CTET Notes

 CTET
[Central Teacher Eligibility Test]


Exam Patttern -


CTET Paper First Subjects - (for classes 1 to V) Primary Stage

  1. CDP
  2. Hindi Pedagogy
  3. English Pedagogy
  4. Mathematics
  5. EVS
Total Question - 150 [ 30 From Each Topics]
Total Marks — 150 
No Negative Marking



CTET Paper Second Subjects - (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage

  1. CDP
  2. Hindi Pedagogy
  3. English Pedagogy
  4. SST ( Art Group) Or Math & Science (Science Group)
Total Question - 150 
Total Marks — 150 
No Negative Marking





STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS
(Paper I and Paper II)


Paper I (for classes 1 to V) Primary Stage


I. Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions
  • (a) Child Development (Primary School Child) - 15 Questions
      • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
      • Principles of the development of children
      • Influence of Heredity & Environment
      • Socialization processes: Social world & children(Teacher, Parents, Peers)
      • Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
      • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
      • Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
      • Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
      • Language & Thought
      • Gender as a social construct; gender roles,gender -bias and educational practice.
      • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
      • Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Base Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice.
      • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
  • (b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs -  5 Questions
      • Addressing learners from diverse back grounds including disadvantaged and deprived
      • Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment” etc. 
      • Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially baled Learners
  • (c) Learning and Pedagogy  - 10 Questions
      • How children think and learn; how and why children “fail” to achieve success in school
      • performance. 
      • Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social
      • activity; social context of learning. 
      • Child as a problem solver and a“ scientific investigator”
      •  Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s “errors” as significant
      • steps in the learning process. 
      • Cognition & Emotions
      • Motivation and learning
      • Factors contributing to learning-personal & environmental

II. Language I  - 30 Questions

  • (a) Language Comprehension - 15 Questions
      • Reading unseen passages - two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

  • (b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
      • Learning and acquisition
      • Principles of language TeachingRole of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool 
      • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
      • verbally and in written form
      • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and
      • disorders
      • Language Skills
      • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
      • Teaching-learning materials:Textbook,multi-media materials,multi lingual resource of the
      • classroom
      • Remedial Teaching

III. Language-II   - 30 Questions

  • (a) Comprehension 15 Questions
      • Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
  • (b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
      • Learning and acquisition
      • Principles of language Teaching
      • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool 
      • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
      • verbally and in written form; 
      • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
      • Language Skills
      • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
      • Teaching - learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
      • Remedial Teaching

IV Mathematics -  30 Questions
  • (a) Content - 15 Questions
      • Geometry
      • Shapes & Spatial Understanding
      • Solids around Us
      • Numbers
      • Addition and Subtraction
      • Multiplication
      • Division
      • Measurement 
      • Weight 
      • Time
      • Volume
      • Data Handling
      • Patterns
      • Money
  • (b) Pedagogical issues - 15 Questions
      • Nature of Mathematics/ Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
      • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
      • Language of Mathematics
      • Community Mathematics
      • Evaluation through formal and informal methods
      • Problems of Teaching
      • Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
      • Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

V. Environmental Studies - 30 Questions
  • (a) Content - 15 Questions
      1. Family and Friends: Relationships, Work and Play, Animals, Plants
      2. Food
      3. Shelter
      4. Water
      5. Travel
      6. Things We Make and Do

  • (b) Pedagogical Issues - 15 Questions
      • Concept and scope of EVS
      • Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
      • Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
      • Learning Principles
      • Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
      • Approaches of presenting concepts
      • Activities
      • Experimentation/Practical Work
      • Discussion
      • CCE
      • Teaching material/Aids
      • Problems



Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage`


I. Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions
  • (a) Child Development(Elementary School Child) - 15 Questions
      • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
      • Principles of the development of children
      • Influence of Heredity& Environment
      • Socialization processes: Social world & children(Teacher, Parents, Peers)
      • Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
      • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
      • Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
      • Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
      • Language & Thought
      • Gender as a social construct; gender roles,gender -bias and educational practice.
      • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
      • Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Base Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice.
      • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
  • (b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs -  5 Questions
      • Addressing learners from diverse back grounds including disadvantaged and deprived
      • Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment” etc. 
      • Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially baled Learners

  • (c) Learning and Pedagogy  - 10 Questions
      • How children think and learn; how and why children “fail” to achieve success in school
      • performance. 
      • Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social
      • activity; social context of learning. 
      • Child as a problem solver and a“ scientific investigator”
      •  Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s “errors” as significant
      • steps in the learning process. 
      • Cognition & Emotions
      • Motivation and learning
      • Factors contributing to learning-personal & environmental


II. Language I  - 30 Questions

  • (a) Language Comprehension - 15 Questions
      • Reading unseen passages - two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

  • (b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
      • Learning and acquisition
      • Principles of language TeachingRole of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool 
      • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
      • verbally and in written form
      • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and
      • disorders
      • Language Skills
      • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
      • Teaching-learning materials:Textbook,multi-media materials,multi lingual resource of the
      • classroom
      • Remedial Teaching

III. Language-II   - 30 Questions

  • (a) Comprehension 15 Questions
      • Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
  • (b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
      • Learning and acquisition
      • Principles of language Teaching
      • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool 
      • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
      • verbally and in written form; 
      • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
      • Language Skills
      • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
      • Teaching - learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
      • Remedial Teaching


IV. Mathematics and Science - 60 Questions
  • (i) Mathematics - 30 Questions
                (a) Content - 20 Questions
      • Number System
        • Knowing our Numbers
        • Playing with Numbers
        • Whole Numbers
        • Negative Numbers and Integers
        • Fractions
      • Algebra
        •  Introduction to Algebra
        • Ratio and Proportion
      • Geometry
        • Basic geometrical ideas(2-D)
        • Understanding Elementary Shapes(2-Dand3-D)
        • Symmetry:(reflection)
        • Construction(using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses) 
        • Mensuration
        • Data handling

                (b) Pedagogical issues - 10 Questions
        • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
        • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
        • Language of Mathematics
        • Community Mathematics
        • Evaluation
        • Remedial Teaching
        • Problem of Teaching

  • (II) Science -  30 Questions
                (a) Content - 20 Questions
      • Food
        • Sources of food
        • Components of food
        • Cleaning food
      •  Materials
        • Materials of daily use
      • The World of the Living
      • Moving Things People and Ideas
      • How things work
        • Electric current and circuits
        • Magnets
      • Natural Phenomena
      • Natural Resources


                (b) Pedagogical issues  - 10 Questions
      • Nature & Structure of Sciences
      • Natural Science/Aims & objectives
      • Understanding & Appreciating Science
      • Approaches/Integrated Approach
      • Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science) • Innovation
      • Text Material/Aids
      • Evaluation-cognitive/psycho-motor/affective
      • Problems
      • Remedial Teaching



V. Social Studies/Social Sciences - 60 Questions

           (a) Content - 40 Questions
    • History
      • When, Where and How
      • The Earliest Societies
      • The First Farmers and Herders
      • The First Cities
      • Early States
      • New Ideas
      • the first Empire
      • Contacts with Distant lands
      • Political Developments
      • Culture and Science
      • New Kings and Kingdoms
      • Sultans of Delhi • Architecture
      • Creation of an Empire
      • Social Change
      • Regional Cultures
      • The Establishment of Company Power
      • Rural Life and Society
      • Colonialism and Tribal Societies
      • The Revolt of 1857-58
      • Women and reform
      • Challenging the Caste System
      • The Nationalist Movement
      • India After Independence
    • Geography
      • Geography as a social study and as a science
      • Planet: Earth in the solar system
      • Globe
      • Environment in its totality: natural and human environment 
      • Air 
      • Water 
      • Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
      • Resources: Types-Natural and Human
      • Agriculture
    • Social and Political Life
      • Diversity
      • Government 
      • Local Government
      • Making a Living
      • Democracy
      • State Government 
      • Understanding Media
      • Unpacking Gender 
      • The Constitution
      • Parliamentary Government 
      • The Judiciary
      • Social Justice and the Marginalised

        (b) Pedagogical issues - 20 Questions
      • Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies 
      • Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
      • Developing Critical thinking
      • Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
      • Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
      • Sources- Primary & Secondary
      • Projects Work
      • Evaluation


Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes l-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and text books.




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CTET Syllabus Paper I & Paper II PDF -

टिप्पणियाँ

इस ब्लॉग से लोकप्रिय पोस्ट

महात्मा गांधी का शिक्षा दर्शन (Educational Philosophy Of Mahatma Gandhi)

अधिगम के सिद्धांत (Theories Of learning) ( Behaviorist - Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner)

अधिगम की अवधारणा (Concept Of Learning)

बन्डुरा का सामाजिक अधिगम सिद्धांत (Social Learning Theory Of Bandura)

बुद्धि की अवधारणा — अर्थ, परिभाषा, प्रकार व सिद्धांत (Concept Of Intelligence)

विश्वविद्यालय शिक्षा आयोग या राधाकृष्णन कमीशन (1948-49) University Education Commission

माध्यमिक शिक्षा आयोग या मुदालियर कमीशन: (1952-1953) SECONDARY EDUCATION COMMISSION

व्याख्यान विधि (Lecture Method)

विशिष्ट बालक - बालिका (Exceptional Children)

शिक्षा का अर्थ एवं अवधारणा (Meaning & Concept Of Education)