Alerts and Updates for BPSC TRE Secondary Social Science

History, geography, civics and economics share the single 80-question Part III, with no internal choice between them. Unusually among the secondary subjects, Part II General Studies overlaps the subject part heavily: Testbook gives its contents as elementary mathematics, general awareness, general science, the Indian National Movement and geography, three of which a Social Science candidate is already preparing. One reported conflict: most sources give one-third negative marking, a minority state none. Read the structure below as the pattern for the written examination, not as a settled number of stages. BPSC's calendar of 14 August 2026 places TRE 4.0 under two-phase PT plus Mains exams; the Chief Minister announced a single-phase exam on 27 August 2026; and BPSC has published no corrigendum resolving the two as of 22 September 2026. The question paper described here is the one candidates must prepare for either way, because a single-phase exam would use it and a two-phase exam would use it as the main paper.

This calendar is common to every subject and every level in TRE 4.0; there is no Social Science specific window, admit card release or result date. Read everything below the advertisement release as tentative until BPSC publishes the revised notice.

Two things define this paper and both are easy to misjudge. Social Science at class 9-10 is composite across history, geography, civics and economics, so a single honours degree covers at most a quarter of it. And it is the most crowded subject in the recruitment, with the highest cut-off of the four secondary subjects in both published compilations. A score that would comfortably clear Sanskrit or Science can miss here by fifteen marks.

Part III puts history, geography, civics and economics into a single undivided part. BSSEI gives history as ancient, medieval and modern India; geography as physical geography and agriculture; civics as the Indian Constitution, structure of government, democracy, and fundamental rights and duties; and economics as basic economic concepts. Coaching topic tables add world history and Bihar history, human and economic geography, India and Bihar geography, and political theory. If the four are weighted roughly evenly, each carries around twenty questions, so a history graduate who has never studied economics forfeits about a fifth of the largest part. Economics is the branch most often abandoned and the cheapest to repair, since the class 10 course is short and conceptual rather than quantitative.

Both published compilations put Social Science at the top. Careerpower's TRE 3.0 class 9-10 tables show unreserved male 83 and unreserved female 75, with BC male at 81 and visually impaired candidates at 68. A second set gives unreserved 74, BC 72, EWS 70, EBC 68, SC 61, BCL 61 and ST 52. Against the same rounds Sanskrit sat at 64 and 67, Science at 73 and 50. Having 756 posts does not soften the line, because the eligible pool of arts graduates with B.Ed is correspondingly the largest in the recruitment. Plan a target score materially above the number you would need in any other secondary subject.

This is the structural advantage of the subject and most candidates leave it on the table. Part II is 40 ranked questions and Testbook gives its contents as elementary mathematics, general awareness, general science, the Indian National Movement and geography. Three of those five strands are already inside your Part III preparation, so the marginal cost of Part II for a Social Science candidate is close to zero for history and geography and concentrated instead in elementary mathematics and general science. Those two are the strands to drill, and they are small and finite. Handled properly, Part II should be your highest-accuracy section and the reason your total clears a cut-off that is fifteen or twenty marks above the other subjects.

Coaching topic tables list Bihar history and Bihar geography inside the Social Science syllabus, and Bihar-specific general knowledge inside General Studies. This is state-recruitment material rather than NCERT material, and national-syllabus preparation will not produce it. The practical implication is a distinct, narrow revision block on Bihar: its ancient and medieval polities, the 1857 and Champaran episodes, its rivers, districts, flood geography, soils and principal crops, and its current administrative and educational schemes. It is a small body of content that recurs in both scored parts of the paper, which makes it disproportionately efficient relative to another pass through modern Indian history.

The secondary posts require graduation with 50 per cent, or 45 per cent with a one-year B.Ed, plus B.Ed, with the degree subject corresponding to the paper chosen; Careerpower describes the Social Science requirement as a history, geography, economics or political science combination. CTET Paper-II or Bihar TET Paper-II is separately required, and candidates holding only Paper-I are not eligible at this level. Part I is 30 questions of compulsory English plus one of Hindi, Urdu or Bengali, qualifying at 30 per cent and excluded from merit. Reported pay for a secondary teacher is Rs 31,000 a month, with age 21 to 37 and relaxation up to 42 for SC and ST candidates.