There shall be one paper of 150 minutes (Two and half hours) duration carrying 300 marks containing 100 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), to be divided into the following two parts:

a) 30 MCQs on teaching aptitude, reasoning, current educational scenario;

b) There will be four subject groups viz., Languages, Science, Mathematics and Social Sciences and Humanities.

The candidate will be required to appear in the group for which he/she has given option in the application form on the basis of his/her eligibility. Each group will have 70 MCQs. The distribution of questions in the various groups will be as under: Languages- Equitable items from Hindi, English, Sanskrit; Science- Equitable items from Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Home Science, Computer Science; Mathematics- Majority of the items will be from Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; Humanities and Social Sciences- Equitable items from History, Political Science, Geography, Economics, Commerce and Home Science.