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    <h2>Updates as of September 22, 2026</h2>
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        <p>Psychology carries 50 of the 2,607 Post Graduate Teacher posts in Advertisement 06/2026, split as 40 in boys' aided schools and 10 in girls' schools. It is one of the smallest subjects with a meaningful allocation, against Sanskrit at 264, Sociology at 84 and Physics at 132, and a single-digit shift in the merit list therefore has an outsized effect.</p>
        <a class="up-pgt-psychology-updates-222026-cite" href="https://cdn.testbook.com/1789490557570-UP%20PGT%20Notification.pdf/1789490559.pdf">UPESSC Advt 06/2026 notification PDF</a>
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        <p>The written examination is 120 objective questions in two hours, 90 from the chosen subject and 30 from general knowledge, at 3 marks each for a 360-mark total, with 1 mark deducted for a wrong or multiple answer. A 40-mark interview follows, taking the selection total to 400 marks.</p>
        <a class="up-pgt-psychology-updates-222026-cite" href="https://news.kollegeapply.com/news/up-pgt-notification-2026">KollegeApply</a>
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        <p>Applications opened on 18 September 2026 and close on 17 October 2026, with fee payment due the same day and a correction window to 21 October. The written examination is scheduled for 15 and 16 December 2026, and One Time Registration on the UPESSC portal must be finished before the form can be filed.</p>
        <a class="up-pgt-psychology-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.9curry.com/notices/300ce7">9curry</a>
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        <p>Psychology historically posted one of the lower cut-offs among UP PGT subjects. Testbook and Adda247 both report 2016 figures of 372.47 for general category boys and 372.43 for general category girls, against 447.96 for Sociology boys and 412.97 for Physics boys. Those are coaching-site figures on the old 500-mark scheme and are not directly comparable to the present structure.</p>
        <a class="up-pgt-psychology-updates-222026-cite" href="https://testbook.com/up-pgt/cut-off">Testbook cut-off page</a>
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        <p>The conducting body has changed. The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission Act, 2023 repealed the UP Secondary Education Service Selection Board Act, 1982 at Section 31(1) and transferred the Board's staff, pending matters and liabilities to the Commission under Section 26, which now holds examinations and interviews for aided-school teaching posts.</p>
        <a class="up-pgt-psychology-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/20028/1/15of2023english.pdf">India Code — UPESSC Act 2023</a>
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Fifty posts is a small enough pool that the general knowledge block, worth 90 marks, can decide selection between two candidates of similar subject strength. Ten of the 50 posts sit in girls' schools, which is a comparatively high share for this recruitment, where only 278 of 2,607 posts overall are in girls' institutions.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://cdn.testbook.com/1789490557570-UP%20PGT%20Notification.pdf/1789490559.pdf">UPESSC Advt 06/2026 notification PDF</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.pw.live/teaching/exams/up-tgt-pgt-revised-syllabus">PW revised syllabus summary</a></p>

This schedule is common to every subject in Advertisement 06/2026. Psychology has no separate notification or sitting; the subject is chosen inside the one application form, and the Commission has not published which of the two December days each subject is examined on.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.9curry.com/notices/300ce7">9curry</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.careerpower.in/up-tgt-pgt.html">Career Power</a></p>

Psychology candidates most often misread what a 50-post subject means. A low historical cut-off does not mean a low bar; it means a shallow merit list in which a handful of marks moves a candidate many ranks. The second frequent error is preparing research-methods-heavy academic psychology while neglecting the applied units the UP PGT syllabus emphasises, notably psychological testing, guidance and counselling and industrial psychology.

Psychology has 50 posts in Advertisement 06/2026, 40 in boys' schools and 10 in girls' schools, against 2,607 posts overall. In a list that short, the marginal value of each question is high and the distribution is volatile: a subject with hundreds of posts absorbs a hard question because everyone loses the same marks, while in a 50-post subject the cut-off can move sharply on the strength of the general knowledge section alone. Ten posts in girls' schools is also worth noting, since only 278 of the 2,607 posts across the whole recruitment are in girls' institutions, making the girls'-school share in Psychology unusually favourable in proportional terms.

Nine applied units, not a research syllabus

Testbook's syllabus guide lists the UP PGT Psychology units as introduction to psychology and research methods; motivation and emotion; perception and memory; learning, covering conditioning, insight learning and habit formation; personality and its determinants; psychological testing, individual and group; guidance and counselling, educational and vocational; abnormal behaviour and mental health; and industrial psychology including employee selection. The centre of gravity is applied and school-facing rather than experimental. A candidate whose postgraduate work was in clinical or cognitive research should expect a substantial block of questions on testing instruments, counselling approaches and organisational psychology. Verify the unit list against the official syllabus PDF on the UPESSC portal before relying on it.

Ninety of the 120 questions, worth 270 of 360 marks, come from Psychology, and the remaining 30 questions carry 90 marks of general knowledge. Per the revised syllabus summary published by PW, that general section covers Indian history and the freedom movement, the physical and economic geography of India and Uttar Pradesh, the Constitution, economic planning and sustainable development, elementary science and Uttar Pradesh affairs. It is identical across subjects, which means every Psychology candidate you are ranked against is preparing the same 90 marks. In a 50-post subject that section is genuinely decisive, and it is also the most finite and predictable part of the paper.

Testbook and Adda247 both report 2016 Psychology cut-offs of 372.47 for general category boys, 358.95 for OBC and 335.33 for SC, with 372.43, 338.99 and 352.95 for the corresponding girls' categories. Sociology in the same tables sat near 448 and Physics near 413. Those numbers come from coaching sites and belong to the 2016 scheme of 125 questions with no negative marking and an 85:10:5 weighting, so they cannot be mapped onto the current 400-mark structure. What they do show is that Psychology sits toward the lower end of the family's cut-off range, which usually indicates a smaller and less uniformly prepared applicant pool rather than an easier paper.

Eligibility, fee and the deadline discipline

The post requires a postgraduate degree in Psychology from a recognised university and a B.Ed. from an NCTE-recognised institution, with age between 21 years as on 1 July 2026 and 62 years. Fees are 1,500 rupees for general, OBC and EWS candidates, 750 for SC and ST and 500 for persons with disabilities, due by 17 October 2026, with corrections open to 21 October. One Time Registration on the UPESSC portal is a prerequisite. Candidates holding an M.A. in Applied Psychology or a cognate title should confirm the degree nomenclature is accepted for this subject before the window closes, since a 50-post subject leaves no room to lose a cycle to a form rejection. Pay is Level 8, 47,600 to 1,51,100 rupees.

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