LBS Centre for Science and Technology jobs for State Eligibility Test in Thiruvananthapuram. Last Date to apply: 15 Feb 2019

State Eligibility Test - February – 2019 job recruitment in LBS Centre for Science and Technology

Qualification :  The Candidate must have a Master’s degree in a relevant subject with at least 50% marks or equivalent along with a B.Ed. degree in relevant discipline from any recognized university.

For Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology, candidates should have MSc.Ed Degree in the concerned subject with minimum 50% marks or its equivalent grade from any one of the Regional Institutes of Education sponsored by the NCERT. On the other hand, for Botany and Zoology candidates should have MSc.Ed Degree in Life Science with minimum 50% marks from any one of the Regional Institutes of Education.

For subjects, Anthropology, Commerce, Gandhian Studies, French, Geology, German, Journalism, Home Science, Latin, Music, Psychology, Philosophy, Russian, Social Work, Sociology, Statistics and Syriac, candidates do need to have B.Ed degree.

For SET in English, candidates having II class Master’s Degree in Communicative English with minimum 50% marks and B.Ed degree are eligible. Candidates having DLED/LTTC in Arabic, Urdu, and Hindi, not B.Ed, are eligible to apply for SET exam.

Candidates having B.Ed degree in Hindi organized by the Dakshin Bharatha Hindi Prachar Sabha are exempted from the obligation of producing the equivalency certificate, because the degree has been recognized by the Universities in Kerala

Candidates who acquired the qualification from open universities or through a correspondence course and not recognized by any one of the Universities in Kerala are not permitted to appear in SET exam. Those have obtained the qualifications through recognized correspondence courses/Open universities they have to obtain and certificates of recognition and equivalency from any one of the Universities in Kerala.

Candidates having Master’s degree with minimum required marks but undergoing through the final year courses for B.Ed degree can apply for the exam. Those have acquired B.Ed but undergoing through final year courses of their Post Graduate Programme can also apply. Candidates belonging to this category are required to produce the certificate of qualifying exam passed within one year from the date of publication of the result.

The relaxation of 5% in minimum marks will be given to candidates of SC/ST category.

Candidates willing for Latin subject, they should have passed their degree examination in any discipline from any one of the Universities in Kerala or from any other University recognized as equivalent thereto with Latin as their Second Language under Part II with minimum 50% marks for that Part II are also eligible to appear for SET, provided such candidates have obtained II Class Master’s Degree with minimum 50% marks in any discipline.

Age Limit :  In order to get admission, one must be above the age of 18 years at the time of admission. However official authorities have not decided an upper age limit for the applicants to apply for the admission procedure.

Fee : 

Applicant residing in the state of Kerala

General  : Rs. 750

SC/ST/PH/VH Candidates : Rs. 375

Applicant From Outside of Kerala            

General : Rs. 800

SC/ST/PH/VH Candidates :  Rs. 425

Selection Procedure :  The candidate’s Selection process will be done based on the performance in the Kerala SET Entrance Exam conducted by the University of Kerala. Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of marks scored in the Entrance Exam.

Kerala SET 2019 Entrance Exam :  We have mentioned below the important information about the entrance exam for the reference of the applicants:

There will be two papers in the entrance exam (paper 1 and paper 2).

Paper 1 will consist of a maximum of 120 questions of 120 marks in total.

Applicants will get one mark for each correct response given in paper 1.

However paper 2 will consist of 200 questions in total.

Authorities will give one marks for each correct response in all subjects paper except mathematics and statistics.

5 marks will be given to the applicants for each correct response in the question paper 2 for mathematics and statistics.

Exam Centre :  Kerala SET test centres will be located at all the District Head Quarters in the State. Please go through the list of test centres given below:-

Code & Districts

01 Thiruvananthapuram

02 Kollam

03 Pathanamthitta

04 Alappuzha

05 Kottayam

06 Idukki

07 Ernakulam

08 Thrissur

09 Palakkad

10 Malappuram

11 Kozhikode

12 Wayanad

13 Kannur

14 Kasaragod