CTET 2024 on December 14 or 15? CBSE may hold exams for two days in cities with more candidates

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revised the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET 2024) schedule for December exam and announced that the CTET exam will be held on December 15. However, the revised CTET information bulletin states that the exam will be held on December 14.

The CTET exam 2024 was initially scheduled to be conducted on December 1 in two shifts. While uploading the notification, the CBSE said that it may hold the exam for two days and tentatively slated the exam for November 30 to accommodate the large number of candidates registered in cities. The exam is held to determine eligibility of candidates for appointment of teachers at Classes 1 to 8.

“Now, as per the information received from various candidates, few competitive examinations are scheduled to be held in some states/union territories on 15 December 2024 (Sunday). Hence, keeping in view the interest of the candidates, it has been decided to conduct the CTET examination on 14th December 2024 (Saturday). In case the number of candidates is more in any city, the exam may also be conducted on 15th December, 2024 (Sunday),” the notification read.

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The CTET Dec 2024 results will be declared by the end of January 2025 on the official website, ctet.nic.in.

As per the schedule, the CTET paper 2 exam will be held from 9.30 to 12 noon in the morning shift and paper 1 from 2.30 pm to 5 pm in the evening. The examination hall will be opened at 7:30 am for paper 2 and paper 1 will commence at 12:30 pm for paper 1.

The validity period of CTET certificate will be for lifetime for all categories. “There is no restriction on the number of attempts a person can take for acquiring a CTET Certificate. A person who has qualified CTET may also appear again for improving his/her score.”