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The Punjab State Council of Educational Research and Training released the PSTET 2026 admit card on March 9, 2026, on the official website at pstet2025.org. The board is scheduled to conduct the PSTET 2026 exam on March 15, 2026. Previously, the PSTET 2026 application correction window activated from February 21 to 23, 2026. The PSTET application form 2026 was activated from February 6 to 20, 2026 in online mode at pstet2025.org.
The board was announced the PSTET exam date 2026 notification on the official website. Candidates must check the official PSTET notification and eligibility criteria before applying for the exam to see if they meet the necessary qualifications.
State Council of Educational Research & Training, Punjab conducts PSTET in offline mode to determine the eligibility of candidates as Teachers in classes 1 to 8. PSTET is conducted for two papers – Paper 1 and 2. Paper 1 is conducted for the primary stage for those who wish to become teachers from class 1 to 5 while paper 2 is conducted for the elementary stage for all those who wish to become teachers in classes 6 to 8.
Candidates can also take the test for both papers – paper 1 and 2 if they wish to teach in classes I to VIII. In order to apply for PSTET, candidates must have completed their graduation degree with at least 50% marks. Only those candidates qualify PSTET and secure the category wise overall cut off marks determined by the exam conducting authority.
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PSTET 2026 Highlights
| Full Exam Name | Punjab State Teachers Eligibility Test |
| Short Exam Name | PSTET |
| Conducting Body | State Council of Educational Research & Training, Punjab |
| Frequency Of Conduct | Once a year |
| Exam Level | State Level Exam |
| Languages | English +1 more |
| Mode Of Application | online |
| Application Fee | Online : 600 |
| Mode Of Exam | offline |
| Exam Duration | PS TET Paper 1:2 Hours 30 Minutes +1 more |
PSTET Important Dates
PSTET Punjab State Teachers Eligibility Test (session 2026)
In order to fill the application form of PSTET, candidates must meet the eligibility criteria determined by the exam conducting authority. PSTET eligibility criteria is determined by taking age and educational qualification of the candidates into consideration. The eligibility criteria of PSTET is determined for both the primary stage of teachers and the elementary stage.
PSTET Eligibility Criteria - Age
There is no upper age limit in order to apply for PSTET
For primary stage (for teachers in class 1 to 5)
Candidates must have passed 12th class with minimum 50% and 4 year of elementary education training.
Or
Graduation and passed or appearing in final year of two year Diploma in Elementary Education.
Or
Senior Secondary with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2-year Diploma in Education.
For elementary stage (for teachers in class 6 to 8)
Candidates must be a graduate and have passed/appearing in final year of 2 years Diploma in Elementary Education.
Or
Graduation with not less than 50% marks and passed/appearing in 1st year of B.Ed.
Or
Graduation with at least 45% marks and passed/appearing in 1st year of B.Ed as per NCTE
Or
Must have passed Senior Secondary with not less than 50% marks and passed/appearing in the final year of 4 years B.El.Ed.
Or
Senior Secondary with at least 50% and passed/appearing in the final year of 4 years B.A/B.Sc.Ed or B.A. Ed/B.Sc.Ed.
Or
Must hold a Graduation Degree with at least 50% marks and passed/appearing in 1st year of B.Ed. (Special Education)
The PSTET application form was activated from February 6 to 20, 2026 on the official website. The board activated the PSTET 2026 application correction window from February 21 to 23, 2026. Before filling the application form of PSTET, candidates must meet the eligibility criteria. PSTET application form must be filled along with the payment of the prescribed application fees. The exam conducting authority does not accept any application form without the payment of the application fee.
The table below contains the prescribed application fee of PSTET as per the category of the candidates.
Category | Application fee (for paper 1 & 2) | For both papers 1 & 2 |
General/OBC | Rs. 600 | Rs. 1200 |
SC/ST/PWD | Rs. 300 | Rs. 600 |
In order to pay the application fee, candidates can use various payment gateways like Credit card/Debit card/Master/Visa.
Steps of filling PSTET Application Form
In order to fill the application form of PSTET, candidates can follow the steps given below.
Step 1: Registration
Step 2: Uploading photo
Step 3: Payment of application fee
Step 4: Final Submission
After filling the application and final submission, candidates must take a print out of the PSTET application form and the application fee receipt.
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Punjab State Teachers Eligibility Test 2026
PSTET 2026 Exam Centers
| State | City |
| Punjab | Ludhiana Amritsar Jalandhar Patiala Mohali |
PS TET Paper 1
PSEB releases the exam pattern of PSTET. Candidates are suggested to go through the exam pattern of PSTET to get information about the mode of the exam, time duration, marks distribution, total questions, marking scheme, etc. Along with the exam pattern, candidates must also refer to the PSTET syllabus so that they can start preparing for the exam.
PSTET Exam Pattern
Paper I of PSTET will be held in offline mode.
Medium of PSTET exam will be bilingual (Hindi & English).
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) will be asked.
Paper I will contain 150 marks each.
2 hours 30 minutes will be allotted to complete paper I
PSTET Exam Pattern - Paper I (From classes I to V)
Sections | No. of Questions | Marks |
Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
Language I | 30 | 30 |
Language II | 30 | 30 |
Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
Total | 150 | 150 |
PS TET Paper 2
PSTET Exam Pattern - Paper II (From classes VI to VIII)
Sections | No. of Questions | Marks |
Child Development & Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
Language-I | 30 | 30 |
Language-II | 30 | 30 |
Mathematics and Science (For maths and Science teachers) | 60 | 60 |
Social Science (For Social Studies/Social Science Teacher) | 60 | 60 |
Total | 150 | 150 |
PSTET Exam Pattern - Paper II
Paper II of PSTET will be held in offline mode.
- Paper II will be conducted in both Hindi and English.
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) will be asked.
There will be 150 questions of 1 mark each.
2 hours 30 minutes will be allotted for paper II of PSTET.
Marking Scheme: A total of 150 questions of 1 marks each will be asked in both paper I and II. No marks will be deducted for any wrong response given by the candidates.
PSTET 2026 Syllabus
PSTET PS TET Paper 1 Syllabus
Child development (primary school child)
Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
Learning and pedagogy
Language comprehension
Pedagogy of language development
Comprehension
Pedagogy of language development
Pedagogical issues
Pedagogical issues
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 01
Child development (primary school child)
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of the development of children
- Influence of heredity and environment
- Socialization processes: Social world and children (teachers, parents, and peers)
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and critical perspectives
- Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
- Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
- Multi dimensional intelligence
- Language and thought
- Gender as a social construct: Gender roles, gender-bias, and educational practice
- Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, and religion etc
- Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning; school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspective and practice
- Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom, and for assessing learner achievement
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 02
Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment etc
- Addressing the talented, creative, specially abled learners
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 03
Learning and pedagogy
- How children think and learn; how and why children 'fail' to achieve success in school performance
- Basic processes of teaching and learning; children's strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning
- Child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator'
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's 'errors' as significant steps in the learning process
- Cognition and emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning-personal and environmental
Punjabi: Unit 01
Language comprehension
- Reading unseen passage-two passages: One prose/ drama and one poem
Punjabi: Unit 02
Pedagogy of language development
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial teaching
English: Unit 01
Comprehension
- Two unseen prose passages (discursive/ literary/ narrative/ scientific)
English: Unit 02
Pedagogy of language development
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial teaching
Mathematics: Unit 15
Pedagogical issues
- Nature of mathematics/ logical thinking; understanding children's thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning, and learning
- Place of mathematics in curriculum
- Language of mathematics
- Community mathematics
- Evaluation through formal and informal methods
- Problems of teaching
- Error analysis and related aspects of learning, and teaching
- Diagnostic and remedial teaching
Environmental studies: Unit 07
Pedagogical issues
- Concept and scope of EVS
- Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
- Environmental studies and environmental education
- Learning principles
- Scope and relation to science, and social science
- Approaches of presenting concepts
- Activities
- Experimentation/ practical work
- Discussion
- Cce
- Teaching material/ aids
- Problems of teaching
PSTET PS TET Paper 2 Syllabus
Child development (elementary school child)
Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
Learning and pedagogy
Language comprehension
Pedagogy of language development
Comprehension
Pedagogy of language development
Number system
Geometry
Pedagogical issues
Pedagogical issues
History
Geography
Social and political life
Pedagogical issues
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 01
Child development (elementary school child)
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of the development of child
- Influence of heredity and environment
- Socialization processes: Social world and children (teachers, parents, and peers)
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and critical perspectives
- Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
- Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
- Multi dimensional intelligence
- Language and thought
- Gender as a social construct: Gender roles, gender-bias, and educational practice
- Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, and religion etc
- Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning; school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspective and practice
- Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom, and for assessing learner achievement
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 02
Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment etc
- Addressing the talented, creative, specially abled learners
Child development and pedagogy: Unit 03
Learning and pedagogy
- How children think and learn; how and why children 'fail' to achieve success in school performance
- Basic processes of teaching and learning; children's strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning
- Child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator'
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's 'errors' as significant steps in the learning process
- Cognition and emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning-personal and environmental
Punjabi: Unit 01
Language comprehension
- Reading unseen passage-two passages: One prose/ drama and one poem
Punjabi: Unit 02
Pedagogy of language development
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial teaching
English: Unit 01
Comprehension
- Two unseen prose passages (discursive/ literary/ narrative/ scientific)
English: Unit 02
Pedagogy of language development
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial teaching
Mathematics: Unit 01
Number system
- Knowing our numbers
- Playing with numbers
- Whole numbers
- Negative numbers and integers
- Fractions
Mathematics: Unit 03
Geometry
- Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
- Understanding elementary shapes (2-D and 3-D)
- Symmetry: (reflection)
- Construction (using straight edge scale, protractor, compasses)
Mathematics: Unit 05
Pedagogical issues
- Nature of mathematics/ logical thinking
- Place of mathematics in curriculum
- Language of mathematics
- Community mathematics
- Evaluation
- Remedial teaching
- Problems of teaching
Science: Unit 08
Pedagogical issues
- Nature and structure of sciences
- Natural science/ aims and objectives
- Understanding and appreciating science
- Approaches/ integrated approach
- Observation/ experiment/ discovery (method of science)
- Innovation
- Text material/ aids
- Evaluation-cognitive/ psychomotor/ affective
- Problems
- Remedial teaching
Social studies/ social science: Unit 01
History
- When, where, and how
- The earliest societies
- The first farmers and herders
- The first cities
- Early states
- New ideas
- The first empire
- Contacts with distant lands
- Political developments
- Culture and science
- New kings and kingdoms
- Sultans of Delhi
- Architecture
- Creation of an empire
- Social change
- Regional cultures
- The establishment of company power
- Rural life and society
- Colonialism and tribal societies
- The revolt of 1857-58
- Women and reform
- Challenging the caste system
- The nationalist movement
- India after independence
Social studies/ social science: Unit 02
Geography
- Geography as a social study and as a science
- Planet: Earth in the solar system
- Globe
- Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
- Air
- Water
- Human environment: Settlement, transport, and communication
- Resources: types-natural and human
- Agriculture
Social studies/ social science: Unit 03
Social and political life
- Diversity
- Government
- Local government
- Making a living
- Democracy
- State government
- Understanding media
- Unpacking gender
- The constitution
- Parliamentary government
- The judiciary
- Social justice and the marginalised
Social studies/ social science: Unit 04
Pedagogical issues
- Concept and nature of social science/ social studies
- Class room processes, activities, and discourse
- Developing critical thinking
- Enquiry/ empirical evidence
- Problems of teaching social science/ social studies
- Sources-primary and secondary
- Projects work
- Evaluation
The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has issued the PSTET 2026 admit card from March 9 to 15, 2026. All the eligible candidates who fill the application form successfully can download PSTET admit card in online mode.
PSTET admit card are issued for both papers I and II. Candidates can download the admit card of PSTET by using their application number and date of birth. PSTET admit card has details like the candidate’s name, date and time of exam, venue etc.
It is important for the candidates to carry the admit card of PSTET to the exam centre along with one of the prescribed ID proofs - aadhaar card, voter card, PAN card, passport, and driving license. It must be kept in mind that no candidate is allowed to appear for the exam without the admit card.
The official answer key of PSTET is released by the examination authority after the exam is held. Candidates can go through PSTET answer key to check all the correct answers for the exam conducted. By referring to the PSTET answer key, candidates will be able to calculate their expected marks and predict their probability to qualify the exam. The answer key of PSTET are released for both papers – paper I and II for all sets of question booklet given to the candidates on the examination day.
Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) will declare the PSTET result on the official website only. The examination authority declared the result of PSTET in online mode. The result of PSTET is released in PDF format for both papers – Paper I and II.
The result of PSTET includes the application number, roll number, category, name, and marks obtained by the qualified candidates. PSTET result is declared on the basis of category wise cut off marks obtained by the candidates in the examination.
Along with the declaration of result, the exam conducting authority also releases the category-wise cutoff marks for PSTET. Cut off of PSTET is the minimum marks that the candidates must score to qualify the examination.
The result of PSTET are based on the cut off marks scored by the candidates. Candidates must score equal to or more than the cut off marks to be determined by the examination authority according to their category.
There are three factors which are taken into consideration while determining the cut off of PSTET . These factors are:
Availability of vacancies
Total number of candidates appeared in PSTET exam.
Difficulty level of the exam
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Official Website Link Click HereFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What is the PTET exam in Punjab?
A:
PSTET is a state-level examination conducted for the recruitment of teachers in primary and elementary schools across Punjab.
Q: What is the age limit for PSTET?
A:
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply for the PSTET. The examination however has no upper age restriction.
Q: What is the PSTET mode of exam?
A:
PSTET exam is conducted in offline mode.
Q: Is PSTET conducted every year?
A:
PSTET is a yearly exam conducted once every year.
Q: Is PSTET valid for lifetime?
A:
Yes, PSTET is valid for lifetime.
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- Exam Date: Usually conducted in December.
- Notification: You can check the
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