(i) Candidates should use only the application forms purchased
either from the Post Offices or from the sales counter of the
Commission’s office. Typed or printed or Xerox / Photocopy of
the application form will not be accepted and such application
will be summarily rejected.
Candidates can also avail themselves of the facility ofapplying ‘Online’ on the Commission’s Website at“www.tnpsc.gov.in” along with Cost of Application andExamination Fee (as specified in the Commission’sNotification/Advertisement).Candidates should possess and keep ready a Postalreceipt for the amount as specified above, beforeRegistering Online. Candidates claiming exemption frompayment of Examination fee should possess and keep readyPostal receipt towards the cost of application. Candidatesapplying Online shall abide by the Commission’s instructionslaid down in this Notification / Advertisement/CommissionsInstructions etc., to candidates. Candidates applying Onlineshould send the applications and a Postal receipt along withcertified / Attested copies of documents so as to reach theCommission’s office on or before the last date for receiptof applications failing which, his/her application will berejected. The facility of applying online will normally be closedtwo days before the last date.(ii) Every application must be in the candidate’s own handwriting
in Blue/Black ink Ball point pen only.
(iii) The candidate should affix his signature in pen in the box
provided in the application. Failure to affix his signature as
above will entail summary rejection of his application.
(iv) Candidates will also be supplied with two covers (an inner
cover and an outer cover) along with the application form. The
application form duly filled in, signed and the photograph affixed
should be placed in the inner cover.
(The postal receipt for the
Examination fee paid should be pasted in the place provided in
the OMR application form). This cover should then be placed in
the big outer cover and this set should be sent to the
Commission’s office.
(v) The inner cover/outer cover should contain the application of
only one candidate. There should be no clubbing of
applications of other candidate(s) in a single set of cover.
(vi) The filling in of the application form correctly and completely
and sending it with all the documents as required in the
Commission’s “Notification/ Advertisement” / Brochure and
“Instructions etc., to Candidates” form part of the test for
selection. Failure in this regard will entail summary rejection of
the application.
(vii) Application must reach the Controller of Examinations on or
before the prescribed date. Applications, which are received
after that date or unsigned or not in the proper form or not
correctly and completely filled in and do not otherwise fulfill the
terms of these instructions and the “Notification/ Advertisement
and Brochure” will be considered defective and will be
summarily rejected.
