads to unnecessary expenditure and wastage of time. As a result, it has proposed this new filtering system to the state government. If approved, many APPSC recruitments may be conducted with just one exam instead of two.