RPSC APO 2026: 371 Posts for Law Graduates, No Interview

Law graduates, here is a recruitment where your written exam alone decides everything. RPSC APO Recruitment 2026 has 371 Assistant Prosecution Officer posts in Rajasthan’s Home (Prosecution) Department, and the selection scheme has no interview at all: prelims filter the crowd, and the mains paper builds the final merit list. Applications closed on 7 July 2026 at midnight. The prelims was held on 2 September 2026, and the mains is proposed for 27 December 2026.

One correction worth stating plainly, because some job sites still list it wrong: there is no personality test or interview in this recruitment. Under the scheme in the service rules, the mains written exam (400 marks) is the merit list. If interviews make you nervous, this is the exam structure you’ve been waiting for.

The Essentials in 30 Seconds

Where the 371 Posts Come From

This recruitment carries unusual weight because 92 of the 371 posts are backlog vacancies of the 2024 recruitment year, carried forward for the first time. The split: 355 posts for the non-scheduled area, 15 for Rajasthan’s scheduled (TSP) areas, and 1 Sahariya primitive-tribe backlog post for Baran district.

Category-wise, the non-scheduled area block gives General 156, OBC 76, SC 42, EWS 35, ST 29 and MBC 17, with horizontal quotas for women, widows, divorcees, ex-servicemen (44) and PwBD candidates (18). The posts are listed as temporary in the advertisement, which is standard wording for new sanctioned posts in Rajasthan, and the count may be revised.

Do You Qualify?

• Degree: a professional law degree or integrated law course from a university established by law in India. Both 3-year and 5-year LLB routes qualify. Final-year LLB students cannot apply: the service rules have no final-year provision, so your degree must be complete by 7 July 2026. This is the opposite of the RAS rule, so don’t assume.
• No Bar enrollment needed: the advertisement asks for the degree, not advocate registration or practice experience.
• Language: working knowledge of Hindi written in Devanagari and familiarity with Rajasthani dialects and social customs.
• Age: 21 to under 40 as on 1 January 2027, with one extra year of upper-age relaxation for everyone because these posts skipped a recruitment cycle after 2024. On top of that: +5 years for Rajasthan SC/ST/OBC/MBC/EWS men and general-category women, +10 for reserved-category Rajasthan women, no upper limit for widows and divorcees, and +5 more for PwBD candidates.
• From outside Rajasthan? You could apply, but caste and EWS-based reservation, fee concession and age relaxations are for Rajasthan natives only, so you compete as general with the ₹600 fee. The PwBD concessions are the exception: the advertisement puts no domicile rider on the ₹400 PwBD fee or the extra 5-year PwBD relaxation.

RPSC APO Recruitment 2026: How You Get Selected

Prelims (screening only, marks don’t count in merit): one objective OMR paper, 100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. Law carries 70 questions; General Hindi and General English carry 15 each. Wrong answers cost one-third of a mark, and RPSC’s five-bubble rule applies: darken the fifth bubble for any question you skip. A question with no bubble at all costs you the same one-third mark, and leaving more than 10% of questions fully blank gets you disqualified. Fifteen times the number of vacancies advance to mains.

Prelims result (1 October 2026): RPSC declared 5,780 candidates qualified for the mains on a purely provisional basis: 5,555 from the non-scheduled area and 225 from the scheduled area. Cut-off marks in the non-scheduled area are General (UR) 63.97, OBC 38.38, EWS 37.37, SC 34.34, ST 29.29 and MBC 18.18. In the scheduled area they are General (UR) 47.14, SC 24.58 and ST 0.34. The result PDF lists separate cut-offs for widow, divorcee, ex-serviceman and PwBD candidates. RPSC also disqualified 178 candidates under the 10% blank-question rule.

Mains (this is your merit): two descriptive papers.

You need 40% in each paper (35% for SC/ST). The law syllabus is notable: it covers both the old codes (IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act) and the new ones (BNS, BNSS, BSA 2023), plus POCSO, the SC/ST Act, the JJ Act, the Arms Act and Rajasthan-specific laws like the Excise Act and the Public Examination Acts. If you studied before the 2023 criminal-law overhaul, budget prep time for the new codes, and vice versa.

Pay at Level L-11 (and the Probation Catch)

The post sits at Pay Matrix Level L-11 (Grade Pay 4200). Here is the part many pages skip: during probation, Rajasthan pays a fixed monthly amount (the rules call it fixed remuneration), not the full L-11 salary.

The advertisement prints no rupee amount for either stage. After confirmation, taking the commonly cited L-11 matrix entry of about ₹33,800 basic plus dearness allowance and house rent allowance, minus NPS, the take-home works out to roughly ₹48,000 to ₹53,000 a month as our estimate. Treat the probation-period fixed pay as noticeably lower than that. Nothing in this paragraph beyond “L-11, Grade Pay 4200, fixed pay during probation” is an official figure.

Applying Before 7 July

Applications closed on 7 July 2026, so the steps below are kept for reference.

1. Log in at sso.rajasthan.gov.in and open the Recruitment Portal.
2. First-timers complete One Time Registration: Aadhaar/Jan-Aadhaar KYC pulls your name, father’s name, date of birth and gender, and they lock. Fix any Aadhaar mismatch with your education documents before you apply, and update your Aadhaar photo if it is older than 3 years.
3. Upload a scanned signature and left-hand thumb impression; your live photo is captured during OTR. Preview it before submitting.
4. Pay the OTR fee if you have never paid it (₹600/₹400); repeat applicants pay nothing.
5. Submit and confirm an Application Number is generated. A preview screen without a number means you have not applied. Corrections after submission cost ₹500. RPSC’s online edit and withdraw window ran from 18 to 24 July 2026 and has closed; name, photo, father’s name, date of birth and gender could not be changed.

Our Take

For a law graduate in or willing to move to Rajasthan, this is a genuinely strong target. With 92 backlog posts carried forward, the batch is unusually large, and no interview means the mains paper settles everything. The syllabus rewards focused criminal-law preparation over general-studies breadth. The one hard gate is the degree-in-hand rule, which shuts out final-year students. If you qualified in the prelims, the mains proposed for 27 December 2026 is now the exam to prepare for.

Preparing for Rajasthan exams more broadly? See our RPSC RAS 2026 (607 posts) page for its dates. The rest of our Rajasthan section also runs on official PDFs, not forwarded rumours.

Common Questions

Is there an interview in RPSC APO 2026?

No. Selection is prelims (screening) followed by a 400-mark mains written exam, and the merit list comes purely from mains marks. Some websites still list an interview; the official scheme has none.

Can final-year LLB students apply for RPSC APO 2026?

No. The degree must be complete by the last application date, 7 July 2026. The service rules for this post have no final-year provision.

What is the RPSC APO 2026 exam pattern?

Prelims: 100 objective questions, 100 marks, 2 hours (Law 70, Hindi 15, English 15) with one-third negative marking, screening only. Mains: Law paper of 300 marks and a Hindi+English language paper of 100 marks, with 40% needed in each (35% for SC/ST).

What is the salary of an APO in Rajasthan?

The post is at Pay Matrix Level L-11 with Grade Pay 4200. During probation you get a fixed monthly amount under state rules, not the full scale. The advertisement publishes no rupee figures; our post-confirmation in-hand estimate is roughly ₹48,000 to ₹53,000.

When is the RPSC APO 2026 exam?

The prelims was held on 2 September 2026, and RPSC declared its result on 1 October 2026. RPSC’s press note of 2 July 2026 proposes the mains for Sunday, 27 December 2026. As on 7 November 2026, RPSC has not issued the detailed mains programme or any notice on mains admit cards.

Do I need to be enrolled as an advocate to apply?

No. The eligibility asks for a professional law degree or integrated law course, plus working knowledge of Hindi in Devanagari and Rajasthani dialects. Bar Council enrollment is not required.

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