CTET 22nd edition fixed for 12 and 13 December 2026

The 22nd edition of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test will be held on 12 and 13 December 2026. A public notice from the CTET Unit of CBSE, numbered F. No. CBSE/CTET/2026 and dated 14 September 2026, states those two dates as the examination days.

The notice is short and operational. It does not reopen the application window in this text. It confirms the December sitting and then explains when candidates will see city and centre details on the CTET portal.

When city allotment and admit cards appear

Information on the examination city and the date of examination allotted to each candidate will be made available on the CTET portal 15 days before the examination. The admit card, which carries examination centre details, will be available for download from the same portal two days before the examination.

Working backwards from 12 and 13 December 2026, candidates should therefore expect city and date information about two weeks before those days, and should download the admit card in the final 48 hours before their paper. The notice does not print a separate SMS promise. The portal is the channel named for both releases.

What candidates should do now

Candidates who already applied for the 22nd edition should keep their CTET login active and watch the portal rather than informal forwards. Anyone still unsure about application status should use the official CTET site and the CBSE examination services links that CBSE has been publishing for this edition, instead of third-party claim pages.

The notice is signed by the Director (CTET) and gives the CTET Unit address at the CBSE Integrated Office Complex, Sector-23, Phase-1, Dwarka, New Delhi-110077, with telephone +91-11-24050477 and the Board website www.cbse.gov.in. For day-to-day exam service, the notice points candidates to the CTET portal for city data and admit cards.

In practical terms, 12 and 13 December 2026 are locked as the exam dates. Fifteen days before the paper, check city and allotted date. Two days before the paper, download the admit card. Those three facts are the full operational content of the 14 September public notice for the 22nd CTET edition.

Earlier CBSE notices in August 2026 had dealt with reopening the online application window for the same 22nd edition. The 14 September notice does not repeat those application dates. It only locks the December examination days and the lead times for city and admit-card release on the CTET portal.

Candidates should photograph or save the admit card PDF as soon as it downloads, because centre details can be required at the gate. City information released 15 days prior is useful for travel planning, especially for candidates who must move between cities. The notice does not promise a change of city after allotment in this text.

The CTET Unit sits at the CBSE Integrated Office Complex in Dwarka. Website references on the notice include www.cbse.gov.in, while day-to-day candidate services for city and admit card run through the CTET portal at ctet.nic.in. Candidates should bookmark both and ignore unofficial sites that ask for passwords or extra fees to show city lists.

Candidates should treat the portal timestamps as authoritative if the city list or admit card goes live slightly earlier or later within the windows described. The public notice does not add a new syllabus circular; it only fixes the December dates and the lead times for city information and admit cards.