SSB TGT Syllabus and Exam Pattern for Odisha

How SSB recruits Trained Graduate Teachers

SSB Odisha fills TGT vacancies in government high schools (and in some cycles, posts in aided schools) through a single written test. There is no interview in recent cycles. Candidates are ranked by their written marks within each post and category, and those in the zone of selection are called for document verification before appointment.

Do not confuse this with the TGT drive that the Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission runs for schools under other departments. That exam has its own two-paper pattern and syllabus, explained with the OSSSC syllabus.

SSB TGT exam pattern

The pedagogy block is the smaller share of the paper, and the subject block carries most of the marks. The annexure to each advertisement shows the exact split for your post.

Pedagogy and evaluation, common to every post

• Learning as a process and as an outcome; readiness, maturation and motivation
• Humanistic and constructivist views of learning, including the ideas of Rogers, Piaget and Vygotsky
• Teacher centred, learner centred and learning centred classrooms
• Managing diversity: teaching learning material, audio visual aids, group and self learning, inclusive education
• Assessment and evaluation: continuous and comprehensive evaluation, formative, summative and diagnostic assessment, assessment for and as learning
• Tools and test construction: projects, observation, self and peer assessment, blueprints, item writing, standardised and teacher made tests

PET candidates get a version focused on teaching methods in physical education (lecture, demonstration, whole and part methods) and on planning and evaluating school sports and health education.

Subject portions by stream

TGT Arts

History (early, medieval and colonial India, the freedom struggle, the world wars), political science (the Constitution, Union and state government), geography and economics, broadly at graduation level with a school teaching angle.

TGT Science PCM

Physics (motion, gravitation, sound, light, electricity and magnetism), chemistry (atomic structure, bonding, reactions, metals, hydrocarbons) and mathematics (sets and functions, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, probability, mensuration).

TGT Science CBZ

Chemistry along with botany and zoology: cell biology, physiology of plants and animals, heredity, ecology and classification.

Language posts

Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu papers test grammar, literature, comprehension and the teaching of the language.

PET

Principles and history of physical education, anatomy and physiology, sports psychology, training and coaching, and administration of school sport.

The topic lists above are summarised from past syllabus annexures. Treat the annexure of your own advertisement as the final word, since chapters are added or dropped.

Eligibility in brief

• Arts: graduation in arts or commerce with the required school subjects, 50% (45% for reserved categories), with a B.Ed, or an integrated BA B.Ed taken as a four-year programme
• PCM and CBZ: BSc or engineering graduation with the relevant subjects, same percentage rule, plus B.Ed or integrated BSc B.Ed
• Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu: graduation or Shastri, Alim or Fazil level qualification in the language with the matching teacher training
• PET: Plus 2 with C.P.Ed, D.P.Ed, B.P.Ed or M.P.Ed
• OSSTET: a pass in the Odisha Secondary School Teacher Eligibility Test for the relevant category, which the Odisha secondary board conducts
• Odia: you must know Odia, usually shown by having passed it as a subject
• Age: 21 to 38 years, with 5 years relaxation for SC, ST, SEBC, women and ex-servicemen and 10 years for persons with disabilities

If you still have to clear the eligibility test, the OSSTET syllabus page covers it.

Using the marking scheme to your advantage

Each miss takes away one third of the value of a hit. Three wild guesses that all miss wipe out one correct answer, so risk an answer on a doubtful SSB question only after striking off a pair of options. Because the subject block carries most of the marks, your graduation subjects decide the merit list; the pedagogy block is where well prepared candidates make sure of easy marks rather than where ranks are won.

Covering the SSB TGT syllabus in about three months

1. Weeks 1 to 4: list every topic in your stream annexure and revise it from Class 9 to 12 textbooks of the Odisha board and NCERT, then your graduation notes.
2. Weeks 5 to 7: pedagogy from your B.Ed notes: learning theories, CCE and test construction. Twenty objective questions a day.
3. Weeks 8 to 10: topic tests in your subject, timed, followed by a log of every wrong answer.
4. Weeks 11 to 12: full 100-question tests, past SSB papers where available, and a final round on the weakest two topics.

Study material that works

Your B.Ed textbooks cover the pedagogy block well, and the school textbooks of your subject are the foundation of the subject block, because the paper tests content you will teach in Classes 9 and 10. Graduation level reference books help with the harder questions. For comparison with central and other state teacher exams, see the KVS TGT syllabus, the DSSSB TGT syllabus or browse every state and central option on the teaching exams page.