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At a glance
The facts most likely to change your decision.
- Vacancies
- Not published in the cited notices The portal notices cited here publish the provisionally selected and waitlisted lists but not a vacancy count; the post-wise figures are in Notification No. 71/2025 itself.
- Education
- Graduate Recruitment is made under the Madras High Court Service Rules, 2015. In the previous cycle for this cadre (Notification No. 56/2018) a Personal Assistant to the Hon'ble Judges needed any Bachelor's degree in the 10+2+3 or 11+1+3 pattern, a pass in the Government Technical Examination in Shorthand and Typewriting in English at Higher/Senior Grade, and the Certificate Course in Computer on Office Automation of the Directorate of Technical Education; Personal Assistant (to the Registrars) and Personal Clerk (to the Deputy Registrars) needed the same with the shorthand and typewriting qualification in English and Tamil.
- Age
- In the previous cycle for this cadre (Notification No. 56/2018) the band was 18 to 35 years for SC, SC(A), ST, MBC & DC, BC and BCM candidates and 18 to 30 for 'Others', with 45 years for in-service candidates of the Madras High Court Service and the Tamil Nadu Judicial Ministerial Service and 40 years for temporary Government candidates, relaxed under Section 61 of the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016; candidates from outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry could compete only under the General category with no relaxation. Notification No. 71/2025 fixes this cycle's band and is the document to rely on. Relaxations and cut-off dates are category-specific.
- Application fee
- ₹500 for each post applied for, with SC(A), SC and ST candidates exempted, in the previous cycle for this cadre (Notification No. 56/2018), paid by demand draft in favour of the Registrar General; the fee for this cycle is in Notification No. 71/2025 and is not published on the portal notices cited here. Use the official payment instructions only.
- Pay
- In the previous cycle for this cadre (Notification No. 56/2018) the revised scales were ₹56,100–1,77,500 plus special pay for Personal Assistant to the Hon'ble Judges, ₹36,400–1,15,700 for Personal Assistant (to the Registrars) and ₹20,600–65,500 for Personal Clerk (to the Deputy Registrars); this cycle's scales are not asserted here. Gross and in-hand pay vary by posting and allowance.
- Recruitment cycle
- Notification No. 71/2025 State · Madras High Court Service
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Vacancies & reservation
What is known, what overlaps and what remains unreported.
Current published countNot published in the cited notices
Check source ↗Category table not available here
Check the latest official notice for the post- and category-wise distribution.
How to read reservation: UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST are vertical categories. PwBD, women, ex-servicemen and similar horizontal reservations can overlap them and must not be added again to the total.
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Complete timeline
One record from notification to final outcome.
- completed
Notification No. 71/2025 issued
6 Apr 2025
- completed
Document upload window closed
30 Sep 2025
- completed
Provisionally selected and waitlisted lists published
13 Jul 2026
- completed
Certificate verification
27 Jul 2026
- current
Appointment orders
Exact official date awaited
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Who can apply?
A readable first check—not a legal eligibility decision.
Basic eligibility paths
- Recruitment to the Madras High Court Service is made by direct recruitment under the Madras High Court Service Rules, 2015, through the High Court's Centralised Recruitment Cell.
- The educational qualification must have been obtained in the order of study — SSLC, then HSC or its equivalent, then the Bachelor's degree — as Section 25 of the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016 requires.
- Reservation follows the Tamil Nadu communal roster, including the Persons Studied in Tamil Medium and women sub-quotas set out post-wise in the notification.
- In the previous cycle a candidate applying for more than one post had to send a separate application and a separate fee for each.
- Confirm every eligibility condition in Notification No. 71/2025; the figures above come from the previous cycle's notification and the standing service rules.
Relaxations & certificates
- SC/ST, OBC-NCL, PwBD and ex-servicemen relaxations follow the applicable notification.
- Always check the certificate format and cut-off date in the official notice.
If your degree title, age, domicile or category certificate is unusual, mark yourself “check required” and read the official wording.
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Selection process & syllabus
Stage by stage, without mixing recruitment years.
Selection stages
- 1Skill test of 100 marks — taking down dictation of an English passage for seven minutes at 120 words a minute and transcribing it on computer, with prescribed deductions for mistakes (previous cycle, Notification No. 56/2018)
- 2Only candidates who qualify in the skill test are called for the interview, and the High Court may set a cut-off above the minimum qualifying mark
- 3Interview of 15 marks with a minimum pass mark of 5
- 4Final selection on the combined marks of the skill test and interview, followed by certificate verification
Syllabus snapshot
- This cadre is tested on a shorthand-and-transcription standard rather than a subject syllabus. The previous cycle (Notification No. 56/2018) set a common English passage for all three posts and a common Tamil passage where Tamil shorthand is required, with a published scheme for deducting marks for English and Tamil mistakes.
- Use the scheme of examination in Notification No. 71/2025 for this cycle.
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Application document checklist
Prepare before the portal gets busy.
Recent passport-size photograph and scanned signature
Government photo ID with the same name used in the application
Education certificates and marksheets
Category, EWS, PwBD or ex-serviceman certificate, if claimed
Domicile or language proof where the notification requires it
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Official links & source record
Go straight to the recruiting body.
websiteMadras High Court recruitment portalresultProvisionally selected and waitlisted candidates — Notification No. 71/2025noticePrevious cycle for this cadre — Notification No. 56/2018
- Primary source
- Madras High Court recruitment portal — Notification No. 71/2025 selection notices, read with the previous cycle's Notification No. 56/2018
- Published / changed
- Notification No. 71/2025 dated 6 Apr 2025; selection list published 13 Jul 2026
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026, 20:55 IST
Official notices, corrigenda and recruiting-body pages have final authority. This page is a reading aid.