AP DSC TGT (English) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
Detail Information about AP DSC has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of TGT (English) vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
AP DSC Teacher Syllabus 2026 - Overview
| Name of Recruitment |
AP DSC Teacher Recruitment 2026 |
| Recruitment Full Name |
District Selection Committee (DSC), Andhra Pradesh |
| Conducting Body |
School Education Department, Andhra Pradesh |
| Post Name |
TGT (English) |
| Number of Vacancies |
113 |
| Mode of Exam |
Online |
| Mode of Application |
Online |
| Job Location |
Andhra Pradesh |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Official Website |
tet2dsc.apcfss.in |
AP DSC TGT (English) Paper 2 Syllabus 2026
Part I – General Knowledge and Current Affairs :
1. Important syllabus topics include Static GK topics such as – freedom fighters of India, Indian constitution, geography, headquarters of international organizations etc.
2. Current events and latest happenings worldwide from the past 1 year also feature prominently.
3. Candidates need to keep themselves updated with important policy decisions of central and state governments, key personalities in politics, important days and dates, sports, awards and honors, budgets and economic surveys, science and technology etc.
4. Questions test fundamental GK in areas including history, culture, economy, polity and governance.
5. As this section carries significant weightage, candidates must prepare extensively by regularly reading newspapers, magazines and referring to standard GK books and current affairs resources.
Part II – Perspectives in Education :
1. History of Education –
a. The Education in Ancient India – Pre-Vedic and Post-Vedic period – Medieval Education
b. Education in Pre Independent era – Woods Despatch (1854) – Hunter Commission (1882) – Hartog Committee (1929) – Sargent Committee (1944)
c. Education in Post Independent era - Mudaliar Commission (1952-53) – Kothari Commission (1964-66) – Ishwarbhai Patel committee (1977) – NPE-1986 – POA-1992
2. Teacher Empowerment –
a. Need, interventions for empowerment
b. Professional code of conduct for teachers
c. Teacher motivation
d. Professional development of Teachers and Teacher organizations
e. National / State Level Organizations for Teacher Education
f. Maintenance of Records and Registers in Schools.
3. Educational Concerns in Contemporary India –
a. Democracy and Education, Equality, Equity, Quality in Education, Equality of Educational opportunities.
b. Economics of Education, Education as Human Capital, Education and Human Resource Development, Literacy - Saakshar Bharat Mission.
c. Population Education, Gender - Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women, Urbanization and migration, Life skills.
d. Adolescence Education
e. Value Education – Moral Value and Professional Ethics in Education.
f. Health and Physical Education · Inclusive Education - Classroom Management in Inclusive Education
g. Role of Education in view of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization
h. Programmes and Projects – APPEP, DPEP, SarvaSikshaAbhiyan, National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL), Rashtriya Madhyamika Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), KGBVs, Model Schools, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA)
i. Incentives and special provisions – Mid Day Meals, Free Books, Scholarship, Awards, Welfare Hostels, Transportation.
j. Current Trends in Education
4. Acts / Rights –
a. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act - 2009
b. Right to Information Act - 2005
c. Child Rights
d. Human Rights
5. National Curriculum - Framework, 2005 : Perspective, Guiding Principles, Learning and Knowledge, Teaching Learning Process, Assessment, Systemic Reforms
6. National Educational Policy 2020
Part III - Classroom implications of Educational Psychology :
a. Individual differences – Inter and intra individual differences, meaning, nature and theories of intelligence with special emphasis on multiple intelligence, IQ, assessment of intelligence, EQ, Creativity. Attitude, Aptitude, Interest, Habit and its Influence on Intelligence - Classroom implementation.
b. Learning – Theories and approaches of learning, learning curves, Factors, Phases, Dimensions of learning, Types of learning, Transfer of learning. Memory, Forgetting, Learning and assessment- Classroom implementation.
c. Personality – Nature, characteristics and theories of personality, factors of Personality, Assessment of Personality, Mental health, Adjustment, Stress – nature, Symptoms and management. Emotional intelligence, Management of emotions Classroom implementation.
Part IV. Content of concerned subject (English)
Literature Detailed Study
VOCABULARY - LEVEL OF TESTING
Background of English Literature - Poetical Types, Stanza forms, Schools and Movements, Dramatic Types, The Essay, The Novel, The Short Story
Literary Terms - Parallelism, Prologue, epilogue, setting, the character, metre, diction, imagery, prosody, point of view, epic, mock epic, choreography, narration, classic, chorus, comedy, tragedy, conflict, plot, criticism, discourse, empathy, sympathy, style, theatre, feminism, soliloquy, folklore, structure; Figures of Speech - Simile, Metaphor, Apostrophe, Personification, Metonymy, Synecdoche, irony and alliteration; Rhyme Scheme
Poetry (Detailed Study)
1. Where the Mind Is without Fear (Rabindranath Tagore)
2. The cloud (P.B.Shelly)
3. The Nation's Strength (R.W.Emerson)
4. Palanquin Bearers (Sarojini Naidu)
5. The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
6. A Slumber did my spirit seal (William Wordsworth)
7. Telephone Conversation (Wole Soyinka)
8. The Night of the Scorpion (Nissim Ezekiel)
Prose / Essay (Detailed Study)
1. Of studies (Francis Bacon)
2. Self-reliance (R.W.Emerson)
3. On Shaking Hands (A.G.Gardiner)
4. What Makes a Nation (C. Rajagopalachari)
Novels (Detailed Study)
1. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
2. Swami and Friends (R.K.Narayan)
Drama (Detailed Study)
1. Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
2.The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Short Story (Detailed Study)
1. The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
2. Engine Trouble (R. K. Narayan)
3. After Twenty Years (O' Henry)
4. The Thief (Ruskin Bond)
(Class VI to Intermediate level syllabus)
1. Synonyms - Identification of Shades of Meaning
2. Antonyms - Identifying Antonyms in a Context
3. Homophones - Identification & Usage
4. Homonyms - Identification & Usage
5. Hypernyms & Hyponyms - Identification & Usage
6. Spelling - Spelling
7. One-word Substitutes - Referring to Persons / Professions, Places, Collections
8. Phrasal Verbs - Identification of Meaning and usage
9. Idiomatic Expressions - Identification, Usage
10. Proverbs - Proverbs
11. Word Formation - Suffixes, Prefixes and other forms
12. Short Forms - Full Forms - Common Short Forms - Full Forms
13. Abbreviations - Full Forms - Common Abbreviations - Full Forms
14. Word Collocations - Word Collocations
15. Foreign Phrases Used in English - Standard and common Foreign Phrases Used in English
GRAMMAR - LEVEL OF TESTING
1. Helping Verbs - Form, Function & Contractions
2. Modal Auxiliaries - Form, Function & Contractions
3. Ordinary Verbs - Form, Function & Contractions
4. Articles - Use of Articles Including Omissions
5. Prepositions - Simple, Compound Prepositions Including Prepositions following Certain Words and Prepositional Phrases
6. Clauses - Main Clauses, sub-ordinate Clauses, Adjectival Clauses, Noun Clauses, Adverbial Clauses, Relative Clauses, Finite and Non-finite Clauses
7. Sentence Structures - Sentence Structures
8. Degrees of Comparison - Form, Function, Construction, Transformation
9. Language Functions - Language Functions with social norms (formal and informal)
10. Question Tags - Imperatives and Statements with semi negatives and indefinites subjects
11. Types of Sentences - Types of Sentences
12. Sentence Improvement - Sentence Improvement
13. Direct Speech & Indirect Speech - Statements, Questions, Imperatives and Exclamatory Sentences
14. Active Voice & Passive - Voice Active Voice & Passive Voice
15. Tenses - Use of tenses and framing including ‘IF’ conditionals Type 1, 2 &3
16. Agreement between subject & Verb - Agreement between subject & Verb
17. Word Order - Word Order In a phrase or a sentence
18. Parts of Speech - Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Interjections - Types and functions
19. Linkers - Linkers
20. Transformation of Sentences - Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
21. Common Errors - Based on all Vocabulary and Grammar Topics
MECHANICS OF WRITING - LEVEL OF TESTING
Punctuation and Capitalization Use of capital letters, comma, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark and inverted commas
COMPOSITION - LEVEL OF TESTING
Writing of Discourses - Letter Writing, News Report, Diary Entry, Conversation, Description, Diary Entry, Biographical Sketch, Story, Script for a speech
DICTIONARY - SKILLS LEVEL OF TESTING
DICTIONARY - SKILLS DICTIONARY SKILLS
PRONUNCIATION - LEVEL OF TESTING
Phonetics, Stress & Intonation- Phonetic Transcription and stress marking including intonation in context
READING COMPREHENSION - LEVEL OF TESTING
Prose - Prose (GENERAL)
V. Methodology of concerned subject (English)
1. Aspects of language (English Language History, Nature, Importance, Principles of English as Second language and problems of Teaching / learning English)
2. Objectives of Teaching English
3. Development of language Skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing; Communicative Skills and Imparting values through Communication
4. Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching English (Introduction, Definition, Types of Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching including Remedial Teaching)
5. Teaching of Structures, Vocabulary and Grammar
6. Teaching Learning Materials in English
7. Lesson Planning
8. Curriculum and Textbooks - Importance and need
9. Evaluation in English Language
10. Pronunciation, Phonetics and Phonetic Transcription
AP DSC TGT (English) Paper 2 Exam Pattern 2026
Duration : 2 Hours 30 Minutes
| Part |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
| Part I |
General Knowledge and Current Affairs |
20 |
10 |
| Part II |
Perspectives in Education |
10 |
05 |
| Part III |
Classroom implications of Educational Psychology |
10 |
05 |
|
Part IV
|
Content of concerned subject |
80 |
40 |
| Methodology of concerned subject |
40 |
20 |
| |
Total |
160 |
80 |
AP DSC Exam Date 2026 : Notified Soon
Starting Date of Application Form : 13th October 2026
Last Date of Application Form : 03rd November 2026
Total Post : 113
