Over 27,700 Telangana govt teachers fail Teacher Eligibility Test
More than 27,700 in-service teachers failed the TG TET January 2026 exam, with poor results in Paper II. Teachers blame the syllabus and question pattern. A Supreme Court deadline now requires most teachers to clear TET within two years.
Hyderabad: They have spent at least 10 years teaching the schoolchildren, but failed to qualify the Teacher Eligibility Test (TG TET). This is the academic scenario of thousands of in-service teachers of the government and local body schools in the State who recently appeared for the Telangana TET.
The TG TET January 2026 results declared by the School Education department on Tuesday saw more than 27,700 in-service teachers failing to make the cut. The statistics released by the department showed that 65,605 in-service teachers appeared and 37,893 qualified, translating the qualifying percentage to 57.76.
More than 50 per cent of the in-service are unsuccessful in Paper-II, conducted to determine eligibility to teach Classes VI to VIII. They recorded a qualifying percentage of 49.13 in Paper-II (Mathematics and Sciences), while 40.72 per cent failed to clear the Paper-II with Social Studies subject.
However, the Paper-I conducted to determine teaching eligibility for Classes I to V saw 77.04 per cent of in-service teachers qualifying.
One of the main reasons for such a poor success rate in Paper-II is attributed to the syllabus and question paper pattern. Language teachers must also choose from mathematics and science, or social studies subjects.
In addition, subject teachers, such as biological science teachers, have to attempt questions from mathematics, physical science and biological science. While questions in subjects are based on topics of Classes VI to VIII, the difficulty standard ranged up to Class XII.
With fewer questions from their own subject or language, this question paper pattern and syllabus resulted in a poor qualifying rate, said an in-service teacher.
“Modern mathematics has replaced the composite mathematics, which the teacher had studied. How will a language or biology teacher answer modern mathematics? The teachers must be tested only in their subject and language skills. We have been asking the government to change this pattern of the examination,” said a teachers’ union leader.
Overall, 1,95,181 candidates, including in-service teachers, appeared and 1,00,270 (51.37 per cent) qualified.
Meanwhile, time is ticking for in-service teachers to acquire the TET qualification, as last year the Supreme Court verdict mandated all teachers, except those with less than five years of service, clear the TET within two years to retain their jobs. Teachers with less than five years of service must pass the TET to become eligible for promotion.
With the State government holding the TG TET twice in a year, the in-service teachers have three more chances till 2027 to qualify for the test. The teachers’ associations have been demanding the Central government to intervene and exempt in-service teachers from the TET qualification.
