CTET

PRIMARY TEACHER (CLASS I-V)

• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known) OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known), in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure), Regulations, 2002 OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed) OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Education (Special Education)* OR
• Graduation and passed or appearing in final year of two year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known).

ELEMENTARY TEACHER (CLASS VI-VIII)

• Graduation and passed or appearing in final year of 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known).
• Graduation with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed).
• Graduation with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed), in accordance with the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations issued from time to time in this regard. OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor in Elementary Education (B.El.Ed). OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year B.A/B.Sc.Ed or B.A.Ed/B.Sc.Ed. OR
• Graduation with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year B.Ed. (Special Education).

SPECIAL NOTE-

• Relaxation up to 5% in the qualifying marks in the minimum Educational Qualification for eligibility shall be allowed to the candidates belonging to reserved categories, such as SC/ST/OBC/Differently abled.
• A Diploma/Degree course in teacher education recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) only shall be considered.
• In case of Diploma in Education (Special Education) and B.ED (Special Education), a course recognized by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) only shall be considered. A person with D.Ed (Special Education) or qualification shall undergo, after appointment , an NCTE recognized 6-month Special Programme in Elementary Education.
• In respect of teachers for Physical Education, the minimum qualification norms for Physical Education teachers referred to in NCTE Regulation, dated 3rd November, 2001 (as amended from time to time) shall be applicable.
• For teachers of Art Education, Craft Education, Home Science, Work Education, etc. the existing eligibility norms prescribed by the State Governments and other school managements shall be applicable till such time the NCTE lays down the minimum qualifications in respect of such teachers.

• Candidates can apply online for CTET - 2019 through CTET website ctet.nic.in
• Make sure that you read the eligibility conditions carefully before you start filling the form.
• The candidate is required to write complete mailing address with Postal Pin Code at the time of applying.
• Before submission of application form, decide the mode of payment of fee.
• Make sure that preserve the Confirmation Page along with the original copy of E-Challan (In case fee is paid through E-Challan) of Syndicate Bank or Canara Bank for future reference.
• If a candidate submits more than one application online, his/her candidature shall be liable to be cancelled and the candidate may also be debarred for future examination(s). No communication will be sent in this regard.

• Log on to the official website of CTET: ctet.nic.in.
• On the website, chose the link “Apply Online” and open the same.
• Complete the online Application Form and note down Registration No./Application No.
  1. Complete the form by filling in the details of Candidate’s Name, and Date of Birth and Gender, Identification type (select any Identity as applicable).
  2. Complete the online Application Form by choosing the password. After submission, a Registration Number/Application Number gets generated. Note down the Registration No./Application No. For subsequent login, system generated Registration No. /Application No. and chosen Password will be used.
  3. Candidate should log out at the end of their session so that the contents of the application cannot be tampered by unauthorized persons.
•  Upload Scanned Images of latest Photograph and Signature.
  • The scanned photograph and image should be in JPEG format.
  • Size of scanned photograph should be between 10 to 100 KB. Image Dimension of photograph should be 3.5 cm (width) x 4.5 cm (height).
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• Pay examination Fee by e-challan or debit card / credit card.

• Remittance through E-Challan can be done by depositing the prescribed fee in CTET Exam Fee Account with Syndicate Bank or Canara Bank.
• Online payment can be done by Debit Card / Credit Card.
• Print Confirmation page for record and future reference.

CHECKLIST

Candidates are required to take printout of Confirmation Page for record and keep it for their reference. The Confirmation Page is not required to be sent to CTET Unit.

• Mode of examination: Offline
• Main question paper shall be Bilingual (Hindi/English).
• Types of Questions: Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs)
• All questions in CTET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), with four alternatives out of which one answer will be correct. Each will be carrying one mark and there will be no negative marking.
• There will be two papers of CTET-Paper I & Paper II.

1. 1. Primary stage-Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V.
   2. Elementary stage-Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.

• A person who intends to be a teacher for both levels (classes I to V and classes VI to VIII) will have to appear in both the papers (Paper I and Paper II).

PAPER-I (Classes I to V) Primary Stage

Time duration: 2 hours 30 minutes or 150 minutes

PAPER-II (Classes VI to VII) Elementary Stage

Time duration: 2 hours 30 minutes or 150 minutes

** Language II will be a language other than Language I. A candidate may choose any one language as Language I and other as Language II from the available language options and will be required to specify the same in the Confirmation Page. Language options would be English, Hindi and Sanskrit only. Candidate may choose only two languages from English, Hindi and Sanskrit only.

CTET 2019

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS

Paper I (for classes I to V) Primary Stage:              

1. Child Development and Pedagogy             30 Questions
2. a) Child Development (Primary School Child)             15 Questions
3. Concept of development and its relationship with learning
4. Principles of the development of children
5. Influence of Heredity & Environment
6. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
7. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
8. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
9. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
10. Multi Dimensional Intelligence
11. Language & Thought
12. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
13. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
14. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
15. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
16. b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
17. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
18. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
19. Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
20. c) Learning and Pedagogy             10 Questions
21. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
22. Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
23. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
24. Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
25. Cognition & Emotions
26. Motivation and learning
27. Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
28. Language I.             30 Questions
29. 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)

1. b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
2. Learning and acquisition
3. Principles of language Teaching
4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
7. Language Skills
8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9. Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
10. Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II                                                                                                                  30 Questions

1. a) Comprehension 15 Questions

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

1. b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

 Learning and acquisition

1. Principles of language Teaching
2. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
3. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
4. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
5. Language Skills
6. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
7. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
8. Remedial Teaching
9. Mathematics 30 Questions
10. a) Content 15 Questions
11. Geometry
12. Shapes & Spatial Understanding
13. Solids around Us
14. Numbers
15. Addition and Subtraction
16. Multiplication
17. Division
18. Measurement
19. Weight
20. Time
21. Volume
22. Data Handling
23. Patterns
24. Money
25. b) Pedagogical issues 15 Questions
26. Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
27. Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
28. Language of Mathematics
29. Community Mathematics
30. Evaluation through formal and informal methods
31. Problems of Teaching
32. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
33. Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
34. Environmental Studies                                              30 Questions
35. a) Content 15 Questions
36. Family and Friends:

1.1 Relationships

1.2Work and Play

1.3 Animals

1.4Plants

1. Food

III. Shelter

1. Water
2. Travel
3. Things We Make and Do
4. b) Pedagogical Issues 15 Questions
5. Concept and scope of EVS
6. Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
7. Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
8. Learning Principles
9. Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
10. Approaches of presenting concepts
11. Activities
12. Experimentation/Practical Work
13. Discussion
14. CCE
15. Teaching material/Aids Problems

CTET 19

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS

Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage:      

1. Child Development and Pedagogy                                           30 Questions
2. a) Child Development (Elementary School Child)             15 Questions
3. Concept of development and its relationship with learning
4. Principles of the development of children
5. Influence of Heredity & Environment
6. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
7. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
8. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
9. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
10. Multi Dimensional Intelligence
11. Language & Thought
12. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
13. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
14. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive
15. Evaluation: perspective and practice
16. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
17. b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions
18. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
19. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
20. Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
21. c) Learning and Pedagogy             10 Questions
22. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
23. Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
24. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
25. Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
26. Cognition & Emotions
27. Motivation and learning
28. Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
29. Language I.             30 Questions
30. 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)

1. b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
2. Learning and acquisition
3. Principles of language Teaching
4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
7. Language Skills
8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9. Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
10. Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II                                                                                                                  30 Questions

1. a) Comprehension 15 Questions

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

1. b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
2. Learning and acquisition
3. Principles of language Teaching
4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
7. Language Skills
8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
10. Remedial Teaching
11. (A) Mathematics and Science                                                                                    60 Questions

(i) Mathematics                                                                                                                       30 Questions

1. a) Content 20 Questions
2. Number System
3. Knowing our Numbers
4. Playing with Numbers
5. Whole Numbers
6. Negative Numbers and Integers? Fractions
7. Algebra
8. Introduction to Algebra
9. Ratio and Proportion
10. Geometry
11. Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
12. Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
13. Symmetry: (reflection)
14. Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
15. Mensuration
16. Data handling

1. b) Pedagogical issues 10 Questions
2. Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
3. Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
4. Language of Mathematics
5. Community Mathematics
6. Evaluation
7. Remedial Teaching
8. Problem of Teaching

(ii) Science                                                                                                                   30 Questions

1. a) Content 20 Questions
2. Food
3. Sources of food
4. Components of food
5. Cleaning food
6. Materials

 Materials of daily use

III. The World of the Living

1. Moving Things People and Ideas
2. How things work
3. Electric current and circuits
4. Magnets
5. Natural Phenomena

VII. Natural Resources

1. b) Pedagogical issues 10 Questions
2. Nature & Structure of Sciences
3. Natural Science/Aims & objectives
4. Understanding & Appreciating Science
5. Approaches/Integrated Approach
6. Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
7. Innovation
8. Text Material/Aids
9. Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
10. Problems
11. Remedial Teaching
12. Social Studies/Social Sciences 60 Questions
13. a) Content  40 Questions
14. History
15. When, Where and How
16. The Earliest Societies
17. The First Farmers and Herders
18. The First Cities
19. Early States
20. New Ideas
21. The First Empire
22. Contacts with Distant lands
23. Political Developments
24. Culture and Science
25. New Kings and Kingdoms
26. Sultans of Delhi
27. Architecture
28. Creation of an Empire
29. Social Change
30. Regional Cultures
31. The Establishment of Company Power
32. Rural Life and Society
33. Colonialism and Tribal Societies
34. The Revolt of 1857-58
35. Women and reform
36. Challenging the Caste System
37. The Nationalist Movement
38. India After Independence
39. Geography
40. Geography as a social study and as a science
41. Planet: Earth in the solar system
42. Globe Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
43. Air
44. Water
45. Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
46. Resources: Types-Natural and Human
47. 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
13. b) Pedagogical issues 20 Questions
14. Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
15. Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
16. Developing Critical thinking
17. Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
18. Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
19. Sources – Primary & Secondary
20. Projects Work
21. Evaluation

Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes I-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and textbooks