At a glance
The facts most likely to change your decision.
- Vacancies
- Eligibility test — no vacancies OTET is a qualifying eligibility test conducted by the Board; it does not itself carry vacancies.
- Education
- 12th · ITI / Diploma · Graduate The Board's OTET-2025 notices reviewed here do not restate the qualification; teacher-education requirements are governed by the official OTET notification and NCTE norms. Do not assume an earlier cycle's wording.
- Age
- The Board's OTET-2025 notices reviewed here do not restate an age limit; use the official OTET notification. Relaxations and cut-off dates are category-specific.
- Application fee
- The Board's OTET-2025 notices reviewed here do not restate the examination fee; use the official OTET notification. Use the official payment instructions only.
- Pay
- OTET is an eligibility test, not an appointment; pay is fixed by the recruitment rules of the teacher post applied for later. Gross and in-hand pay vary by posting and allowance.
- Recruitment cycle
- 2025-26 State · Odisha
Vacancies & reservation
What is known, what overlaps and what remains unreported.
Category table not available here
Check the latest official notice for the post- and category-wise distribution.
How to read reservation: UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST are vertical categories. PwBD, women, ex-servicemen and similar horizontal reservations can overlap them and must not be added again to the total.
Complete timeline
One record from notification to final outcome.
- completed
Application form published
12 Nov 2025
- completed
Admit card released
10 Dec 2025
- completed
Answer key notification
26 Dec 2025
- completed
Provisional answer keys published
28 Dec 2025
Paper I, and Paper II in the Social Science and Mathematics & Science streams. - completed
Answer-key challenge window opened
29 Dec 2025
- completed
Result, scoring keys and digital certificates published
12 Feb 2026
- current
Tender invited for OTET Examination-2026 confidential materials
17 Apr 2026
Who can apply?
A readable first check—not a legal eligibility decision.
Basic eligibility paths
- OTET is a qualifying eligibility test for teacher posts in Odisha; qualifying does not by itself create a claim to appointment.
- Confirm education, training, age, the class levels each paper covers, and category rules from the Board's official OTET notification for the cycle you are applying to.
Relaxations & certificates
- SC/ST, OBC-NCL, PwBD and ex-servicemen relaxations follow the applicable notification.
- Always check the certificate format and cut-off date in the official notice.
Selection process & syllabus
Stage by stage, without mixing recruitment years.
Selection stages
- 1Paper I
- 2Paper II, taken in the Mathematics & Science or the Social Science stream — the two streams for which the Board published separate OTET-2025 scoring keys
- 3Publication of scoring keys, OMR view, result and digital eligibility certificate
Syllabus snapshot
- Use the official OTET syllabus published by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha for the cycle concerned.
Application document checklist
Prepare before the portal gets busy.
Recent passport-size photograph and scanned signature
Government photo ID with the same name used in the application
Education certificates and marksheets
Category, EWS, PwBD or ex-serviceman certificate, if claimed
Domicile or language proof where the notification requires it
Official links & source record
Go straight to the recruiting body.
- Primary source
- Board of Secondary Education, Odisha dated notice list for OTET-2025
- Published / changed
- OTET-2025 result and certificate notices dated 12 Feb 2026; OTET-2026 tender dated 17 Apr 2026
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026, 19:30 IST
Official notices, corrigenda and recruiting-body pages have final authority. This page is a reading aid.