Teachers' test to follow online AIEEE pattern

The Central Board of Secondary Education is considering conducting Central Teachers’ Eligibility Test in the online mode, after taking a decision earlier to hold All-India Engineering Entrance Examination online from next year .

The board’s plan is to conduct the all India test for teachers in 22 cities-including Bangalore between January and June in 2012. The pen and paper test, however, will also be conducted for those who do not wish to take the online test.

“A process to engage an agency, which should be based in India and competent in undertaking the project under the board’s guidance and supervision, has already been initiated," CBSE sources told Deccan Herald. As a very little time remained, the board wanted to initiate the project by November this year, they added.

The CBSE had recently announced its decision to conduct All India Engineering Entrance Examination online in 2012. Both of the “computer-based professional entrance examinations” will be conducted online through intranet based solutions at all the centres.

A central server will be set up at the CBSE. Data will be transferred in encrypted format to the central server through a safe mode. Before the examination was conducted, arrangements will be made to conduct a mock test to make candidates familiar with the system through website and at various facilitation centres. Facilitation centres will be opened by agency, to be chosen for hosting the test and managing entire delivery process.

These centres will remain functional for at least one month and will later be closed at least a month before the actual conduct of the examination. The CBSE conducted the CTET for the first time this year. Centre has made it mandatory for the states to recruit elementary teachers through an eligibility test.