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DSSSB PGT Geography paper at a glance

Two thirds of the geography candidate's marks come from Section B, so the general section is a hurdle rather than the contest. Toppersexam's syllabus page and prepp both describe the same 100 plus 200 split over 180 minutes with 0.25 negative marking; the category-wise qualifying percentages are from Chegg India's DSSSB PGT page.

Dates and windows

This calendar is common to every subject paper of the DSSSB PGT Combined Examination, 2024: one advertisement, one application window and one examination programme cover all of Post Codes 824/24 to 834/24. The only geography-specific entry is the 16 July 2026 sitting, which separated Geography and Economics from the April block.

What this means for your preparation

The single most common error among DSSSB PGT Geography candidates is preparing the subject at university-specialisation level and neglecting the NCERT-shaped spine the Section B list actually follows. The eighteen headings published for this paper track the senior-secondary geography sequence almost unit for unit, from Geography as a discipline through to General Cartography and teaching methodology. A second error is arithmetic: with 22 posts and only one female-reserved seat, the margin that decides selection is small, and 0.25 per wrong answer is what usually removes candidates who knew the material.

The eighteen published Section B headings

Toppersexam's syllabus page for this paper lists eighteen Section B headings: Geography as a discipline; Origin and Evolution of the Earth; Interior of the Earth and Distribution of Oceans and Continents; Landforms; Climate; Water (Ocean); Life on the Earth; India Physiography; Climate, Vegetation and Soil; Natural Hazards and Disasters; Human Geography, Nature and Scope; People, world and India; Human Activities, world and India; Transport, Communication and Trade, world and India; Human Settlements, world and India; Geographical perspective on selected issues and problems; General Cartography as practicals; and Teaching Education and Methodology with ten sub-topics. Note how many headings are doubled into a world half and an India half. Studying only the world treatment of population, settlement, transport and economic activity leaves roughly half of those units unanswerable, and they sit in the middle of the list rather than at its margins.

Physical and human are not optional halves

Seven of the eighteen headings are physical, from the Earth's origin and interior through landforms, climate, oceans and the biosphere, and six are human, covering nature and scope, people, activities, transport and trade, settlements, and selected issues and problems. Candidates who came through a physical-geography or geology master's tend to bank the first block and improvise the second; those from a planning or development background do the reverse. Over 200 questions neither gamble pays. The India-specific units, physiography, climate, vegetation and soil, and natural hazards and disasters, deserve separate revision from their world counterparts because the factual load is different: named ranges, river systems, soil classes, monsoon mechanics and the hazard profile of specific Indian regions.

Cartography is a listed unit, not a footnote

General Cartography appears as its own Section B heading, described as practicals. In an objective paper this converts into map projections and their properties, scales and scale conversion, representation of relief by contours and hachures, thematic mapping methods such as choropleth, isopleth and dot maps, and the reading of topographical sheets. It is the unit most often skipped, because it was taught as laboratory work rather than as an examinable theory paper, and it is therefore the cheapest place for a well-read candidate to lose marks. Work through projection properties and contour interpretation as recall material. There is no drawing component in a computer-based paper, so the questions must be conceptual or interpretive, which makes them learnable in a fixed number of hours.

Ten pedagogy sub-topics carry real marks

The Teaching Education and Methodology heading is listed with ten sub-topics and belongs to the same 200-mark Section B as the subject content. Across DSSSB PGT papers the pedagogy block is described in identical terms, covering learning and teaching, language across the curriculum, understanding discipline and subject, gender school and society, pedagogy of a school subject, knowledge and curriculum, assessment for learning, creating an inclusive school, childhood and growing up, and drama and art in education. For geography the pedagogy-of-the-subject portion is answerable from the B.Ed geography method paper: fieldwork and excursion, map and globe work, the project method, use of atlases and satellite imagery, and evaluation of spatial skills. Candidates who left B.Ed years ago should treat this as a separate revision head, not as something the subject reading will cover.

Twenty-two posts and one female seat

Testbook gives 22 posts for Post Code 832/24, 21 male and 1 female, against 432 across the eleven post codes of Advertisement 10/2024. Geography is thus one of the smallest lists in the recruitment, well below Hindi at 91, Economics at 82, Political Science at 78 and History at 61, so the cut-off is set by a much shorter tail of candidates and behaves erratically between cycles. The practical consequence is attempt discipline. With 0.25 deducted per wrong answer, a candidate who guesses 60 uncertain questions to reach a high attempt count surrenders marks that a short list cannot absorb. The reported 28-post annexure figure for the next cycle, if notified, would widen the list but has no bearing on the 832/24 merit position.

Common questions

What is the post code for DSSSB PGT Geography?

PGT Geography is Post Code 832/24 under DSSSB Advertisement No. 10/2024, the Combined Examination 2024 for the post of Post Graduate Teacher. The advertisement number in full is No. F.1 (384)/P&P/DSSSB/2024/Advt./7352, dated 30 December 2024. Post codes matter because DSSSB admit cards, result notices and e-dossier communications are issued against the code rather than the subject name, and the geography result will therefore appear as a notice naming 832/24.

When is the DSSSB PGT Geography exam and why was it moved?

Geography is scheduled for 16 July 2026 in shifts I and II, according to Testbook's reproduction of the DSSSB notification dated 22 April 2026 covering online examinations in June, July, August and September 2026. The main PGT block ran from 12 to 17 April 2026 in two daily shifts, but Geography and Economics were held over to 15 and 16 July. Career Power reports the April window; no official reason for the deferral is stated in the sources seen.

How many vacancies are there for DSSSB PGT Geography?

Testbook lists 22 vacancies for Post Code 832/24, split 21 male and 1 female, out of 432 PGT posts in Advertisement 10/2024. Separately, Adda247 reports a circulated vacancy annexure for a forthcoming PGT recruitment of 510 posts in which Geography carries 28 posts, 20 male and 8 female. That second figure is reported rather than officially notified; Adda247 states the notification was still awaited and no post codes had been issued.

What does Section B of the DSSSB PGT Geography paper cover?

Section B is 200 questions for 200 marks and, per Toppersexam's syllabus listing, runs across eighteen headings: geography as a discipline, the origin and evolution of the Earth, the Earth's interior and the distribution of oceans and continents, landforms, climate, oceans, life on Earth, Indian physiography, Indian climate, vegetation and soil, natural hazards and disasters, human geography, people, human activities, transport, communication and trade, human settlements, selected issues and problems, general cartography, and teaching education and methodology.

Is the DSSSB PGT Geography syllabus at postgraduate or school level?

The advertisement describes Section B as questions pertaining to the post-graduation qualification and the teaching methodology required for the post, so the expected depth is a master's degree in geography. In practice the published heading list follows the senior-secondary sequence closely, with world and India treatments paired across population, settlement, activity and trade. The sensible reading is postgraduate depth applied to a school-syllabus map: familiar units, harder questions, plus a cartography unit and a pedagogy block.

Has the DSSSB PGT Geography result been declared?

Not in the sources seen as of 22 September 2026. Testbook's 2026 DSSSB result round-up records Notice No. 1036 declaring results for PGT History and PGT Hindi, and further notices for Maths, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Painting, Computer Science and Sanskrit, but lists nothing for Geography. That is consistent with the geography paper having been deferred to 16 July 2026, later than the papers whose results are out. Check the DSSSB site for a notice naming Post Code 832/24.