CTET Exam Pattern & Syllabus

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Candidate who have filled CTET application form 2022, sach all candidates required to know examination syllabus. In the post going to tell you all about CTET examination syllabus and examination pattern. If candidate will study according to examination syllabus and pattern they will be able to score good marks in the examination.

CTET 2022 Syllabus Updated 

There will be two separate CTET Question Paper. CTET Question Paper I will be prepared from five different sections such as Language I, Language II, Child Development and Pedagogy, Environmental Science, Mathematics. Paper-II will be prepared from Language I, Language II, Child Development and Pedagogy, Social Studies, Mathematics & Science. Those five sections will constitute a total of 150 Marks. 

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For Paper I (Primary Teacher)

Language I (Compulsory) (30 Questions)

Language Comprehension 15 Questions

Grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive), Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference

Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

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

Language II (Compulsory) (30 Questions)

Comprehension 15 Questions

Grammar and verbal ability, Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with the question of comprehension

Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

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

 Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)

Child Development (Elementary School Child) 15 Questions

• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of  learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• The concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Piaget, Kohlberg and, Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centred and progressive education
• Language & Thought
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs (5 Questions)

• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Especially able Learner

Learning and Pedagogy (10 Questions)

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

Environmental Studies (30 Questions)

Content Related Question –  (15 Questions)

a)Family and Friends:

• Relationships
• Animals
• Work and Play
• Plants

1. b) Shelter
2. c) Water
3. d) Food
4. e)Things We Make and Do
5. f) Travel

Pedagogical Issues – (15 Questions)

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• Significance of EVS integrated EVS
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Learning Principles
• Activities
• Approaches to presenting concepts
• Discussion
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Teaching material/Aids Problems
• CCE

 Mathematics (30 Questions)

Content Related Question  – (15 Questions)

• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Geometry
• Numbers
• Solids around Us
• Multiplication
• Addition and Subtraction
• Measurement
• Division
• Time
• Weight
• Data Handling
• Volume
• Money
• Patterns

Pedagogical issues  – 15 Questions

• Language of Mathematics
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Community Mathematics
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Problems of Teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

For Paper II (Elementary Teacher)

Note: CTET Paper II has five sections, where Language I, Language II and Child development and Pedagogy sections are the same as described above in Paper I. You can read above to know these sections in detail

Social Science/Social Studies (For Social Studies teacher) (60 Questions)

Content (40 Questions)

• When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• History
• 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
• Globe
• Air
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Water
• Agriculture
• Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
• Diversity
• Resources: Types-Natural and Human
• Local Government
• Social and Political Life
• Democracy
• Government
• Understanding Media
• Making a Living
• The Constitution
• State Government
• The Judiciary
• Unpacking Gender
• Social Justice and the Marginalised
• Parliamentary Government

Pedagogical issues (20 Questions)

• Class Room Processes, activities, and discourse
• Inquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Developing Critical thinking
• Evaluation
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Projects Work

Mathematics and Science (For Science Teacher) (60 Questions)

Mathematics (30 Questions)

Content  (20 Questions)

• Knowing our Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Number System
• Fractions
• Playing with Numbers
• Introduction to Algebra
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Ratio and Proportion
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
• Data handling
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Mensuration

Pedagogical issues (10 Questions)

• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Community Mathematics
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Remedial Teaching
• Language of Mathematics
• Problem of Teaching
• Evaluation

Science (30 Questions)

Content (20 Questions)

• Sources of food
• Materials of daily use
• Cleaning food
• Materials
• Components of food
• The World of the Living
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• How things work
• Electric current and circuits
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources
• Magnets

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/effective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching 

CTET Exam Pattern Complete details (Paper I and Paper II)

CTET Exam Pattern includes all the details of the CTET Exam such as Important Topics to prepare, Format of the CTET Exam Question Paper, Distribution of the Question Paper form different subjects, Total No. of the Questions, Marking Scheme of the Question Paper etc.

Common Teaching Eligibility Test (CTET), is a national level test conducted to test the competence of candidates. It is worthwhile to note that CTET exam used to hold twice in a year but from the last year it has been decided by the CBSE, the official body to conduct just once in a year.  

 CTET July 2022 Exam Pattern

There is two paper in CTET Exam (Paper I and Paper II).

Paper, I will be conducted for those candidates wish to be primary teacher i.e Class I to Class V.

Paper II will be conducted for those candidates want to be elementary teacher i.e Class VI to Class VIII.

Please read further to know the complete details of the 

Note: There will be different subjects for Paper I and Paper II.

Exam Pattern for Paper I 

Exam Pattern for Paper II 

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