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Teacher Eligibility Test results to be out in a fortnight
The fate of about 1,500 government teachers, whose salary were cut for the last three months for not completing the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in the stipulated time, will be known by the second week of July by which time the results of the test that was held recently are expected to be published.
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Apart from the affected government teachers, more than six lakh teaching aspirants appeared for TET Paper-I and II exams, which was held across the state on June 8 and 9.
The Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TNTRB), the nodal agency for conducting TET exams and appointing teachers, said 1.83 lakh candidates have appeared for Paper-I, while 4.20 lakh candidates have written TET Paper II.
A senior official from the TNTRB told DT Next that answer sheets evaluation process was on and would be completed in about a week. “Once evaluation process is over, certificate printing process will start,” he added.
According to him, the results is expected to be published in the second week of July.
In the TET exam last held in 2017, more than seven lakh candidates appeared for both the papers. However, as per the data from TNTRB, only around 34,000 candidates secured pass marks in all the subjects.
In 2013, only about 25,000 candidates cleared all the subjects in TET.
Most candidates who appeared for Paper-I and Paper-II this year said Mathematics and Science question papers were tough and most of the questions were complicated.
In 2017, Science and Mathematics had low pass percentage of 4.7 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively, pointed out the official.
“I could not finish Mathematics paper in the stipulated time. Many questions were twisted, and I had to spend more time on it,” said S Lakshmi, a government teacher who appeared for TET Paper-I for the second time.
Lakshmi was one of the affected teachers who faced a salary cut for not clearing TET.
Candidates who appeared for paper-II also said that Environmental Science paper was difficult.
“Several questions were from out of syllabus and therefore I was able to attend only few questions,” said S Kumar, employed in a government aided school in Madipakkam.
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