State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Punjab has announced the revised schedule of Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (PSTET) 2019. All the dates, including that of registration, corrections, admit card download, and exam date have been changed.
As per the new revised schedule of PSTET 2018 (the exam is officially referred to as PSTET 2018, though candidates are widely referring to it as PSTET 2019 or PSTET 2020), the exam will be held on December 22, 2019. Earlier, the exam date was December 15, 2019. As can be seen, the exam date has been shifted by a week.
The last date to register for the state level teacher eligibility test is now December 3, 2019, 12 PM. In the previous schedule, deadline to apply was November 25, 2019.
Candidates will be able to make corrections in application form, from December 4, 2019, 12 PM. After that the PSTET admit card will be issued on December 16, 2019.
It may be noted that as per the previous schedule, application form correction for PSTET had already started on November 25, 2019. Not only was it scheduled, but the event had actually started, as confirmed by the countdown timer on the login page, pstet.net/Login.aspx. Whereas earlier the countdown timer was showing days and time left for correction to end, it is now showing the days and time left for registration to close.
At the time of publishing this news, 5 days and little over 4 hours are seen to be remaining for PSTET registration to end
SCERT has not provided any specific reason behind changing the timeline for the exam. However as per speculations, it is probably to allow those candidates to apply, who could not do it earlier. It may also be to give more number of days between the Punjab TET and CTET 2019 which is scheduled for December 8, 2019.
Pstet.net is the official website for the exam. It is there that the online application form for PSTET 2018 (2019/2020) can be filled and submitted before the new deadline. To apply, teaching aspirants need to click on “New User” link under the Login / Register section. Doing so opens up a list of instructions comprising of 13 points. After reading and understanding it, one can fill the form.
The application fee for general and BC, SC / ST / PH for any one paper are Rs 600 and Rs 300 respectively. To apply for both the papers, the respective fees are Rs 1200 and Rs 600. Fee is exempt for ex servicemen.
Teaching aspirants who are eligible for, and aspire to teach classes I to V, that is primary stage, should apply for paper 1. Whereas those who do so for classes VI to VIII that is elementary stage should apply for paper 2.
Both paper 1 and paper 2 will be 2.5 hour long papers. They will have 150 multiple choice questions of 1 mark each. There will not be any negative marking in PSTET.
