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The much-awaited relief news has emerged for lakhs of trained youth who dream of becoming teachers in basic and secondary schools of Uttar Pradesh. Prayagraj-based Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) has intensified its internal preparations for the conduct of Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UP TET). According to official sources of the Commission, a concrete outline has been prepared to conduct the UP TET examination in the last week of February 2027. As soon as the buzz of conducting this long pending examination has started, new hope has arisen among the students of BTC (D.El.Ed), B.Ed and Education. For a long time, more than 15 lakh candidates who were waiting for the new teacher recruitment and eligibility test were waiting for the notification of this examination.
This time, the Uttar Pradesh government and the Education Commission have not limited their plans to conducting only one examination, but have drafted a revolutionary change on the lines of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) model of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Under the new proposal, now it is being planned to organize UP TET twice a year at regular intervals. Its main objective is that new candidates completing degree or diploma do not have to wait for long years to obtain the eligibility certificate. While holding examinations twice a year will give the youth an opportunity to improve their scoring and get eligibility on time, the Basic and Secondary Education Councils will also be able to provide adequate qualified teachers against the vacant posts.
Earlier UP TET was conducted by the Examination Regulatory Authority (ERA), Uttar Pradesh, but the unified ‘Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission’ (UPESSC) constituted by the state government for all levels of teachers and eligibility tests is now commanding the entire process. The Commission is working on new security protocols to make its first major teacher eligibility test completely transparent, technology-enabled and cheating-free. Only government, aided and high quality educational institutions will be given preference in the selection of examination centres. Apart from this, a blueprint has been drawn to make three-tier barcoding, biometric and face recognition verification of OMR sheets and live CCTV webcasting mandatory at all centers so that there is no scope for irregularities like paper leaks seen earlier.
UP TET will be conducted at two levels in two different sessions. Paper-1 will be conducted for the primary level (classes 1 to 5) and Paper-2 for the upper primary level (classes 6 to 8). In each question paper, 150 multiple choice questions of 150 marks will be asked, to solve which the candidates will be given 2 hours 30 minutes. There will be no provision of any kind of negative marking in this examination. The qualifying marks will be minimum 60% (90 marks) for general category candidates and minimum 55% (82 marks) for OBC, SC, ST and disabled category candidates. It is worth noting that as per the new guidelines of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE), the validity of the TET certificate has now been made lifelong, due to which the candidates who have passed the examination once will have to appear in the examination again only to improve their marks.
According to the action plan of the Commission, the official advertisement will be issued by the last week of December 2026 or the first week of January 2027 to conduct the written examination at the end of February 2027. With the release of the notification, the online application window will be opened on the official web portal of the Commission, which will remain active for about 25 days. Admit cards of the candidates will be issued 10 days before the examination. Commission officials say that for the smooth conduct of the examination, preliminary meetings of administrative coordination with District Magistrates and Police Captains will be started soon, so that the way can be paved for the upcoming teacher recruitment examinations by releasing the results on time as per the fixed calendar.