The AP-TET examination is not a job recruitment examination. AP-TET examination is just a requirement for the candidate to appear in a teacher job recruitment process. Usually, the basic criteria are that if a candidate has the TET examination qualifying certificate, it means he/she is eligible to apply for recruitment if there is a job vacancy arise for the post of a teacher. The teacher recruitment examination is based on two criteria that are:- One is based on the TET mark which is considered in the final merit list of the recruitment process along with the written examination marks which are achieved by the candidate.