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CTET EXAM 2023-24

Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) is conducted twice a year by CBSE at the national level for determining the eligibility of candidates for teacher posts for Classes 1 to 8 in Central Government Schools such as NVS/KVS and other Schools etc .

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Central Teacher Eligibility Test CTET January 2024 Exam Online Form 2023

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Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct Central Teacher Eligibility Test CTET January 2024 Exam, candidates who are interested in this exam and fulfill the eligibility can apply online from 03 November 2023 to 23 November 2023. . Read the information brochure on CTET January 2024 for eligibility, age limit, exam date, syllabus, previous year question paper and all other details.

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About CTET Exam

CTET 2024 January exam notification and application form have been released on November 3, 2023. The official CTET notification 2023 for the January session has been issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) at ctet.nic.in. The CTET application form 2024 has been activated along with the notification on the official website- ctet.nic.in. Candidates can fill out the CTET online form 2024 now. The last date for the CTET registration 2024 is November 23, 2023. Candidates need to download the CTET confirmation page 2024 after submitting their applications online. 

Important Dates

Event Date
Application Begin
03/11/2023
Last Date for Registration
23/11/2023
Last Date Fee Payment
23/11/2023
Correction Date
28/11/2023 to 02/12/2023
Exam Date
21 January 2024
Admit Card Available
2 Days Before Exam
Answer Key Available
After Exam
Result Declared
Notified Soon

Application Fee

For Single Paper
General / OBC / EWS
1000/-
SC / ST / PH
500/-
For Both Paper Primary / Junior
General / OBC / EWS
1200/-
SC / ST / PH
600/-

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS

Paper I (forclasses1toV) Primary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions

Child Development (Primary School Child ) - 15 Marks

Important Topics

• 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 Marks

Important Topics

• 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 baled Learners

Learning and Pedagogy - 10 Questions

Important Topics

• 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 Marks

Important Topics

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 Marks

Important Topics

• 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

III. Language-II - 30 Questions

Comprehension - 15 Marks

Important Topics

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

Pedagogy of Language Development - 10 Questions

Important Topics

• 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 Marks

Important Topics

• 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

Important Topics

• 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

V. Environmental Studies - 30 Questions

Content - 15 Marks

Important Topics

  • Family and Friends
  • Relationships
  • Work and Play
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Travel
  • Things We Make and Do
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

Paper II (For Classes VI To VIII) Elementary Stage

Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions

Child Development(Elementary School Child) - 15 Marks

Important Topics

  • • 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

Important Topics

• 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 - 10 Marks

Important Topics

• 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

II. Language - 30 Questions

Language Comprehension - 15 Marks

Important Topics

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

Important Topics

• 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

III. Language-II - 30 Questions

Comprehension - 15 Marks

Important Topics

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

Important Topics

• 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

IV. Mathematics And Science - 60 Questions

Mathematics - 30 Marks

Important Topics

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-Dand3-D)
• Symmetry:(reflection)
• Construction(using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Mensuration
• 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

 

Science - 30 Questions

Important Topics

(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/psycho-motor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

V. Social Studies/Social Sciences - 60 Questions

Social Studies/Social Sciences - 40 Marks

Important Topics

History
60 Questions
40 Questions
• 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

Important Topics

• 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 Primary Level (Class I to V) Eligibility with Code

  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education OR
  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education as per NCTE 2002 Norms OR
  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed) OR
  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 2- year Diploma in Education (Special Education)
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CTET Junior Level (Class VI to VIII) Eligibility with Code

  • Bachelor Degree and passed or appearing in final year of 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known). OR
  • At least 50% marks either in Graduation or in Post-Graduation and passed or appearing in final year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed).  OR
  • Graduation with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed), in accordance with the NCTE Norms OR
  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year Bachelor in Elementary Education (B.El.Ed). OR
  • Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final year of 4- year B.A/B.Sc.Ed or B.A.Ed/B.Sc.Ed. OR
  • Graduation with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year B.Ed. / (B.Ed Special Education)
  • Any candidate having qualified B.Ed. Programme recognized by the NCTE is eligible to appear in TET/CTET. Moreover, as per the existing TET guidelines circulated vide NCTE letter dated 11-02-2011, a person who is pursuing any of the teacher education courses (recognized by the NCTE or the RCI, as the case may be) specified in the NCTE Notification dated 23rd August 2010 is also qualified to appear in the TET/CTET. OR
  • Post-Graduation with a minimum 55% marks or equivalent grade and passed or appearing in final year of three-year integrated B.Ed.-M.Ed
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