Kamal Ghorui
The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha is set to release the OSSTET Answer Key 2026 for Paper 1 and Paper 2 on its official website, https://bseodisha.nic.in/. Candidates who appeared for the Odisha Secondary School Teachers Eligibility Test will be able to access the provisional answer key along with the response sheet in PDF format once it becomes available online.The examination was held on the same date in all the centers located in the state of Odisha. The answer key will provide the students the facility to verify the answers given in the paper, the marks scheme, and the estimated marks in the exam before the final result is declared.Purpose of the OSSTET answer key 2026The OSSTET Answer Key 2026 includes the actual answers to all the answer sheets of the questions that have been presented in the OSSTET exam. It is also called the solution paper, and the Board releases the answer key so that transparency may prevail in the answer sheets of the exam and the candidate gets the opportunity to check their responses.The OSSTET examination is of 2 papers. Paper 1 is for Trained Graduate Teachers, and Paper 2 is for Physical Education Teachers. As per the scheme of examination, in OSSTET 2026, no negative marking is applicable to candidates.How to check and download the OSSTET Answer Key 2026Candidates can follow these five steps to access and download the OSSTET Answer Key 2026 for both Paper 1 and Paper 2:Step 1: First, go to the official website of the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha, which is https://bseodisha.nic.in/Step 2: Click on the link provided in the recent updates section on the home page of the website, whose title reads “OSSTET 2026 scoring key (proStep 3: Open the answer key PDF file of the specific paper shown in the display screen.Step 4: Matching answers with previous marks in the examination.Step 5: Finally, download the PDF version of the OSSTET Answer Key 2026 to refer later.Objection process and response sheetHowever, once the provisional answer key is published, the Board would provide the objection facility to the students who find the answer key inconsistent. The objection facility would continue to exist for a period of one week. The students would have to compulsorily pay Rs. 500 per question while filling the objections in the online mode.The response sheet shall be provided along with the answer key to allow students to correctly cross-check their marked answers before raising any objections.Minimum qualifying marks and further updatesThe minimum marks scored by the general category and the reserved category of the OSSTET 2026 exam will be announced by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha. Also, the general category requires a minimum of 45% marks to appear for the OSSTET 2026 entrance exam. Similarly, the reserved category requires 35%.More updates on the OSSTET Answer Key 2026, results of objections, and announcements related to the results will be published on the official site.
