CBSE teacher test once a year

New Delhi, April 30

The appointment eligibility examination for class I-VIII teachers or CTET will be held just once a year instead of the current practice of conducting it twice.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has been conveying it to the HRD Ministry that it is overburdened with the responsibility of conducting multiple exams, including the JEE-Main and the NEET for under-graduate engineering and medical courses, respectively.

The Board had recently proposed doing away with the practice of conducting the National Eligibility Test (NET), for recruitment of assistant professors, twice a year.

“When all major competitive exams are conducted once a year, why should the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) or NET be conducted twice a year?” a senior official said.

Following consultations among officials from the CBSE, the HRD Ministry and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), it has been decided that CTET should be conducted only once a year. The exam is currently conducted in February and September. — PTI