CTET Exam Pattern, latest Exam Syllabus
Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) Exam Details. Check the latest CTET Exam pattern and exam syllabus here.
Central Teacher Eligibility Test
Exam Highlights :
| Exam Name | Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) |
| Board | Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) |
| Exam Mode | Online (CBT) |
| Post Name | Teacher |
| Exam duration | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Exam Month | December to January |
| Exam Pattern | Paper 1 & Paper 2 |
| Mode of Selection | Written Test |
Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) Exam Details
Check the latest CTET Exam pattern and exam syllabus here.
CTET Exam Pattern:
There will be two papers of CTET.
(i) Paper I will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes I to V.
(ii) Paper II will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.
(i) Paper I will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes I to V.
(ii) Paper II will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.
Paper I (for Classes I to V) Primary Stage;
Duration of examination-Two-and-a-half hours
Structure and Content (All Compulsory): (Appendix I)
(i) Child Development and Pedagogy (compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(ii) Language I (compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(iii) Language II (compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(iv) Mathematics 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(v) Environmental Studies 30 MCQs 30 Marks
Total 150 MCQs 150 Marks
Paper II (for Classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage :
Duration of examination - Two-and-a-half hours
Structure and Content (All Compulsory): (Appendix I)
Structure and Content (All Compulsory): (Appendix I)
(i) Child Development & Pedagogy(compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(ii) Language I (compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(iii) Language II (compulsory) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
(iv) Mathematics and Science 60 MCQs 60 Marks
(for Mathematics and Science teacher)
OR
(v) Social Studies/Social Science 60 MCQs 60 Marks
(for Social Studies/Social Science teacher)
*For any other teacher - either (IV) or (V)
Total 150 MCQs 150 Marks
CTET Exam Syllabus
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-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.
b) 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
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 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. 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
i. Family and Friends:
- Relationships
- Work and Play
- Animals
- Plants
ii. Food
iii. Shelter
iv. Water
v. Travel
vi. 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-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.
b) 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
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 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. 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
v Number 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)
• 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
i) Science 30 Questions
a) Content 20 Questions
v Food
• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food
v Materials
• Materials of daily use
v The World of the Living
v Moving Things People and Ideas
v How things work
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets
v Natural Phenomena
v 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/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
V. Social Studies/Social Sciences 60 Questions
a) Content 40 Questions
v 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
v 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
v 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
Rules of CTET Exam:
PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED DURING CONDUCT OF CTET
1. The examination rooms/hall will be opened at 7:30am i.e. 120 minutes before the commencement of test. Candidates should take their seat immediately after opening of the examination hall. If the candidates do not report in time due to any reason i.e. traffic jam, train/bus delay etc, they are likely to miss some of the general instructions to be announced in the Examination Hall.
2. The candidate must show, the Admit Card downloaded from CTET official website for admission in the examination room/hall. A candidate who does not possess the valid Admit Card shall not be permitted for the examination under any circumstances by the Centre Superintendent.
3. A seat indicating roll number will be allocated to each candidate. Candidates should find and occupy their allocated seat only.’ Any candidate found to have changed room or the seat on his/her own other than allotted, his/her candidature shall be cancelled and no plea would be accepted for it.
4. A candidate who comes after the commencement of the examination shall not be permitted to sit in the examination. The candidates shall report at the Examination Centre at 7:30am i.e. 120 minutes before the examination.
5. Candidates are not allowed to carry the following items inside the centres :-
a) Any stationery item like textual material (printed or written), bits of papers, Geometry/Pencil Box, Plastic Pouch, Calculator, Scale, Writing Pad, Pen drives, Eraser, Calculator, Log Table, Electronic Pen/scanner, Cardboard etc.
b) Any communication devices like Mobile phones, Bluetooth, Earphones, Microphone, Pager, Health band etc.
c) Any Watch/Wrist watch, Camera, wallet, goggles, handbags Golden ornaments etc.
d) Any other item which could be used for unfair means and for hiding communication devices/gadgets like Camera, Bluetooth device etc.
6. No candidate, without the special permission of the Centre Superintendent or the Invigilator concerned, will leave his/her seat or Examination Room until the full duration of the paper is over. Candidates should not leave the room/hall without handing over their Answer Sheets to the Invigilator on duty and sign the attendance sheet second time. Cases where a candidate has not signed the Attendance Sheet second time will be deemed not to have handed over the OMR Sheet and dealt with as an unfair means case.
7. Smoking, chewing gutka, spiting etc. in the Examination Hall/Room is strictly prohibited.
8. Tea, coffee, cold drinks or snacks are not allowed to be taken into the examination rooms during examination hours.
9. Fifteen minutes before the commencement of the paper, each candidate will be given sealed Test Booklet with an Answer Sheet placed inside it.
10. Immediately on receipt of the Test Booklet the candidates will fill in the required particulars on the cover page of the Test Booklet with their own Ball Point Pens (Black/Blue). The Candidates should bring their own Ball Point Pen (Black/Blue) of good quality as this time PEN will not be supplied by the Board. He /She will not open the Test Booklet until asked to do so by the Invigilator. Do not open/break the seal before the announcement.
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