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Kerala -Set

Kerala State Eligibility Test (SET) is organized by the Government of Kerala in order to ensure that teaching standards have maintained, the standard of Higher education in the state of Kerala. Applicants must have Kerala SET for joining higher education as a teacher. 

The Kerala SET entrance exam is four hours duration exam. There are 2 papers in the Kerala SET exam.

While Paper-I is common for all candidates, Paper-II contains questions from the subject in which a candidate had a specialization at the post-graduation level.

The SET would be conducted only in the following 31 subjects listed below. The candidates are supposed to appear for only one subject from the list. These subjects are listed below:

Arabic	Hindi	Political Science
Biotechnology	History	Psychology
Botany	Home Science	Russian
Chemistry	Journalism	Sanskrit
Commerce	Latin	Social Work
Economics	Malayalam	Sociology
English	Mathematics	Statistics
French	Music	Syriac
Geography	Philosophy	Tamil
Geology	Physics	Urdu
German	Zoology	-

SET Eligibility

Candidates who want to appear in the exam must possess a Master’s degree in a specific subject with not less than 50% aggregate marks or equivalent grade. Apart from this aspirant should have a B.Ed. degree in any discipline from any university in Kerala or possess these qualifications from any other university which is considered to be on par with these universities.

Note: Aspirants who possess their Master’s degree with the minimum required marks to meet SET eligibility criteria but are currently in the final year of their B.Ed. the degree programme also eligible to appear in Kerala SET. Similarly, candidates who have secured their B.Ed degree and are in the final year of their post-graduate programme also eligible for appearing in the exam. The official website informs: “Such candidates must produce the Certificates of their qualifying examinations passed with the minimum required marks within 1 year from the date of publication of the results of the test, failing which they shall be treated as disqualified”

 Application Fee:

1. Open/General/OBC:-    Rs-750   for outsiders (Rs-800)
2. SC/ST/VH/PH:-          Rs- 345   for outsiders (Rs-425)

Centres for the exam

      Code      Districts

1.           Thiruvananthapuram
2.           Kollam
3.           Pathanamthitta
4.           Alappuzha
5.           Kottayam
6.           Idukki
7.           Ernakulam
8.           Thrissur
9.           Palakkad
10.           Malappuram
11.           Kozhikode
12.           Wayanad
13.           Kannur
14.           Kasaragod

Scheme of the exam

PAPER	SUBJECT	TOTAL NO. OF QUESTIONS	MARKS FOR EACH QUESTION
Paper-I	GK (Part A) and Aptitude in Teaching (Part B)	120 (60 questions each part)	1
Paper-II	All 33 subjects except for Mathematics and Statistics	120 questions	1
	Mathematics and Statistics	80 questions	1.5

For more information visit the official 

website:- http://lbscentre.kerala.gov.in/services/state_eligibility_test