Karnataka TET Admit Card 2025: KARTET Dates, Timings, Rules

No KARTET admit card is open now. The last one, for Karnataka TET (KARTET) 2025, could be downloaded from 1 to 7 December 2025 for the exam held on 7 December 2025. The department's KARTET notices on schooleducation.karnataka.gov.in still end with the KARTET-2025 certificate notice of 13 January 2026; no KARTET 2026 notification has been posted there.

How the KARTET admit card was downloaded

The Centralized Admission Cell (CAC) announced in a notice dated 1 December 2025 that the KARTET 2025 admit card had been published on the department website, schooleducation.karnataka.gov.in. Candidates printed it using their user ID and password, and the department's link "Click here to download KARTET-2025 - Admission ticket" opened the TET portal, sts.karnataka.gov.in/TET. The notice told candidates to follow the instructions printed on the admit card and to come to the centre with it.

• The admit card is obtained only online.
• It is issued on the basis of the details you entered in the online application, so qualification, reservation and date of birth must be entered correctly there.
• Keep a copy of the online application, the admit card and the fee challan until the whole TET process is over.
• Helpline: 080-22228805, 22483140, 22483145.

KARTET exam-day timetable

The KARTET 2025 notification (18 October 2025) printed a minute-by-minute schedule. Candidates who arrive after the last entry time are not allowed in.

What to bring and what is banned

• Bring the admit card and blue or black ball-point pens. Without the admit card you will not be allowed into the exam hall.
• Banned: whitener, eraser, sharpener, blade, printed or written sheets, mobile phones, calculators, electronic watches and any electronic device. Water bottles cannot be taken into the hall.
• KARTET is an OMR test. Shade the chosen circle fully with a blue or black ball-point pen; changing an answer after shading is prohibited, and a circle shaded less than 30% is not read by the computer.
• Answer in the subject and medium you chose in the application; no change is allowed for any reason.

Candidates with disabilities

KARTET 2025 gave 50 minutes of extra time per paper (20 minutes per hour) to candidates using a scribe and to other candidates with special needs, on a request made in advance to the centre's chief superintendent. A scribe could be arranged by the candidate, and such candidates were seated on the ground floor.

Karnataka TET admit card release in past cycles