Prepair CTET

How to prepare for CTET

Now since the date of CTET is approaching, it becomes important to plan the remaining time judiciously. Let us first start with the structure, content and the syllabus for the CTET examination of Paper I.

Structure and Content of the CTET examination Paper I (for classes I to V):

(i) Child Development and Pedagogy	30 MCQs	30 Marks
(ii) Language I	30 MCQs	30 Marks
(iii) Language II	30 MCQs	30 Marks
(iv) Mathematics	30 MCQs	30 Marks
(v) Environmental Studies	30 MCQs	30 Marks
Total	150 MCQs	150 Marks

Nature and Standard of Questions: 
Child Development and Pedagogy: The questions in this section primarily focus on educational psychology. It includes various theories on child development, influence of Heredity and Environment on child development, processes of socialization, theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Kohlberg- their constructs and critical perspectives, theories on intelligence, individual difference, learning etc. The questions in this section focus on understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners, interaction with the learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.

Language I: The test questions for Language I will focus on the proficiency of the candidate related to the medium of instruction. It will have two parts: Language Comprehension and Pedagogy of Language Development. Language Comprehension will have two unseen passages-one pose or drama and one poem followed by questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability. These passages could be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive.

Pedagogy of Language Development focuses on the theories on Learning and acquisition, principles of language teaching, role of listening and speaking, function of language and how children use it as a tool, challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom, language difficulties, errors and disorders, remedial teaching etc.

Language II: The elements in this part of CTET exam will focus on the elements of language, communication and comprehension capabilities of the candidate in the chosen language. This section will again have two parts: Comprehension and Pedagogy of Language Development.

Comprehension will have two unseen prose passages which can be discursive, literary, scientific or narrative with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal-ability.

Pedagogy of Language Development will have questions from theories of Learning and acquisition, 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 etc.

Mathematics and Environmental Studies section will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding of the subjects. In all these subject areas, the test items will be based on the syllabus of mathematics and environmental studies prescribed for classes 1-5 by CBSE/NCERT. However, the candidate must note that thought the questions in the tests for Paper I will be based on the topics prescribed for classes I-V, but their difficulty standard, as well as linkages, could be up to the secondary stage.

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