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Teaching recruitment in Telangana runs on three tracks that are easy to confuse. The Teacher Eligibility Test qualifies you. The District Selection Committee recruitment appoints you to a government school. The residential institutions board recruits separately for the state’s gurukul schools and colleges.
The order matters, because the eligibility test is a prerequisite rather than a competitor to the recruitment test, and its score has carried weight in the selection alongside the recruitment paper. A candidate who treats the eligibility test as a formality to be scraped through has given away marks that count later.
Telangana Teaching Posts · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
Telangana TET — Paper I for classes I to V, Paper II for classes VI to VIII
DSC or Teacher Recruitment Test, for government school posts
Recruited separately by the residential educational institutions board
The teacher training qualification prescribed for the post — D.El.Ed, B.Ed or the subject equivalent
Notification
Checked 11 September 2026. The regular Telangana TET is the one a DSC aspirant needs, and it now runs twice a year. A separate in-service TET was conducted on 8 and 9 September 2026 for teachers already in service, and a pass in it may be used only to continue in the present post or to be promoted — it cannot be used for direct recruitment. Check which test a notification is for before you apply to it.
Telangana now holds TET twice a year because the Supreme Court told every state to. In September 2025 the court held that in-service teachers with more than five years to superannuation must qualify TET to remain in service, and that promotion also requires it; on review in May 2026 it extended the deadline to 31 August 2028, directed states to conduct the test periodically and preferably twice a year, and said no further extension would be entertained. The special in-service cycles are Telangana’s response to that direction.
| Track | Status |
|---|---|
| Telangana TET (regular) | Running. Two cycles a year — the June 2026 cycle was notified in April, examined across five days in June, and its marks memos are published. Cycles exist continuously back to 2011. |
| DSC / Teacher Recruitment Test | No open notification. The last was 24/RC-1/TRT/DSC/2024 of 29 February 2024 for 11,062 posts; results were released on 30 September 2024 and appointment letters issued in October 2024. |
| Gurukul posts (TREIRB) | No open notification, and nothing issued in 2025 or 2026. The last full cycle was nine notifications dated 5 April 2023 covering about 9,210 posts. |
| DIET Lecturers (TGPSC) | Notification No. 04/G/SE/2026 of 18 June 2026 for 86 posts. Applications closed on 29 July 2026 and the examination is indicated for November 2026, with no date yet notified. |
That figure and post break-up are the 2024 recruitment’s, recycled. No DSC notification has issued since February 2024. The shortage is real — around 19,017 teacher posts were reported vacant in October 2025 — but a vacancy is not a notification, and only the official portals below can tell you when one exists.
Telangana TET portal TG DSC portal TREIRB — residential institutions recruitment board TGPSC notifications, for DIET and DEO posts
Overview
The three tracks fit together like this. The Telangana Teacher Eligibility Test establishes that you meet the national standard to teach at a given level — Paper I for primary classes, Paper II for upper primary. Passing it does not appoint you to anything. The recruitment test conducted for the District Selection Committee is the competitive examination that fills government school vacancies, and it is here that the merit list is built. The residential educational institutions board runs its own recruitment for the state’s gurukul schools, junior colleges and degree colleges, with its own notification, syllabus and calendar.
What ties the first two together is weightage. In recent cycles the eligibility test score has contributed to the final selection alongside the recruitment test rather than acting purely as a gate. That makes the eligibility test worth preparing for properly the first time, since a lifetime-valid score sat carelessly follows a candidate into every subsequent recruitment.
Teacher recruitment is governed by national teacher education regulations as well as state rules, and the qualification prescribed for a post — the training course, the subject combination in your degree, the method subject — is checked exactly at verification. Read the qualification clause for the specific post before you apply, and take the eligibility question to the notification rather than to advice.
Eligibility
| Post | Qualification | TET paper required |
|---|---|---|
| Secondary Grade Teacher | Intermediate with at least 45% (40%), plus a two-year D.El.Ed or D.Ed, or a four-year B.El.Ed. | Paper I |
| School Assistant | Graduation or post-graduation in the subject, plus B.Ed with that subject as a methodology. | Paper II, in the matching subject |
| Language Pandit | A degree in the language, or a literature degree with BOL, at 45% (40%), plus B.Ed with that language as methodology or a Language Pandit training qualification. | Paper II |
| School Assistant (Physical Education) | A bachelor’s degree with physical education, at 45% (40%) with national, state or inter-university sports participation, or at 50% (45%) without. | None |
| Physical Education Teacher | As prescribed by the recruitment rules. | None |
Selection process
Each stage in order, and what it actually tests.
| Stage | Format | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Telangana TET | Objective, qualifying with weightage | Paper I for candidates intending to teach classes I to V and Paper II for classes VI to VIII, covering child development and pedagogy, languages, mathematics, environmental studies or the relevant subject content. A pass is valid for life, and the score has carried weight in recent recruitment selections. |
| Recruitment test | Objective, competitive | The District Selection Committee recruitment examination for government school posts, covering general knowledge, perspectives in education, pedagogy and the content of the subject applied for. This paper builds the merit list. |
| Residential institutions recruitment | Objective, separate notification | The state’s residential educational institutions board conducts its own recruitment for gurukul school, junior college and degree college posts, with its own syllabus, pattern and schedule. |
| Verification and appointment | Documents | Certificate verification at three candidates per vacancy, then selection on roster-cum-merit and allotment by the District Educational Officer. There is no waiting list — unfilled posts are carried forward to the next recruitment. |
Exam pattern
| Post | Questions | Marks | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Assistant (other than PE), Language Pandit | 160 | 80 | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Secondary Grade Teacher | 160 | 80 | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| School Assistant (Physical Education) | 100 | 200 | 3 hours |
| Physical Education Teacher | 200 | 100 | 3 hours |
The total is 100 marks: 80 from the written recruitment test and 20 as weightage on the TET score. That is fixed by the Teacher Recruitment Rules of September 2023 and restated in the TET notification itself. There are two exceptions — School Assistant (Physical Education) and Physical Education Teacher carry no TET weightage, and their selection rests entirely on the written test. This is why treating the eligibility test as a hurdle to scrape over costs marks that cannot be recovered later.
| Paper | Who sits it | Ceiling of difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Paper I | Candidates for classes I to V — the SGT route | Set on the classes I to V syllabus, with linkages up to class X. |
| Paper II | Candidates for classes VI to VIII — the School Assistant and Language Pandit route | Set on the classes VI to VIII syllabus, with linkages up to senior secondary. |
TET pass marks are 60 per cent for general candidates, 50 per cent for BC candidates and 40 per cent for SC, ST and differently-abled candidates. The relaxed tiers are Telangana’s own — the national guidelines set 60 per cent and leave relaxation to the state. Telangana also runs both papers for two and a half hours where the national guideline gives Paper II an hour and a half, so a candidate rehearsing to a national mock is rehearsing the wrong clock.
Study plan
Sources
Checked 11 September 2026. Post qualifications, age, fee, the recruitment-test pattern and the 80:20 weightage are from the 2024 DSC information bulletin and the Teacher Recruitment Rules it is issued under. TET structure, pass marks and validity are from the current TET notifications and the national regulator’s 2021 order on certificate validity. No official archive of previous-year question papers exists for TET, DSC or the gurukul recruitment: the TET portal publishes answer keys, response sheets and marks memos only, and computer-based test data is disposed of a year after results, so year-wise papers offered elsewhere are reconstructions rather than official documents.
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Questions
The Teacher Eligibility Test establishes that you meet the standard to teach at a given level — Paper I for classes I to V, Paper II for classes VI to VIII — and a pass is valid for life. It does not appoint you to anything. The District Selection Committee recruitment is the competitive examination that fills government school vacancies and builds the merit list. In recent cycles the eligibility test score has also carried weightage in that selection, so it is worth sitting for a high score rather than a bare pass.
Yes. Following the national change to the validity rule, a Teacher Eligibility Test pass no longer expires. That makes an early, well-prepared attempt valuable — the score stays with you into every subsequent recruitment that gives it weightage.
The state’s residential educational institutions recruitment board conducts recruitment for gurukul residential schools, junior colleges and degree colleges, with its own notification, syllabus and calendar — separate from the school education department’s eligibility test and district recruitment. Candidates who follow only the school education department’s announcements frequently miss these vacancies.
The teacher training qualification prescribed for the specific post — a primary teacher training qualification for Secondary Grade Teacher posts, and a degree in the relevant subject with B.Ed for School Assistant posts, with language and physical education posts carrying their own requirements. These are governed by national teacher education regulations as well as state rules and are verified exactly, so read the qualification clause for your post in the notification.
More than most candidates allocate to it. Child development and pedagogy, perspectives in education and the pedagogy of the subject applied for are examined as distinct bodies of knowledge drawn from teacher-education texts, and together they carry a substantial share of the paper. Counting the pedagogy questions in a few past papers is the quickest way to see the real proportion before planning your study.
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