KTET Exam Pattern & Syllabus

Each KTET category is a single paper of 150 multiple-choice questions for 150 marks, over 2 hours 30 minutes, with no negative marking. The paper is built around three strands — child development and pedagogy, language, and the subject content of the level concerned — with the exact composition set by the category.

The four categories

• Category I — Lower Primary teacher, covering the LP-stage subjects and their pedagogy.
• Category II — Upper Primary teacher, covering the UP-stage subjects and their pedagogy.
• Category III — High School teacher, covering the subject at the high-school standard and its pedagogy.
• Category IV — Language teachers (Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu), specialist and physical education teachers.

Syllabus documents

The official KTET syllabus for each of the four categories is available as free PDFs below, alongside the category-wise model question papers.