Over 4.64 lakh candidates to take B Ed entrance test

There are more candidates aspiring to be teachers this year. Lucknow University has received 4,64,676 applications for B Ed Joint Entrance Exam (2017-19) as against last year’s 3.03 lakh applications.

The written test will be held at 905 centres in 16 cities of UP on Wednesday (May 3). These cities include Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Azamgarh, Ballia, Bareilly, Faizabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Moradabad and Varanasi.

As the number of candidates has increased, Lucknow has been divided into two zones. There are a few candidates who could not upload their photographs and signature due to technical reasons but filled the rest of the application form in Step 3.

“We are provisionally allowing these candidates to appear for the written test. We are calling such candidates in one of the centres in Lucknow where the provision of still photography is made,” said Naveen Khare, coordinator of the test.

From April 25 afternoon, admit cards for candidates will be available online from the UP JEE B Ed website (http:// upbed.nic.in).

The candidates are required to bring two copies of their admit cards. They will have to submit one copy of the admit card to the invigilator at the time of test with the same photograph which they uploaded in the application form. The candidates failing to produce the admit card at the centre would not be allowed to appear in test, he said.

The physically handicapped, visually impaired and female candidates are allotted their first choice of written test centres.

The visually impaired candidates would have to contact their centre superintendent one day before the written examination for the arrangement of writer along with the application for the same.