CTET Syllabus 2021 – Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) releases the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET). CTET 2021 syllabus is an important resource for candidates preparing for CTET. There are two papers Paper 1 (primary stage) and Paper 2 (elementary stage). Paper 1 has 5 subjects out of which there are 2 language sections. In paper 2, there are 4 sections out of which subject 4 is subject specified. The applicants are advised to check and start the preparation for CTET 2021. To get detailed CTET 2021 syllabus for both paper 1 and paper 2, read the entire article.
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CTET Syllabus 2021
There are 2 papers conducted by CBSE for CTET – Paper 1 (Class I to class V) and Paper 2 (Class VI to class VIII). Candidates who wish to teach class I to class V should prepare for Paper-I. Those who wish to teach class VI to class VIII should prepare for Paper-II. Scroll down to download the detailed syllabus for CTET 202T Paper 1 and Paper 2 syllabus.
CTET Syllabus Paper 1
Paper 1
- Class Range: Classes I to V
- Stage: Primary Stage
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Comprehension 15 Questions
- Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
- 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
- Content 15 Questions
- Geometry
- Shapes & Spatial Understanding
- Solids around Us
- Numbers
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Measurement
- Weight
- Time
- Volume
- Data Handling
- Patterns
- Money
- 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
- Content 15 Questions
- Family and Friends:
- Relationships
- Work and Play
- Animals
- Plants
- Food
- Shelter
- Water
- Travel
- Things We Make and Do
- Family and Friends:
- 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
CTET Syllabus Paper 2
Paper 2
- For: Classes VI to VIII
- Stage: Elementary Stage
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Comprehension 15 Questions
- Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
- 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 disorder
- 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
- Content 20 Questions
- Number System
- Knowing our Numbers
- Playing with Numbers
- Whole Numbers
- Negative Numbers and Integers
- Fractions
- Algebra
- Introduction to Algebra
- Ratio and Proportion
- 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
- Number System
- 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
ii) Science 30 Questions
- Content 20 Questions
- Food
- Sources of food
- Components of food
- Cleaning food
- Materials
- Materials of daily use
- The World of the Living
- Moving Things People and Ideas
- How things work
- Electric current and circuits
- Magnets
- Natural Phenomena
- Natural Resources
- Food
- 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
- Content 40 Questions
- 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 Marginalised
- 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
CTET 2021 Syllabus PDF Download
CTET 2021 Exam Pattern
Given below is the detailed exam pattern for CTET 2021 Paper 1 and Paper 2.
Exam Pattern for Paper-1
Paper I
- Mode of examination: Online examination
- Language of the examination: Bilingual (Hindi and English)
- Type of questions: Multiple choice questions (objective questions)
- Duration of the examination: 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Maximum marks: 150 marks
- Number of questions: 150 questions
- Marking scheme:
| For correct answer | +1 mark |
| For incorrect answer | No negative marking |
- Distribution of questions:
| Subjects | Maximum marks | Number of questions |
| Child Development and Pedagogy (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
Exam Pattern for Paper-2
- Mode of examination: Online examination
- Type of questions: Multiple choice questions (objective type)
- Duration of examination: 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Language of examination: Bilingual (Hindi and English)
- Maximum marks: 150 marks
- Number of questions: 150 questions
- Marking Scheme:
| For correct answer | +1 mark |
| For incorrect answer | No negative marking |
- Distribution of questions:
| Subjects | Maximum marks | Number of questions |
| Child Development and Pedagogy (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (compulsory) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics and Science (for Mathematics and Science teacher) OR Social Studies/Social Science (for Social Studies/Social Science teacher) | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
CTET 2021 Preparation Books
Refer to the books provided below to head start the preparation for CTET 2021.
| Name of the Book | Author Name / Publisher | Buy Here |
|---|---|---|
| CTET & STETs Paper 1 and Paper 2 both: Child Development and Pedagogy with Previous Year Papers 2011-19 | Himanshi Singh | Click here to buy |
| 12 Year-Wise CTET Paper 1 Solved Papers (2011 – 2019) | Disha Experts | Click here to buy |
| Child Development & Pedagogy for CTET & STET (Paper 1 & 2) with Past Questions | Disha Experts | Click here to buy |
| CTET Success Master Maths & Science Paper-II for Class VI-VIII | Arihant Experts | Click here to buy |
| CTET Success Master Maths & Science Paper-II for Class 6 to 8 | Arihant Experts | Click here to buy |
| Success Master CTET Paper-I Class 1 to 5 | Arihant Experts | Click here to buy |
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