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Teacher Eligibility Test(TET)/Central Teacher Eligibility Test(CTET)

Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is minimum eligibility criteria to become a government teacher in state or central level. Every State & Central government will be conducting TET exam every year.

Teachers Eligibility Test is important for those candidates who want to start their carreer in government schools at central level or at state level.

Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET)

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India has entrusted the responsibility of conducting the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) to the Central Board of Secondary Education Delhi.

ELIGIBILITY to appear in CTET

1 Minimum Qualifications for becoming Teacher for Classes I-V:

Primary Stage Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known)
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known), in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure), Regulations, 2002.
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed).
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Education (Special Education).
OR
“Graduation with at least 50% marks and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)” “(a) who has acquired the qualification or Bachelor of Education from any NCTE recognized institution shall be considered for appointment as a teacher in classes I to V provided the person so appointed as a teacher shall mandatorily undergo a six month Bridge Course in Elementary Education recognized by the NCTE, within two year of such appointment as primary teacher”.



2.Minimum Qualifications for becoming Teacher for Classes VI-VIII:

Elementary Stage Graduation and passed or appearing in final year of 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known).
OR
Graduation with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed).
OR
Graduation with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed), in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations issued from time to time in this regard.
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor in Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed).
OR
Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year B.A/B.Sc.Ed or B.A.Ed/B.Sc.Ed.
OR
Graduation with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year B.Ed. (Special Education)*.
OR
Any candidate having qualified B.Ed. Programme recognized by the NCTE is eligible to appear in TET/CTET. Moreover, as per the existing TET guidelines circulated vide NCTE letter dated 11-02-2011, a person who is pursuing any of the teacher education courses (recognized by the NCTE or the RCI, as the case may be) specified in the NCTE Notification dated 23rd August 2010 is also qualified to appear in the TET/CTET. CTET - JULY-2019

Paper Pattern

Paper I (for Classes I to V) Primary Stage ;
Duration of examination-Two hours and 30 min.
Structure and Content (All Compulsory):

Child development and pedagogy(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Language I(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Language II(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Mathematics 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Environmental studies 30 MCQS 30 Marks


Total 150 MCQs 150 Marks

Nature and standard of questions:

•The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the age group of 6-11 years. They will focus on understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.

•The Test items in Language I will focus on the proficiencies related to the medium of instruction.

•The Test items in Language II will focus on the elements of language, communication and comprehension abilities.

•Language II will be a language other than Language I. A candidate may choose any one language as Language I and other as Language II from the available language options and will be required to specify the same in the Confirmation Page.

•Opt two languages in which you wish to appear for CTET : List of languages and code are as follows:

Language Code No. Language Code No.
English 01 Marathi 11
Hindi 02 Mizo 12
Assamese 03 Nepali 13
Bengali 04 Oriya 14
Garo 05 Punjabi 15
Gujrati 06 Sanskrit 16
Kannada 07 Tamil 17
Khasi 08 Telugu 18
Malyalam 09 Tibetan 19
Manipuri 10 Urdu 20



• The Test items in Mathematics and Environmental Studies will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding and applications of the subjects. In all these subject areas, the test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject prescribed for classes I-V by the NCERT.

• The questions in the test for Paper I will be based on the topics prescribed in syllabus of the NCERT for classes I - V but their difficulty standard as well as linkages, could be up to the secondary stage.

Paper II (for Classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage : Duration of examination - Two-and-a-half hours Structure and Content (All Compulsory):



Child development and pedagogy(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Language I(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Language II(compulsory) 30 MCQS 30 Marks
Mathematics and science (for mathematics and science teacher) 60 MCQs 60 Marks
Social studies/Social science (for social studies/social science teacher) 60 MCQs 60 Marks



For any other teacher - either (IV) or (V)
Total 150 MCQs 150 Marks


Nature and standard of questions:

•The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning, relevant to the age group of 11-14 years. They will focus on understanding the characteristics, needs and psychology of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.

•The Test items in Language I will focus on the proficiencies related to the medium of instruction.

•The Test items in Language II will focus on the elements of language, communication and comprehension abilities.

•Language II will be a language other than Language I. A candidate may choose any one language as Language I and other as Language II from the available language options and will be required to specify the same in the Confirmation Page.

•Opt two languages in which you wish to appear for CTET : List of languages and code are as follows:

Language Code No. Language Code No.
English 01 Marathi 11
Hindi 02 Mizo 12
Assamese 03 Nepali 13
Bengali 04 Oriya 14
Garo 05 Punjabi 15
Gujrati 06 Sanskrit 16
Kannada 07 Tamil 17
Khasi 08 Telugu 18
Malyalam 09 Tibetan 19
Manipuri 10 Urdu 20



•The Test items in Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies/Social Science will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding and applications of the subjects. The test items of Mathematics and Science will be of 30 marks each. The test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject as prescribed for classes VI-Vlll by the NCERT.

•The questions in the test for Paper II will be based on the topics prescribed in syllabus of the NCERT for classes VI - VIII but their difficulty standard as well as linkages, could be up to the senior secondary level.

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