AP DSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2026 - Overview
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
| Conducting Body | Department of School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh (syllabus issued by SCERT, Andhra Pradesh) |
| Exam Name | Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) 2026 – DSC 2026 |
| Posts | School Assistant, SGT, TGT, PGT, Principal, Physical Education posts (PET and School Assistant PE) |
| Total Vacancies | 2,721 posts as per the AP DSC 2026 notification |
| Mode of Exam | Online |
| Type of Questions | Objective type |
| Total Marks | SGT, School Assistant, TGT Paper II: 80 marks PGT, Principal, PET and School Assistant (PE): 100 marks |
| Negative Marking | No |
| Duration | 2 hours 30 minutes or 3 hours (post-wise duration not specified in the official syllabus) |
| Number of Questions | Not specified in the official syllabus |
| Selection Process | Written test (TRT) with AP TET weightage for applicable posts, Personal Interview (PI) / Document Verification, Final Merit List |
| Official Website | tet2dsc.apcfss.in |
AP DSC Selection Process 2026
| Post | Written Test | AP TET Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| School Assistant (Languages and Non-Language) | 80 marks | 20 marks (20%) |
| Secondary Grade Teacher (SGT) | 80 marks | 20 marks (20%) |
| School Assistant (PE) and Physical Education Teacher (PET) | 100 marks | - |
| TGT | 80 marks | - |
| PGT | 100 marks | - |
- Online written test (TRT): an objective-type test of 80 or 100 marks depending on the post.
- Final Merit List: prepared from the total marks as per the weightage given below.
AP DSC Marks Distribution for SGT, School Assistant, TGT, PGT and Principal
| Post | GK & Current Affairs | Perspectives in Education | Educational Psychology | Content | Methodology | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGT | 8 | 4 | 8 | 40 | 20 | 80 |
| School Assistant | 10 | 5 | 5 | 40 | 20 | 80 |
| TGT (Paper II) | 10 | 5 | 5 | 40 | 20 | 80 |
| PGT (Paper II) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 20 | 100 |
| Principal (Paper II) | 15 | 15 | 20 | 35 (Part IV) | 15 (Teaching Methodology) | 100 |
AP DSC Exam Pattern for SGT Special Education and Physical Education Posts
| Post | Section | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| SGT Special Education | GK & Current Affairs | 8 |
| SGT Special Education | Perspectives in Special Education and Inclusive Education | 4 |
| SGT Special Education | Psychology with reference to Children With Special Needs (CWSN) | 8 |
| SGT Special Education | Category of Disability Specialization | 20 |
| SGT Special Education | Content and Methodologies | 40 (25 + 15) |
| Total (SGT Special Education) | 80 | |
| PET / School Assistant (PE/PD) | GK & Current Affairs | 5 |
| PET / School Assistant (PE/PD) | Perspectives in Education | 5 |
| PET / School Assistant (PE/PD) | Physical Education Pedagogy | 20 |
| PET / School Assistant (PE/PD) | Content | 70 |
| Total (PET / School Assistant PE/PD) | 100 |
2. Perspectives in Education
- Education in ancient India (Pre-Vedic and Post-Vedic periods) and medieval education
- Pre-Independence era: Woods Despatch (1854), Hunter Commission (1882), Hartog Committee (1929), Sargent Committee (1944)
- Need and interventions for empowerment, professional code of conduct, teacher motivation
- Maintenance of records and registers in schools
- Democracy and education; equality, equity and quality in education; equality of educational opportunities
- Economics of education, education as human capital, human resource development, literacy (Saakshar Bharat Mission)
- Population education, gender equality and empowerment of women, urbanization and migration, life skills
- Adolescence education, value education (moral values and professional ethics), health and physical education
- Inclusive education and classroom management in inclusive education
- Role of education in view of liberalization, privatization and globalization
- Incentives and special provisions: Mid-Day Meals, free books, scholarships, awards, welfare hostels, transportation
- Current trends in education
- Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
- Right to Information Act, 2005
- Child rights and human rights
- National Education Policy 2020
4. SGT – Content and Methodology
- Content: 8 marks
- Methodology: 4 marks, covering language teaching at the primary level
- Content: Numbers, Arithmetic, Geometry, Data Handling, Algebra and Mensuration
6. School Assistant – English
- Novels: Animal Farm (Orwell), Swami and Friends (R.K. Narayan)
- Drama: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
- Short stories: The Bet (Chekhov), Engine Trouble (R.K. Narayan), After Twenty Years (O. Henry), The Thief (Ruskin Bond)
- Synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms, spelling, one-word substitutes
- Helping verbs, modal auxiliaries, ordinary verbs, articles, prepositions, clauses, sentence structures
- Degrees of comparison, language functions, question tags, types of sentences, sentence improvement
- Parts of speech, linkers, transformation of sentences, common errors
- Punctuation and capitalization
- Dictionary skills; phonetics, stress and intonation; general prose comprehension
- Aspects of language, objectives of teaching English, development of language skills
- Approaches, methods and techniques including remedial teaching
- Teaching of structures, vocabulary and grammar; teaching-learning materials; lesson planning
- Curriculum and textbooks; evaluation in English; pronunciation, phonetics and phonetic transcription
7. School Assistant – Mathematics
- Arithmetic: BODMAS, ratio and proportion, percentage, profit and loss, discount, taxes, simple and compound interest
- Mensuration: perimeter, area, surface area and volume of solids, combination of solids
9. Where to Find Each Subject in the Official Syllabus PDF
| Post | Subjects (starting page in the PDF) |
|---|---|
| SGT | SGT (1), SGT Special Education (21) |
| School Assistant | English (35), Telugu (41), Urdu (44), Tamil (48), Kannada (51), Odia (54), Hindi (57), Sanskrit (61), Mathematics (64), Physical Science (76), Biological Science (85), Social Studies (90) |