1. The "2022 Panchayat paper" it compares against is not a separate exam. It is a second booklet series of this same 10 Nov 2020 exam (2022-paper). So the 69 % / 100 % "recycling" figures below measure one exam against itself, not one year against the next. They do not show that JKSSB recycles across years. 2. The real FAA 2022 paper has since been recovered (FAA-2022-paper, 6 Mar 2022). Measured against it, this paper's accountancy block shares ZERO questions with FAA 2022 — while FAA 2022 → FAA 2024 repeats 7 of 30 (23 %).

⭐ What still stands: the syllabus-boundary finding (PAA stops before Taxation, Costing, Financial Management and IFMS — 17 of 60 FAA accountancy marks), the 4 questions that did cross into FAA 2024, and the value of this paper as Ch 1–22 practice. ➡️ Current analysis: Four-Paper-Comparison.

Most matches scored 0.96–1.00 similarity — i.e. word-for-word identical, only the question numbers moved. Its entire statistics and maths block was reused, 10 out of 10, merely reordered.

What this means: JKSSB recycles heavily within a post's lineage. Doing old PAA papers is not optional revision — it is direct preparation.

PAA covers roughly FAA Chapters 1–22 — accounting fundamentals through to PFMS. It does NOT cover FAA Ch 23 (Taxation), Ch 24 (Cost Accounting), Ch 25 (Budget), Ch 26 (IFMS) or Ch 27.

This section previously said they appear in "all three papers". The third column below is the second booklet series of this very exam, not a later paper — so it counts once. They appear in two exams: PAA 2020 and FAA 2024. Still a real cross-post repeat, and still worth learning.

Note the pattern: two are pure definitions (concept and pass book), two are name-recall (CPSMS, Statement of Affairs). Nothing here requires calculation.

1. Attempt Q81–110 under timed conditions (~25 minutes) before you look at anything else.
2. Then attempt the 2022 Panchayat block (Q81–110) — you should recognise roughly 20 of the 30. If you don't, that gap is your revision list.
3. Then attempt FAA 2024 (Q31–60) — expect the 4 repeats plus a much heavier taxation and costing load.
4. Cover taxation and costing separately — no PAA paper will ever test them.

I originally wrote here that PAA-2020.md had no answer key. That was wrong. The full key for all 120 questions is at the very end of the file, written as bare NN X lines (e.g. 91 D) — which is why a keyword search for "answer" missed it.

The accountancy key (Q81–110): 81 B · 82 C · 83 A · 84 C · 85 B · 86 D · 87 C · 88 A · 89 C · 90 B · 91 D · 92 B · 93 B · 94 D · 95 B · 96 A · 97 D · 98 B · 99 C · 100 D · 101 A · 102 A · 103 B · 104 A · 105 A · 106 B · 107 A · 108 C · 109 B · 110 C

⭐ This key also independently validated 10 of 10 of the vault's statistics answers — see PAA-vs-FAA-Three-Paper-Comparison. The chapter mapping above is still mine and remains worth cross-checking, but the answers themselves are now official.

That file claims to describe a "2020 Question Booklet (Set C, Series 68)" with Statistics at Q71–80 and Mathematics at Q81–90. This PAA-2020 paper has no Mathematics section at all — its own header lists GK 30 · Accounts 30 · Computer 30 · Science 10 · Economics 10 · Statistics 10 — and Accounts sits at Q81–110. So the distribution file matches neither the 2022 paper nor this 2020 paper. ⭐ It has now failed three separate checks. Do not use it for section mapping. (See PROJECT-LOG Sections 3.5 and 3.13.)

The paper stored as FAA-PYQs/2022/2022-paper.md is itself an Accounts Assistant (Panchayat) booklet, not a Finance Account Assistant paper. Given it recycles ~69% of this 2020 paper's accountancy and 100% of its statistics, the two are best treated as one PAA lineage, with FAA 2024 as the only true FAA paper in the vault.