CTET Exam Syllabus
CBSE conduct
All India level Entrance Examination CTET twice in a Year. Aspiring candidates
have to qualify the exam with (>=60%) to be a CTET Certified candidate. This
certificate is a must for a person who is having a great desire to serve in
central schools. We are providing full information on the CTET exam
syllabus for both papers, Paper 1 (Class I-V) and Paper 2 (Class
VI-VIII). CTET test syllabus for Child Development & Pedagogy, Language 1
& Language 2 topics will be the same for both the papers (Paper 1 &
Paper 2)
CTET Syllabus: Complete Guidance
Child Development and Pedagogy (Paper 1 & 2) (30 Questions)
- Development of child at primary and elementary level & how development is related to learning.
- Factors to affect the development (Heredity and Environment)
- Child development principles
- Child development theories
- Kohlberg, Piaget, and Vygotsky (constructs and critical perspectives)
- Child's socialization process. (With teachers, parents, and peers)
- Child's developmental phases
- Child-centered and Progressive education
- Child's developmental stages
Concept of inclusive
education & physically challenged children (5 marks)
- Progressive and child-centered education
- Difference between assessment for learning and assessment of learning. School-based assessment and CCE (Continuous and comprehensive evaluation).
- Question formulation to assess readiness, learning and critical thinking of learner in the classroom.
- Discrimination among learners based on caste, creed, gender, religion, color etc.
- Address the children with special needs, creative, with learning difficulties, physically challenged etc.
Learning
Pedagogy (10 marks)
- Addressing children's cognitive stage to learn. Learning as a social activity in social context.
- Access children's potential to learn & make them free to learn so that they got succeeded.
- Access the children's learning pattern and take the desired step to overcome the difficulties in learning.
- Every child has some innate power as a problem solver or scientific investigator
- Motivational, personal & environmental factors in learning.
Topics for language 1 & 2 for both papers (60 marks)
Language comprehension (15 X 2 = 30 marks)
Comprehension on two
unseen passages and one poem. The passage may be narrative, literary,
scientific or discursive & multiple choice questions based upon these
passages.
Language Pedagogy (15 X 2 = 30 marks)
- Evaluation of four skills of language: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- How the children to excel in these four skills.
- Pronunciation is the main point of consideration in verbal communication.
- Three principal views of language: structural, functional & interactive.
- Remedial teaching
CTET Mathematics Syllabus - Paper 1 (30 marks)
Topics (15 marks)
- Number
- Simple equations
- Geometric patterns
- Algebra
- Time
- Money
- Data handling etc.
Mathematics pedagogical
issues(15 marks)
- Math laboratory
- Concrete examples
- Remedial teaching.
CTET EVS SYLLABUS - Paper 1(30 marks)
TOPICS
(15 marks)
- Environment
- Natural resources
- Food
- Water
- Energy
- Family
- Friends
EVS
pedagogical issues (15 marks)
- Excursions
- Diagrams
- Charts
- Remedial teaching
CTET Math Syllabus - Paper 2 (30 marks)
Topics (20 marks)
Math
: 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-D and 3-D)
- Symmetry: (reflection)
- Constructions (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses
Mensuration
●
Mathematics pedagogical
issues(10 marks)
- Math laboratory
- Concrete examples
- Audiovisual aids
- Smart classes
- Remedial teaching etc.
Topics
- 20 marks
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
Science
pedagogical issues (10 marks)
- Visits
- Excursions
- Diagrams
- Charts
- Models
- Small projects
- Working objects & remedial teaching etc.
Paper 2: Social studies
(60 marks)
● Subject related topics (40 marks)
● 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
- The environment in its totality:
- Natural and human environment
- Air
- Water
- Human Environment:
- The settlement, transport, and communication
- Resources:
- Types-Natural and Human
- Agriculture
- 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
- Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
- Class Room Processes
- Activities and discourse
- Developing Critical thinking
- Inquiry/Empirical Evidence
- Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Study
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