Tuesday, April 10, 2012

PRE-TEACHER EDUCATION TEST – 2012

For admission to B.Ed. Course, Session 2012-13: For admission to B.Ed. Course in various Teacher Training Institutions in the State of Rajasthan, a competitive test for selection of candidates viz., Pre-Teacher Education Test (PTET) will be conducted by Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur in accordance with the following rules as approved by the Government of Rajasthan.

RULES FOR ADMISSION TO B.Ed. COURSE
1. There will be a Pre-Teacher Education Test hereinafter called PTET-2012 for admission to B.Ed. Colleges of
Rajasthan. On-Line Application Forms for the same are being invited by Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur. Candidates securing at least 50% marks in aggregate in the Bachelor's degree / Master's degree examination of Jai Narain Vyas University or any other University recognised as equivalent to and fulfilling the other requirements for admission to B.Ed. Course prescribed hereinafter will be eligible to apply for admission to B.Ed. Course through PTET. However Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Special Backward Classes as well as physically challenged and Widow or Divorcee woman candidates of Rajasthan having atleast 45% marks in aggregate in the Bachelor's/Master’s degree level examination will be eligible to apply for admission. No relaxation in the minimum percentage (not even 1 marks) as required above will be given to any candidate. Candidates who have passed Graduation through Correspondence Course from any University by taking only one University Examination or have not studied through 10+2+3 scheme or 10+1+3 (old scheme) are not eligible to appear in PTET.

Those who are appearing in the qualifying examination i.e. B.A./B.Com./B.Sc./Shastri Final year and/or M.A./M.Com./M.Sc./Acharya Final year may also apply and appear in PTET-2012 subject to condition that they shall have their result upto 1st July, 2012 in the shape of Marksheet of the qualifying examination with eligibility percertage. It is clarified that any other document in the shape of provisional certificate and/or newspapers cutting, result/marksheet obtained through Internet etc., will not be acceptable. Any false information provided by the candidate while participating in the test/counselling regarding their result/percentage of marks obtained will result to deprive them from admission in B.Ed. Course and fee deposited by them will not be refunded.

2. On the basis of performance in the PTET, merit list showing the marks obtained by each candidate will be prepared.

3. Out of the total number of seats faculty-wise, not exceeding 05% seats will be filled in on the basis of overall merit, irrespective of the State to which the candidate belongs provided that merit of a candidate from outside Rajasthan is not less than the merit of the last candidate admitted belonging to Rajasthan in a general category. The remaining seats will be available to the candidates who are bonafide residents of Rajasthan State.

4. Out of the total number of seats available in each Faculty (Arts, Science and Commerce), reservation for Rajasthan
domicile will be made as given hereunder:-
I For candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes 16%
II For candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes 12%
III For candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes 21%
IV For candidates belonging to Special Backward Classes 01%
V For women (out of which 8% seats are reserved for widow and 2% for divorced women) 20%
VI For physically challenge (including blind, deaf &/or dumb and orthopedic) with at least 40%
disability on production of a medical certificate on Form No.4 will have to be submitted duly signed by Medical Board or by Reader in the speciality concerned where there is a Medical College or from the Junior Specialist in the speciality concerned or the C.M. & H.O. at places where there is no Medical College (1% for Blind, 1% for Deaf &/or Dumb and 1% for orthopaedic handicapped). 03%
VII For an in-service or an Ex-serviceman defence personnel or for his/her ward. 05%
Notes of Rules 3 & 4
(i) Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Special Backward Classes of Rajasthan shall be required to produce a Certificate to that effect from a District Magistrate/Sub-Division Magistrate/ Tehsildar.
(ii) The term ‘Wards’ means only the son, daughter, wife or husband. Real sister and real brother may also be
treated wards of defence personnel, provided they are dependent on the guardian-concerned and parents are not alive.
(iii) Divorced woman shall be required to produce a certificate in the shape of decision of the Court to the effect
that she has been divorced, and an affidavit to the effect that she has not married again duly attested by Notary. The certificate issued by any social organisation will not be entertained.
(iv) For defence personnel/wards, certificate issued by the Major of the Unit/Secretary, Soldiers Board as per
rules will have to be produced, failing which, the benefit under this category will not be granted. B.S.F.,
C.R.P.F. and other territorial force personnel are not covered under this category.
(v) For deciding the claim of a person to be a bonafide resident of Rajasthan a bonafide resident certificate
issued by a competent authority i.e. a District Magistrate or a Sub Divisional Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate authorised for the purpose will be essential. However, the candidates who have passed their 10th, 12th and Graduation examinations from Rajasthan State and their addresses belong to Rajasthan State will be treated bonafide residents of Rajasthan without producing any certificate.
In case of a out state woman who married with a bonafide resident of Rajasthan, the place of bonafide residence of her husband may be considered as her bonafide residence in Rajasthan, provided a bonafide residence certificate of her husband and marriage certificate obtained from District Magistrate are produced alongwith print copies of application form for appearing in the test.
Such wards of defence personnel and Central Govt. employees, who have/had been posted outside Rajasthan but such defence personnel/Central Government employees originally belong to Rajasthan, may be considered eligible for admission to B.Ed. course provided a bonafide residence-certificate from a competent Magistrate and a certificate from the employer are submitted along with application form for appearing in PTET. (vi) As far as possible the candidate will be allotted Examination Centre in the district as per the options given in his/her on-line application form. No request for change in Centre will be entertained. However, the decision of the Coordinator, PTET-2012 will be final and shall be binding regarding allotment of examination centre.False statement of facts noticed at any stage, will automatically result in cancellation of candidature and admission to the course, if it has already been made. The entire responsibility will lie with the candidate concerned.

5. The Result will be made available on the website. For information of the candidates a notification regarding declaration of the result will be published in the leading newspapers of Rajasthan. Marksheets of the candidates will not be sent by post. The same will be made available on website of the PTET or other site as informed through News papers and can be downloaded.

Allotment of Teacher Education Institution will be made through ON-LINE counselling. The counselling programme will be published in leading newspapers of Rajasthan and will also be made available on PTET website www.p t e t 2 0 1 2 . n e t , www. p t e t 2 0 1 2 . i n f o alongwith the instructions regarding their participation in ONLINE Counselling. Candidates are bound to follow the same. Candidates are advised to keep constant watch on the leading newspapers of Rajasthan and website of the PTET on/after the declaration of their result. The candidates who do not perform ON-LINE counselling or refuse to accept the allotted college through ON-LINE counselling,
will loose their PTET merit position and their chance for admission to B.Ed. course will not be reconsidered. After allotment of a college any request for transfer or change of college (individual or mutual) shall not be entertained in any case. The admission fee deposited by a candidate will not be returned in any condition if he/she reported on-line through the college allotted to him/her.

6. A candidate will be allotted a Teacher Education Institution/College in the State through on-line counseling on the basis of his merit in the test and as per his faculty, category, teaching subjects etc. Admission to a Teacher Education Institution in a particular District/place cannot be claimed by any candidate on the basis of belonging to that District/ place or on any other ground.

7. For admission in the B.Ed. Course candidate must have teaching subjects at Bachelor/Master Degree level. (i) ‘Teaching subject’ means a subject offered by the candidate at his/her Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree Examination either as a compulsory subject or as an optional subject or as a subsidiary subject, provided that the candidate studied it for at least two years and also taken University Examination. This shall not include such subjects as were studied by him/her only for a part of the Bachelor’s Degree Course. Thus the qualifying subjects like General English, General Hindi, General Education/History of Indian Civilization and Culture, Elementary Mathematics, etc. prescribed for the First Year T.D.C. or Second Year Course of the University or a subject dropped by a candidate at the Part-1 stage of the Degree Course shall not be treated as a teaching subject. In the case of Honours Graduates, besides the honours subject, the subsidiary subjects would also be taken into account, provided the candidate studied the same for last two academic sessions and also passed University Examination. The mark sheet of Final year examination should clearly indicate the marks of compilation of Part I, Part II and Part III in the case of three years degree course or Part II and Part III examinations in the case of two years degree course separately.
(ii) Only such Candidates shall be allowed to offer Social Studies for the B.Ed. Examination as have taken their
Bachelor’s Degree with atleast two subjects out of History, Political Science, Public Administration, Economics, Geography, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology.
(iii) A person having Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture shall be allowed to offer General Science and Biology for B.Ed. Examination. General Science may also be allowed to be offered by a candidate passing the Degree of B.Sc. (Home Science) or passing the B.Sc. Examination with Chemistry with any one subject of Life Science, i.e. Biology or Botany or Zoology.
(iv) A candidate who has offered Political Science or Public Administration at his Bachelor’s or the Master’s Degree Examination shall be eligible to offer Civics as a teaching subject in the B.Ed. Examination. Explanatory
Explanatory notes to eligibility rules:
(i) For the purpose of PTET merit, Faculty-wise, candidate’s Faculty is the Faculty in which he/she has passed the graduation examination, which is the qualifying examination and enables him/her to offer subjects for practice teaching. The P.G. Examination of a different Faculty other than that of graduation shall neither be taken into consideration for determining the merit nor for offering a school teaching subject.
(ii) Where a candidate has passed Post Graduate Examination in two subjects of the same Faculty, which is different from the Faculty of graduation, he/she may be assigned the Faculty of P.G. Examination for determining the merit, if chosen so provided both the subjects of P.G. Examination are School teaching subjects.
(iii) Economics cannot be offered by a Commerce Graduate.
(iv) Those who are not able to offer atleast one practice teaching subject for B.Ed. Course in accordance with subjects shown against B.Ed. Colleges must not appear in the PTET as admission will not be allowed with a subject which is not on the syllabus of B.Ed. in any of the University. Candidates who have passed B.B.A./B.C.A./B.E. or any such degree which don’t have any school teaching subject are not eligible for admission in B.Ed. Course.
(v) Any one who is not fulfilling any of the eligibility conditions as on the last date prescribed for submission of on-line application form for PTET- 2012 must neither apply nor appear in the test as the appearance in the test will be treated as cancelled and admission will not be allowed even if he/she is in merit on account of having appeared in the test and even in the case where admission has been allowed erroneously due to non-checking of the eligibility of the candidate. The admission shall be treated to have been cancelled at any stage of noticing the same.

(vi) The candidate not eligible in terms of rules shall not get any right by depositing the registration or admission fee with the scheduled bank.
(vii) (a) As per rules in vogue for admission to B.Ed. Course in a Teacher Education Colleges in Rajasthan, a candidate passing a Degree Examination of three years’ duration (after intermediate) conducted by a University where Part I Examination is not conducted by the University and the marks obtained there at are not included in the marks sheet of Part II for the award of division, is not eligible to appear in PTET for admission to B.Ed. Course.
(b) In case of Honours Graduate, if he/she has not studied the same subsidiary subject for at least two years taking University Examination for both the years separately, he/she is not eligible to offer the subsidiary subject as a teaching subject and so to appear in the PTET.
(c) Those candidates who have passed Graduation through Correspondence Course from any University by taking only one University Examination or have not studied through 10+2+3 scheme or 10+1+3 (old scheme) are not eligible to appear in PTET. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUIDANCE TO THE CANDIDATES

(i) In the first instance the candidate has to determine his/her own eligibility to appear in PTET as there may be no checking of eligibility of candidates by the University at the stage of appearance in the test. The appearance at the test will be at candidate’s own risk and responsibility and it will not confer any right upon the candidate to be admitted to B.Ed. course in case he/she is subsequently found to be ineligible for admission to PTET or B.Ed. Course. Further, the appearance at the test is at candidate’s own risk and issuance of statement of marks will also not confer any right upon him/her for admission to the course, if later found ineligible.
(ii) The candidate should read the rules as well as general instructions very carefully and comply with the same,
failing which his/her admission to B.Ed. Course may be cancelled. Non-eligible candidates should not appear in
the PTET. (iii) Merely a mention of the category in the ON-LINE Application Form without actually belonging to the same or sending attested copy of certificate without mentioning a category in the Application Form or filling wrong or incorrect information in the Application Form will be treated as ‘misconduct’ and will result in cancellation of the application form.

(iv) THE FEE FOR PTET IS NON-REFUNDABLE IN ALL ABOVE CASES. THEREFORE, ONLY SUCH CANDIDATES SHOULD APPLY WHO ARE ELIGIBLE AS PER RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS. Guidelines regarding admission to Pre Teacher Education Test.

1. In the very nature of competitive Examination, no syllabus has been prescribed. It is an exercise to pick-up the best. However, the following pages contain a broad outline.
2. The PTET Examination will consist of one question paper containing following four Sections:
· Mental Ability
· Teaching Attitude & Aptitude Test
· General Awareness, and
· Language Proficiency (Hindi or English)

Section A: Mental ability Section shall consist of 50 objective type multiple choice questions to test the following
abilities: (i) Reasoning, (ii) Imagination, (iii) Judgement & Decision Making, (iv) Creative Thinking, (v) Generalization, (vi) Drawing Inferences, etc. Section B : Teaching Attitude and Aptitude test Section shall consist of 50 questions mainly on the following areas: (i) Social Maturity, (ii) Leadership, (iii) Professional Commitment, (iv) Interpersonal Relations, (v) Communication, (vi) Awareness etc. This will be test of attitudes and awareness in which answers to question will be scored on a scale of 3, 2, 1 and 0. Section C: General awareness Section shall consist of 50 Objective type multiple choice questions mainly regarding the following areas: (i) Current affair (National & International), (ii) Indian History & Culture, (iii) India and its natural resources, (iv) Great Indian personalities (Past and Present), (v) Environmental awareness, (vi) Knowledge about Rajasthan etc. Section D: Language Proficiency (English or Hindi) Section shall consists of 50 Objective type multiple choice questions regarding proficiency in Hindi or English Language mainly related to the following aspects: (i) Vocabulary, (ii) Functional Grammar, (iii) Sentence structures, (iv) Comprehension etc.
(i) All questions in Question-Paper shall be objective type multiple choice questions with at least four alternative
answers (See sample question under heading ‘Model Question Paper’) (ii) The Paper will be set both in English and Hindi except for the Language Proficiency Section. In case of discrepancy in options of answers or in question paper the English version be treated as final. (iii) The duration of the paper shall be 3 hours.(iv) Each question will carry 3 marks and the maximum marks in the paper shall be 600. (v) Full 3 marks will be awarded for each correct answer. In Attitude & Aptitude Section, however, the answer will be scaled on a scale of 3 to 0 marks. This means that answer to each question will carry marks of 3, 2, 1 and 0. 3. The question paper of each section will be in the form of a test booklet containing 50 questions bearing number 1, 2, 3, ……, 50. There would be at least four alternative suggested answers (A) (B) (C) (D) etc. to each question. The candidate will be required to choose the correct answer and darken the correct circle by Ball Pen only, corresponding to the question in the answer sheet to be provided to each candidate. Mark should be dark and circle filled completely. Dark only one circle for each question as shown in example. Make the mark only in the spaces provided. Please do not make any stray marks on the answer sheet. Filling of more than one circle for any question or not erasing a mark fully for changing answer will mean rejection of that answer. Rough work must not be done on the answer sheet. Use the space for rough work given in the test booklet. The answer sheet will be collected from them at the end of the Examination. Assessment will be made only on the basis of the answer sheets.

4.The question booklets shall be arranged in different combinations. It must be ensured by the candidate that the serial number of the Question booklet is correctly and accurately written at the prescribed place on the Answer Sheet and correct circles corresponding to the figures are darkened very carefully. 5. The merit list of qualifying candidates will be prepared on the basis of the marks obtained by the candidate as per PTET Rules.

6. Where same marks are secured by two or more candidates, merit will be assigned on the basis of marks obtained at the Graduation Examination. Where marks of Graduation are same, date of birth will be taken into consideration. Elder candidate will be given higher merit.

7. Admission Card will be made available on website.

8. Rescanning of the answer-sheets for Pre-Teacher Education Test can be done on submission of application on plain paper mentioning his/her name, father’s name, address and Roll number along with self-addressed envelope affixing stamp of Rs. 5/-, mentioning Roll Number on the Top of Envelope and with a Bank Draft of Rs.150/- in favour of Coordinator, PTET-2012 as fee within 10 days of the date of declaration of result on Website. No application shall be entertained if received after due date irrespective of any reason or without mentioning Name, Father’s name, Address and Roll number.
9. The answer sheets of the test shall not be subject to production before any Court (Civil or Criminal) or before the candidate or any body else on his/her behalf or before an internal or external authority.
10. The Jurisdiction of all Court Cases will be at Jodhpur only. The responsibility of giving admission to students for B.Ed. in all the Teacher Training Colleges of Rajasthan for the Session 2012-13 is of the Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur only. As such Court cases for admissions against the Principals of T.T. Colleges will not be acceptable to this University. Such admission, if any, given by the Principal will not be accepted.

Declaration of Result:
1. The result of all the candidates will be made available on Website of PTET www. p t e t 2 0 1 2 . n e t , www. p t e t 2 0 1 2 . i n f o or on the site as informed through News papers. The information about their selection status for admission in B.Ed. Course will also be made available with their result on Website. Marksheets can be downloaded from the Website of PTET. No information about the result/selection for admission in B.Ed. Course will be sent by posts. Notification regarding declaration of result on Website will be published in newspapers for information of candidates.

2. The application form and other material related to the test will be kept preserved for six months after the examination. Thereafter, the material will be disposed off.