Alerts and Updates for EMRS PGT English

The English paper at a glance

Tier-I contains no English literature or language content: Part-V Domain Knowledge is defined by the Information Bulletin and the NESTS syllabus as experiential activity-based pedagogy and case studies for 20 marks plus National Education Policy 2020 for 10, and Part VI is a separate qualifying language hurdle that includes Hindi. For English the descriptive half of Tier-II is the closest match between paper and job, because the syllabus lists the composition forms a PGT teaches: notice, invitation, letter, article, report, advertisement, poster and speech. Tier-I contributes nothing to merit for PGT posts.

Dates and windows

The schedule above is common to every subject and post in the EMRS Staff Selection Examination 2025, not specific to English. The only subject-specific entry is the Tier-II result, which NESTS is publishing post by post; English came out on 17 September 2026 with Hindi and Maths.

What this means for your preparation

English candidates over-prepare literature and under-prepare composition. The NESTS syllabus gives reading comprehension and creative writing as much space as the literary canon, and the Tier-II descriptive section is worth 60 of 100 marks. A candidate who can discuss Keats but cannot produce a correctly formatted notice or a 150-word speech under time pressure is losing marks on the half of the paper that most resembles the actual teaching job.

The composition list is specific, so learn the formats

The syllabus names the forms rather than gesturing at them: notice writing, formal and informal invitations, letters written from verbal or visual input, article and report writing in both descriptive and analytical modes, classified advertisements, posters, and speech writing in 120 to 150 words, plus debate on contemporary topical issues from visual or verbal prompts. Each of these has a conventional layout that examiners mark against. Practise them to length, with the box, the salutation, the byline and the word count where convention requires them. Reading comprehension is also listed with a named range, an unseen passage that may be factual, descriptive or literary, and case-based passages carrying statistical data and visual inputs, which demands reading a chart as well as a paragraph.

The literature range is wide but shallow

Four bands are listed: Shakespeare's dramatic works; the Romantic poets, specifically Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats and Coleridge; nineteenth and twentieth-century American and English authors including Frost, Hemingway, Hawthorne and Shaw; and modern Indian writing in English with Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond and R. K. Narayan named, alongside contemporary literature from Latin America, Africa and Australia. The breadth is the difficulty. The sensible approach is to secure period, movement, major works and a usable critical vocabulary for each named author rather than deep readings of a few, because the objective section of 40 questions rewards recognition across the whole range.

Grammar is examinable in its own right

Grammar appears as a separate head, with gap filling on tenses and clauses and the re-ordering or transformation of sentences. These are mechanical marks that experienced graduates of literature routinely drop because they have not revised formal syntax since their own school years. Transformation in particular, active to passive, direct to indirect, simple to complex, is the sort of item that yields to a fortnight of drilling and never yields to general fluency. Fluent English is not the same as the ability to name a non-finite clause, and the paper tests the latter.

One hundred and twelve posts, and the Hindi hurdle

PGT English is advertised at 112 posts: 47 unreserved, 11 EWS, 30 OBC non-creamy layer, 16 SC and 8 ST. Tier-I shortlists at a ratio of 1:10, so roughly 1,120 candidates went into the English Tier-II, and the merit list was built on that paper alone. The distinctive trap for this subject sits in Tier-I Part VI: the 20-mark language competency test covers English and Hindi together and is qualifying at a minimum of 8 marks across both. An English specialist with no Hindi cannot assume the English half carries them, and a candidate who misses the threshold has Parts I to V left unevaluated entirely.

Teaching English in a residential tribal school

These are posts in Eklavya Model Residential Schools, which serve Classes VI to XII for students from Scheduled Tribe communities, and English is very often the students' third language after a home language and a regional one. That reality is worth thinking about before the interview and document verification stage, and it distinguishes the post from KVS or Navodaya work. The bulletin is blunt on conditions: posting anywhere in India, with requests for change of station or region not entertained under any circumstances; residence on campus with rent-free accommodation as available; special pay of 10 per cent of basic; Level 8, Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100; and a two-year probation.

Common questions

How many PGT English posts are there in the EMRS recruitment?

The NESTS Information Bulletin lists 112 posts for PGT English, split as 47 unreserved, 11 EWS, 30 OBC non-creamy layer, 16 SC and 8 ST. English is the fourth-largest PGT subject in this advertisement, behind Economics at 155, Computer Science at 154 and ahead of Geography at 98. There are 1,460 PGT posts in total and 7,267 posts across the whole recruitment, which also covers Principal, TGT and non-teaching cadres. The figures are described as tentative.

What is in the EMRS PGT English Tier-II syllabus?

Four areas. Reading comprehension, including unseen factual, descriptive or literary passages and case-based passages with statistical data and visual inputs, plus note-making and summarising. Creative writing, covering notices, formal and informal invitations, letters, articles, reports, classified advertisements, posters, speech writing in 120 to 150 words and debate. Grammar, with gap filling on tenses and clauses and sentence re-ordering and transformation. Literature, spanning Shakespeare, the Romantics, nineteenth and twentieth-century American and English authors, modern Indian writing in English and contemporary world literature.

When was the EMRS PGT English Tier-II result declared?

On 17 September 2026, in a combined notice with PGT Hindi and PGT Maths. NESTS has released Tier-II results in phases since early September 2026, starting with Principal on 3 September and PGT Computer Science on 7 September. The English notice prints neither cut-off marks nor the number of qualified candidates; those are visible only on the examination services portal after logging in with registration credentials. The document verification schedule will be notified later on the NESTS website.

Do EMRS PGT English candidates have to answer in Hindi anywhere?

Part VI of Tier-I is a 20-mark language competency test covering English and Hindi, and the bulletin requires a minimum of 40 per cent, that is 8 marks out of 20, taken across both languages together. It is qualifying only and is not added to merit, but a candidate who misses the threshold has Parts I to V left unevaluated. Tier-II itself is the subject paper, so an English candidate writes the descriptive answers in English.

Does Tier-I count towards the final PGT selection?

No. The bulletin states that for PGT posts the Tier-I examination is qualifying in nature and the merit list is prepared on the basis of the Tier-II examination only. Tier-I determines who is shortlisted, at a ratio of 1:10 against notified vacancies. It is 100 marks over five parts plus the 20-mark language test, runs 2 hours 30 minutes and carries one-third negative marking, and none of those 100 marks is English subject matter, since Part-V Domain Knowledge is pedagogy and National Education Policy 2020. Tier-II is 100 marks in three hours, 40 objective and 60 descriptive, all on English.

What is the pay and posting position for an EMRS PGT?

PGT posts are in Level 8, Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100, with special pay of 10 per cent of basic pay because Eklavya Model Residential Schools are fully residential and staff are required to stay on campus, with rent-free accommodation as available. The bulletin states that candidates may be posted anywhere in India on initial posting and that a request for change of station or region will not be entertained under any circumstances whatsoever. Probation runs for two years.