All Exam Master: CTET Exam syllabus Paper-1

CTET Papere-I Syllabus

CTET Syllabus for Paper I:
(Classes I to V) Primary Stage

All questions in CTET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), with four alternatives out of which one answer will be most appropriate. Each carrying one mark and there will be no negative marking.

CTET Paper 1 Exam Pattern

Section-wise distribution of questions and marks in Paper 1 is as follows:

CTET (Central Teachers Eligibility Test) Paper I (Class I to V) Primary Stage
Sr.No	Sections	No. Of Questions	Marks
1	Child Development and Pedagogy (बाल विकास और शिक्षा-शास्त्र )	30	30
2	Mathematics (गणित)	30	30
3	Environmental Studies (पर्यावरण अध्ययन)	30	30
4	Language–I	30	30
5	Language–II	30	30
	Total Marks		150

1. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)
(a).	Child Development (Primary School Child)
(b).	The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
(c).	Learning and Pedagogy

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

(b). The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
1.	Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
2.	Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
3.	Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

(c).Learning and Pedagogy
1.	Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
2.	How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
3.	Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
4.	Child as a problem solver and a "scientific investigator"
5.	Motivation and learning
6.	Cognition and Emotions
7.	Factors contributing to learning – personal and environmental

Language I (30 Questions)

A.Pedagogy of Language Development
B. Language Comprehension

A. Pedagogy of Language Development
1.	Learning and acquisition
2.	Principles of Language Teaching
3.	The critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
4.	Role of listening and speaking; the function of language and how children use it as a tool
5.	Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
6.	Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
7.	Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
8.	Language Skills
9.	Remedial Teaching

B. Language Comprehension
1.	Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, grammar, inference, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, narrative, scientific or discursive)

Language – II (30 Questions)

A. Pedagogy of Language Development
B. Comprehension

A. Pedagogy of Language Development
1.	Principles of Language Teaching
2.	Learning and acquisition
3.	Role of listening and speaking; the function of language and how children use it as a tool
4.	Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
5.	The critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
6.	Language Skills
7.	Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
8.	Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9.	Remedial Teaching

A. Comprehension
1.	Two unseen prose passages (literary or discursive or narrative or scientific) with the question on grammar, comprehension and verbal ability

Mathematics (30 Questions)

Sr.No.	Content
1.	Geometry
2.	Shapes and Spatial Understanding
3.	Numbers
4.	Solids around Us
5.	Addition and Subtraction
6.	Division
7.	Multiplication
8.	Measurement
9.	Weight
10.	Volume
11.	Time
12.	Patterns
13.	Money
14.	Data Handling

Pedagogical issues
1.	Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
2.	Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
3.	Community Mathematics
4.	Language of Mathematics
5.	Problems of Teaching
6.	Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
7.	Evaluation through formal and informal methods
8.	Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

Environmental Studies (30 Questions)

Content
1.	Family and Friends – Work and Play, Relationships, Animals, and Plants.
2.	Food
3.	Water
4.	Travel
5.	Shelter
6.	Things We Make and Do

Pedagogical Issues
1.	Concept and scope of EVS
2.	Environmental Studies and Environmental Education
3.	The significance of EVS integrated EVS
4.	Approaches of presenting concepts
5.	Scope and relation to Science and Social Science
6.	Experimentation/Practical Work
7.	Learning Principles
8.	CCE
9.	Activities
10.	Problems
11.	Discussion
12.	Teaching material/Aids