Alerts and Updates for DSSSB PGT (Delhi Post Graduate Teacher)

Section I is made up of Mental Ability and Reasoning, General Awareness, English Language, Hindi Language and Arithmetical and Numerical Ability, each at 20 marks. Section II is twice the weight of the whole general section put together, which is the single most important structural fact about this exam. Ex-servicemen get a five per cent relaxation within their category subject to a minimum of 30 per cent.

This calendar is common to every subject advertised under post codes 824/24 to 834/24; there is one application window and one block of examination dates for the whole recruitment. What is not common is the result date, because DSSSB declares results separately for each post code, so subjects finish the cycle months apart.

Two things trip up first-time DSSSB PGT candidates. The first is expecting a preliminary and a main examination: for these post codes there is only one paper, and everything is decided in a single three-hour sitting. The second is the post code itself. You do not apply to a subject, you apply to a numbered post code that fixes the subject, the school management and the gender category, and merit is computed inside that code and nowhere else.

Everything DSSSB does is organised around post codes, not subject names. Under Advertisement 10/2024 the PGT codes run 824/24 for Hindi, 825/24 Mathematics, 826/24 Physics, 827/24 Chemistry, 828/24 Biology, 829/24 Economics, 830/24 Commerce, 831/24 History, 832/24 Geography, 833/24 Political Science and 834/24 Sociology. The admit card, the shift, the answer key, the result notice, the cut-off and the e-dossier call are all issued against that code. Two candidates sitting the same three-hour paper on the same afternoon in different codes are not competing with each other at all. When you look up a cut-off or a result, look it up by code and by the male or female sub-list within it, because a single subject frequently produces two quite different cut-offs.

The paper is 300 objective questions for 300 marks in three hours with 0.25 negative marking. Section I contributes 100 marks spread across Mental Ability and Reasoning, General Awareness, English, Hindi and Numerical Ability at 20 marks each. Section II contributes 200 marks and is described in the advertisement as questions pertaining to the post-graduation qualification and the teaching methodology required for the post. A candidate who scores a flawless 100 in Section I and 90 in Section II finishes below one who scores 60 and 150. The proportionate reward for revising the subject is therefore double, and the general section is best treated as a place to avoid losses rather than to build a lead. Questions are set bilingually in Hindi and English except in the language papers.

DSSSB recruits teachers for several Delhi school managements, and each one that raises a requisition gets its own post codes: the Directorate of Education, the New Delhi Municipal Council, the municipal corporation schools and the Delhi Cantonment Board have all appeared over the years. In this cycle the position is simple and worth knowing before you plan around it: all 432 PGT posts in Advertisement 10/2024 belong to the Directorate of Education, and the NDMC entry in the tables records that no requisition was received. There is consequently no NDMC, municipal corporation or Cantonment Board PGT code to apply to under this advertisement, and a candidate specifically seeking one of those managements has to wait for a fresh notification.

The essential qualification is a master's degree in the relevant subject with at least 50 per cent marks in aggregate, together with a Bachelor of Education, or B.A.B.Ed. or B.Sc.B.Ed., or a three-year integrated B.Ed.-M.Ed. from an NCTE-recognised institution. CTET is not listed among the essential qualifications for these PGT post codes, which follows from CTET being a test for classes one to eight while a PGT teaches senior secondary classes. Candidates carry over an assumption from PRT and TGT recruitment, where a teacher eligibility test is central, and either wrongly exclude themselves or waste a cycle preparing for the wrong certificate. The advertisement as circulated states an age limit of not exceeding 30 years, relaxable for government servants by up to five years, while several recruitment sites report 36; verify the figure against the advertisement text for your own code before relying on it.

After each post code's result DSSSB publishes marks and then calls provisionally shortlisted candidates for e-dossier submission, an online document verification step that precedes appointment. Results for this cycle have been released one code at a time from June 2026 onward rather than in a single announcement, so an absent result for your subject in September does not imply a problem. The attendance figures DSSSB itself published during the April sittings are the most useful planning data in the whole cycle: in the PGT Biology shift on 14 April only 678 of 2,729 allotted candidates appeared. On paper-to-vacancy ratios like that, the real competition in a small code is far narrower than the registration count suggests.