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EMRS PGT Study Notes 2026: Tier 1 and Subject Revision Notes

EMRS PGT study notes for quick revision of teaching aptitude, NEP 2020, reasoning, ICT and your PGT subject.

EMRS PGT study notes are short, organised summaries that help you revise both papers of the EMRS Staff Selection Exam (ESSE) quickly. Because Tier 1 has six different sections and Tier 2 tests a full postgraduate subject, good notes keep your revision focused and stop you from rereading entire books before the exam.

This page explains what to put in your notes for each section, how to organise them, how often to revise, and how to combine notes with practice tests so that revision turns into marks.

Table of Contents

What to Include in Your Notes

Area

What your notes should hold

Teaching Aptitude

Teaching methods, learner characteristics, teaching aids and evaluation types, each with a one-line classroom example

Domain Knowledge

NEP 2020 key provisions, experiential and activity-based learning ideas, notes from solved case studies

Reasoning and ICT

Shortcut methods, MS Office functions, keyboard shortcuts, computer abbreviations

General Awareness

Monthly current affairs, schemes, tribal welfare and education updates

Language

English grammar rules and common errors; Hindi sandhi, samas, muhavare and paryayvachi

Tier 2 subject

Unit-wise summaries, formulas, derivations, diagrams and model answers

How to Organise EMRS PGT Notes

  • One page per topic: Keep each topic to a page so you can revise it in five minutes.

  • Formula and fact sheets: A separate sheet for formulas, dates or definitions in your subject.

  • Error log: A running list of mistakes from mocks, with the correct idea written next to each.

  • Answer frames: For Tier 2, short outlines of how you would answer common descriptive questions.

  • Colour or tag by weight: Mark Teaching Aptitude and Domain Knowledge notes clearly, since they carry 60 of the 100 scored Tier 1 marks.

Write notes in the language you will answer in. Both ESSE papers are bilingual, so Hindi-medium candidates can keep subject notes in Hindi while still revising General English for the qualifying section.

Revision Schedule

  1. Daily: 20 minutes revising yesterday's notes.

  2. Weekly: One full pass of the week's notes and your error log.

  3. Monthly: Revise current affairs notes and the NEP 2020 summary.

  4. Final month: Revise only from notes and the error log, not from full books.

Sources to Use

Build notes from the official ESSE syllabus, the NEP 2020 document, your standard subject textbooks and the official final answer keys. Verify facts against official sources rather than copying unverified summaries.

Official website: https://nests.tribal.gov.in/

Notes and Mock Tests Together

Notes work best when you test yourself on them. Ready-made EMRS PGT study notes from educators on Testkart are listed on this page, and you can use them alongside your own notes for faster revision. After each topic, attempt a short Testkart online test and add your mistakes to the error log.

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