What the NTRCA examination is
The NTRCA teacher registration examination is the qualifying test a candidate must pass to be considered for a teaching post in a non-government school, college or madrasah in Bangladesh that draws Monthly Payment Order (MPO) salary support from the state. It is conducted by the Non-Government Teachers’ Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA), a statutory body under the Ministry of Education created to police entry standards into the country’s very large non-government education sector.
Passing NTRCA does not, by itself, hand the candidate a job. It places the candidate on a merit list that NTRCA then draws from to recommend appointments against vacancies notified by non-government institutions across the country. Recruitment into government schools is a separate process; NTRCA is the gate to the non-government MPO sector, which employs a majority of the country’s secondary and higher secondary teachers.
Who conducts it and who can apply
NTRCA runs the entire cycle. It publishes the circular, hosts the application portal at ntrca.teletalk.com.bd, sets the syllabus and question papers, holds each stage and publishes the merit list. Applicants must be Bangladeshi citizens, generally between 18 and 35 years of age at the date fixed in the circular, and must apply at the level that matches their academic record.
Three application levels exist. School level covers assistant teacher posts and requires a Bachelor’s degree (Honours or Pass) in the subject applied for, subject to the class or GPA restrictions in the current circular. School level-2 covers junior teacher, trade instructor and Ebtedayi Moulvi posts, and accepts HSC (Vocational), a Diploma in the relevant trade or an Alim qualification, as specified in the circular. College level covers lecturer posts and requires a Master’s degree in the subject applied for.
The three stages
The examination is a three stage process. The Business Standard reported that NTRCA retained the three stage structure when the recruitment authority was reviewed in 2025, so preliminary, subject written and viva voce all remain in the cycle.
The preliminary test is an OMR based MCQ paper covering Bangla, English, Mathematics and General Knowledge. It carries 0.25 marks of negative marking for each wrong answer and screens candidates down to a smaller pool for the written stage.
The written examination is subject based. Only candidates who clear preliminary sit for it, and each applicant writes the paper for the subject and level they applied under. A Physics applicant at the School level writes the Physics paper; an Accounting applicant at College level writes the Accounting paper, and so on. Answers are written in the language of the subject, not mixed across Bangla and English.
The viva voce is the final stage. Candidates carry the originals of every academic certificate, mark sheet and their national identity card. Final merit is calculated on the combined performance across the three stages, with 40% treated as the standard pass mark at each stage.
How to apply and what happens after
Applications are filed only through the NTRCA Teletalk portal during the window fixed in the current circular. Fee payment is made by Teletalk prepaid SIM, and admit cards for each stage are downloaded from the same portal. After the merit list is published, NTRCA issues recommendations against vacancies notified by non-government institutions and the appointing bodies at those institutions issue the appointment letter.
Because the circular changes every cycle, this page carries only values that can be sourced to a specific NTRCA notification. Anything the current circular has not yet fixed is left blank rather than filled in with a plausible guess.