Bihar TRE 4.0 grows to 33,320 teacher posts, and this year’s D.El.Ed passouts can now apply — form closes 26 October

The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued a notice on 13 October 2026 about the fourth phase of its school teacher recruitment exam, TRE 4.0 (Advertisement No. 15/2026). Candidates who passed the D.El.Ed. (2024-2026 training session, exam year 2026) can now apply. They need to upload the web copy of their marksheet with the online form. The recruitment, for the Education Department of Bihar, now covers 33,320 posts.

Why the post count changed

The advertisement published on 22 September offered 32,388 posts. It replaced Advertisement 14/2026 of 18 August, which was cancelled. On 29 September, BPSC issued a corrigendum adding 932 posts in subjects that had been missing from the first list, after the state's General Administration Department sent a revised supplementary requisition:

• 493 posts in Classes 9 to 10: Bangla, fine arts, dance, Maithili, Arabic, Persian and music, plus special school teachers.
• 439 posts in Classes 11 to 12: Bangla, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian.

Posts by level

Level	Posts	Starting pay, as stated in the advertisement
Classes 1 to 5 (primary)	3,847	₹25,000 a month initial pay scale
Classes 6 to 8 (middle)	8,563	₹28,000 a month initial pay scale
Classes 9 to 10 (secondary)	3,877 + 493 = 4,370	₹31,000 a month basic pay
Classes 11 to 12 (higher secondary)	16,101 + 439 = 16,540	₹32,000 a month basic pay
Total	33,320	Plus allowances set by the state government

The biggest single blocks are in Classes 11 to 12: chemistry (3,695), physics (1,758), English (1,321) and botany (1,078). In Classes 6 to 8, maths and science has 2,188 posts and English 1,929. Half of the posts in Classes 1 to 8, and 35% of those in Classes 9 to 12, are reserved for women, within each category.

Dates

Step	Date
Online application and fee payment opened	25 September 2026
Last date for fee payment	25 October 2026
Last date for the online application	26 October 2026

The TET pass mark BPSC will accept

The corrigendum spells out the pass marks in the teacher eligibility test, based on an Education Department letter of 17 June 2023. For CTET and BTET, general category candidates need 60%, backward class, extremely backward class and general-category women need 55%, and SC, ST and disabled candidates need 50%. For STET Papers I and II, the pass mark is the one set by the Bihar School Examination Board for that sitting. Candidates from outside Bihar, women and men alike, are held to the general-category minimum.

What to do now: if you passed the D.El.Ed. this year, download the web copy of your marksheet and finish the form on bpsc.bihar.gov.in before 26 October. Pay the fee by 25 October, a day before the form closes. If you already applied, check that your subject, level and TET details match the posts you are eligible for.

CareerBox News Desk — reporting on the Bihar Public Service Commission’s notice of 13 October 2026 under Advertisement No. 15/2026 (TRE 4.0), read with the advertisement and important notice of 22 September 2026 and the important notice-cum-corrigendum of 29 September 2026. Official portal: bpsc.bihar.gov.in. Dates and eligibility change; confirm them on the official portal before you act.