Syllabus & Exam Pattern
- Negative Marking- There is no negative marking in the CTET 2024 examination and 1 Mark would be awarded for each correct answer.
- Time Duration- Both Paper I and II would be conducted in the duration 2 hours and 30 minutes, respectively.
- No. of Questions- In both paper I and II the total number of questions would be 150 questions in each paper.
- Type of Questions- Both the paper would be consisting of multiple choice questions. Main Papers would be conducted in Hindi/English. There are around 20 languages for the candidate to opt from.
- Mode of Exam- The mode of examination of CTET 2024 would be online.
- Qualifying Marks- The qualifying marks for CTET 2024 are as follows:-
Category | Marks % | Marks in number |
General | 60% | 90 |
ST/SC/OBC/ Other Reserved Category | 55% | 82.5 |
Paper I:-
Subject | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
Child Development and Pedagogy (Compulsory) | 30 | 30 | 2 hours 30 Minutes Or 150 minutes |
Mathematics (Compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
Environmental Sciences (Compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
Language I (Compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
Language II (Compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
Total | 150 | 150 | 2 hours 30 minutes or 150 minutes |
Paper II:-
Subject | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 | 2 hours and 30 minutes or 150 minutes |
Mathematics and Science | 60 | 60 |
Social Studies or Social Sciences | 60 | 60 |
Language I | 30 | 30 |
Language II | 30 | 30 |
Total | 150 | 150 | 2 hours 30 minutes or 150 minutes |
Syllabus
Paper I:- (For classes I to V)
- Child Development and Pedagogy:-
Child Development (Primary School Child)
• 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, and 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.
Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment” etc.
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially baled Learners
Learning and Pedagogy
- 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
Mathematics
Content
- Geometry
- Shapes & Spatial Understanding
- Solids around Us
- Numbers
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Measurement
- Weight
- Time
- Volume
- Data Handling
- Patterns
- Money
Pedagogical issues
- 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.
Environmental Studies
Content
- Family and Friends: Relationships, Work and Play, Animals, Plants
- Food
- Shelter
- Water
- Travel
- Things We Make and Do
Pedagogical Issue
- 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
Language Comprehension
- Reading unseen passages - 2 passages 1 prose or drama and 1 poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
Pedagogy of Language Development
- 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, multi lingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
Language II
Comprehension
- 2 unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
Pedagogy of Language Development
- 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 Training
Paper II:- (For Classes VI to VII)
- Child Development and Pedagogy
Child Development
- 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.
Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
- Addressing learners from diverse back grounds including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment‟ etc.
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.
- Learning and Pedagogy
- 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 solve rand 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
Mathematics and Science
- Mathematics
Number System
- Knowing our Numbers
- Playing with Numbers
- Whole Numbers
- Negative Numbers and Integers
- Fractions
Algebra
- Introduction to Algebra
- Ratio and Proportion
Geometry
- Mensuration
- Construction(using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
- Symmetry (reflection)
- Understanding Elementary Shapes(2-D and 3-D)
- Basic geometrical ideas(2-D)
- Data handling
Pedagogical issues
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Evaluation
- Remedial Teaching
- Problem of Teaching Food
- Science
Food
- Sources of food
- Components of food
- Cleaning food
Materials
The World of the Living
Moving Things People and Ideas
How things work
- Electric current and circuits
- Magnets
Natural Phenomena
Natural Resources
Pedagogical issues
- 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/psycho-motor/affective
- Problems
- Remedial Teaching
Social Studies or Social Sciences
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
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
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 Marginalized
Pedagogical issues
- 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
Language I
Language Comprehension
- Reading unseen passages-2 passages 1 prose or drama and 1 poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
Pedagogy of Language Development
- 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 ,multi lingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
Language II
Comprehension
2 unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability.
Pedagogy of Language Development
- 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, multi lingual resource of the class room
- Remedial Teaching
FAQs
How many attempts are in the CTET?
There is no limit to the number of attempts a person can undertake to obtain a CTET certificate. A person who has qualified for the CTET exam may take it again to enhance their score.
Is it a bilingual exam?
The CTET July 2024 Exam is conducted in Bilingual language that is Hindi and English.
Does CTET examination have negative marking?
The CTET July 2024 examination has no negative marking and for every correct answer 1 mark is awarded.
What is the application fee for the CTET July 2024 Examination?
The application fee for the CTET July 2024 examination is as follows:-
Category | Only Paper I or II | Both Paper I and II |
General/ OBC (NCL) | ₹ 1000 | ₹ 1200 |
SC/ST/Differently Able Persons | ₹ 500 | ₹ 600 |
