EMRS TGT Exam Pattern and Syllabus: Tier-I, Tier-II and Marking Scheme

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Parts I to IV are common to every TGT subject. Part V changes with the post: it asks 20 questions on experiential activity-based pedagogy and case studies and 10 on NEP 2020, and for TGT Regional Language the paper for this part is set in the regional language. Part VI is the language-competency test: 10 marks each in General English, General Hindi and one regional language the candidate chooses from the 20 languages the bulletin lists. Bulletin: this part qualifies only, at a minimum of 12 out of 30 in aggregate, and if you fall short the other parts are not even evaluated.

Time is tight by design: 130 questions in 150 minutes is about 69 seconds a question (our arithmetic), and the bulletin says there is no time limit for each part individually, so the split is yours to manage. A wrong answer costs one third of a mark, and so does marking two options for one question, which the bulletin treats as wrong.

The bulletin describes Tier-II as a combination of descriptive questions and OMR-based multiple choice. The descriptive part is where the paper is won: it is 60 of the 100 marks, and the syllabus below (English with a writing section, Hindi with literature and grammar) suggests answers in prose. We found no official Tier-II question paper to quote; the only paper-level material NESTS published is the OMR image and the provisional answer key for the MCQ part (14 May 2026 notice, challenge window until 17 May 2026 at Rs 1,000 a question). So the split of the 15 descriptive questions across sections is not known to us.

Part VI is the part most often misread. It is not scored into the Tier-I result, yet it can end a candidacy: at least 12 marks out of 30 in aggregate is needed, which is 40 per cent, across General English, General Hindi and your regional language together. Because it is an aggregate, a strong language can offset a weak one. The 20 regional-language options are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Garo, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khasi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mizo, Nepali, Odiya, Santhali, Telugu and Urdu, limited, in the bulletin's words, to scheduled languages of the states that have notified vacancies (the 20 listed include English, Garo, Khasi and Mizo, so read that as the bulletin's own list). If you choose English or Hindi as your regional language, the bulletin says its standard will be higher than General English or General Hindi. The 2023 TGT cycle was stricter in form: it asked 40 per cent in each language rather than in aggregate (our reading of that bulletin).

The TGT syllabus file is organised by subject, and for the core subjects the topics read like the secondary-school curriculum (our reading). We summarise the structure below; for topics at the level of individual chapters, read the official PDF.

Marking is one mark for a correct answer, one-third of a mark deducted for a wrong one, nothing for a blank. After each tier NESTS opened a window to see your scanned OMR sheet and the provisional answer key. Challenges cost Rs 1,000 per question and are refunded if accepted; only paid challenges made on time count, and no grievance about answer keys is entertained after the result. For Tier-I, a separate route existed after the result: a calculation sheet on payment of Rs 500 per post, with a bank draft to the CBSE CTET unit, last date 7 March 2026. NESTS wrote that many recheck requests came from candidates miscounting or using the wrong answer key.

One detail from the final Tier-I answer key for TGT, which we counted and did not copy: it has 60 sets of 120 questions (Parts I to V plus the General English and General Hindi questions) plus a regional-language sheet of questions 121 to 130, which completes the 30-question Part VI, in each of 20 languages, in four versions each. The legend at the foot of each page maps the letters A to F to pairs of accepted options and Z to all options. Z appears for one question in one group of four sets and for one question in the Gujarati sheets (our count), so very few questions were neutralised in the sets we counted.