Three-Paper Comparison — PAA 2020 · PAA 2022 · FAA 2024
Two flaws were found in this file:
- Its "PAA 2022" paper is not a separate exam. It is a second booklet series of the same 10 Nov 2020 Panchayat exam as PAA-2020 — so the "three papers" here are really two, and the "four questions that appear in ALL THREE" are two-peats, not three-peats.
- The real FAA 2022 paper was missing. It has since been recovered (FAA-2022-paper, 6 Mar 2022) and shows 7 accountancy questions repeating into FAA 2024 — 23 %, a stronger signal than anything here.
What survives unchanged: the PAA/FAA syllabus-boundary finding (Taxation, Costing, Financial Management and IFMS score zero in PAA), and the 0 % carryover for Statistics, Maths and Economics. Kept for history, per the vault rule. Do not plan from this file.
🔬 THREE-PAPER COMPARISON — PAA 2020 · PAA 2022 · FAA 2024
Question: Is the PAA paper useful for FAA — and can we derive a pattern from three papers?
Method: every question stem in the four shared subjects compared by text similarity, plus the official PAA answer key.
Papers: PAA-2020 (10 Nov 2020) · 2022-paper (Accounts Assistant, Panchayat) · 2024-paper (the only true FAA paper)
⚖️ THE VERDICT IN ONE TABLE
| Subject | Is PAA useful for FAA? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Accountancy | 🟢 ⭐ YES — strongly | 4 questions repeat verbatim into FAA 2024; valid practice for FAA Ch 1–22 |
| Statistics | 🟡 Partly | ⭐ 0 question repeats, but the topics overlap heavily — good practice, not a question bank |
| Mathematics | 🔴 Barely | 0 repeats, and PAA never reaches 7 of FAA's 10 maths topics |
| Economics | 🔴 No | ⭐ 0 repeats, and the topic emphasis is completely different |
📋 1. THE SYLLABUSES SIDE BY SIDE
| Section | PAA | FAA | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Knowledge (J&K) | 30 | 30 | same |
| Accountancy & Book Keeping | 30 | 30 | same |
| General Economics | 10 | 10 | same |
| Science | 10 | 10 | same |
| Knowledge of Computer Applications | ⭐ 30 | 10 | −20 |
| Mathematics / Statistics | ⭐ 10 (COMBINED) | ⭐ 10 + 10 = 20 (SEPARATE) | +10 |
| General English | ⭐ — | 10 | +10 |
| Total | 120 | 120 |
PAA treats "Mathematics/Statistics" as ONE combined 10-mark section. FAA splits them into TWO separate 10-mark sections. So FAA carries double the quantitative load, and — critically — its Mathematics paper is NCERT Class 11–12 level (limits, derivatives, matrices, vectors), a level the PAA combined section never reaches.
The other two swings: Computers drops from 30 to 10 (so PAA's 30-mark computer block is over-preparation), and FAA adds a 10-mark English section that PAA does not have at all.
Paper layouts
| Block | PAA-2020 | 2022 (Panchayat) | FAA-2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1–10 | GK | GK | Science |
| Q11–30 | GK | GK | GK |
| Q31–40 | Maths/Stats | Maths/Stats | Accountancy |
| Q41–50 | Economics | Economics | (Accountancy) |
| Q51–60 | Computers | Computers | (Accountancy) |
| Q61–70 | Computers | Computers | English |
| Q71–80 | Computers | Computers | Statistics |
| Q81–90 | Accountancy | Accountancy | Mathematics |
| Q91–100 | (Accountancy) | (Accountancy) | Economics |
| Q101–110 | (Accountancy) | (Accountancy) | Science |
| Q111–120 | Science | Science | Computers |
⭐ PAA-2020 and the 2022 paper have IDENTICAL layouts. FAA-2024 reorders everything.
🚨 2. THE PATTERN — recycling happens only WITHIN the PAA lineage
Measured across every question stem:
| Comparison | Accountancy | Statistics + Maths | Economics |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAA-2020 → 2022 | ⭐ 20/29 = 69% | ⭐⭐ 10/10 = 100% | ⭐ 8/9 = 89% |
| PAA-2020 → FAA-2024 | 4/29 = 14% | ❌ 0/10 = 0% | ❌ 0/9 = 0% |
| 2022 → FAA-2024 | 3/30 = 10% | ❌ 0/10 = 0% | ❌ 0/10 = 0% |
JKSSB recycles heavily inside one post's lineage, and almost not at all across posts. The 2022 Panchayat paper is close to a reshuffle of the 2020 one — 89–100% repeats in Statistics/Maths and Economics, most at 0.96–1.00 similarity (word-for-word). But crossing to the Finance Account Assistant paper, only Accountancy carries anything over — and only four questions.
⭐ So: do PAA papers for ACCOUNTANCY. Do not expect a single repeated question in Statistics, Maths or Economics.
💰 3. ACCOUNTANCY — 30 marks in all three papers
The four questions that appear in ALL THREE — at similarity 1.00
| Question | PAA 2020 | 2022 | FAA 2024 | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Which concept suggests the exclusion of human resource in balance sheet?" | Q93 | Q105 | Q36 | Money Measurement |
| "PFMS was earlier known as…" | Q83 | Q86 | Q42 | CPSMS |
| "A bank pass book is a copy of…" | Q95 | Q93 | Q49 | the customer's a/c in the bank's ledger |
| "Statement of financial position from incomplete records is known as…" | Q90 | Q107 | Q43 | Statement of Affairs |
⭐ Three sittings, six years, identical wording. These are the closest thing to guaranteed marks on the paper.
Chapter distribution across the three papers
| Chapter | PAA-2020 | 2022 | FAA-2024 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ch 2 — Basic Terms | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 ⭐ |
| Ch 5 — Double Entry | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 ⭐⭐ |
| Ch 12 — Trading A/c | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 ⭐ |
| Ch 15 — BRS | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 ⭐ (all three) |
| Ch 13 — P&L | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Ch 16 — Partnership | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 ⭐ (all three) |
| Ch 17 — Single Entry | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 (all three) |
| Ch 22 — PFMS | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 (all three) |
| Ch 1 · Ch 3 · Ch 19 | 1 each | 1 each | 1 each | 3 each (all three) |
| Ch 6 — Vouchers | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Ch 7/10 — Ledger & TB | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Ch 11 — Adjustments | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ch 4 — Accounting Equation | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 🔴 Ch 23 — Taxation | ❌ 0 | ❌ 0 | ⭐ 5 | 5 |
| 🔴 Ch 24 — Cost Accounting | ❌ 0 | ❌ 0 | ⭐ 3 | 3 |
| 🔴 Ch 18 · 26 — Fin. Mgmt / IFMS | ❌ 0 | ❌ 0 | 3 | 3 |
⭐ What this reveals
Seven chapters appear in ALL THREE papers — Ch 1, 3, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22. That is the true, stable floor of the accountancy section across six years.
⚠️ And the boundary the user identified is confirmed by the evidence: Taxation, Cost Accounting, Financial Management and IFMS score ZERO in both PAA papers and 11 marks in FAA 2024. The PAA syllabus stops before them. No PAA paper will ever prepare you for those 11 marks.
✅ Ch 1–22 practice — three papers' worth of questions on the fundamentals ❌ Ch 23–27 — you must cover these from FAA-ACCOUNTANCY-CHEAT-SHEET and the notes; PAA gives you nothing
📊 4. STATISTICS & MATHEMATICS
The PAA combined block, decoded
PAA-2020 Q31–40 is 7 Statistics + 3 Mathematics — with the official key:
| Q | Topic | FAA section | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Frequency polygon as classes increase | Stat (iv) | C |
| 32 | Length of a line segment | Maths (ix) | B |
| 33 | Probability — student from a sample of 80 | Stat (vi) / Maths (viii) | A |
| 34 | Sampling error | Stat (ii) | A |
| 35 | Method of collecting secondary data | Stat (ii) | D |
| 36 | Symmetric difference of two sets | Maths (v) | D |
| 37 | Demographic sex ratio | Stat (ix)/(x) | B |
| 38 | 3-month moving average | Stat (time series) | A |
| 39 | Highest negative decadal growth | Stat (ix) | C |
| 40 | Ultimate class frequency, attributes | Stat (vii) | B |
⭐⭐ The PAA key independently VALIDATES this vault's answers
All ten of these questions reappear in the 2022 paper, and the vault's Statistics-Tagged-Answers derived answers for them independently.
The 2022 answers in this vault were re-solved by hand from an AI-generated key and flagged as unofficial. The official PAA-2020 key confirms every single one. Those ten answers are now verified against an official JKSSB source.
Where PAA falls short for FAA Mathematics
FAA Maths tests 10 NCERT Class 11–12 topics. PAA's combined block touches only three, and all at an elementary level:
| FAA Maths topic | Tested by PAA? |
|---|---|
| (v) Set Theory | ✅ (Q36 — elementary) |
| (viii) Probability | ✅ (Q33 — elementary) |
| (ix) Coordinate Geometry | ✅ (Q32 — distance formula only) |
| (i) Interest · (ii) Linear equations | ❌ |
| (iii) Permutations, Combinations & Binomial | ❌ |
| (iv) Limits & Derivatives | ❌ |
| (vi) Relations & Functions | ❌ |
| (vii) Matrices & Determinants | ❌ |
| (x) Vectors | ❌ |
⭐ PAA gives you ZERO preparation for 7 of FAA's 10 maths topics — including the whole +2 block. See Maths-Study-Plan.
For Statistics it is much better: PAA's 7 statistics questions hit 6 of the 10 FAA statistics topics (ii, iv, vi, vii, ix, x). Worth doing as practice — just don't expect the questions back.
💹 5. ECONOMICS — 10 marks in all three
| PAA-2020 (Q41–50) | FAA-2024 (Q91–100) | |
|---|---|---|
| Flavour | Microeconomics + Panchayat schemes | Macro + money market + policy |
| Topics | Law of variable proportion · indifference curves · variable cost · derived demand · dumping · PM's campaign · GPDP (Gram Panchayat Development Plan) | Microeconomics definition · Mixed economy · Law of Demand · GDP · WTO/TBT · Commercial Paper · Bank Rate · Five Year Plans (Mahalanobis) · factors of production |
| Repeats into FAA | ❌ 0 of 9 | — |
⭐ PAA economics is Panchayat-flavoured — it asks about Gram Panchayat Development Plans, which FAA never will. Its theory half (indifference curves, law of variable proportion) is genuine syllabus overlap, but not one question carried across.
PAA-2020 economics key: 41 A · 42 A · 43 C · 44 B · 45 D · 46 B · 47 B · 48 D · 49 B · 50 B
🎯 6. WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO
| Priority | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 ⭐ | Learn the four three-peat accountancy questions cold. Six years, three papers, identical wording |
| 2 ⭐ | Use PAA-2020 + 2022 as a 60-question practice bank for accountancy Ch 1–22 |
| 3 | Do PAA's 7 statistics questions as practice — topics align, and the key is now verified |
| 4 ⚠️ | Do NOT rely on PAA for Maths — cover limits, matrices, vectors, P&C, relations separately |
| 5 ⚠️ | Do NOT rely on PAA for Economics — zero carryover, and it is Panchayat-flavoured |
| 6 ⚠️ | Cover FAA Ch 23–27 (Taxation, Costing, Budget, IFMS) entirely outside PAA — worth 11 marks in 2024 |
| 7 | Skip PAA's 30-mark computer block — FAA gives Computers only 10 marks. And PAA has no English at all, which FAA scores 10 |
We have only ONE true FAA paper (2024). Every cross-post conclusion here rests on a single data point. The within-PAA recycling finding is solid (two papers, measured), but "only accountancy carries across" could change if a second FAA paper appeared.
🔗 Related
- PAA-2020-Accountancy-Analysis — the 30 accountancy questions mapped chapter by chapter
- FAA-ACCOUNTANCY-CHEAT-SHEET · Statistics-Tagged-Answers · Maths-Study-Plan
- PAA-2020 · Home
