OSSTET 2024 Exam Pattern, Paper Pattern – Check Marking Scheme Here

Board of Secondary Education Odisha (BSEO) has organized the Odisha Secondary School Teacher Eligibility Test (OSSTET) for the applicants; who are seeking for the opportunity for the selection as an Odisha Secondary School Teacher.

The applicants can fill the Application Form of OSSTET on the basis of their Eligibility Criteria. This examination is conducted every year to offer teacher jobs to candidates in the Secondary Schools of Odisha State.

Here, from this article, students will be able to know the detailed information of the Odisha Secondary School Teacher Eligibility Test in which includes the OSSTET Exam Pattern.

OSSTET 2024 Exam Pattern

Those candidates have submitted their Application Form and aspire to score qualified marks in the examination should have to go with the exam pattern for better preparation of the Examination. The exam pattern of OSSTET will be available on the official website and applicants can check and download the PDF. The exam pattern details are mentioned below.

There shall be two papers of the OSSTET viz Paper-I and Paper-II.

Persons having requisite academic and training qualifications as per Category-I have to appear in Paper –I of the Examination.

Persons having requisite academic and training qualifications as per Category–II have to appear in Paper-II of the examination.

• The Duration of the Test in each paper shall be 2 hours and 30 minutes.
• All questions will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) each carrying one mark with four alternatives out of which one is correct.
• There shall be Four Sections in each paper.
• In section I, Language I, Odia shall be compulsory for all categories of posts.
• In section II, Language II, English shall be compulsory for all categories of posts.
• In section III, under stream TGT (Arts) and TGT (Science for both PCM & CBZ), the questions shall be in English. The questions in other streams like Classical Teacher (Sanskrit/ Telugu/ Urdu) and Hindi Teacher shall be in respective languages/ scripts.
• VIII. The questions in Section III for Paper II (Category II- Physical Education Teacher) shall be from the contents of C.P.Ed. Course and shall be in English.
• Section-IV questions in Child Development, Pedagogy, School Management, and Evaluation shall be in English and Compulsory for both categories.
• There shall be no negative marking.

Qualifying Marks – The minimum pass mark in each paper is 60%. A person securing 60% or more in each paper shall be considered to have qualified OSSTET. In the case of SC/ ST/ PH/ SEBC candidates, the minimum pass mark shall be 50%.

Category-I (Education Teachers)

Paper-I (Section-I & II)

Section I – Odia – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Section II – English – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Section-III

TGT (Arts):- 

Odia – 15 Qs – 15 marks

English – 15 Qs – 15 marks

History & Pol Sc. – 15 Qs – 15 marks

Geography & Economics – 15 Qs – 15 marks

TGT (Science) PCM

Mathematics – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Physics – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Chemistry – 20 Qs – 20 marks

TGT (Science) CBZ 

Chemistry – 20 Qs – 20 marks 

Botany – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Zoology – 20 Qs – 20 marks

Classical Teacher(Sanskrit) 

Sanskrit  – 60 Qs – 60 marks

Hindi Teacher 

Hindi – 60 Qs – 60 marks

Classical Teacher (Telugu)

Telugu – 60 Qs – 60 marks 

Classical Teacher (Urdu) 

Urdu  – 60 Qs – 60 marks

Section IV

Stream – TGT (Arts), TGT (Science) PCM, TGT (Science) CBZ, Classical Teacher(Sanskrit), Hindi Teacher, Classical Teacher(Telugu), Classical Teacher (Urdu)

Subject – Child Development, Pedagogy, school Management & Evaluation – 50 Qs -50 marks

Category-II Physical Education Teacher – 

Paper-II

Section I & II: Same as Paper-I 

Section-III- 

Subject:- Contents of C.P Ed. Course – 60 Qs – 60 marks

Section IV: Same as Paper-I

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