CBSE CTET Syllabus

Central Teacher Eligibility Test Syllabus

(Paper 1^st and Paper 2^nd)

Paper 1^st (Class 1 to 5) Primary Stage

🔥 Child Development and Pedagogy

➡️ 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-Based 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.

➡️ Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
✔️ Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
✔️ Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, „impairment‟ etc.
✔️ Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

➡️ 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

CTET – DECEMBER 2021
🔥 Language 1^st 30 Questions
➡️ 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)
➡️ 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
III.CTET – DECEMBER 2021
🔥 Language 1^st 30 Questions
➡️ 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)
➡️ 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
🔥 Language - 2^nd 30 Questions
➡️ Comprehension 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
➡️ 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
CTET – DECEMBER 2021
🔥 Mathematics 30 Questions
➡️ Content 15 Questions
✔️ Geometry
✔️ Shapes & Spatial Understanding
✔️ Solids around Us
✔️ Numbers
✔️ Addition and Subtraction
✔️ Multiplication
✔️ Division
✔️ Measurement
✔️ Weight
✔️ Time
✔️ Volume
✔️ Data Handling
✔️ Patterns
✔️ Money
➡️ 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

🔥 Environmental Studies 30 Questions
➡️ Content 15 Questions

1. Family and Friends: Relationships Work and Play Animals Plants
2. Food
3. Shelter
4. iWater
5. Travel
6. Things We Make and Do

CTET – DECEMBER 2021
➡️ 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

🔥 Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
➡️ 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-Based 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.
CTET – DECEMBER 2021
➡️ Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
✔️ Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
✔️ Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, „impairment‟ etc.
✔️ Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
➡️ 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

🔥 Language 1^st 30 Questions
➡️ 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)
➡️ 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
CTET – DECEMBER 2021
🔥 Language- 2^nd 30 Questions
➡️ Comprehension 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
➡️ 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;
VChallenges 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
🔥 Mathematics and Science 60 Questions
➡️ Mathematics 30 Questions Content 20 Questions
â–ºNumber System
✔️ Knowing our Numbers
✔️ Playing with Numbers
✔️ Whole Numbers
✔️ Negative Numbers and Integers
✔️ Fractions v Algebra
✔️ Introduction to Algebra
✔️ Ratio and Proportion v Geometry
✔️ Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
✔️ Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
✔️ Symmetry: (reflection)
✔️ Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
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✔️ Mensuration
✔️ Data handling
➡️ 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
➡️ Science 30 Questions 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
➡️ 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/psychomotor/affective
✔️ Problems
✔️ Remedial Teaching
CTET – DECEMBER 2021
➡️ Social Studies/Social Sciences 60 Questions 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
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✔️ 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
➡️ 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 textbooks