Agartala, Apr 14, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Agartala, April 14: The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) candidates expressed their concern over ‘irregularities’ in the TET-I and TET-II question papers by the Teachers’ Recruitment Board of Tripura (TRBT) and demanded for rechecking of allegedly wrong question on some sets of question papers before the publication of result.

Addressing a press conference here at Agartala Press Club on Friday, the TET candidates who appeared for the TET-I and TET-II examination in December last year alleged irregularities in question papers, which were set by the TRBT. According to them, 22 questions of the TET-I examination were found wrong and another 31 questions of TET-II examination were also found to be wrong.

The deprived TET candidates said that in response to their challenge against those ‘wrong’ questions, the TRBT provided a star mark to only one question out of 22 of TET-I and 4 out of 31 challenged questions of TET-II examination. According to the TET candidates, the TRBT in response to the challenges, did not grant the books, which were recommended by the expert committee of the TRBT. They however showcased the recommended books in the press conference on Friday and expressed concern over the role of the TRBT.

They sought the intervention of the Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, who also holds the education portfolio and urged him to look into the matter so as to restrict further irregularities. They also demanded the TRBT to recheck the ‘wrong’ questions which were challenged before they publish the results.