the objection window has already closed — it shut yesterday, 5 September 2026, at 11:59 PM. The provisional answer key was out on 30 August. What’s still pending: the final answer key and the result, both unconfirmed, with only a tentative “4th week of September” window floated for the result.
The AP Power Sector utilities — APTRANSCO, APGENCO, APSPDCL, APCPDCL, and APEPDCL — released the provisional answer key and individual response sheets for the Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) recruitment on the official portal, apvidyutrecruitment.apcfss.in. This covers 630 AEE vacancies across Electrical, Civil, Telecom, Mechanical, and Electronics disciplines, and the Computer-Based Test itself ran unusually long — eight days, from 22 to 29 August 2026.
That eight-day spread is the detail worth understanding before anything else, because it changes how your raw score connects to your actual rank.
Quick Facts
| Particular | Details |
|---|---|
| Recruiting Bodies | APTRANSCO, APGENCO, APSPDCL, APCPDCL, APEPDCL |
| Post | Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) |
| Total Vacancies | 630 |
| Exam Mode | Computer-Based Test |
| Exam Dates | 22 August – 29 August 2026 |
| Answer Key Released | 30 August 2026 |
| Objection Window | Closed 5 September 2026, 11:59 PM |
| Result | Tentatively 4th week of September 2026 (unconfirmed) |
| Official Portal | apvidyutrecruitment.apcfss.in |
Why an Eight-Day CBT Changes How You Should Read Your Score
Most single-day competitive exams let you compare your raw marks directly against a rough cutoff and get a fair sense of where you stand. That doesn’t work cleanly here. When a CBT runs across multiple days and multiple shifts — and eight days almost certainly means dozens of shifts across different centers — no two candidates faced an identical question set. Difficulty inevitably varies slightly shift to shift, even when question banks are built to be equivalent.
For exactly this reason, recruitment bodies conducting multi-shift CBTs typically apply a normalization formula rather than ranking candidates on raw marks alone. Score normalization adjusts each candidate’s raw marks based on the relative difficulty of their specific shift, so someone who happened to get a marginally tougher paper isn’t unfairly penalized against someone who got an easier one. If your raw score looks solid against the answer key but the eventual result doesn’t reflect it the way you expect, this is very likely the reason — your marks may have been adjusted up or down relative to your shift’s overall difficulty, not because you made an error in tallying.
The practical takeaway: don’t calculate your raw score against the provisional key and treat that number as your final mark. Treat it as a rough estimate only. The actual number used for the result could differ once normalization is applied, and there’s no way to reverse-engineer the adjusted figure yourself without the utilities publishing their normalization methodology, which recruitment bodies typically don’t release candidate-by-candidate.
What Was on Your Response Sheet
Before calculating anything or filing an objection, the response sheet itself needed checking for basic accuracy:
- Your name and registration number
- Exam shift, timing, and centre
- The question paper set/code you were allotted
- Each question ID against the option you marked
- The officially marked correct answer per question
- Marks awarded or withheld
- Any unattempted or marked-for-review questions
Errors here — a mismatched shift or an unrecorded response — are worth flagging to the authorities separately from an answer-key objection, since they point to a data issue on the portal rather than a disagreement over a correct answer.
The Objection Window Has Closed — Here’s What That Meant While It Was Open
For the record, since the window is now shut: candidates who believed a specific answer was wrong could log in, select the question, submit written justification, and attach supporting evidence — typically a scanned page from a standard textbook or technical reference. A processing fee per objection applied “as specified in the official notice,” per the coverage available; the exact amount isn’t confirmed here, so don’t take any number circulating online as final without checking the original notice PDF.
Objections without documentary backing were not going to be entertained. If you filed one with solid technical grounding — say, a genuinely ambiguous circuit theory or electrical standards question — keep your submission receipt. It may become relevant if the final key differs from the provisional one and your marks need reconciling.
What Comes Next
The authorities will review objections, publish a final answer key, and then compute results — adjusted for normalization given the multi-day CBT. The “4th week of September” result timeline reported around the answer key release is explicitly tentative; there’s no official confirmed date as of 6 September 2026. Given that the exam covered eight days and five separate power utilities each hiring for different engineering disciplines, processing time for a corrected, normalized result across this volume of candidates could reasonably extend beyond a rough estimate floated right after the answer key dropped.
Watch the official portal directly rather than relying on forwarded screenshots claiming a fixed result date — nothing beyond “4th week of September” has been stated with any specificity, and that itself is described as tentative.
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| Download AP Vidyut Answer Key / Response Sheet | click here |
| Official Website (AP Vidyut Recruitment) | click here |
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FAQs
Q1. My raw score looks well above what I estimated as the cutoff, but I’m still nervous. Why?
Because this exam ran across multiple days and shifts, normalization is very likely being applied to adjust raw scores for shift-wise difficulty differences. Your final adjusted score could differ from your raw calculation against the provisional key — this isn’t necessarily an error, it’s how multi-shift CBTs are typically scored.
Q2. Can I still object to a wrong answer now that the window has closed?
No. The objection window closed on 5 September 2026 at 11:59 PM, and nothing in the released information suggests any provision for late submissions.
Q3. Is the 4th week of September result date confirmed?
No. It’s been reported as a tentative estimate following the answer key release. As of 6 September 2026, the utilities haven’t issued an official confirmed result date.
Q4. Why did different candidates get different question papers?
The CBT ran across eight days (22–29 August) at multiple centres, which almost always means multiple question sets or shifts for a recruitment of this scale — 630 posts across five utilities and several engineering disciplines would need considerable capacity spread across days to accommodate all applicants.
Disclaimer: Exam dates, vacancy count, answer key release date, and the objection deadline above are as reported around the official AP Vidyut Recruitment Portal notice. The result timeline (“4th week of September”) is explicitly tentative and unofficial, not a confirmed date. No figures here are estimated beyond what’s flagged as tentative. For updates, check only the official source: apvidyutrecruitment.apcfss.in.
