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APPSC AEE 2026: 503 Assistant Executive Engineer Posts, Eligibility, Exam Pattern and Score Calculation

Updated 15 October 2026 • 4 min read • By Thaseen Fathima

The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission has issued Brief Notification No. 27/2026 (13 October 2026) for 503 Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) posts across eight post codes. Applications open on 2 November and close on 22 November 2026, with the detailed notification due on or before 2 November. This guide covers the vacancies, the three-paper exam and the one-third negative marking rule, with a worked example.

At a glance

Vacancies: 503 (provisional) across eight post codes.
Apply: 2 November to 22 November 2026 (11:59 PM).
Age: 18–44 years as on 1 July 2026.
Exam: a single-level online CBRT of three papers, 150 questions and 150 marks each (450 marks in total), no screening test.
Negative marking: one-third of the question marks for each wrong answer.
Pay scale: ₹57,100 – ₹1,47,760.

Vacancies by Department

Post code	Department / post	Vacancies
01	Public Health & Municipal Engineering	21
02	Panchayat Raj & Rural Development Engineering	100
03	Rural Water Supply & Sanitation	73
04	Roads & Buildings (Civil)	75
05	Roads & Buildings (Electrical)	4
06	Tribal Welfare Engineering	6
07 & 08	Water Resources (Civil and Mechanical combined)	224
	Total	503

Water Resources alone accounts for about 44.5% of the vacancies. The source lists the 224 posts for codes 07 and 08 together and does not split them between Civil and Mechanical, so candidates in either branch should wait for the detailed notification before judging their odds. Panchayat Raj (100), Roads & Buildings Civil (75) and Rural Water Supply (73) are the next largest.

Eligibility

Age: 18 to 44 years as on 1 July 2026. Category-wise relaxation is not stated in the brief notification.
Post codes 01, 03, 04, 07: a Civil Engineering degree (codes 01 and 03 also accept AMIE Sections A and B in Civil).
Post codes 02 and 06: a Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree.
Post code 05: an Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent.
Post code 08: a Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent.

Qualifications must be held on the date of the detailed notification. Because several codes accept more than one branch, read the exact accepted-qualification line for the code you intend to choose.

Selection Process and Exam Pattern

Selection is a single Computer-Based Recruitment Test with no screening round. Marks may be normalised if the exam runs in more than one session. A Computer Proficiency Test (CPT) of 60 minutes and 100 marks is also mentioned, with minimum qualifying marks of 30 (SC/ST/PBD), 35 (BC) and 40 (OC); its exact place in the final selection is not explained in the brief notification.

Paper	Subject	Questions	Marks	Duration
I	General Studies & Mental Ability (all codes)	150	150	150 min
II	Common Civil & Mechanical (codes 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 07, 08) or Electrical (code 05)	150	150	150 min
III	Post-specific engineering subject	150	150	150 min
Total		450	450	450 min

Paper III is Civil Engineering for codes 01, 03, 04 and 07, Common Civil & Mechanical for codes 02 and 06, Electrical for code 05, and Mechanical for code 08.

Worked Example: Paper I Score with 1/3 Negative Marking

Paper score = Correct − (Wrong ÷ 3)

Suppose a candidate answers 135 of the 150 questions in General Studies & Mental Ability, getting 105 right and 30 wrong, and leaves 15 blank. The score is 105 − (30 ÷ 3) = 95.00 out of 150. If the same candidate had skipped the ten least certain of those wrong answers, the penalty would drop by 3.33 marks, which is roughly the value of three more correct answers.

Why the engineering papers decide the rank

Papers II and III are both 150 marks and are technical, so two-thirds of the 450 marks test your engineering knowledge. Paper I is the only common paper, so protect your marks there with careful attempt discipline and use Papers II and III to build your lead.

Time Planning for a 450-Minute Exam

With 150 minutes and 150 questions per paper, you have an average of one minute per question. Technical papers usually contain a few numerical questions that take three to four minutes each; plan to mark and skip these on the first pass so they do not eat into the quick conceptual questions.

Not stated in the brief notification

Application fee and fee exemptions.
Category-wise age relaxation.
Exam date, admit card date and CPT date.
Weightage and place of the CPT in the final merit list.
The Civil/Mechanical split of the 224 Water Resources posts.

Sources & verification. Compiled from APPSC Brief Notification No. 27/2026 as summarised on APDSC.net. Figures are provisional and can change in the detailed notification. Always confirm dates, eligibility, fees and the application link on the official website of the conducting authority before you apply. KeyGuru is an independent resource and is not affiliated with any recruiting organisation.

About the author. Thaseen Fathima is a B.Tech CSE (AI) student at Vignan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Visakhapatnam, who builds examination calculators and writes the guides behind them.

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