AP DSC 2026 applications open for 2,721 teacher posts: Rs 1,000 fee per post, last date 30 November

The form that Andhra Pradesh’s teaching aspirants have waited for is now live. Online applications for AP DSC 2026, the recruitment test for 2,721 teacher posts, opened on Wednesday, 11 November, on the School Education Department’s portal, tet2dsc.apcfss.in. Fee payment and submission close on 30 November.

The posts, first announced on 13 October, appear in three notifications dated 5 November. Schools run by the government and local bodies have 2,111 of them: 906 School Assistants and 1,205 Secondary Grade Teachers. Another 350 are special-education posts; 260 are in residential societies, model schools and schools for the differently abled. Kurnool has the most general posts, 389, followed by Prakasam with 266.

One form, one fee per post

Each post costs Rs 1,000, paid through the portal’s payment gateway. A candidate seeking several posts fills a single application, pays again for every additional post and ranks posts and school managements in order of preference. Nothing can be edited after final submission except that order, which may be changed once, within seven days of the merit list.

Every applicant must upload a recent scanned photograph with signature. The notification promises a step-by-step user guide on the portal from 11 November. Sports-quota candidates must first register on sports.ap.gov.in and quote the identification number issued there. Those already in government, local-body or aided-institution service, contract and outsourced staff included, must inform their head of office in writing.

Age, marks and certificates

Applicants must be aged 18 to 44 on 1 July 2026; the ceiling is 49 for SC, ST, BC and EWS candidates and 54 for persons with benchmark disabilities. Qualifications must have been in hand on 5 November. For Secondary Grade Teacher and School Assistant posts other than physical education, the computer-based test carries 80 marks and the TET score 20.

Certificates are uploaded later, through the candidate’s own login, in the week after the merit list; originals are checked at verification. They include SSC, Intermediate, degree and teacher-training certificates, the TET scorecard, the local status certificate and, where claimed, community, EWS and disability certificates. An EWS certificate must be dated 1 April 2026 or later.

The tentative schedule puts the online mock test on 5 December, hall tickets on 14 December and the tests from 20 December to 13 January 2027. The department will send no SMS, call or e-mail; messages go only to the candidate’s login. Its helpdesk answers on 8121947387, 7995649286 and 8125046997 on working days, 10 am to 5.30 pm.

The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission’s portal shows the detailed notification and online application link for Group-II Services (Notification No. 37/2026) went up on Tuesday, 10 November. Its brief notification of 13 October listed 686 provisional posts.