COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMINATION  (NCERT)

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is the highest advisory body of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India in the matters of School and Teacher Education.

NCERT caters to the educational needs of the states and UTs of the country in the areas of research, development and training in school education.

NCERT comprises of eight constituents including five Regional Institute of Educations (RIEs) located at different parts of the country.

Regional Institute of Educations (RIEs):

• RIE, Mysore : Southern Region
• RIE,Bhubaneswar : Eastern Region
• RIE, Bhopal : Western Region
• RIE, Ajmer: Northern region
• NERIE,Shillong : North East Region

The RIEs are model teacher education institutes in the areas of school and teacher education. These institutes have endeavoured to shoulder the responsibilities and challenges generated by changes in the educational scenario of the country.

Courses Offered:

Common Entrance Examination (CEE)- is held for admission to the following programmes offered by the Regional Institutes of Education located at Ajmer, Bhubaneswar,Bhopal, Mysuru, and Shillong;

• B.Sc.B.Ed. (Four Year Integrated)
• B.A.B.Ed. (Four Year Integrated)
• M.Sc.Ed. (Six Year Integrated)
• B.Ed. M.Ed (Three Year Integrated)
• B.Ed. (Two Year)
• M.Ed. (Two Year)

Syllabus for CEE-2024

1. Language Proficiency indicating specific areas like comprehension, rearranging sentences, selecting suitable words for the blanks, finding out errors in parts of the sentences, finding out equivalent meaning to the given phrases, finding out suitable words for the incomplete sentences, sequencing, grammar which includes synonyms, antonyms, idioms, prepositions, tenses, articles.
2. Teaching Aptitude will cover specific areas like attitude towards education, children, and teaching profession; interest in teaching; leadership qualities & group management; emotional & social adjustment; intrapersonal & interpersonal skills; digital initiatives and pedagogy, NEP 2020, and school education, NCF-SE-2023 and general awareness of contemporary issues pertaining to school education. 3. Reasoning Ability indicating specific areas like verbal & non-verbal reasoning, missing numbers, number series, letter series, theme finding, jumbling, analogy, odd one out, arranging the statements in a sequential form, statement and conclusions, syllogism, logical problems, establishing relationships.

CEE-2024 Patten: 

1. Separate questions will be for different groups:

• Group-A : B.Sc.B.Ed./B.A.B.Ed./M.Sc.Ed.
• Group-B: B.Ed./B.Ed.-M.Ed.
• Group-C: M.Ed.

2. Level of question paper will be as given below:

• Group-A – The level of questions will be such as expected of the candidate completing higher secondary/senior secondary education.
• Group-B- The level of questions will be such as expected of the candidate completing graduation.
• Group-C- The level of questions will be such as expected of the candidate completing graduation and professional education level.

3. Out of 80 questions,

• Language Proficiency in English 20 questions,
• Teaching Aptitude 30 questions and
• Reasoning Ability 30 questions.

4. Medium of Test Booklets will be only in English and Hindi.
5. No. of test items-80, Time Duration-120 minutes.Max.Marks-160
6. Correct answer(s) will carry 2 marks each, Wrong answer(s) will carry negative marking of (minus) -0.5 marks each and Question(s) unattended will carry no marks.