AP TET 2024 Exam Centers Issue: A Challenging Test for Candidates!

Sakshi Education

The newly formed government in Andhra Pradesh has introduced stringent measures for the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), starting from the application process itself. One significant change is the allocation of exam centers.

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While some candidates qualify for both AP TET Paper 1A and 1B, they've been assigned centers in different districts for each paper. This presents a significant challenge as it makes it nearly impossible to take both exams on the same day. In February, the previous government conducted the TET exam. The current government, under the banner of TET-2024 (July), has issued another notification allowing newly qualified B.Ed. or D.Ed. candidates to participate.

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A total of 427,300 candidates have applied statewide.

For Paper 1A (SGT-General), 182,609 candidates have applied.
for Paper 1B (SGT-Special Education), 2,662 candidates.
for Paper 2A (School Assistant – Languages), 64,036.
for Paper 2A (Maths and Science), 104,788; and
for Paper 2A (Social Studies), 70,767 candidates.
Additionally, 2,438 candidates have applied for Paper 2B (School Assistant – Special Education).

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Many candidates are eligible for multiple papers, but upon checking their hall tickets, issued on September 21, they were surprised to find centers in different districts for each paper. Instead of assigning centers within the same district or city for both papers, some candidates found themselves assigned centers in different districts, and in some cases, even different states. For example, some candidates were assigned one center in Eluru for the morning paper and another in Kakinada, 155 kilometers away, for the afternoon paper. Others were sent to distant locations like Bengaluru, raising questions about the fairness of the process.

AP TET 2024 Exam Centers Assigned Across Districts

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The AP TET exams are scheduled from October 3 to 21, and they will be conducted entirely online. Only selected engineering colleges and approved centers in each district will host the exams. The School Education Department made hall tickets available online on September 21, but many candidates were left disheartened when they saw their assigned centers in different districts.

Three candidates from Eluru district, for instance, found that although they were supposed to take Paper 1A and 1B in their district, their centers were split: one in Eluru in the morning and the other in Kakinada or Vijayawada in the afternoon.

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The language of the medium also became an issue for some candidates. Even though they changed their medium of instruction to Telugu during the application editing period, their hall tickets still showed English as the medium. This has left many Telugu-medium candidates worried about how they will manage to take the exam in English.

The government must respond promptly and make necessary changes to ensure candidates are assigned centers within their own districts. The issue of Telugu-medium candidates receiving English-medium hall tickets must also be addressed by providing another opportunity to edit their details.

– A. Ramachandra, AP Unemployed Association

Examples of Inconvenience:

A candidate from Prakasam district was assigned a center in Guntur, 110 kilometers away.
A candidate from East Godavari was assigned a center in Vijayawada.
A candidate from Anantapur district, who applied to take the Paper 2A (Maths and Science) in Telugu medium, received a hall ticket showing the medium as English.

AP-TET JULY-2024 exam schedule:

Date	Session 1	Session 2
03/10/2024	PAPER IIA LAN TELUGU + PAPER IIA LAN KANNADA + PAPER IIA LAN TAMIL + PAPER IIA LAN ORIYA + PAPER IIA LAN URDU + PAPER IIA LAN SANSKRIT	PAPER - II - A (LYTELUGU)
04/10/2024	PAPER - II - A (LYTELUGU)	PAPER - II - A (LENGLISH)
05/10/2024	PAPER IIA LAN ENGLISH + PAPER IIA LAN HINDI	PAPER IIA LAN HINDI
06/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A + PAPER 1B	SGT PAPER - I - A
07/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT PAPER - I - A
08/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT PAPER - I - A
09/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT PAPER - I - A
10/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT PAPER - I - A
11/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT PAPER - I - A
12/10/2024	HOLIDAY	HOLIDAY
13/10/2024	SGT PAPER - I - A	SGT IA TELUGU + SGT IA HINDI + SGT IA KANNADA + SGT IA ORIYA + SGT IA TAMIL +SGT IA URDU
14/10/2024	SGT IA TELUGU	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)
15/10/2024	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)	PAPER II MS TELUGU + PAPER IIA MS HINDI + PAPER IIA MS URDU + PAPER IIA MS KANNADA + PAPER IIA MS ORIYA + PAPER IIA MS TAMIL + PAPER IIA MS ENGLISH
16/10/2024	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)
17/10/2024	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)	PAPER - II - A (Mathematics and Sciences)
18/10/2024	PAPER - II - A Social Studies	PAPER - II - A Social Studies
19/10/2024	PAPER - II - A Social Studies	PAPER - II - A Social Studies
20/10/2024	PAPER IIA SS TELUGU + PAPER IIA SS URDU + PAPER IIA SS HINDI + PAPER IIA SS KANNADA + PAPER IIA SS ORIYA + PAPER IIA SS TAMIL + PAPER IIA SS ENGLISH	PAPER - II - A Social Studies
21/10/2024	PAPER - II - A Social Studies	PAPER 2B