Online OTET examination from August 5

Surjit Kumar Dhal, Cuttack, July 23: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has announced date for Odisha Teachers Eligibility Test (OTET) Examination-2019.
The OTET Examination-2019 will be conducted from August 5 to August 14. The candidates can download their admit cards from BSE’s official website www.bseodisha.nic.infrom August 1, said a notification of the BSE adding that details of the examination would be available from the website from July 22.
“All necessary arrangements have been made to conduct the test online for the first time for which the process of filling up the online application form is going on from July 15 to July 26,” said BSE President Jahan Ara Begum.
The BSE had been conducting the OTET examinations to identify the eligibility of the teacher since it was introduced in 2012.
OTET is conducted twice every year by BSE. The test which was conducted in January was canceled this year due to question paper leak.
As many as 1.12 lakh candidates had appeared in the test in 250 examination centers across the state on January 16. However, the photos of the question paper surfaced and went viral on social media while the first sitting of the examination was underway on the first day forcing the BSE authority to cancel the whole examination.
Following the leakage of question and cancellation of examination, the BSE authorities had decided to conduct all the Eligibility Tests including Odisha Secondary Teachers Eligibility Test(OSTET) examinations online.
“The OTET-2018 and OTET-2019 examinations will be conducted simultaneously. Candidates whose roll numbers were generated for appearing at the OTET-2018, however, have been instructed to fill up the online application form for appearing at the OTET-2019 examination without the requisite fee,” said Begum.