APPSC Group 2 has run under its current two-paper pattern exactly twice: the Screening Test of 25 February 2024 and the Mains of 23 February 2025, both under notification 11/2023. The commission publishes the papers and keys on psc.ap.gov.in, linked below. We placed every question of the 2025 Mains against a chapter of the syllabus and counted: 23 chapters out of 106 gave half the paper.
Published 28 August 2026 ยท Last checked 28 August 2026. Source: APPSC official booklets and keys for notification 11/2023; BLOOM chapter mapping, free to download as JSON.
APPSC puts every Group 2 question paper and key on psc.ap.gov.in, and the 2024 Screening key of 26 February 2024 and the 2025 Mains keys of 4 April 2025 are there under notification 11/2023. The result notices themselves sit behind links that only a browser can follow, so bookmark the two listing pages below rather than a result link. Nothing here is hosted by us; every link goes to the commission.
Source: portal-psc.ap.gov.in listing pages, checked 27 August 2026.
In the APPSC Group 2 Mains of 23 February 2025, the four subjects were 75 marks each on paper, but the marks inside each subject were not spread evenly: 23 chapters out of 106 gave half the paper. We counted every question against our chapter map of the 1 May 2023 syllabus; the full count is on the weightage page and in the JSON file.
| Subject | Marks mapped | Chapters in syllabus | Chapters that gave half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science and environment | 76 | 18 | 4 |
| Economy | 72 | 28 | 5 |
| AP History | 73 | 35 | 7 |
| Polity | 75 | 25 | 7 |
You are not reading all of it with equal care, and you were never meant to. The chapters that carried the paper are named on the weightage page, subject by subject, biggest groups first.
Source: BLOOM mapping of the official 2025 Mains booklets 2G/201 and 2G/202; chapter names are ours, the commission publishes a syllabus, not a chapter list.
The two stages of APPSC Group 2 rewarded different things in the 2023 cycle. The February 2024 Group 2 Screening asked no polity and no economy; the February 2025 Group 2 Mains asked no geography, society or mental ability. One cycle only, so it is the shape of the last paper, not a rule. A question that sits across two chapters is counted in both, so subject totals land a little either side of 75.
This is one cycle, so treat it as the shape of the last paper rather than a promise. The Screening syllabus is six fixed blocks of 30 marks, and the commission can move the weight inside any of them next time.
Source: BLOOM mapping of the 2024 Screening and 2025 Mains booklets.
The APPSC Group 2 Screening of 2024 was one paper of 150 questions in 150 minutes whose marks were not counted; the Mains of 2025 was two papers of 150 marks each that decided rank. The Screening sent 92,250 of 404,037 candidates through, the top 23 percent. Both carry one third negative marking.
Every question in both stages is multiple choice. There is no interview and no descriptive paper anywhere in Group 2.
Source: APPSC notification 11/2023, paragraphs 1.4, 10.1 to 10.4; qualified list of 10 April 2024.
On psc.ap.gov.in, under Question papers of various notifications and Keys to papers. Links are in the first section above.
Two: the Screening of 25 February 2024 and the Mains of 23 February 2025, both under notification 11/2023.
23 chapters out of 106 gave half the paper. The named chapters are on the weightage page.
For the static subjects, yes. For the shape of the paper, no: the Mains changed from 450 marks in three papers to 300 in two in 2023.
Yes, as JSON at bloomappsc.com/data/g2-mains-2025-distribution.json, free to reuse with attribution.
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