86% flunk teacher eligibility test
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NAGPUR: Future teachers of the country seem to be having a tough time leading by example. An overwhelming majority of them failed to crack the qualifying exam held by the CBSE. The first ever Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) was held last month to be a benchmark for new teacher appointments for CBSE schools. The results, however, are dismal with 86% candidates failing the test across the country.
About 7.1 lakh candidates appeared for the exam but only 97,919 managed to pass. The test is being conducted as per the directives of the ministry of human resources development. The CTET certificate is now mandatory for any new appointments to CBSE-affiliated schools. There are apprehensions that it may be made mandatory even for teachers already employed but there is no official confirmation of the same. Currently, private and unaided CBSE schools have the option of not following the CTET norm but no school in Nagpur wanted to exercise that option.
An official document from the government regarding the CTET says the "implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 requires the recruitment of a large number of teachers across the country in a time bound manner. In spite of the enormity of the task, it is desirable to ensure that quality requirement for recruitment of teachers is not diluted at any cost. It is therefore necessary to ensure that persons recruited as teachers possess the essential aptitude and ability to meet the challenges of teaching at the primary and upper primary level."
The CTET consisted of paper-I and paper-II. Paper-I is for candidates who want to teach from Std I to Std V, while paper-II is for those candidates who wish to teach from Std VI-Std VIII. There were many candidates who appeared for both. Both papers consisted of 150 multiple choice questions (MCQ) and each were conducted offline. The qualifying marks for the CTET was 60% and there was no negative marking.
Candidates claimed shortage of time and high qualifying marks were responsible for poor results. Veena Kumar (name changed), a teacher from a CBSE school in the city, said, "There were 150 questions and we were given only 90 minutes for it. Even though it was in the MCQ format, some questions were really confusing. In the English language paper, they had given an entire prose regarding which questions were asked. Now just to read that prose carefully took about ten minutes. Then add the time taken for answering the questions. It was very unreasonable of them to prepare such a format."
From Nagpur, approximately 2,000 candidates appeared for both the papers but there is no official data on how many of these were already employed as teachers or how many of them cleared the exam. Principal of a top private school said, "These tests are not mandatory for current teachers hence from my school nobody appeared. It is shocking to know that the results were so low, especially now that we cannot employ teachers unless they qualify that exam."
Though CBSE refused to comment on claims made by candidates, a high ranking official told TOI, "the tests have been formatted keeping in mind the educational standards required of schools across the world. We need to keep our bar high so that students are guaranteed quality educators. I am sure no one in the country would like a teacher with just 40% marks teaching their kids."
The CTET will be conducted annually and the score will be valid for seven years.
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NAGPUR: Future teachers of the country seem to be having a tough time leading by example. An overwhelming majority of them failed to crack the qualifying exam held by the CBSE. The first ever Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) was held last month to be a benchmark for new teacher appointments for CBSE schools. The results, however, are dismal with 86% candidates failing the test across the country.
About 7.1 lakh candidates appeared for the exam but only 97,919 managed to pass. The test is being conducted as per the directives of the ministry of human resources development. The CTET certificate is now mandatory for any new appointments to CBSE-affiliated schools. There are apprehensions that it may be made mandatory even for teachers already employed but there is no official confirmation of the same. Currently, private and unaided CBSE schools have the option of not following the CTET norm but no school in Nagpur wanted to exercise that option.
An official document from the government regarding the CTET says the "implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 requires the recruitment of a large number of teachers across the country in a time bound manner. In spite of the enormity of the task, it is desirable to ensure that quality requirement for recruitment of teachers is not diluted at any cost. It is therefore necessary to ensure that persons recruited as teachers possess the essential aptitude and ability to meet the challenges of teaching at the primary and upper primary level."
The CTET consisted of paper-I and paper-II. Paper-I is for candidates who want to teach from Std I to Std V, while paper-II is for those candidates who wish to teach from Std VI-Std VIII. There were many candidates who appeared for both. Both papers consisted of 150 multiple choice questions (MCQ) and each were conducted offline. The qualifying marks for the CTET was 60% and there was no negative marking.
Candidates claimed shortage of time and high qualifying marks were responsible for poor results. Veena Kumar (name changed), a teacher from a CBSE school in the city, said, "There were 150 questions and we were given only 90 minutes for it. Even though it was in the MCQ format, some questions were really confusing. In the English language paper, they had given an entire prose regarding which questions were asked. Now just to read that prose carefully took about ten minutes. Then add the time taken for answering the questions. It was very unreasonable of them to prepare such a format."
From Nagpur, approximately 2,000 candidates appeared for both the papers but there is no official data on how many of these were already employed as teachers or how many of them cleared the exam. Principal of a top private school said, "These tests are not mandatory for current teachers hence from my school nobody appeared. It is shocking to know that the results were so low, especially now that we cannot employ teachers unless they qualify that exam."
Though CBSE refused to comment on claims made by candidates, a high ranking official told TOI, "the tests have been formatted keeping in mind the educational standards required of schools across the world. We need to keep our bar high so that students are guaranteed quality educators. I am sure no one in the country would like a teacher with just 40% marks teaching their kids."
The CTET will be conducted annually and the score will be valid for seven years.
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