Less than half of the candidates aspirant to be selected as teachers in schools in the state have been competent to clear the mandatory Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) held by Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB). As per the result announced by the board on 17^th Jan 2012, only 48.68 % aspirants have cleared the test.

Chairman of GSHSEB R R Varsani said that 90,126 applicants had appeared for TET. Of these, 43,876 candidates cleared the entrance exam. Varsani claimed that the result was good considering the fact that the pass percentage was 50 %.

TET, recently made compulsory for candidates applying for position of teachers in the state, was mannerd on December 18, 2011. The weightage of the TET is 70 %, while the rest 30 % weightage would be given to the educational qualification of job candidates.

Varsani said that result of 181 applicants has been inoperative as they have not submitted documents supporting their applications. These candidates were acceptable to emerge for TET although their failure to apply online for the test. Once their documents are received by the board, their results would be confirmed.

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In addition, results of three candidates have been cancelled as they had made detection signs on the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) test paper. This equivalent to cheating hence the result was cancelled, a board official said.