CTET Exam Pattern & Syllabus for Paper 2

CTET Exam Pattern & Syllabus for Paper 2: CBSE conducts the CET exam twice every year, which is in July and December. Paper 2 will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes 6 to 8. The details of the CTET Exam Pattern & Syllabus of Paper 2 for CTET are given in this article.

CTET Exam Pattern for Paper 2

All questions in CTET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), with four alternatives out of which one answer will be most appropriate. Each carries one mark and there will be no negative marking.

CTET Syllabus for Paper 2

CBSE conducts paper 1 in CTET for classes 6 to 8 which syllabus is as follows,

Subject Name: Child Development and Pedagogy

Subject Topic: Child Development (Elementary School Child)

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• 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-BasedAssessment, 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

Number of Questions: 15 Questions
Marks: 15 Marks

Subject Topic: Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

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• 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

Number of Questions: 5 Questions
Marks: 5 Marks

Subject Topic: Learning and Pedagogy

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• 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

Number of Questions: 10 Questions
Marks: 10 Marks

Subject Name: Language 1

Subject Topic: Language Comprehension

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• 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)

Number of Questions: 15 Questions
Marks: 15 Marks

Subject Topic: Pedagogy of Language Development

Topic Name: 

• 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 resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

Number of Questions: 15 Questions
Marks: 15 Marks

Subject Name: Language 2

Subject Topic: Language Comprehension

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

Number of Questions: 15 Questions
Marks: 15 Marks

Subject Topic: Pedagogy of Language Development

Topic Name: 

• 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

Number of Questions: 15 Questions
Marks: 15 Marks

Subject Name: Mathematics and Science

Subject Topic: Mathematics

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A) Content

Number System

• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions

Algebra

• Introduction to Algebra
• RatioandProportion

Geometry

• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

Measuring

Data Handling

B) Pedagogical issues

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problem of Teaching

Number of Questions: 20 + 10 Questions
Marks: 20 + 10  Marks
Subject Topic: Science

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A) Content

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

B) 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/ psychomotor/ affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

Number of Questions: 20 +10 Questions
Marks: 20 + 10 Marks

Subject Name: Social Studies/ Social Science

Subject Topic: Content

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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

Number of Questions: 40 Questions
Marks: 40 Marks
Subject Topic: Pedagogical issues

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• 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

Number of Questions: 20 Questions
Marks: 20 Marks

CTET Paper 2 Language 1 & Language 2 List

Candidates can choose any two different languages given below,

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