Uttar Pradesh Teaching Posts

Checked 11 September 2026. Two windows are open. Assistant professor Advt 04/2026 for 1,936 posts in aided colleges, published 8 September 2026, takes applications to 7 October with corrections to 11 October and is examined on 19 and 20 November. The Special TET, Advt 03/2026 of 3 September, for serving teachers whom the Supreme Court’s orders of 1 September 2025 and 29 May 2026 require to pass by 31 August 2028 and for the special teachers covered by a 2025 writ order, takes applications from 5 September with the fee to 4 October and corrections to 8 October, and is examined on 3 November 2026. UPTET 2026’s certificates have been downloadable since 7 September, and its result committee closed representations on 10 September. The TGT allotment panels of 9 September and the PGT waiting list of 26 August close the 2022 rounds but for English. No advertisement for primary assistant teachers or new TGT and PGT posts has been issued; requisitions for 23,899 aided-school posts were reported received on 21 July.

UPTET 2026 was the commission’s largest exercise. Advertised on 20 March 2026 with applications from 27 March to 3 May, it was held on 2 and 3 July in two shifts each and 4 July in one, at 955 centres in 60 districts, with 19,94,661 registered. Paper I, for classes 1 to 5, and Paper II, for classes 6 to 8, each carry 150 questions and 150 marks in two and a half hours with no negative marking, normalised across shifts under the commission’s notice of 26 February 2026; the pass is 60 per cent, or 55 for SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PwD, ex-servicemen and freedom fighters’ dependants. The result of 26 August passed 80.07 per cent of the primary and 71.85 per cent of the upper-primary candidates, including 93,387 and 1,13,384 serving teachers; certificates are issued through DigiLocker, and a committee took representations on the result to 10 September.

The secondary rounds are the old board’s inheritance. The Secondary Education Service Selection Board advertised 3,539 trained graduate teacher posts in fifteen subjects and 624 post-graduate teacher posts in eighteen on 8 June 2022; the commission examined the PGT candidates — 1,92,934 of 4,64,605 — on 9 and 10 May 2026, shortlisted 2,253 for interview, interviewed them from 15 to 27 June and published the final result on 7 July, with institution allotment on 28 July and a waiting list on 26 August. The TGT test of 3 and 4 June 2026 for 8,68,531 applicants shortlisted at one and a half times for verification from 9 to 17 July and produced its final result on 28 July for fourteen subjects and 2,982 posts; the 557 English posts wait on a writ against the final key, and allotment panels followed on 9 September.

The 2019 assistant teacher recruitment required age 21 to 40 on 1 July 2018 with five years for SC, ST and OBC and fifteen for PwD, and Uttar Pradesh domicile or five years’ residence. The commission’s 2026 scheme documents for the primary and upper-primary posts set the paper but not yet the eligibility, which will come with the advertisement.

Checked 11 September 2026 against the commission’s UPTET 2026 advertisement, booklet, corrigenda, schedule, objection and result notices, the certificate notice of 7 September, the Special TET and assistant professor advertisements of September 2026, the 2026 examination calendar, the PGT and TGT examination, result, cut-off and allotment notices, the 2026 syllabus and scheme documents on the commission’s syllabus page, and the commission’s statement of its functions; the 2022 TGT and PGT advertisements and the 2018 government order for the 69,000 recruitment in the web archive; and the examination regulator’s 2021 and 2022 UPTET notices. The 69,000 case’s course, the requisition figures and the count of rejected OMRs are from press reports of the hearings and the department’s statements.