CTET 2011: One Ahmedabad centre revised

Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) – 2011 is Scheduled to be held on Sunday, the 26th June, 2011 at 1178 Centres in 84 cities across the country including Ahmedabad, Gujarat. There are 45 Centres notified for CTET-2011 Examination in Ahmedabad. The Admit cards have already been dispatched to the candidate. Due to some unavoidable developments, the following two Centres notified earlier have now been replaced with the new Centres in Ahmedabad.

Old center: Swastik English Secondary School, Sardar Patel Colony, Ahmedabad-380014 (720 students from 2029215 to 2029934)
New center:Aroma Higher Secondary School, Kamal Trust Building, SomnathRoad, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad – 380013

Old center:Vishwa Bharti English Medium School, Plot No.62, Bhaikaka Ngr, Thaltej Ahmedabad- 380059(720 students from 2031375 to 2032094)
New center:St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, ‘D’ Cabin, Sabarmati ,Ahmedabad-380019

The revised admit cards to all such affected candidates have been dispatched and will be reaching shortly. In case any such candidate does not receive the revised admit card, he/she can appear for the Examination on the allotted new centres on the basis of his/her old admit cards. A control room will be functional from 20th June 2011 to 25th June 2011 from 9.00 AM to 5.30 PM and on 26th June 2011 from 06.30 AM to 12.30 PM. In case of any difficulty the candidates may contact the control room.

Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) – 2011 is scheduled to be held on Sunday, the 26th June, 2011 at 1178 Centres in 86 cities across the country including 2 centres abroad. In all 7.9 lacs candidates have been registered for this examination. The dispatch of Admit Cards by post to all the registered candidates of the above Examination has started since 8th June 2011.

The CTET shall apply to schools of the Central Government (KVS, NVS, Tibetan Schools, etc) and schools under the administrative control of UT of Chandigarh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. CTET may also apply to the unaided private schools, who may exercise the option of considering the CTET. Schools owned and managed by the State Government/local bodies and aided schools shall consider the TET conducted by the State Government. However, a State Government can also consider the CTET if it decides not to conduct the State TET.

More than 35,000 candidates from Gujarat will appear for CTET at test centres at Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara for recruitment into Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools in the state. Forty-five centres in Ahmedabad will be host to 720 candidates. This is the first year the test is being held.

CTET will be a three-hour exam consisting of two parts viz. part one for candidates willing to teach in primary section while part two deals with candidates wanting to teach in Class VI-VIII. Each section carries 30 marks. The CTET result is valid for seven years and there is no restriction on the number of attempts a candidate can make for acquiring CTET certificate. Moreover, a candidate who has acquired CTET certificate can appear again to improve his/her score.