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Where the current Phase XIV cycle stands, how the three qualification levels work and why post-specific eligibility, not the common paper, decides what you can apply for

Alerts and Updates for SSC Selection Post (Phase Examination)

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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 22 September 2026.</strong> The qualification rules are stable. The STET 2026 self-declaration deadline is genuinely undefined because the exam pattern is unresolved, and the number of permitted attempts is disputed — both are flagged below.</p></div>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">A B.Ed holder cannot apply for Classes 1-5. Not with a bridge course, not with anything.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> Several pages still list B.Ed among the qualifications for primary teaching, and many more imply the six-month bridge course restores eligibility.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">In <em>Devesh Sharma v. Union of India</em> (11 August 2023) the Supreme Court struck down the NCTE notification of 28 June 2018 that had permitted it, calling it "arbitrary, unreasonable and has no nexus" with the Right to Education Act. The bridge course protects people <strong>already appointed</strong> before that judgment. NCTE states in terms that it is "for teachers to protect their existing employment only and it will not be valid for those teachers seeking subsequent employment as primary teachers." A B.Ed holder’s lowest entry point in TRE 4.0 is Classes 6-8.</p></div>

Eligibility is where most BPSC TRE applications go wrong, and it goes wrong in a predictable way: candidates assume the qualifying test they hold covers the level they want. It usually does not. This page sets out which test counts where, which degrees are accepted at each level, and the two rules that are genuinely disputed — so you know where to be careful rather than being told a confident answer that might be wrong.

If you read nothing else here, read this table. CTET and BTET stop dead at Class 8. STET begins at Class 9. They do not overlap.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">The mistakes we found on live pages</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">One major site assigns <strong>STET Paper II to Classes 9-10 and 11-12 jointly</strong>. It does not — Paper I is for Classes 9-10, Paper II for Classes 11-12.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Another writes "<strong>CTET Paper 1 or STET Paper 1</strong>" for primary. STET does not qualify anyone for primary teaching at any level.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">The practical consequence: a candidate with STET Paper I who applies for Classes 1-5, or one with CTET Paper II who applies for Classes 9-10, is rejected at verification having paid the fee and prepared for months.</li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Any one of these routes</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">10+2 with at least <strong>50%</strong> plus a 2-year <strong>D.El.Ed</strong></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">10+2 with at least <strong>45%</strong> plus a 2-year D.El.Ed taken under the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations, <strong>2002</strong></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">10+2 with at least 50% plus a 4-year <strong>B.El.Ed</strong></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Graduation in any stream plus a 2-year <strong>D.El.Ed</strong></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Not accepted:</strong> B.Ed, and B.Ed with the six-month bridge course</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Note carefully: the 45% figure is NOT a caste-category relaxation. It attaches to the NCTE regulation vintage under which the D.El.Ed was taken. Every competitor page we checked prints "45%" bare, which invites candidates to assume it is a category concession available to them.</p></div>

Graduation plus a teaching qualification — B.Ed or D.El.Ed — with CTET or BTET Paper II. This is the lowest level a B.Ed holder can enter.

Graduation in the relevant subject plus B.Ed, with Bihar STET Paper I.

Classes 11-12 (senior secondary) — 16,101 posts

A post-graduate degree in the subject applied for, plus B.Ed, with Bihar STET Paper II. This is where half of all TRE 4.0 posts are, and the subject-to-degree mapping matters: your post-graduate subject must match the post.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Unresolved: What is the age cut-off date?</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>1 August 2026</strong> — the majority position across sources.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>1 August 2024</strong> — Prepp.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>1 August 2023</strong> — PrepELearn.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Prepp contradicts itself on a single page, computing the minimum age as of 2026 and the maximum as of 2024.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;line-height:1.6;color:#8a5300"><strong>Our position:</strong> If you are within about two years of a limit, this is worth checking against the advertisement before you rely on it — a two-year difference in the reference date decides eligibility outright for a meaningful number of candidates.</p></div>

Two further age figures are single-source and should be treated cautiously: a maximum of 47 for persons with disability, reported by one publisher; and a ceiling of 60 for serving contractual and niyojit teachers, reported by one publisher, which would be an unusually large concession and comes with no definition of who counts as contractual.

Candidates who sat STET 2026 but do not yet have a result are reportedly permitted to apply for Classes 9-10 and 11-12 through a prescribed self-declaration, producing their admit card, result and original documents at verification. Failing to qualify means no admit card for TRE 4.0.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Unresolved: By when must a self-declaring candidate actually qualify?</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">One source says "before the Prelims" — but the 27 August announcement scrapped the preliminary stage, and BPSC has issued <strong>no corrigendum</strong>, so that deadline may no longer refer to anything.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">There is a further collision: the general rule is that all certificates must be held by the last date of application, and that an extension of the deadline does not extend it. The self-declaration must be a carve-out from that rule, but its scope is stated nowhere.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;line-height:1.6;color:#8a5300"><strong>Our position:</strong> This is genuinely unresolved and consequential. If you are relying on the self-declaration route, watch the notices page rather than any coaching site — and be aware that the deadline may be defined by reference to a stage that no longer exists.</p></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Unresolved: How many times can you sit BPSC TRE?</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Five</strong> — Prepp, citing the Bihar State Vidyalaya Adhyapak Rules 2024.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Three</strong> — Testbook.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>Three, at primary level only</strong> — PrepELearn.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><strong>No limit at all</strong> — Physics Wallah.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;line-height:1.6;color:#8a5300"><strong>Our position:</strong> Four publishers, three incompatible answers, so we give no number anywhere on this page. This is the single highest-value thing to check in the advertisement itself.</p></div>

No source we reviewed reports any academic or qualifying-test relaxation for serving niyojit or Vishisht Shikshak candidates. We state that as an absence of evidence rather than as a rule — it is not the same as having found a document confirming there is none.

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://indiankanoon.org/doc/50488966/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Devesh Sharma v. Union of India, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 985 (11 Aug 2023)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://ncte.gov.in/website/PDF/NCTE_Bridge_Course_Clarification.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">NCTE — six-month bridge course protects existing employment only</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/BPSC_content/Notices/Advertisement-142026-TRE-4.0_BPSC-20260818-jwk5si.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">BPSC Advertisement 14/2026 (TRE 4.0), 18 Aug 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.adda247.com/teaching-jobs-exam/bpsc-tre-4-0-notification-2026-out/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Adda247 — BPSC TRE 4.0 notification</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.pw.live/teaching/exams/bpsc-tre-4-0-syllabus" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Physics Wallah — BPSC TRE 4.0 syllabus and pattern</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a BPSC or Bihar Government document. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site's transcription, which we could not check against the original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking a winner.</p></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">The rest of the BPSC TRE series</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-4-exam-pattern-pt-mains-or-single-phase" style="color:#255a45">TRE 4.0 exam pattern — one exam or two, and what to prepare either way</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-cut-off-marks-all-years-subject-category" style="color:#255a45">TRE cut-off marks, every round — by level, subject and category</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-salary-calculator-in-hand" style="color:#255a45">TRE in-hand salary calculator — Bihar HRA slabs, NPS and the real number</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-4-eligibility-checker" style="color:#255a45">Eligibility checker — answer six questions, see which levels you can apply for</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-4-domicile-reservation-explained" style="color:#255a45">Domicile and reservation — the 85% policy, and what a non-Bihar candidate can apply for</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-previous-year-papers-answer-key-objection" style="color:#255a45">Previous year papers, answer keys and how to file an objection that works</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/bpsc-tre-4-puri-jankari-hindi" style="color:#255a45">बीपीएससी TRE 4.0 — पूरी जानकारी हिंदी में</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Every page in this series carries a "checked on" date and stamps each source as official or reported. If you find something here that is wrong, it is worth telling us — these pages are rebuilt from one file, so a correction fixes it everywhere at once.</p></div>

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