DSSSB TGT syllabus and exam pattern for every subject

How the TGT selection works

Trained graduate teacher hiring skips the usual multi stage route. DSSSB places TGT posts under its one tier technical or teaching scheme, so a single online test decides your rank, after which the Board checks certificates of shortlisted people. Every item is shown bilingually, apart from the Hindi and English parts, which naturally use their own language.

Merit is drawn from your combined score in Section A and Section B. Under the current advertisement the qualifying floor is checked against Section B alone, so your subject score has to clear the bar first, and then every mark in Section A pushes you up the list. For the Board's other posts and tiers, read the DSSSB syllabus overview.

DSSSB TGT exam pattern table

Right answers add 1. Every incorrect choice takes away 0.25, while leaving an item blank leaves your score untouched. There is no descriptive part in the TGT paper.

Section A topics in the DSSSB syllabus TGT candidates share

All TGT candidates, whatever their subject, write an identical Section A. Twenty questions per part means no single topic can be ignored, yet none deserves weeks on its own.

• General awareness: news of the past year, India's past and its culture, geography, polity, economy, general science, sports and awards, plus facts about Delhi.
• Reasoning: analogies, picking the misfit, completing a sequence, coding, relation puzzles, finding directions, Venn diagrams, puzzles and non verbal figures.
• Arithmetic: numbers and their properties, BODMAS simplification, percentages, ratios, averages, age sums, profit, loss and discount, interest, pipes and workers, trains and boats, mensuration and data interpretation.
• Hindi: समास, संधि, प्रत्यय, उपसर्ग, विलोम शब्द, पर्यायवाची शब्द, मुहावरे and वाक्य शुद्धि, with one short गद्यांश to read.
• English: a passage with questions, spotting errors, improving a sentence, cloze style blanks, meanings and opposite words, idioms, single word replacements and correct spellings.

Section B: what the subject paper covers

The advertisement does not print a chapter list for Section B. It only says the section tests the subject concerned, including questions on teaching methodology from the B.Ed. course. In practice this means the content of your graduation subject, framed at the level you would teach in classes 6 to 10, plus pedagogy.

• Mathematics: algebra, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, statistics and probability, calculus basics and number theory.
• Social Science: Indian and world history, physical and human geography, Indian polity, economics and the social science content of NCERT classes 6 to 10.
• Natural Science: physics, chemistry and biology concepts from the school science books, extended to undergraduate depth.
• Sanskrit, Urdu and Punjabi: grammar, literature and the history of that language's writing.

For all subjects, the teaching part draws on learning theories, lesson planning, evaluation, inclusive classrooms and methods of teaching your subject.

DSSSB TGT English syllabus

Since the Board gives no separate list, aspirants for the English post build their plan around three areas that past papers have touched:

• Grammar and usage: tenses, voice, narration, determiners, prepositions, clauses, subject verb agreement, transformation of sentences and error correction.
• Literature: major British, American and Indian writing in English, literary periods and movements, famous authors and their works, poetic devices and literary terms.
• Teaching English: methods such as the direct, structural and communicative approaches, the four language skills, remedial teaching and assessment of language learning.

Remember that the general English part of Section A carries another 20 marks, so your grammar work pays twice.

DSSSB TGT Hindi syllabus

Candidates for the Hindi post usually cover the following, again because the official notice only says the subject concerned:

• Grammar: वर्ण, संधि, समास, कारक, काल, वाच्य, अलंकार, रस, छंद and शब्द शुद्धि.
• History of Hindi literature: आदिकाल, भक्तिकाल, रीतिकाल and आधुनिक काल, with key poets, writers and their works.
• Prose and poetry forms: कहानी, उपन्यास, नाटक, निबंध and the major movements of modern Hindi poetry.
• Teaching Hindi: methods of teaching language, the four language skills, and evaluation.

Your degree, or master's degree, in Hindi with the minimum marks the advertisement asks for is what makes you eligible, so the university syllabus you studied is the best map for this section.

Splitting a 12 week plan by marks

Because Section B alone decides whether you qualify, give it roughly 60 percent of your hours, but never let Section A slide, since tied candidates are separated by it.

1. Weeks 1 to 4: your subject's core content from graduation notes and NCERT books of classes 6 to 10; and a pedagogy chapter on alternate days.
2. Weeks 5 to 8: deeper subject topics, literature or theory, plus daily arithmetic and reasoning sets of 20 questions in 20 minutes.
3. Weeks 9 and 10: Hindi and English grammar drills and Delhi related general awareness.
4. Weeks 11 and 12: complete timed mocks of the whole paper with the quarter mark penalty applied.

Eligibility snapshot for TGT posts

In the latest advertisement, the age limit is not more than 30 years on the closing date, with the usual relaxation for instance five extra years for SC and ST applicants, three for OBC and a longer allowance for PwBD. You need a bachelor's degree, a master's degree or an integrated four year B.A. B.Ed. style course in the subject concerned carrying the minimum percentage that the post demands, a B.Ed., and a pass in Paper II of the CTET. The CTET paper you cleared overlaps a lot with the pedagogy questions here, so revisit the CTET paper 2 syllabus while you study.

Books and the DSSSB TGT syllabus in Hindi

Start with NCERT textbooks of classes 6 to 10 for your subject, then your graduation texts and B.Ed. notes for methodology. For Section A, a standard school level arithmetic book, a grammar book in each language and a monthly current affairs digest are enough.

डीएसएसएसबी टीजीटी परीक्षा कंप्यूटर पर होने वाली एक ही परीक्षा है। कुल 200 अंकों के सवाल दो घंटे के भीतर करने होते हैं। खंड ए में सामान्य जागरूकता, तर्कशक्ति, अंकगणित, हिंदी और अंग्रेज़ी के 20-20 सवाल रहते हैं। खंड बी के 100 सवाल आपके पढ़ाने वाले विषय और बी.एड. की शिक्षण विधियों पर आधारित होते हैं। गलत जवाब पर एक चौथाई अंक घटता है। न्यूनतम योग्यता अंक खंड बी पर लागू होते हैं।

If you also want primary or senior posts, compare this page with the DSSSB PRT syllabus and the KVS TGT syllabus, or browse all teaching exams.