Tamil Nadu TET results declared; qualifying marks slashed to 5% for reserved categories

The Teacher Recruitment Board (TRB) has declared the results of the Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test (TN TET 2025) along with the final answer key on its official website, trb.tn.gov.in. The TN TET qualifying marks for the secondary classes 1 to 8 teachers have reportedly been reduced to 5% for reserved categories.

The TN TET eligibility certificate will be hosted on the TRB official website from February 2 onwards.

After the Supreme Court mandated TET qualification for in-service teachers in government and govt-aided schools, the Tamil Nadu government decided to conduct the TN TET recruitment exam thrice in a year .

The top court order would affect around 3.28 lakh teachers with more than five years of service and about 67,000 nearing retirement, the state education minister Anbil Mahesh had said earlier.

The TN TET paper 1 was conducted on November 15 and paper 2 on November 16 in OMR mode. The provisional answer key for both papers was published on November 25 and candidates were allowed to raise objections till December 3.

The Tamil Nadu TET results have been prepared based on the minimum qualification marks fixed by the recruitment board. General category candidates with 90 marks, backward classes and PwD with 75 marks, and SC, ST, SC(A) with 60 marks have been declared qualified for the vacant posts.

Candidates will also be able to download the final answer key for the master question paper having 150 questions along with the mark list. To view the result status, candidates will have to login to their dashboard.