Nearly 50,000 teachers will take Teachers' Aptitude Test today

Nearly 50,000 teachers will appear for the Teachers' Aptitude Test (TAT) examinations on Monday conducted by Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB). The test is being held for recruitment of teachers for class IX and X.

Officials said that the TAT exam will be held in main center of each district to facilitate more teachers from rural areas to easily take the test. The test will be held in two parts. Paper one will be test general knowledge while the second paper will subject based.

Officials said that blind teachers will be given permission to have writers to write their papers. However, the writers will be only class VIII pass. Blind candidates will be allowed 20 extra minutes for the first paper while 15 extra minutes will be allowed for the second paper.

Officials said that certain officers will be deployed in all the centers to curb copying. It needs mention that this is the second TAT exam which will be held. Earlier, 95,000 candidates had appeared for TAT in December to qualify for the position of secondary teachers for classes VIII, IX and X in government and grant-in-aid schools.

However, recruitments following the first TAT exam ran into rough weather after majority school managements refused to issue appointment letters to the teachers recruited by the state education department following TAT exams saying that the schools were not given any say in the recruitment which was unacceptable.