new delhi the central board of secondary education is likely to release the central teacher eligibility test ctet 2018 answer keys today ie friday december 28 2018 the ctet 2018 answer keys for both paper i and ii will be released on the official web wwwctetnicinaround 17 lakh candidates appeared for the ctet exam conducted in two shifts 930 am to 1200 noon and 200 pm to 430 pm on december 9 2018 in 92 cities across the country this year the ctet exam was conducted after a gap of two years there were 978818 female candidates 712071 male candidates 33107 aspirants had disabilities while 199 were transgenderit may be noted that the cbse in 2015 had introduced an online verification system for ctet eligibility certificates the each certificate issued by the ctet unit has been uniquely identified with a global document type identifier gdti which is encoded in a gs1 qr code the gs1 qr code is printed on the topright corner of the certificate and when the qr code is canned by any qr code scanner mobile application the information associated with the certificate ie full name photograph roll number date of issue marks obtained etc stored in cbse secured server will be displayed on the mobile of verifying agency from this year the cbse will also provide ctet mark sheets and eligibility certificates to successful candidates in the digital format in a digilocker account which would have encrypted qr code for securitythe digilocker account credentials will be conveyed to the successful candidates on their mobile numbers this will make it easy to authenticate documents and save candidates from carrying physical documents