The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, administers the Telangana State Teachers Eligibility Test. It is held once a year. Notification has been issued to determine the eligibility of primary teachers for Telangana’s government’s Zila Parishad, aided unaided and private schools.

It is one of the essential requirements for obtaining a teaching position in primary and secondary schools under the Telangana State Government. Candidates holding a B.Ed. can take TSTET to gain teaching employment at the primary and secondary levels of education.

Latest Updates from TSTET

• TS TET Exam is Scheduled for June 18 – 30 , 2025.
• The admit card is available June 11 onwards.

What is TSTET?

The Telangana State Teachers Eligibility Test (TSTET) is a state-level exam conducted by the Telangana Government to determine the eligibility of candidates for teaching positions in primary (classes I-V) and upper primary (classes VI-VIII) schools.

The TSTET is divided into two levels: level 1 and level 2. Candidates who pass the level 1 test are hired as primary teachers (classes 1-5), while those who pass the level 2 exam are hired as upper primary teachers (classes 6-8) in Telangana’s private or public schools. However, candidates who qualify at both levels are eligible for positions as primary and upper primary teachers.

The validity of the Exam certificate has recently been increased from 7 years to a lifetime. Both levels of the will be taken offline. Interested applicants can research the many features of the exam.

TSTET 2025: Highlights 

Particulars	Elaboration
Exam	Telangana State Teachers Eligibility Test (TSTET)
Conducted By	Department of school education, Government of Telangana
Examination purpose	To shortlist eligible candidates for the posts at schools under the Government of Telangana
Exam Level	State level
Exam District	33
Examination frequency	Yearly
No. of papers	2
Application Mode	Online
Exam Mode	Offline
Exam Fee	INR 300
Exam Duration	Paper 1: 150 minutes Paper 2: 150 minutes
Website	Click Here
Helpdesk Number	040-23120340

TSTET 2025 Notification

The official announcement for the TS TET 2025 examination was released. The notification contains all the relevant information and dates for the new examination cycle, such as exam dates, application fees, examination pattern, syllabus, and other exam-related facts.

Click here to download the notifcation

TSTET 2025 Exam Dates

See the table below for the TS TET 2025 exam dates.

Events	Dates
TSTET Notification for 2025	April 12, 2025
TS TET 2025 Application Form	April 15, 2025
Last Date for TS TET Application Submission 2025	April 30, 2025
TS TET 2025 Admit Card	June 11, 2025
TS TET 2025 Examination Date	June 15 – June 30, 2025
TS TET 2025 Result	July 22, 2025

TSTET 2025 Eligibility Criteria

The Telangana Government Department of School Education has issued the TS TET eligibility requirements and test rules.

1. Educational Qualifications

The Government of Telangana’s Department of School Education has published certain rules on the TS TET educational requirement. Review the advice below:

• For candidates who want to teach grades I through V: Candidates for the general category must have earned at least a 50% grade point average in Intermediate or Senior Secondary school (or its equivalent). Applications are accepted from SC/ST/BC/Differently Abled categories with a minimum GPA of 45%.

• The candidates must have completed a 2-year elementary education diploma, a 4-year bachelor’s degree in elementary education, or a 2-year special education diploma.

• For candidates who want to teach grades VI through VIII: Candidates for the general category must have received at least a 50% grade in their B.A., B.Sc., or B.Com. The candidate must also have completed a B.Ed. Course.

Paper 1 Educational Qualifications 

The following is a discussion of the required education for the TSTET 2025 Paper 1 exam:

• Candidates with a 10+2 or equivalent grade point average of 50% are eligible to take this test. The required minimum score for candidates who are OBC, PwD, SC, or ST is 45%.

• Candidates must hold a two-year Special Education Diploma, a four-year Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education (B.El.Ed), a two-year Elementary Education Diploma, or both. 

• Candidates must hold a 10+2 diploma from an accredited school or an equivalent degree with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 45%. For applicants who are OBC/PwD or SC/ST, the cut-off in the 10+2 exam remains at 45%.

• Candidates should possess a four-year B.El.Ed, a two-year elementary education diploma, or a two-year diploma in special education.

Paper 2 Educational Qualifications 

The TSTET Paper 2 educational requirements vary somewhat from the TSTET Paper 1 requirements. The following information on educational requirements has been provided for the TS TET Paper 2 exam:

• Candidates must have earned a minimum cumulative grade of 50% in their B. Com, BA, or BSc degree.
• OBC/PWD/SC/ST candidates must receive at least 45% of the total marks. 
• Candidates should possess a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) specialization in Special Education.

Or,

• Candidates must have earned a B.Sc., B.Com., or B.A. with a minimum cumulative score of 50%.
• OBC, PWD, SC, or ST candidates may apply with an overall score of 40%.
• Applicants require a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) with a concentration in Special Education.

Or,

• Candidates must have earned at least 50% of their possible points in a four-year BA Ed/BScEd program.
• Candidates who are OBC, PWD, SC, or ST may apply with a minimum cumulative GPA of 45%.

Or,

• Candidates must have a degree in literature, a bachelor’s degree in an oriental language or an equivalent, a postgraduate degree in the relevant language, or a degree with language as one of the optional courses.
• Candidates must have earned a B.Ed. or a Certificate in Language Pandit Training. Only language teachers must meet this requirement

Note: Candidates taking the Bachelor of Education/Diploma in Elementary Education test in their final year are also eligible to apply for the Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test exam in 2025.

2. Age Limit

There is no upper age restriction for the TSTET 2025 application process in Telangana. For TSTET 2025 Paper 1, applicants must be older than 18.

TSTET 2025 Application Form

Application Fee

Every applicant must pay the same application fee set forth by the authorities. The INR 1000 fee must be paid to appear for one paper and INR 2000 for both papers. They can make payments via online gateways for credit cards, debit cards, UPI, net banking, and other methods. It cannot be refunded

How to Apply for TSTET?

Candidates must follow the instructions below to complete the application form 2025 online:

Step 1: Application Fee  

Candidates must first pay the TS TET 2025 application cost online via TSONLINE or a payment channel by visiting the official page.

Step 2: Fill out the Application Form

Following the instructions, candidates have to start filling out the application form 2025:

• Visit the official website.
• Select the link for the “Online Application Form.”
• If you plan to take a professional course test this year, choose “Yes” or “No.”
• Enter the Journal Number, Payment Date, and Issued Date of Birth from the Online Payment.
• Enter the verification code after checking the declaration.
• Select ‘Verify & Next’
• Complete the mandatory fields.
• Upload the scanned image of the photo and save
• ‘Paper and Qualification’ and ‘X-Class and Previous TET information’ sections’ mandated areas must be filled in.
• Submit and save the confirmation page.

A Candidate ID and an SMS will be issued to the candidates’ registered mobile phone numbers when their TSTET application has been submitted successfully.

Note: According to the official website, “Candidates are not required to send hard copy of confirmation page to unit.”

How to Edit Application Form?

The following instructions have been provided for candidates on how to make changes to the online application form:

• Check out the TSTET website.
• Select the link for application adjustment. 
• Complete the login information. 
• Make necessary changes to your online application.
• Submit the TSTET 2025 application.
• Save the application on your computer for future use.

There will be a TSTET application form on the website, https://tstet.cgg.gov.in/. The applicants must review the notification’s qualifying requirements, deadlines, and other information. The sole available application method is online. When applying for the exam, a fee of INR 300 must be paid. Solve the TSTET past examination papers.

TSTET Exam Application Requirements

Certain information must be included on the TS TET application form. Following is a list of those books:

• Candidate’s Name  
• Mobile Number
• Parents Name
• Date of Birth
• Nationality
• Category
• Email ID
• Matriculation Certification
• Scanned image of the signature and passport-sized picture
• Requirements for Scanned Documents

Note: The size of the documents should adhere to the scale needs mentioned in the application form. After successfully using it, candidates need to keep a printout of the finished application and their ID number for future recommendations.

TSTET 2025 Admit Card 

The Telangana State Department of School Education will release the TS TET Admit Card 2025. The TSTET hall ticket download link will be made available on the exam’s official website. On the official website, applicants may get their admission cards by entering their registration information and date of birth.

On exam day, candidates must bring their admission card to the testing locations. Candidates will not be permitted to sit for the exam if they do not have their admit card.

How to download the admit card?

Candidates must follow the processes listed below to download their TSTET admit card or hall ticket:

• Step 1: Visit the TSTET website at https://tstet.cgg.gov.in
• Step 2: Click on the link to download a hall ticket.
• Step 3: Carefully read the directions.
• Step 4: Input the candidate’s ID or phone number as well as their birthdate.
• Step 5: Download the TS TET hall ticket 2025.
• Step 6: Take a printout.

Once applicants have downloaded their TS TET admission cards, they should review them for errors in information such as the candidate’s name, picture, signature, etc., and submit them right once for correction to the test officials.

Admit Card Details

The TSTET admission card includes the candidate’s information and information about the exam site and timetable. Check out the information on the TS TET hall ticket shown below:

• Exam title
• Person’s name
• Parents’ name
• Registration Number
• Roll Number 
• Application category 
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Date of the Exam
• Exam shift and time
• Name and location of the examination center
• Instructions for exam day

What Should a Candidate Do if Hall Ticket cannot be Downloaded?

Candidates must get in touch with the Director, SCERT & Ex-officio Director, TS TET as soon as possible between 10:30 am and 5:00 pm on business days if they are unable to download their admission cards:

SCERT Office
Opposite LB Stadium E-Gate, Basheerbagh
Hyderabad – 500001

It should be emphasized that the candidate must have documentation, such as a printout of the application form, the reference number from the application that was filed, or the journal number from the money paid.

Documents are to be carried to the Examination Hall 

On the day of the test, applicants must bring the following documents to TSTET Exam Centre 2025

• TS TET hall ticket
• Aadhar Card, Passport, PAN Card, Voter ID card, or Driver’s Licence as Photo Identification Proof.

Guidelines for Exam Day

Candidates can review the TSTET exam day guidelines below:

• Candidates must have a printed copy of their admit card and a picture ID with them at all times.
• Candidates must be at the designated reporting location at least 15 minutes early.
• Candidates must attach a recent, colored passport-size picture to the area provided on their admission card.
• On the photocopy of the ID evidence, candidates must include their name, roll number, registration number, and signature.
• The test center does not allow the use of any stationery, including textual materials (printed or handwritten), bits of paper, geometry/pencil boxes, plastic pouches, writing pads, calculators, scales, log tables, electronic pens/scanners, etc.

TSTET 2025 Exam Pattern

The Telangana Department of School Education has established the TS TET Exam Pattern 2025. Two papers—Paper 1 and Paper 2—make up the TS TET exam. Candidates who wish to teach grades 1 through 5 should take the TS TET Paper 1, while those who want to teach grades 6 through 8 should take Paper 2.

Candidates who want to teach in the first through eighth grades must show up for both examinations (Paper 1 and Paper 2). For Paper 1 and Paper 2, the TS TET test pattern 2025 is different. The most recent TS TET exam pattern 2025 for Paper 1 and Paper 2 in detail, along with the marking system, is provided below for the convenience of applicants. Review the exam format.

Note: There will be multilingual question papers for TS TET. This indicates that the English language would follow the Language-I the applicants choose for the exam. The question paper will first be in Telugu, then in Sanskrit (Devanagari Script) for applicants who choose Sanskrit.

The TS TET exam schedule for Papers 1 and 2 is shown below:

Paper 1 of the TSTET Exam Pattern 2025

According to the Paper 1 TSTET test schedule, applicants will have 2 hours and 30 minutes to answer 150 multiple-choice questions from five parts on the question paper. View the complete exam schedule below.

Section	Number of Question	Total Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy	30	30
Language I (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati)	30	30
Language II (English)	30	30
Mathematics	30	30
Environmental Studies	30	30
Total	150	150

Paper 2 of the TSTET Exam Pattern 2025

The TSTET test format for Paper 2 calls for students to finish 150 multiple-choice questions from four parts in a total of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Section	Number of Question	Total Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy	30	30
Language I (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati)	30	30
Language II (English)	30	30
Mathematics and Science or Social Studies/Social Science	60	60
Total	150	150

TSTET 2025 Syllabus

The Department of School Education, Telangana’s government, has established the TSTET syllabus for use in TS TET. For Papers 1 and 2, the syllabus is different. Topics from five areas are included in the TS TET Paper 1 syllabus:

• Child Development and Pedagogy
• Language I 
• Language II
• Mathematics
• Environmental Studies 

The TSTET Paper 2 covers material from the following four sections:

• Child Development and Pedagogy
• Language I
• Language II
• Science and mathematics, or social studies and social sciences

TSTET 2025 Paper 1 and Paper 2 Syllabus

The syllabus for the two examinations is varied, just like the requirements for eligibility and the format of the test. Below is a list of each subject’s themes.

TSTET Syllabus 2025: Syllabus for Paper 1

The information for the TSTET 2025 Paper 1 (Class I to V) syllabus is provided below:

Child Development and Pedagogy	Language II: English	Mathematics	Environmental Studies
Development, Maturation, and Growth	Tenses	Number System	My Family
Principles of development and its educational implications	Parts of Speech	Fractions	Play and Work
Factors influencing Development	Articles and Prepositions	Arithmetic	Animals and Plants
Inter-relationships and Dimensions of Development	Types of Sentences	Geometry	Our Food
Understanding Development	Indirect and Direct Speech	Measurements	Shelter
Individual Differences	Degrees of Comparison	Data Applications	Air
Personality Development	Questions tags and question	Algebra.	Energy
Behavioural Problems, Adjustment, Defence Mechanism, Mental Health	Passive and active voice		Water
Approaches and Methods of Child Development	Comprehension		Our Body
Developmental Hazards and tasks.	Use of Phrases		Mapping
	Composition		Culture and History of India
	Meaning of idiomatic expressions		Our country (India)
	Vocabulary		Our state (Telangana)
	A sequence of the sentence in a given paragraph		Indian constitution
	Sentence Correction		Security
	Error Identification

How to Download the Syllabus for TSTET 2025?

The TSTET syllabus is made available by the authorities on the official website. The steps to download it are described in the sentences that follow:

• Go to the official website at www.tstet.cgg.gov.in.
• Visit the student areas at the top of the webpage next.
• Select “Syllabus for Paper 1” from the menu.
• Select “Syllabus for Paper 2” from the menu.
• A pdf of the TSTET syllabus will display on the screen.
• The TSTET syllabus PDF is also available for download for candidates, who can store it for future reference.

• There are 2 papers in the TSTET exam. Paper, I are actually for applicants who would like to apply for a teaching post within the part that is a primary standard I to V) and Paper II for candidates who wish to make an application for training jobs in the additional section (standard VI to VIII). 
• Those applicants who would like to apply for both main and areas which are secondary qualify in both papers I, and report II. 
• For candidates who choose Sanskrit as their Language I, the relevant concern paper is likely to be in Telugu and Sanskrit. 
• If this is your first language, it’s encouraged that you study it as either a medium of study or a language for the first semester at least. College students are encouraged to learn another language as a medium of study or language initially at least as much as course 10. College students are encouraged to learn another language as a medium of study or language initially at least as much as course 10.

TSTET 2025 Exam Results

How to Download the Result?

Candidates can check their results by entering their registration number and password on the TSTET official website. The steps for downloading the results from the official portal have been provided below: 

• Step 1: Go to the Official Website 
• Step 2: Enter the roll number and date of birth 
• Step 3: Click on the search button 
• Step 4: If the candidate has qualified for the examination, then the candidate’s name will be appearing there along with the roll number in the form of a PDF list.

Answer Key

The candidate will receive the TSTET response key after they perform the test on the official website. Answer Key will contain the answers to the question asked at the Exam on topics such as English, Telugu, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences.

Response Key 

The Telangana Teacher Eligibility Test 2021 is uploaded answer key on their official site for the division of class knowledge, Government of Telangana internet site that is official one week regarding the exam is conducted. The TS TET Solution Key 2021 is given to paper 1 and paper 2 and gives a standard concept to your examinees just how much they can secure in the exam.

Telangana TET Final Key 2021 offers the correct responses for all your questions asked in the test that is written. You can easily estimate markings based on the responses which are supplied to the test and the correct answers into the TS TET Exam 2021 Answer Key. 

Exam Qualifying Marks

The category-wise Cut Off Marks are pointed out below. Apply only candidates who have the minimum that is pre-fixed markings can clear the written assessment. Please check the table below according to the 2023 qualifying cut-off marks.

Category	Marks out of 150	Qualifying Percentage
General	90	60% of Marks
OBC	75	50% of Markings
SC/ ST/ PWD	60	40% of Markings

TSTET 2025 Answer Key

After completing the TSTET exam, the answer key will be made available. After the tentative answer key is released, the objection link will also be enabled along with the answer key. The processes outlined in the article allow the candidates to raise complaints.

The official result will be made public after reviewing the candidates’ complaints over the recently made tentative answer key. After the link on the official website has been activated, the URL for the TSTET Answer Key will be provided.

How can I download the TSTET Answer Key?

To get the TSTET to answer key 2025, candidates must follow the instructions below:

• Step 1: Go to the TSTET’s official website.
• Step 2: Select the ‘TSTET Final Key’ link.
• Step 3: Select the appropriate Paper 1 or Paper 2 answer key PDF (Mathematics & Science or Social Studies).
• Step 4: Closely examine the solutions.
• Step 5: Save the TSTET answer key in PDF format after downloading it.

How to Challenge the Answer Key?

Candidates can contest the TSTET answer key 2025 by doing the following actions:

• Visit the official website.
• Select the ‘Objections on Initial Key’ link.
• Enter the necessary information.
• Submit the objections
• Save the confirmation page.

TSTET 2025 Salary and Benefits

The basic teacher pay rate in Telangana government schools ranges from 20,000 – 70,000 per month, according to a 2015 review. This amount includes HRA + DA basic allowance + and other grants. Are not dependent on retired employees.

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