CTET Calculation Sheet and OMR: Why RTI Is Not Enough

If you filed an RTI asking CBSE for your CTET OMR sheet or calculation sheet and were told your RTI does not count and you must apply again with a fee, that is because CBSE runs its own paid request route for these documents. For CTET February 2026 the Board set a fee of Rs 500, a single application window, and it asked candidates who had already used the RTI Act to apply afresh.

Take a candidate who sat the CTET February 2026 paper, missed the qualifying mark by a small margin, and wanted to see how her own answers were scored. She did what many well-informed citizens do first. She filed an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 asking CBSE for a copy of her OMR sheet and the calculation sheet that showed how her marks were worked out.

Instead of the documents, she was pointed to a public notice. On 01 April 2026 CBSE had issued Public Notice No. CBSE/CTET/February-2026. It said the Board had decided to provide the calculation sheet with a copy of the OMR sheet to candidates who appeared in CTET February 2026, on their request and on payment of a prescribed fee. The notice added, in plain words, that candidates who had already applied under the RTI Act, 2005 or otherwise had to apply afresh with the fee.

So her RTI, on its own, did not get her the sheets. To actually receive them she had to send a fresh application to the Director, CTET, with a bank draft for Rs 500 in favour of the Secretary, CBSE, before the last date the notice set. For that cycle the last date was 01 May 2026. She wrote her roll number and name on the back of the draft, addressed the application to the Director CTET, and sent it by speed post to the CTET Unit in Dwarka. The sheets were then sent back to her by speed post.

Both routes exist. They are simply two different doors. The table below lays out the difference as the February 2026 notice framed it.

The key thing the notice does is this. For the CTET February 2026 result, it channels OMR and calculation-sheet requests into the paid application above, and it expressly asked candidates who had already gone the RTI route to file again with the fee.

The Rs 500 fee and the 01 May 2026 last date above belong to the February 2026 cycle only. That window has closed. Do not treat 01 May 2026 as a live deadline. Each CTET cycle gets its own public notice with its own fee and its own last date, and CBSE can change either.

To find the notice that applies to you:

1. Open the official CTET site at https://ctet.nic.in.
2. Look in the public notices or latest news area for a notice about the Calculation Sheet or Copy of OMR for your exam month and year.
3. Open the PDF and read the fee, the payment mode, the address, and the last date straight from it.
4. Follow that notice, not this page, for the exact figures.

If no such notice is up for your cycle yet, that is common just after a result is declared. Check back, and keep your roll number handy.

This page does not decide whether the notice is right or wrong, or whether it changes anything about the RTI Act. That is a legal question we have not tested. What we can say plainly is what your options are.

If you followed CBSE's paid route, you receive the sheets by speed post once your application is in order. If instead you believe your RTI request was not handled the way the RTI Act, 2005 requires, the Act carries its own remedy. You can pursue a first appeal to the designated appellate authority, and after that the Central Information Commission. Using that appeal route is your right, and this page does not predict how any such appeal would end. For a plain-language walkthrough of RTI, first appeals, and how the Act is meant to work, see The RTI Playbook.

For the February 2026 cycle the notice asked candidates who had already applied under the RTI Act, 2005 or otherwise to apply afresh with the Rs 500 fee before the stipulated date. That date, 01 May 2026, has passed, and the notice said no request received after it would be entertained. For any current exam, follow the fresh notice on ctet.nic.in.

For CTET February 2026 the fee was Rs 500, paid only by bank draft in favour of the Secretary, CBSE, payable at Delhi and issued by a scheduled bank. The candidate had to write the roll number and name on the back of the draft and send it to the Director, CTET. Later cycles may set a different fee, so check the current notice.

The February 2026 notice said the application, addressed to the Director CTET, should be sent by speed post or given by hand at the CTET Unit, CBSE Integrated Office Complex, Sector-23, Phase-1, Dwarka, New Delhi-110077. Confirm the address on the current notice before you post anything.

This page does not take a view on that legal question. The notice sets out a paid request route for the OMR and calculation sheet, and it asked earlier RTI applicants to apply afresh with the fee. If you believe an RTI request of yours was not dealt with as the RTI Act requires, the Act's own appeal process remains open to you.

The OMR sheet is the scanned answer sheet you filled in during the exam. The calculation sheet shows how your marks were worked out from it. The February 2026 notice offered both together, as a set, through the paid request.

1. Go to https://ctet.nic.in and find the public notice for your exam cycle.
2. Read the fee, payment mode, address, and last date from that notice yourself.
3. If you want the sheets, send the application exactly as the current notice says, well before its last date.
4. If you think an RTI request was mishandled, look at the RTI Act's own first-appeal route.
5. Sitting a different exam? See our guide on using RTI for SSC and UPSC answer sheets.

1. CTET official website: https://ctet.nic.in
2. CBSE Public Notice, Calculation Sheet with copy of OMR Sheet, No. CBSE/CTET/February-2026, dated 01 April 2026: https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3443dec3062d0286986e21dc0631734c9/uploads/2026/04/202604011187448306.pdf