Alerts and Updates for UP TGT (Uttar Pradesh Trained Graduate Teacher)

UP TGT against UP PGT at a glance

The two recruitments share a conducting body and a portal but almost nothing else. The TGT route rewards a graduate degree and a teaching qualification and settles entirely on a written score, which makes the cut-off the whole contest. The PGT route requires a master's, pays one level higher and reserves a tenth of the final score for an interview.

Dates and windows

Only the result and the PGT cycle dates are firm. Everything relating to the next TGT advertisement, including its size and its examination pattern, is at the reported or expected stage. Treat any date circulating for a new TGT notification as unverified until the commission publishes it.

What this means for your preparation

The most common error is treating UP TGT as a junior version of UP PGT and preparing from post-graduate material. It is not. TGT posts teach classes 9 and 10, the qualifying bar is a bachelor's degree plus B.Ed rather than a master's, and the written paper has historically been pitched at graduation level. A second error follows from the first: because TGT selection has no interview, the written score is the entire selection, and the published cut-offs show how unforgiving that is.

The written score is the whole selection

TGT selection runs written examination then document verification. There is no interview stage to recover marks in, which is the structural difference from PGT, where 40 of 400 marks sit with a board. In the concluded 2022 cycle the paper carried 125 questions at four marks each for a maximum of 500, over two hours, with no negative marking. With no penalty for a wrong answer and a purely written merit list, leaving a question blank has no defence: an unattempted question is a guaranteed zero while a guess has positive expected value. Candidates who carried over the cautious habits of negatively marked exams left marks on the table in a contest decided in single figures.

Cut-offs sit far higher than candidates expect

The cut-offs published with the 29 July 2026 result are the single most useful planning input on this page, because they show that TGT is a high-accuracy exam rather than a high-difficulty one. For male candidates in the 2022 cycle the unreserved cut-off was 480 out of 500 in Art, 460 in Agriculture and 460 in Urdu, with reserved-category thresholds only eight to twenty marks below. At four marks a question, an unreserved Art cut-off of 480 means five wrong or unattempted questions out of 125 was the practical limit. Preparation aimed at understanding the syllabus is insufficient; the target is near-total recall across the whole subject range.

A pattern change is reported but not confirmed

Coaching sites report that the next cycle will use 120 questions worth 360 marks, with 90 subject questions and 30 general studies questions, three marks each and negative marking introduced. The general studies block is described as covering current affairs, teaching and research aptitude, ICT, environment, Indian history and geography, and the constitution and economy. Sources disagree on the penalty, one describing one-third of a mark and another a full mark. None of this appears in a commission advertisement. Prepare the subject at its established depth, because that part is stable, and treat general studies as insurance that costs little: thirty questions would be a quarter of the paper if the reports hold.

Subject choice changes the odds more than effort does

Vacancy volume is wildly uneven across the 16 TGT subjects and this is decided before a candidate opens a book. In the 2022 cycle English carried 511 posts for men and 46 for women, Hindi 509 and 48, Mathematics 508 and 25, and Science 499 and 41. Against that, Agriculture had 47 posts for men and none for women, Urdu 12 and 1, Commerce 38 and none, and instrumental music four and six. A specialist subject with a strong eligibility barrier can be a better bet than a mainstream one despite the small post count, because the eligible pool is correspondingly small, but only if the candidate already holds the qualifying degree.

Confirm eligibility against the advertisement, not the subject name

TGT eligibility is set subject by subject and several subjects do not follow the graduate-degree-plus-B.Ed template. Art accepts a BA in drawing or painting, a diploma in fine arts from Kala Bhawan Shantiniketan, or recognised drawing certificates. Music accepts Sangeet Visharad, Sangeet Prabhakar and equivalents. Physical Education requires a C.P.Ed certificate or equivalent. Age was 21 to 60 in the last cycle, reckoned as at 1 July. Because the commission's statute changed in 2023 and an amending act followed in 2026, older eligibility notes circulating online may be out of date. Read the qualification clause in the advertisement for the specific subject before paying a fee.

Common questions

Who conducts UP TGT now, UPSESSB or UPESSC?

The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission, UPESSC, based at Prayagraj. The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission Act, 2023, which received assent on 17 August 2023, repealed the UP Secondary Education Service Selection Board Act, 1982 together with the Higher Education Services Commission Act, 1980, and brought teaching posts in aided intermediate, higher secondary and high schools under one commission. Candidates still find the recruitment listed under the older board name on many sites and on legacy portals, but the current advertisements, including Advertisement 06/2026, carry the commission's name.

What is the difference between UP TGT and UP PGT?

TGT posts teach classes 9 and 10 and require a bachelor's degree in the relevant discipline plus a B.Ed; PGT posts teach classes 11 and 12 and require a master's in the subject plus a B.Ed. TGT sits at pay level 7, Rs 44,900 to Rs 1,42,400, while PGT sits at level 8, Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100. TGT selection is on the written examination alone, whereas PGT adds a 40-mark interview to a 360-mark written paper. The subject lists also differ, 16 for TGT against 26 for PGT.

When will the next UP TGT notification come out?

It had not been released as at 22 September 2026, and the commission has not published a date. The expected volumes circulating are inconsistent, with Testbook reporting more than 38,000 anticipated vacancies and Exampur Store reporting 17,740 posts. Neither is a commission figure. What is verifiable is that the commission released the post-graduate advertisement 06/2026 on 15 September 2026 with an examination on 15 and 16 December 2026, so the TGT advertisement will fall somewhere after that sequence began.

Is there negative marking in the UP TGT exam?

There was none in the concluded cycle. That paper had 125 questions at four marks each for 500 marks in two hours, and every source describes it as carrying no penalty for a wrong answer. For the next cycle, coaching sites report that negative marking will be introduced along with a move to 120 questions and 360 marks; they disagree on whether the deduction is one-third of a mark or a full mark. Until the commission's advertisement states the marking scheme, neither version should be relied on.

What were the UP TGT cut-off marks?

The cut-offs were published with the final result on 29 July 2026, against a 500-mark paper. For male candidates, Art closed at 480 for unreserved, 476 for OBC, 472 for EWS and 468 for SC. Agriculture closed at 460 unreserved, 452 for OBC and EWS, and 440 for SC. Urdu closed at 460 unreserved with 452 for OBC and EWS. These are cycle-specific and depend on the post count and the difficulty of that year's paper, so they indicate the standard required rather than a fixed target.

Is a TET or CTET certificate needed for UP TGT?

Reported guidance is that a teacher eligibility test is not mandatory for these posts, which sit in aided secondary schools rather than in the elementary stage that the eligibility test statutorily governs. The requirements that are consistently listed are a bachelor's degree in the relevant discipline and a B.Ed from a recognised institution, with subject-specific alternatives for Art, Music and Physical Education. Because the governing statute was amended in 2026, confirm this against the qualification clause of the advertisement for the cycle being applied to.