UP TGT cut off by subject and category

How the UP TGT cut off works

TGT recruitment in Uttar Pradesh fills teacher posts in government aided secondary schools, and each aspirant applies for a single subject. So you will never see one cut off for the whole exam. The commission ranks candidates of each subject on their written score, then fills the posts of that subject one category at a time, keeping boys' and girls' school lists apart.

Whoever squeezes in last sets the closing mark for that cell of the table. In the 01/2022 cycle the commission called candidates for document verification at about 1.5 times the number of posts, so the provisional list is wider than the final one, and the closing mark can rise slightly once some candidates drop out.

• Subject: every subject carries a separate vacancy count and applicant pool.
• Gender: posts in boys' and girls' schools are advertised separately.
• Category: the vertical groups (UR, EWS, OBC, SC, ST) plus horizontal groups such as ex servicemen.

UP TGT cut off for advertisement 01/2022 (male)

These are the closing marks reported from the commission's cut off notice for male candidates. The paper had 125 questions of 4 marks, so 500 is the maximum. Figures with decimals come from the commission's own marks calculation for that subject.

Some cells, such as ST in most subjects, were left blank or show no figure, usually because very few or no posts were reserved in that cell. Posts for the cycle were split as 2,052 unreserved, 949 OBC, 534 SC and only 4 ST.

Female candidates in the same cycle

The girls' school list is far smaller, since only 326 of the 3,539 posts were reported as women's posts. Fewer seats can mean either a higher or a lower closing mark, depending on how many strong women applied for that subject.

Look at Social Science: the SC figure is a little above OBC, a reminder that reserved lists do not always close lower. Each category fills against its own count of posts.

Previous cut off from the 2021 exam

The written exam held in August 2021 under the earlier board also had a 500 mark paper, so the two cycles can be compared directly. The figures below, rounded to two decimals, are for male candidates as reported with that result.

Set this next to the newer table and the jump is clear. Hindi rose from about 320 to 484 and Maths from 352 to 456 for unreserved men. With only 3,539 posts in the newer cycle, against more than 12,600 candidates placed after the 2021 result, competition for each seat became far tighter.

Why subjects close at such different marks

A gap of more than 100 marks between Science and Commerce does not mean one paper was easy and the other hard in a simple sense. Several things combine:

• Posts per subject. Subjects with few seats and many applicants, like Commerce or Sanskrit, close near the ceiling.
• Nature of the paper. Language and arts papers allow very high scores, while Science covers physics, chemistry and biology together and spreads marks out.
• Size of the applicant pool. Popular subjects draw a very large number of forms, so a single wrong bubble can move you hundreds of places.
• Reservation roster. A category with only one or two posts in a subject can close at an unusual figure.

Reading old figures against the new paper

Both cycles above used the older 125 question paper and did not deduct anything for errors. The revised scheme described on our UP TGT syllabus page has 120 questions for 360 marks, adds a general studies block and brings in negative marking. Once a cycle runs on that pattern, the closing marks will sit on a different scale and cannot be compared directly with the tables here.

A sensible way to use the old numbers is as a percentage. A closing mark of 456 out of 500 equals roughly 91 percent of the maximum, which tells you how close to perfect the toppers in that subject were. With negative marking, expect raw percentages to fall, because careless guesses will now cost marks.

Finding the official figures yourself

1. Go to the UPESSC website and open the results or notices section.
2. Find the TGT result notice for your advertisement number. Cut off marks are released subject wise, often as separate files.
3. Open your subject and read the row for your category and the column for your gender.
4. Check any later revised result. In the 01/2022 cycle, a revised result was issued for Sanskrit after the first list, and such revisions can change closing marks.

For other teaching recruitments in the state, compare with the UP PGT syllabus and the UP LT grade syllabus, which cover posts in different school types.

Turning past marks into a target

Since TGT merit is decided by the written paper alone, your score is the whole game. Take the closing mark for your subject, gender and category from the latest list, then aim about 5 percent above it in full length mocks. In high closing subjects like Hindi or Sanskrit, the margin for error is two or three questions, so careful reading beats rushing.

Under the new pattern, practise the general studies block as seriously as your subject, since 90 marks there are common to everyone and can separate candidates with similar subject scores. Our teaching exams hub lists other state and central teacher exams if you want a second option, such as the KVS TGT syllabus.