PUNE: The Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) is likely to conduct the much-awaited Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in September.
Aspirants for teaching jobs in the state must clear the test, which was last held on January 19, 2019.
“The TET 2021 will be held offline as an Optical Mark Recognition- (OMR) based examination.
The online process to fill forms for the examination will start in July.
We are thinking of going online in the next two years but nothing substantial has happened in that direction.
As of now, the TET will be held in the offline mode itself,” said Tukaram Supe, commissioner of MSCE.
The first Maharashtra TET was held in 2013 and the test has been held six times ever since.
The last TET was held in 2019.
“Due to the pandemic, the examination could not be held in January this year.
While the exact dates have not been released yet, we are planning to hold the examination in September, which means candidates can fill the forms online from July,” added Tupe.
Since its inception, TET has seen a very low percentage of candidates qualifying the examination.
While the general category students need to score at least 60% marks to qualify for the examination, the same for reserved category students is 55%.
In the examination held last year, 1,88,688 candidates had appeared for Paper 1, while another 1,54,596 candidates had appeared for Paper 2 but the passing percentage was just around 5%.