Updates as of September 22, 2026
DSSSB advertised TGT Hindi in the Directorate of Education under two post codes in Advertisement No. 06/2025 dated 3 October 2025: 63/25 for male candidates with 420 posts, of which 18 are reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities, and 64/25 for female candidates with 136 posts, of which 14 are PwBD. That is 556 Hindi vacancies out of 5,346 advertised across the eighteen TGT post codes.
Advertisement 06/2025 PDFA revised vacancy position reported for the same recruitment leaves TGT Hindi male at 420 and trims TGT Hindi female from 136 to 135, a Hindi total of 555. The board-wide total falls from 5,346 to 5,339. This revision is reported by Adda247 rather than reproduced here from a DSSSB notice, so treat the single-post change as indicative until the board publishes its own revised table.
Adda247 (as reported)The application window closed on 7 November 2025 at 11.59 pm, having opened on 9 October 2025 at 12 noon on the DSSSB online portal. The fee was Rs 100, with women, SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen candidates exempt, payable only through SBI e-Pay and non-refundable. No reopening of the window for post codes 63/25 or 64/25 has been notified.
Advertisement 06/2025 PDFDSSSB issued a revised examination schedule on 24 August 2026 covering computer-based tests from 21 September to 24 October 2026, and admit cards for those sittings began appearing from 19 September 2026. Testbook's reading of that schedule is that it lists no TGT date, so candidates for 63/25 and 64/25 are still waiting on a separate notice of examination.
Testbook (as reported)From the previous cycle, Advertisement 02/2024, DSSSB has been declaring TGT results through 2025 and 2026, including TGT English, TGT Sanskrit, TGT Mathematics and TGT Natural Science. No TGT Hindi result under that earlier advertisement appears in the same round-up, which is worth checking directly on the board's result pages rather than inferring from aggregator lists.
Adda247 (as reported)DSSSB TGT Hindi paper at a glance
| Component | Scope | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Section A | General Awareness, General Intelligence and Reasoning, Arithmetical and Numerical Ability, Hindi Language and Comprehension, English Language and Comprehension, 20 marks each | 100 |
| Section B | Hindi as the subject concerned, including questions on teaching methodology and B.Ed content | 100 |
| Paper total | One-tier technical or teaching computer-based test, 200 objective questions of one mark each, no interview | 200 |
| Duration | Two hours for Section A and Section B together, which is 36 seconds per question | 120 minutes |
| Negative marking | Deduction for every incorrect answer across both sections | Minus 0.25 |
| Qualifying marks | General and EWS 40 per cent, OBC of Delhi 35 per cent, SC, ST and PwBD 30 per cent, ex-servicemen 30 per cent | 80 / 70 / 60 |
The Hindi content that decides a TGT Hindi selection sits only in Section B, and it shares those 100 marks with pedagogy questions. Section A carries a separate 20-mark Hindi Language and Comprehension block, but that block is common to every DSSSB post and is pitched at general language proficiency, not at literature. The official indicative syllabus for TGT Hindi in the Directorate of Education and NDMC is published by DSSSB as a separate subject PDF.
Dates and windows
| What | When | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Advertisement No. 06/2025 issued, reference F.1(434)/P and P/DSSSB/2025/Advt./4006 | 3 October 2025 | Confirmed |
| Online applications open for post codes 63/25 and 64/25 | 9 October 2025, 12 noon | Closed |
| Last date and time to apply and to pay the Rs 100 fee | 7 November 2025, 11.59 pm | Closed |
| Revised vacancy position reported, TGT Hindi female 136 to 135 | Reported after the window closed | Tentative |
| DSSSB revised examination schedule notice for the 2026 CBT round | 24 August 2026, exams from 21 September to 24 October 2026 | Confirmed |
| Admit cards released for the CBTs covered by that schedule | From 19 September 2026 | Confirmed |
| TGT Hindi computer-based test under Advertisement 06/2025 | Not listed in the 24 August 2026 schedule, separate notice awaited | Tentative |
| Result and category-wise cut-off for TGT Hindi 63/25 and 64/25 | After the exam is held | Tentative |
This calendar is common to every subject advertised under DSSSB Advertisement 06/2025: TGT Hindi, Mathematics, Natural Science, Punjabi and the rest share one notification, one application window and one examination schedule. Only the post code, the vacancy count and the Section B paper are specific to Hindi.
What this means for your preparation
TGT Hindi is the hardest DSSSB teaching post to clear on raw marks, and candidates consistently plan for the wrong number. Because Hindi attracts a very large and very well-prepared pool, its closing marks in past cycles ran roughly 40 to 60 marks above TGT Mathematics and TGT Natural Science in the same recruitment. Clearing the 40 per cent qualifying bar of 80 marks is close to irrelevant here; the working target is far higher.
Read the cut-off gap before you plan
In the 2021 DSSSB TGT cycle the unreserved cut-off reported for Hindi was 126.99, against 82.05 for Mathematics and 80.96 for Natural Science male. Reported ranges for TGT Hindi female that year run from about 130 to 145 for unreserved and 122 to 143 for OBC, with SC around 115 to 125. These are aggregate marks out of 200 across both sections, and they are reported by coaching portals rather than reproduced here from a board notice, so treat them as a shape rather than a figure. The practical consequence is firm even so: a Hindi candidate who scores 110 has failed while a Mathematics candidate with the same score in the same recruitment may be selected. Plan towards roughly 140 and treat anything below 125 as unsafe.
Section B is literature history, not comprehension
DSSSB's indicative syllabus for TGT Hindi splits Section B into prose, poetry, grammar and functional Hindi. The prose portion asks for the origin and development of gadya sahitya and its forms, covering upanyas, kahani, natak and ekanki, nibandh, yatra vritant, sansmaran and rekhachitra, atmakatha and jeevani, and reportage. The poetry portion runs the full chronology from adikalin kavya through the bhakti kal in both its saguna and nirguna streams, ritikalin kavya, and modern poetry from the Bharatendu era to samkalin kavita. This is period-and-movement knowledge: who wrote what, in which dhara, and which text marks which turn. Answering it from general fluency in Hindi does not work, and that is exactly the mistake that keeps otherwise fluent candidates at 100 marks.
Grammar and prayojanmulak Hindi are cheap marks
The grammar block of the TGT Hindi syllabus is finite and repeats: lipi and its development, uchcharan and vartani, paryayvachi and vilom, shabd bhed, vakya rachna by form and by meaning, the principal alankar, shabd shakti, and muhavare and lokoktiyan. Alongside it sits a small, very predictable unit on Hindi's constitutional position, sampark bhasha Hindi, prayojanmulak and karyalayi Hindi, and manak Hindi. Together these are the most reliably scorable part of Section B because the question pool is narrow and the answers are not contestable. Candidates who spend their last month re-reading literature and skip this block leave 20 to 25 easy marks behind, which in a paper decided around 140 is the whole margin.
Do not ignore the 100 marks outside your subject
Section A carries the same 100 marks as Hindi does, split evenly into General Awareness, Reasoning, Arithmetical and Numerical Ability, Hindi Language and Comprehension, and English Language and Comprehension. A Hindi specialist ordinarily banks the 20-mark Hindi block and may find the 20-mark English block the single weakest thing on the paper. The arithmetic block is school-level but time-hungry, and with 200 questions in 120 minutes there is no room to work a sum twice. Because Hindi's cut-off sits so high, the difference between selection and rejection is usually made in Section A, not in the literature questions that candidates spend most of their preparation on.
Pedagogy questions sit inside the Hindi count
The scheme of examination states that Section B's 100 questions come from the subject concerned including questions on teaching methodology and B.Ed. There is no separate pedagogy section and no published split, so the safe assumption is that a meaningful slice of the Hindi hundred is Hindi-teaching pedagogy: language acquisition at the secondary stage, methods of teaching prose and poetry, evaluation and remedial teaching, and the language-across-the-curriculum material from B.Ed. Candidates who qualified CTET Paper II with a Hindi language paper have already covered part of this, but CTET pitches pedagogy at a lower level. Revise pedagogy from B.Ed notes in Hindi medium so the terminology matches the paper.
Common questions
What is the post code for DSSSB TGT Hindi in the 2025 advertisement?
Under Advertisement No. 06/2025 dated 3 October 2025, TGT Hindi in the Directorate of Education carries post code 63/25 for male candidates and 64/25 for female candidates. The advertised figures are 420 male posts, including 18 for persons with benchmark disabilities, and 136 female posts, including 14 PwBD. A later revised position reported by Adda247 puts the female figure at 135, giving 555 Hindi posts in all. Quote the correct post code on any representation to the board, because male and female posts are separate recruitments.
How many marks in the DSSSB TGT Hindi paper are actually Hindi?
One hundred of the 200 marks. Section B is 100 one-mark objective questions from the subject concerned, which for post codes 63/25 and 64/25 means Hindi literature, grammar and functional Hindi, together with questions on teaching methodology and B.Ed. The other 100 marks are Section A, common to all DSSSB posts, which includes a 20-mark Hindi Language and Comprehension block. So Hindi content in the broad sense accounts for about 120 marks, but only the Section B hundred is subject-level.
Is the DSSSB TGT Hindi syllabus graduate level or school level?
Graduate level. The eligibility condition is a bachelor's or master's degree in the concerned subject with at least 50 per cent marks, or a four-year integrated degree from an NCTE-recognised institution, plus B.Ed and a CTET pass. The indicative syllabus matches that: it asks for the historical development of Hindi prose and poetry across adikal, bhakti kal, ritikal and the modern period, not for the class 9 and 10 textbook. The teaching is at secondary level but the content tested is degree level.
What was the previous DSSSB TGT Hindi cut-off?
For the 2021 cycle, an unreserved TGT Hindi cut-off of 126.99 is reported, with SC at 122.09 and ST at 114.95. Reported ranges for TGT Hindi female that year sit around 130 to 145 unreserved. These figures come from coaching portals, not from a DSSSB notice reproduced here, and cut-offs move with vacancy count and paper difficulty. They are useful mainly as a comparison: Hindi closed far above Mathematics at 82.05 and Natural Science male at 80.96 in the same cycle.
When will the DSSSB TGT Hindi exam for post code 63/25 be held?
No date has been notified as of 22 September 2026. DSSSB issued a revised examination schedule on 24 August 2026 covering computer-based tests between 21 September and 24 October 2026, and released admit cards for those sittings from 19 September 2026, but that schedule is reported not to include any TGT post under Advertisement 06/2025. The date will come through a separate notice of examination on the board's site, and it will be common to all the TGT subjects in that advertisement.
Is there negative marking in DSSSB TGT Hindi and what is the qualifying mark?
Yes. A quarter mark is deducted for each wrong answer, in Section A and Section B alike, and the paper is 200 questions in 120 minutes. The minimum qualifying marks are 40 per cent for general and EWS candidates, 35 per cent for OBC candidates of Delhi, and 30 per cent for SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen. For Hindi, however, qualifying and being selected are very different things, because the closing marks in past cycles ran well above the 80-mark general threshold.
