Hyderabad, July 22 -- The Telangana government today released the results of the State Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), revealing that only 33.98 per cent of the candidates have qualified.

Education Principal Secretary Yogita Rana officially declared the results at the state Secretariat. The exam, conducted in online mode for the first time, was held between June 18 and 30 in sixteen sessions as a Computer Based Test (CBT).

Out of the 1,83,653 candidates who applied for the exam, 1,37,429 appeared; however, only 30,649 candidates managed to qualify.

The TET comprised two papers. Paper I, held in six sessions and conducted in seven languages - Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Bengali - saw 47,224 candidates appear, with 2...