The school service commission (SSC) will publish the results of the written tests held to shortlist candidates for teaching jobs at the higher secondary level of government-aided schools on November 7, a commission official said.

The final answer keys, based on which the scripts have been assessed, will be uploaded on the same day.

The results of the tests held for teachers at the secondary level will be published next week.

The tests were held on September 7 and 14.

“Results of candidates shortlisted for the appointment of 12,514 teachers at the higher secondary level of government-aided schools will be announced on November 7. We are likely to publish the results of candidates screened to be appointed as teachers in the secondary level four to five days after that,” said an SSC official on Tuesday.

Last week, an official said that SSC would publish the results of the Plus-II level selection tests first. The interviews will follow next, and then the list of candidates recommended for appointments will be published. This would ensure that selected candidates do not apply for counselling at the secondary level.

Although several candidates applied for both levels, the Plus-II level offers a better pay package.

“We are through with double scanning of the optical mark recorder (OMR) answer scripts for the Plus-II level. The frozen answers have been drawn from the challenges submitted by candidates against the model answers uploaded on September 21. We are all set to upload the answers and scanned OMRs on the SSC website,” said an official.

A five-day window had been given to the teaching job aspirants at both levels to challenge the model answers. University-level professors have assessed the challenges before drawing the frozen answers.

The SSC allowed candidates to keep a duplicate copy of the OMR sheets to maintain transparency.

When contacted, the SSC chairperson, Siddhartha Majumdar, declined comment.

“Since the fresh recruitment has been necessitated in the wake of the Supreme Court’s April 3 termination of the jobs of 17,206 teachers at the secondary and higher secondary levels following a ‘vitiated’ recruitment process held by the SSC in 2016, we are maintaining transparency at every level,” said an education department official.

“The apex court on April 17 set the SSC a deadline to wrap up the fresh recruitment process by December 31 at both levels,” said a senior SSC official.

Once the commission is through with the selection of the teachers, it will focus on holding selection tests in January 2026 to hire non-teaching staff (Group C and D).