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Tamil Nadu Teaching Posts Preparation

The TET is worth more the earlier it is passed. Everything else is the recruitment paper.

Tamil Nadu Teaching Posts · checked 19 September 2026

Tamil Nadu Teaching Posts at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Tamil Nadu Teaching Posts: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    90 general; 75 BC, BC(M), MBC and DC; 60 SC, SC(A), ST and, from February, persons with disability

    Pass marks, revised January 2026

  2. 02

    Teachers Recruitment Board, Tamil Nadu

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    TNTET — two papers of 150 marks, no negative marking, valid for life

    Eligibility test

  4. 04

    SGT, BT Assistant and PG Assistant — a Tamil gate of 50 marks, then a 150-mark paper; no interview

    Recruitment tests

Strategy

Tamil Nadu Teaching Posts — How to prepare

A plan across cycles

  1. Now — the general TET If you hold no pass, the next general cycle is the first task; the planner projected October 2026. Pedagogy from the national framework, content from the state textbooks.
  2. Then — the Tamil gate and the post’s syllabus Tenth-standard Tamil weekly; the SGT five-subject paper, the BT subject, or the PG subject with methodology, as your qualification allows.
  3. The notification — documents and papers The TET certificate, the training qualification, the community certificate; a full paper a week from the day the notification appears.

What recent cycles taught

  • Examination dates move — the 2025 TET was shifted a fortnight by press note; the 2024 SGT examination was held a month after the notified date; the 2025 PG examination was shifted for a clash with TNPSC Group II.
  • Pass marks can change after the paper — the 2025 TET thresholds were revised twice by government order and results reissued.
  • Vacancies grow by addendum — the 2024 SGT recruitment added a thousand posts five months after notification.
  • Reserve lists arrive a year or more later — the 2023 BT Assistant reserve list was published in June 2026.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

TNPSC revises paper structure, marks, syllabus detail and eligibility between recruitment cycles, and has done so more than once in recent years — the Tamil eligibility component itself is a recent addition. Everything here describes the shape the recruitment has held; the notification for the cycle you are sitting is the document that decides it. Read it end to end before you plan around any figure.

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