Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
The CTET score calculator estimates your Paper I or Paper II marks from the number of correct, wrong and unattempted answers. Under the CTET September 2026 marking rule, each correct answer adds 1 mark. A wrong or unattempted answer adds 0 and deducts 0 because there is no negative marking. Your estimated score is therefore the same as your correct-answer count, out of 150.
Quick example: 103 correct, 31 wrong and 16 unattempted answers total 150. The estimated score is 103/150, the percentage is 68.67%, and the score is 13 marks above the displayed 90/150 benchmark. This is an estimate, not a CBSE result or a recruitment decision.
Source checked: 22 August 2026. The marking rule and benchmark come from the CTET September 2026 Information Bulletin. No September 2026 provisional answer key, final answer key or result had been confirmed on the checked date. No exact check time is claimed.
The calculator does not need subject-wise marks to produce the total. It needs three response counts that add up to 150. It also asks which paper you are checking so the result stays attached to the correct teaching level. Category context supplies a policy note, but it does not silently replace the displayed 90-mark benchmark with an unsupported lower number.
150 - correct - wrong.The calculation is:
estimated score = correct answers x 1 estimated percentage = estimated score / 150 x 100 benchmark difference = estimated score - 90
The tool accepts whole response counts from 0 to 150. It should reject negative numbers, fractions, empty or non-finite values, and any set of counts that totals less or more than 150. If the total is wrong, recheck the response sheet before interpreting the score.
The CTET September 2026 Information Bulletin awards 1 mark for each correct answer and states that there is no negative marking. That produces a simple response table:
Suppose two candidates both have 80 correct answers. One has 50 wrong and 20 unattempted, while the other has 20 wrong and 50 unattempted. Each estimated score is 80/150 because neither wrong nor unattempted responses attract a deduction. The calculator still records all three counts to verify that the paper total is 150 and to help the candidate review accuracy.
No negative marking does not mean a wrong answer becomes correct or earns a mark. It means the wrong response contributes zero instead of subtracting from the marks already earned. An unattempted response also contributes zero.
A correct answer is a recorded response that matches the answer in the key being used. Match the paper, language, question identifier and set details shown in the official files. A memory-based question list or a mismatched booklet sequence can make a count unreliable even when the arithmetic is right.
A wrong answer is an attempted response that does not match that key. It deducts no mark under the current CTET rule. If CBSE changes an answer after reviewing objections, a response may move between correct and wrong when you recalculate.
An unattempted answer is a question for which no response was recorded. If you know the correct and wrong counts, the tool can derive it by subtracting both from 150. For example, 150 - 103 - 31 = 16 unattempted.
Keep the counts tied to one source. Do not take the correct count from a provisional key and the wrong count from a revised final key. Recount the whole paper when the authority changes an answer.
Paper I relates to teaching eligibility for Classes I-V. Paper II relates to Classes VI-VIII. Both papers have 150 multiple-choice questions for 150 marks, use the same +1 and no-negative-marking rule, and have the same displayed 90/150 benchmark. Their subject structures and teaching levels differ.
If you appeared for both papers, run the calculator twice. Do not add the marks into one 300-mark score and compare that combined number with 90. A candidate with 95 in Paper I and 85 in Paper II has one estimate above the displayed benchmark and one below it. The stronger paper does not fill a shortfall in the other.
Use the CTET exam pattern guide for the Paper I and Paper II section structure. The calculator only handles the total response count for the selected paper.
The example totals exactly 150 responses:
103 + 31 + 16 = 150
Only the 103 correct answers add marks. The 31 wrong answers and 16 unattempted answers deduct nothing.
The careful reading is: Meets the displayed 60% CTET benchmark and is 13 marks above 90. It should not be rewritten as officially qualified, guaranteed qualified or guaranteed selection. If the 103 count came from a provisional key, it can change after CBSE reviews challenges. If it came from a final key, it is still an estimate until CBSE publishes the candidate's result.
The Information Bulletin says a person who scores 60% or more in the TET examination will be considered TET pass. Each CTET paper has 150 marks, so the direct conversion is:
150 x 60 / 100 = 90
The calculator displays three score bands derived from that benchmark. They describe only the relationship between an estimated mark and 90.
These bands are not a percentile, rank, recruitment cutoff or job-probability scale. They do not label a score as excellent, safe or competitive for a vacancy. A recruiting body may treat CTET as qualifying only or may apply other lawful rules described in its notice. This calculator has no vacancy, applicant, shortlisting or document-verification data, so it cannot estimate selection.
Read the full benchmark explanation on CTET qualifying marks 2026.
The displayed benchmark stays at 90/150 when a user selects the reserved-category, PwD or policy context. The bulletin says school managements may consider concessions for SC, ST, OBC, differently abled persons and other categories under their existing reservation policy. It does not publish one universal CTET cutoff of 55%, 82 marks or 82.5 marks for everyone in those groups.
The word may places the question with the relevant management or authority and its valid policy. Category selection alone cannot prove that a concession applies, identify the required score or decide how a percentage is rounded. A relaxation in the educational qualification for appearing in CTET is also a different rule. It does not automatically reduce the score benchmark.
For this reason, a below-90 estimate should remain labelled Below the displayed 60% CTET benchmark. The next step is to check the exact policy for the school management or recruitment concerned, not to replace 90 with a generic category number found on another website.
The number produced by the calculator is only as current as the answer source behind it.
No CTET September 2026 provisional key, scanned OMR or response-sheet schedule, challenge window, final-key date or final-key URL had been confirmed when the official sources were checked on 22 August 2026. The CTET answer-key page owns that release status and will link the official material after verification.
A provisional-key score can move in either direction if an accepted answer changes. Recalculate from the complete updated key rather than adjusting one remembered number. Even a final-key estimate may differ from the result if the response match, question treatment or personal count was wrong.
The calculator cannot read CBSE's evaluation record or authenticated candidate data. It cannot confirm that your response count matches the official OMR, decide an objection, apply an unknown concession, issue a qualifying certificate or declare the result.
It also cannot predict teacher recruitment. CTET qualification is an eligibility condition, not a right to recruitment or appointment. A separate authority controls vacancies, educational qualifications, reservation, age rules where applicable, subject requirements, shortlisting, selection and document verification.
The official result remains the authority for final marks. CBSE says the September 2026 result is tentatively expected by the end of October 2026, but no exact date, time or September-specific result link was confirmed on 22 August. Check the CTET result status page rather than treating an estimate as a scorecard.
Calculator disclaimer: This is an estimate based on the answers entered and the current CTET marking rule. Final marks, answer-key decisions, applicable concessions, and certificate status are determined by CBSE and the relevant authority.
Return to the CTET 2026 overview for current cycle links and status.
Search snippets, coaching keys and competing education sites were not used as evidence for the marking rule, benchmark, category cutoff, answer-key release or result status.
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