EMRS TGT Eligibility: Age Limit 35, 50% Degree, B.Ed and CTET by Subject

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The bulletin sets three parts, labelled A, B and C, for TGT in Hindi, English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and the regional languages. A is the degree, B is the education degree, and C is CTET. You need all three, though a four-year integrated degree with a B.Ed. component makes B unnecessary. The table lays the three out as the bulletin prints them.

The qualification is not just any degree. For each post the bulletin names the subjects that have to appear in your degree, and for how long. This is the point at which many otherwise eligible people fall out, because degree names (B.Sc. Physics, B.A. Political Science) rarely say what was studied in which year.

Five TGT lines are not bound to the A, B, C structure. The bulletin gives each its own essential qualification and, for none of them, lists CTET or a B.Ed. We count the CTET-bound lines at 2,223 posts of 3,962 (56.1%, our sum of Hindi, English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science and the 14 regional languages), which leaves 1,739 posts (43.9%) in lines where the bulletin does not ask for it. Do not read this as a general rule: it is what the 2025 bulletin prints, and the older 2023 notification asked for CTET in a note covering "TGTs" generally.

The limit for every TGT line is "not exceeding 35 years" on the cut-off date, 23 October 2025. The table gives the resulting limit for each group and the earliest date of birth that is exactly at the limit (our arithmetic, counting exactly N years back from 23 October 2025). The bulletin says concessions are concurrent: if you qualify for more than one, only the highest applies, and nobody can go above 55. Persons with disabilities have fixed limits that already include their category, and the bulletin says the women’s 10 years does not apply to a woman with a disability.

Three details to note. First, "not exceeding 35" is silent about the days: someone born on 23 October 1989 turned 36 on the cut-off date and is plainly over, while someone born on 25 October 1989 is 35 years and 363 days old, which the bulletin does not clearly classify. The checker below flags that band instead of guessing. Second, the age is on 23 October 2025 even though applications closed on 28 October 2025. Third, a non-permanent EMRS employee working on 1 July 2025 gets up to 55 including all relaxation, with no relaxation in the minimum eligibility criteria.

The 2023 TGT and Hostel Warden notification (18 July 2023) already required CTET and a B.Ed. for TGT, except that a four-year integrated degree did not need the B.Ed., and it had the same age limit of 35, the same relaxations and the same 55-year limit for EMRS employees. In the degree rows we read, no minimum percentage was printed. The 2025 bulletin adds that percentage rule (50% in every subject and in aggregate, 55% for the PG route), a Computer Science line with its own degrees, and detailed degree rules for Art, Music, PET and Librarian.

Eligibility is decided on documents at the verification stage, and the bulletin lets NESTS reject you at any stage, even after an admit card is issued or after joining, if you were not eligible on the cut-off date. The certificates it names are: age and qualification proof, caste certificates in the prescribed format, an OBC non-creamy-layer certificate based on income of the financial year 2024-25, an EWS income and asset certificate for the same year issued by a listed authority, a disability certificate and, for PwBD candidates, a certificate from a Civil Surgeon or CMO that the functional requirements for the post are met. Names must be spelt as in the certificates. The bulletin says information in the application is final and NESTS does not edit it, so a wrong category or a wrong qualification entry cannot be fixed later.