PATNA: Merely 2.81 per cent candidates cleared Bihar Primary Teachers Eligibility Test (TET), the results of which were declared here on Monday. Pass percentage of women candidates is even more deplorable.
Only 1.57 per cent of candidates belonging to fair sex cleared the test that would make them eligible to get a job of teacher in the state government-run primary schools having classes from one to five. The pass percentage of men candidates is 3.59.
Results of upper primary TET (for schools running classes from 6 to 8) is little better. Around 17 per cent candidates cracked the test. Pass percentage of women and men candidates in this category was 14.49 per cent and 17.98 per cent respectively. However, state education minister P K Shahi, while releasing the results at the state secretariat here, said that the pass percentage of Bihar students in the TET was not "too bad."
"In the upper primary TET, the candidates have done better than the national average of pass percentage which used to be in between 5 to 12 per cent," the minister explained. However, he also added the quality of results depends on the merit of the appearing candidates.
Giving details of the results, the minister informed that a total of 21,62,929 candidates appeared in the TET for primary schools. Of them, only 60,730 candidates cleared the test. The successful candidates include 13,261 women.
In the upper primary category, a total of 5,17,408 candidates appeared for the test. Of them, 87,254 passed the examination. The successful candidates include 24,074 women, the minister informed while releasing a data-sheet comprising social category-wise break-up of passed candidates and their percentage.
Among the social categories, just 0.40 per cent of women belonging to scheduled castes (SC) could crack the test, while the pass percentage of scheduled tribes (ST) women candidates is 0.66 per cent. Shahi also informed that the results of Secondary Teachers Eligibility Test (STET) was almost ready and it would be announced in near future. He said a special examination for around 1.08 lakh STET applicants, who had boycotted the test at various centres in the past, would be conducted in June this year.
programme for the proposed June examination would be announced soon. A special examination for the 4,000 primary and upper primary TET examinees, whose OMR sheets were lost in transportation, would also be arranged in June.
To a question whether all successful candidates would be given jobs in government schools, the minister said, "The government would have to maintain a balance between the available vacancies and resources. We will recruit only such number of teachers for whom the government can easily arrange salaries on time."
He could not give specific number of teachers to be appointed among the successful candidates.
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