CTET to be held on 31 January, 2021: CBSE

Nov. 4: The Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) will be conducted on January 31, 2021, announced the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday. The 14th edition of CTET was earlier scheduled to be held on 5 July, 2020 in 112 cities all over the country.

To maintain social distance and other safety measures, the said examination will now be conducted in 135 cities. The new examination cities are Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Begusarai, Gopalganj, Purnia, Rohtas, Saharsa, Saran,
Bhilai/ Durg, Bilaspur, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur, Ludhiana, Ambedkar Nagar, Bijnor, Bulanshahar, Deoria, Gonda, Mainpuri, Pratapgarh, Shahjahanpur, Sitapur and Udham Singh Nagar. A list of such identified cities is available on CTET website www.ctet.nic.in . A large number of requests have been received from the candidates
for change of option for their examination city as they have shifted their place due to COVID-19.

Keeping in view the difficulty faced by candidates due to COVID-19, CBSE has decided to give one time chance to the candidates for corrections in their option of city from which they want to appear in the CTET examination. The candidates who wish to change their examination city can make on-line corrections from 7 November to 16 November upto 11.59 P.M.

In a notice issued on 4 November, CBSE stated that every effort will be made to accommodate the candidates in the cities opted by them but if the situation arises, they can be allotted any city other than the four cities opted by
the candidates. All the registered candidates may also visit CTET website www.ctet.nic.in for further details, if any.