Updates as of September 22, 2026
Bihar Public Service Commission published Advertisement 14/2026 for Teacher Recruitment Examination 4.0 on 18 August 2026, covering 32,388 school teacher posts. Of these, 16,101 are at the Higher Secondary level for classes 11 and 12, the single largest block in the advertisement and roughly half the whole recruitment.
Adda247 (coaching site)The number of stages in TRE 4.0 is unresolved, and it is the single biggest open question in this cycle. BPSC's own exam calendar, dated 14 August 2026, lists TRE 4.0 at serial 30 with 32,388 vacancies under the heading 2 PHASE EXAMS (PT + MAINS), and records the exam date as TBD with the remark that the date of the PT shall be published after the completion of the advertisement period. On that document, TRE 4.0 is a two-stage recruitment with a screening preliminary test.
BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)On 27 August 2026, nine days after Advertisement 14/2026 was issued, Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced that TRE 4.0 would be held in a single phase, scrapping the PT and Mains structure. The announcement followed a campaign by candidate representatives under the slogan One Exam, One Result. This is a state government statement rather than a BPSC order, and it directly contradicts the Commission's own calendar.
Testbook news report on the 27 August announcement (reported)As of 22 September 2026, BPSC has published no corrigendum on the TRE 4.0 examination pattern. The Commission's notices page carries corrigenda for the 72nd CCE and notices on the Stenographer examination and the new fifth answer option, but nothing on TRE. The 14 August calendar still shows PT plus Mains and has not been revised. The unresolved pattern is the most plausible reason the application window was postponed for procedural changes, and candidates should expect the revised pattern and the reopened window to be announced together.
BPSC notices page, checked 22 September 2026 (official)Urdu at the Higher Secondary level is reported at 877 posts, one of the larger language allocations after English at 1,321 and Sanskrit at 746, and ahead of Hindi at 739. A separately circulated vacancy list puts the Urdu figure at 970, so the count should be confirmed against the Commission's own subject table.
NotifyHere vacancy list (unofficial)Urdu is advertised at both levels in TRE 4.0, with 660 posts for classes 9 and 10 and 877 for classes 11 and 12. The two are separate competitions with separate eligibility, so a graduate with B.Ed cannot cross into the Higher Secondary Urdu contest without a post-graduate degree and STET Paper II.
NotifyHere (unofficial)Online applications opened on 21 September 2026 after being deferred from an original 1 September start. The closing date is reported as 21 October 2026 but has not been confirmed by the Commission; the fee is reported at Rs 100 per level, with an extra Rs 200 biometric charge where Aadhaar is not linked.
KollegeApply (news site)No examination date has been announced for TRE 4.0. Adda247 reports a tentative window of December 2026 to January 2027 for the written stage; that is a coaching-site projection and not a Commission announcement. Candidates should treat every date after the application window as unsettled.
Adda247 (coaching site)The Commission has posted the advertisement and district-wise vacancy rosters for classes 11 and 12 as separate downloads on its own site, which is where the authoritative Urdu figure and its district and category distribution sit. Those documents govern; every secondary report of the numbers is a transcription of them.
BPSC district-wise vacancies, classes 11-12A vacancy figure of 46,595 is circulating on job-alert aggregators for TRE 4.0. None of the aggregators carrying it cites an advertisement number or a date, and it is contradicted by both official BPSC documents that do carry a number: Advertisement 14/2026 of 18 August 2026 and the exam calendar of 14 August 2026, which state 32,388. Until BPSC publishes a corrigendum, 32,388 is the figure to plan against.
BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)The Higher Secondary Urdu paper at a glance
| Stage or part | What it contains | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminary (screening) | General Studies objective paper, 150 questions, no Urdu content | 150 |
| Mains Part-I, Language | One language from Hindi, English, Urdu and Bangla; qualifying only at 30 per cent | 30 |
| Mains Part-II, General Studies | Elementary mathematics, mental ability, general awareness, general science and social science | 40 |
| Mains Part-III, Urdu | Urdu grammar and usage, prose, poetry, ghazal, nazm, literary forms, literary history and prescribed texts | 80 |
| Mains total | 150 objective questions in 2 hours 30 minutes, one-third mark deducted per wrong answer | 150 |
Only 80 of the 150 mains marks are Urdu. Part-I is qualifying and does not add to merit, so the effective scoring paper is 120 marks split 80 Urdu and 40 General Studies. A candidate who takes Urdu as the Part-I language as well is answering Urdu twice, but only the Part-III half counts towards the ranking. 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.
Dates and windows
| What | When | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BPSC exam calendar lists TRE 4.0 as a two-phase PT + Mains recruitment | 14 August 2026 | Confirmed |
| Advertisement 14/2026 published | 18 August 2026 | Confirmed |
| Chief Minister announces a single-phase exam, scrapping PT + Mains | 27 August 2026 | Announced by the state government, not yet ordered by BPSC |
| BPSC corrigendum confirming the final examination pattern | Not published as of 22 September 2026 | Awaited |
| Online application opens | 21 September 2026, deferred from 1 September | Confirmed |
| Last date to apply | 21 October 2026, as reported by KollegeApply | Tentative |
| Preliminary screening examination | Not announced | Tentative |
| Main examination | December 2026 to January 2027, as projected by Adda247 | Tentative |
| Subject-wise result and Urdu cut-off | Not announced | Tentative |
This calendar is common to every subject and every level in TRE 4.0; there is no separate Urdu schedule. The one date that is firmly established is the 21 September application opening, and the closing date has already moved once.
What this means for your preparation
The most common error is treating Higher Secondary Urdu as the same contest as Secondary Urdu with a bigger number attached. It is not. Classes 11 and 12 require a post-graduate degree in Urdu with 50 per cent marks plus B.Ed and STET Paper II, while classes 9 and 10 need only graduation with 50 per cent plus B.Ed and STET Paper I. A candidate holding STET Paper I alone is locked out of all 877 Higher Secondary Urdu posts regardless of how well they would score.
Post-graduate eligibility is the real filter
For classes 11 and 12 the Commission requires a post-graduate degree in the concerned subject with the prescribed percentage, a B.Ed, and Bihar STET Paper II; CTET does not substitute at this level. For classes 9 and 10 a graduate degree with 50 per cent in the subject plus B.Ed and STET Paper I suffices. The practical consequence for Urdu candidates is that an MA in Urdu is worth applying only if Paper II of the Bihar STET is already held or being sat, because the certificate is a gate rather than a tiebreaker. The pay difference reflects the gap: Higher Secondary basic pay is reported at Rs 32,000 against Rs 31,000 at Secondary, with gross figures reported around Rs 58,000 to Rs 61,690 and Rs 55,000 to Rs 59,860 respectively.
Eighty marks decide the Urdu ranking
The mains paper is 150 objective questions in 2 hours 30 minutes. Part-I language is 30 marks and qualifying at 30 per cent only, Part-II General Studies is 40 marks, and Part-III Urdu is 80 marks. Merit is therefore built on 120 counted marks of which two-thirds are Urdu. A candidate who scores heavily in General Studies but treats Urdu as a first-language freebie has capped their ceiling at 40 plus whatever the subject paper yields. One-third of a mark is deducted for every wrong answer, so on an 80-mark subject paper a habit of guessing across ten uncertain items costs more than three marks even before the General Studies losses are counted.
What the Urdu syllabus actually covers
The published Part-III outline for classes 11 and 12 runs across grammar and usage, comprehension and interpretation of prose and poetry, and literature. Grammar includes nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions, gender, number, case, tense and voice, sentence correction, sandhi and samas, prefixes and suffixes. Vocabulary covers synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, idioms, proverbs and contextual meaning, alongside spelling, error correction, sentence transformation and fill-in-the-blanks. Literature covers Urdu prose and poetry, ghazal and nazm, the major literary forms, literary history and prescribed texts. The heaviest predictable return sits in the grammar and vocabulary block, which is finite and testable in a way that literary history is not.
Where the Urdu cut-off has historically sat
In TRE 3.0 the reported unreserved cut-off for Higher Secondary Urdu was 76, against Hindi at 88, Sanskrit at 81 and Mathematics at 83, and well above Chemistry at 41, Physics at 40 and Music at 39. Urdu therefore sat in the demanding middle of the language group rather than the easy tail: the applicant pool is literate in the subject and the paper is not a discriminator on its own. Scheduled Caste candidates cleared Higher Secondary Urdu at a reported 44. These figures come from coaching-site compilations of the 2024 cycle, not from a Commission release, and TRE 4.0 numbers will move with the 877-post supply and the applicant count.
The Secondary and Higher Secondary Urdu papers are not interchangeable
Urdu appears at both levels in TRE 4.0 with 660 posts for classes 9 and 10 and 877 for classes 11 and 12, and the reported TRE 3.0 unreserved cut-offs were 80 at Secondary against 76 at Higher Secondary. The syllabi share the grammar and vocabulary spine but the Higher Secondary paper is written against a post-graduate entry standard and leans harder on literary forms, literary history and prescribed texts. Candidates eligible for both should note that the application fee is charged per level, reported at Rs 100 each, and that the shared examination calendar means both papers sit in the same cycle rather than offering two attempts at one post.
Common questions
How many Urdu vacancies are there in BPSC TRE 4.0 for classes 11 and 12?
Reports of Advertisement 14/2026 put Higher Secondary Urdu at 877 posts within the 16,101 sanctioned for classes 11 and 12. A separately circulated subject-wise vacancy list gives 970 instead, so the two figures disagree and neither has been read here from the Commission's own table. The district-wise vacancy document for classes 11 and 12 published on the BPSC site is the correct place to settle the number and its district and category split before applying.
Do I need an MA in Urdu for BPSC TRE Higher Secondary Urdu?
Yes. The Higher Secondary level requires a post-graduate degree in the concerned subject with the prescribed minimum percentage, reported as 50 per cent, together with a B.Ed and Bihar STET Paper II. Graduation with B.Ed qualifies only for the Secondary level, classes 9 and 10, which has its own 660 Urdu posts and requires STET Paper I. CTET is not accepted as a substitute at the Higher Secondary level.
How many marks in the BPSC TRE Urdu paper are actually Urdu?
Eighty of 150. The mains paper is divided into Part-I language at 30 marks, Part-II General Studies at 40 marks and Part-III the concerned subject at 80 marks, answered as 150 objective questions in 2 hours 30 minutes. Part-I is qualifying at 30 per cent and does not count towards merit, so the ranking is built on 120 marks of which Urdu supplies 80. One-third of a mark is deducted for each wrong answer.
Can I choose Urdu as the Part-I language as well as the subject?
The Part-I language options reported for TRE 4.0 are Hindi, English, Urdu and Bangla, so Urdu can be taken in Part-I. There is no scoring advantage in doing so because Part-I is qualifying at 30 per cent and its marks are not added to the merit total. The only effect is that the qualifying threshold becomes easy to clear, freeing preparation time for Part-II General Studies, which does count.
What was the BPSC TRE Urdu cut-off last time?
For the 2024 TRE 3.0 cycle, coaching-site compilations report an unreserved cut-off of 76 for Higher Secondary Urdu and 44 for Scheduled Caste candidates, with Secondary Urdu at 80 for unreserved and 56 for Scheduled Caste. For comparison, Higher Secondary Hindi was 88 and Sanskrit 81. These are unofficial compilations of a previous cycle rather than a Commission publication, and the TRE 4.0 cut-off will depend on the final applicant count against the advertised posts.
When is the BPSC TRE 4.0 exam for Urdu candidates?
No examination date has been announced. Applications opened on 21 September 2026 after a deferral from 1 September, with a closing date reported as 21 October 2026 that the Commission has not confirmed. Adda247 projects a written examination window of December 2026 to January 2027; that is a coaching-site estimate. The schedule is common to every subject and level in TRE 4.0, so there is no separate Urdu sitting to look for.
