BSTC Old Paper PDF Download (2015, 2017-2025)

★Old BSTC paper at a glance

☰Year-wise BSTC paper list

Each link opens a page with the exam facts we verified, the pattern, a practice plan and FAQs for that year.

The complete BSTC guide explains eligibility, seats and counselling, and how the number of candidates has changed since 2015.

➔How BSTC papers reach candidates

Understanding how a paper becomes public helps you spot fakes. The rules differ by year. In 2024 candidates were allowed to take away the question paper and the carbon copy of the OMR sheet (Hindustan Times), while the 2017 notification of the University of Kota asked candidates to hand the booklet and OMR sheet to the invigilator. The conducting university then publishes a provisional answer key, accepts objections and publishes a final key (The Quint described this for 2024). Coaching institutes and websites make solved papers from the booklets and from the key.

That means three kinds of material exist online, and they are not equal:

⚖Pattern across years

The structure is stable even though the dates and conducting bodies change. This table is based on the official 2025 syllabus and matches the University of Kota’s 2017 notification and the 2018 booklet cover:

In the 2017 solved copy we reviewed, the sections ran in this order: Q1 to Q50 reasoning (Mental Ability), Q51 to Q100 general knowledge of Rajasthan, Q101 to Q150 teaching aptitude, Q151 to Q170 English and Q171 to Q200 Hindi. In the 2018 paper, which we read in full, section A was Mental Ability, B Rajasthan general knowledge, C Teaching Aptitude and D language, with 50 questions each; Section D has English as Q151 to Q170 and Hindi or Sanskrit as Q171 to Q200. The 2019 paper, which we also read in full, followed the same order.

✎How to use old BSTC papers: a four-week plan

1. Week 1: Learn the syllabusRead the official syllabus. List every topic under the five parts. Solve the oldest paper only for reading, to see how questions are worded.
2. Week 2: Section-wise practiceTake one section at a time from three different years. Track accuracy and time per question.
3. Week 3: Full timed mocksSolve one complete paper every two days in 3 hours with an OMR-style answer grid. Start at 2:00 PM to copy the afternoon schedule that most years used.
4. Week 4: Analyse and reviseCompare your answers with the official key. Make a mistake log, revise weak sections and re-solve wrong questions after three days.

Aim to solve at least five full papers before the exam. Recent years (2025, 2024, 2023) tell you the current style, while older years give you extra practice questions.

🔒Safe PDF checklist before you download any BSTC paper

• The page shows a clear exam date and year that match the official exam date on our year page.
• The file opens without asking you to install an app, allow notifications or enter a phone number.
• The paper has 200 questions in four sections of 50 questions (language is split 20 and 30).
• The answer key matches the official key released by the university. If it does not, trust the official key.
• The site does not ask for money for “full paper” access.

⚠Mistakes we found in other BSTC pages

While researching, we found several errors that readers should know about. We show them so you can cross-check facts:

• A May 2017 report gave the exam date as 20 April 2017. The government’s own result release, the news reports on the result and the paper cover show 30 April 2017.
• Some pages say a school board conducts BSTC. The reports we read name universities and education-department offices, not a school board.
• One 2020 report described the exam as online. It was a pen-and-paper OMR exam.
• The 2024 exam is easy to mix up with older years. The Quint gives 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, and the Hindustan Times exam-day rules (entry between 11 AM and 12 noon) fit that, not the 2:00 PM start of earlier years.
• One 2023 report gave the exam time as 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, which does not fit a three-hour paper. We only state that the 2023 exam began in the afternoon at 2:00 PM.
• Some 2019 coverage mixed up university and department names. The Times of India names the Department of Education, Bikaner.

⌛Exam calendar: how fast results came each year

One useful way to read old papers is to see the whole exam cycle. The table counts the days between the exam and the result, using the dates in our sources. It shows that results have become faster: from about five weeks in 2019 and 2020 to three weeks or less in recent years.

The exam month also moves: April (2015, 2017), May (2016, 2018, 2019, 2026), June (2024, 2025), August (2020, 2021, 2023) and October (2022). If you are planning for the next cycle, do not assume last year’s month. Prepare early and watch the official site of the conducting body.

☰How to read each year page

Every year page in this series has the same layout so that you can compare quickly:

• At a glance: exam date, conducting body, timing, number of questions and where the result was published.
• Where to get the paper: what is official, what is third-party and how to check a copy.
• Pattern and scoring: the section split and a small calculator-style table to score yourself.
• Practice plan: a plan built around that paper, not a generic template.
• FAQs, sources and last-verified date: so you can see exactly how recent our checks are.

If a fact is missing on a year page, for example the number of candidates in 2018, it is because we could not confirm it from two sources. We prefer to leave a gap than to fill it with a guess.

✎Mistake log: a simple way to learn from every paper

Copy this table into your notebook. After each paper, write one line for every question you got wrong or guessed. After three papers, patterns appear.

The examples are only to show the format; they are not questions from any real paper.

⌛What is not covered yet

The title of this series mentions earlier years because many candidates search for them. We have not published pages for 2016 or for 2011 to 2014 because we have not finished checking them against official or news sources. For 2016 we have verified only the following: the exam was held on 8 May 2016 by MDSU Ajmer, 5,12,382 candidates registered, 4,78,819 appeared and the topper scored 510 out of 600 (Dainik Bhaskar). We will add a page when the paper and the facts are confirmed.

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⚑Sources and how we checked

We name our sources so you can check them yourself. Links go only to official websites; news reports are listed by publisher, headline and date.

• Hindustan Times, 30 June 2024: BSTC Rajasthan Pre DElEd exam-day guidelines (take-home papers, entry timings).
• The Quint, 17 July 2024: result, 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, 1,917 centres, answer key process.
• Times of India, 28 August 2023 and Hindustan Times, 29 September 2023 (2023 exam and result).
• Times of India, 1 November 2022 (2022 exam, 5,99,294 appeared); Indian Express (2022 admit card report, exam date 8 October).
• News18, 27 September 2021; Times of India, 7 October 2020 (exam dates, results, appeared).
• Indian Express, 3 July 2019; Times of India, 4 July 2019; Scroll, 17 May 2019.
• Times of India, 7 June 2018; Indian Express, 14 February 2018 and 26 April 2018; India Today, 27 April 2018.
• University of Kota notification no. 01/2017 (13 February 2017) and BSTC-2017 guidelines; Rajasthan government release via Jan Samachar, 3 June 2017; India.com, 3 June 2017; Indian Express, 1 May 2017 (date error noted above).
• Dainik Bhaskar report on MDSU BSTC 2016 result; RAS Exam blog, 20 April 2015 (2015 date, MDSU, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM; the blog says its answers are memory-based).
• Question booklet NKP-2018 Series A (all pages) and scanned copies of the 2017 paper, used for the free PDFs and the section order; the official Series-A answer key of GGTU for 2018; a scanned solved copy of the 2019 paper (no official 2019 key found), used for the 2019 free PDF; pages 2 to 31 of a scan of the 2020 booklet (EETYTEC-20, Series B; no official 2020 key found), used for the 2020 free PDF; a 22-page scan of a Hindi solved copy of the 2021 paper (no official 2021 key found; Q88 and Q97 not in the scan), used for the 2021 free PDF.

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