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CTET Previous year question papers: The Central Teacher Eligibility Test, widely known as CTET is a national examination held in India by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Its primary goal is to evaluate the qualifications of people desiring to be teachers. The CTET exam is given twice a year and is designed exclusively for people who want to teach in the Primary Section (i.e. Class I to VIII).

CTET Exam Structure

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

There will be two papers on CTET and 2 Hours & 30 Minutes will be given to complete each paper.

• Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V.
• Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.

Paper I

Paper II

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Language Papers available

Candidates will have to choose any two languages from the following:

CTET Syllabus

A) Child Development and Pedagogy (Paper 1 & Paper 2) -30 Questions

(i) 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-BasedAssessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement

(ii) 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

(iii) 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

B) Language Papers (Paper 1& Paper 2) (Language 1 & Language 2) -30 Questions

(i) 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
• A 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 resources classroom
• Remedial Teaching

(ii) Language Comprehension (Only for Paper 1) -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)

(iii) Comprehension (Only For Paper 2) -15 Questions

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

C) Mathematics (Paper 1) -30 Questions

(i) Content -15 Questions

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

(ii) 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

D) Environmental Studies (Paper 1) -30 Questions

(i) Content -15 Questions

• Family and Friends:
  1. Relationships
  2. Work and Play Animals
  3. Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things We Make and Do

(i) 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

E) Mathematics and Science (Paper 2, optional) -60 Questions

(a) Mathematics -30 Questions

(i) Content -20 Questions

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

(ii) 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

(b) Science -30 Questions

(i) Content -20 Questions

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

(i) 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

F) Social Studies/ Social Sciences (Paper 2, optional) -60 Questions

(i) Content -40 Questions

• History
  1. When, Where, and How
  2. The Earliest Societies
  3. The First Farmers and Herders
  4. The First Cities
  5. Early States
  6. New Ideas
  7. The First Empire
  8. Contacts with Distant lands
  9. Political Developments
  10. Culture and Science
  11. New Kings and Kingdoms
  12. Sultans of Delhi
  13. Architecture
  14. Creation of an Empire
  15. Social Change
  16. Regional Cultures
  17. The Establishment of Company Power
  18. Rural Life and Society
  19. Colonialism and Tribal Societies
  20. The Revolt of 1857-58
  21. Women and reform
  22. Challenging the Caste System
  23. The Nationalist Movement
  24. India After Independence
• Geography
  1. Geography as a social study and as a science
  2. Planet: Earth in the solar system
  3. Globe
  4. Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
  5. Air
  6. Water
  7. Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
  8. Resources: Types – Natural and Human
  9. Agriculture
• Social and Political Life
  1. Diversity
  2. Government
  3. Local Government
  4. Making a Living
  5. Democracy
  6. State Government
  7. Understanding Media
  8. Unpacking Gender
  9. The Constitution
  10. Parliamentary Government
  11. The Judiciary
  12. Social Justice and the Marginalised

(ii) 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 the Detailed syllabus of classes l-VIII, please refer to the NCERT syllabus and textbooks

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