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TS TET Syllabus 2024: Explore TS TET Exam Paper I And Paper II Syllabus, Exam Pattern And Preparation Tips

Lavanya Joshi

Updated on 03rd May, 2024 , 6 min read

The Telangana Department of School Education administers the Telangana Teacher Eligibility Test to hire qualified teachers for primary (1st-5th) and upper primary (6th-8th) grades. Aspirants who are planning and studying for the TS TET Exam 2024 should review the TS TET syllabus & prepare appropriately for best outcomes. 

The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, has announced the TS TET Syllabus 2024 along with the PDF notice. Understanding the TS TET Syllabus 2024 is the initial stage in exam preparation. After thoroughly studying the curriculum, candidates learn about the number of sections, significant themes, question distribution by section, and marking method. The TS TET 2024 Syllabus changes between Papers 1 and 2. 

TS TET Syllabus 2024: Overview

The TS TET Exam is a state-level exam administered by Telangana's Department of School Education. The TS TET Exam includes objective questions from several topics to test the applicants' knowledge. The TS TET Syllabus 2024 has been summarized as follows:

Exam Particulars

Exam Details 

Mode of Exam

Online mode 

Number of papers

Two: Paper 1 and Paper 2

Number of sections 

Five in Paper 1 and Four section in Paper 2

Exam subjects 

  • Paper 1: Child development and Pedagogy, Language-I,Language-II, Mathematics, Environmental Studies 
  • Paper 2:  Child development and Pedagogy, Language-I,Language-II, Mathematics, and Science or Social Studies

Nature of questions 

Objective-type

Duration of exam 

2 hours and 30 minutes 

Language of question paper 

English and the language chosen by the applicants 

TS TET Syllabus 2024

As previously noted, the TS TET Syllabus changes between Paper 1 and Paper 2. Take a look at the detailed subject-wise syllabus for both examinations below.

TS TET Syllabus 2024, Paper 1

The TS TET syllabus for Paper 1 includes themes such as Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Mathematics, & Environmental Studies. Check out the detailed syllabus for each section below:

TS TET Paper 1 Syllabus: Child Development and Pedagogy.

  • Development, Growth, and Maturation: Concept and Nature
  • Principles of Development and Their Educational Implications
  • Factors influencing development: biological, psychological, and sociological 
  • Dimensions & their interrelationships. - Physical and motor, cognitive, emotional, social, moral, and language development during infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence.
  • Understanding Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, and Erikson
  • Individual differences - Intra & interindividual differences in the domains of attitudes, aptitude, interest, habits, thinking (divergent and convergent), intelligence, and assessment
  • Personality development: is influenced by various factors such as child-rearing practices, self-concept, adjustment, behavioural issues, defence mechanisms, and mental health.
  • Methods and Approaches for Child Development: Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case Study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional & Longitudinal, Developmental Tasks and Hazards.

Understanding Learning

  • Concept, Nature of Learning: Input, Process, and Outcome
  • Learning factors include personal and environmental factors
  • Approaches to learning, and understanding their applicability: Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka), and observational (Bandura).
  • Dimensions of learning: cognitive, affective, and performance
  • Motivation and Sustenance: Their Role in Learning.
  • Memory, Forgetting
  • Transfer of Learning

Pedagogical concerns

  • Teaching & its Relationship to Learning and Learners
  • Learners in Context: Situating learners in the sociopolitical and cultural setting
  • Children from various contexts
  • Children with Special Needs (CWSN)
  • Inclusive Education
  • Understanding of Pedagogic Methods: inquiry-based learning, Project-Based Learning, Survey, Observation, and Activity-Based Learning: Co-operative and collaborative learning
  • Individual & group learning: Issues and issues with classroom learning organization, such as study habits, self-learning, and learning to learn skills.
  • Organizing learning in diverse classroom groups, Socioeconomic Backgrounds, Abilities and Interests
  • Paradigms for organizing learning: The focus is on the teacher, the subject, and the learner.
  • Theory of Instruction: Bruner
  • Teaching: is a planned activity with three phases: pre-active, interactive, and post-active.
  • General and subject-related abilities, competencies needed for teaching, and characteristics of a competent facilitator
  • Learning Resources: Self: Home School Play Community Technology
  • Classroom Management: The student's role, the teacher's leadership style, Creating a non-threatening learning atmosphere, managing behavioural issues, Guidance and Counselling Child Abuse and Punishment: Legal Implications The rights of a child Time Management
  • Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009.

TSTET Paper 1 Language-I Syllabus

The TS TET Paper 1 syllabus for Language-I vary depending on the language selected by the candidates from the given options:

  • Telugu
  • Urdu
  • Hindi
  • Bengali
  • Kannada
  • Marathi
  • Tamil
  • Gujarati

TSTET Paper 1: Language II (English) Syllabus

  • Speech Parts
  • Tenses
  • Types of sentences
  • Prepositions and articles.
  • Degrees of Comparison
  • Direct and indirect speech
  • Questions & Question Tags
  • Active and passive voice.
  • Phrasal Verbs
  • Reading comprehension
  • Composition
  • Vocabulary
  • Meaning of Idiomatic Expressions
  • Correction of sentences.
  • The sequence of sentences in the given paragraph
  • Error detection within a sentence.

Pedagogy

  • Features of English:- (a) English language: history, nature, significance, and principles of English as a second language
  • (b) Problems in teaching/learning English
  • Objectives of Teaching English: Phonetics
  • Development of Language Skills:- (a) Listening, speaking, reading, and writing (LSRW); (b) Communicative abilities.
  • Approaches, methods, and techniques for teaching English
  • Introduction, Definition, and Types of Approaches and Techniques for Teaching English and Remedial Teaching
  • Teaching of structures and vocabulary items.
  • Materials for teaching English include lesson planning, curriculum, and textbooks.
  • Evaluation of English Language Teaching - CCE

TSTET Paper 1 Maths Syllabus

The TS TET syllabus for Mathematics covers topics from the following sections:

  • Number System
  • Fractions
  • Arithmetic
  • Geometry
  • Measurements
  • Data Applications
  • Algebra
  • Pedagogy

TSTET Paper 1: Environmental Studies Syllabus

The TS TET syllabus for Environmental Studies (EVS) contains themes from the areas listed below:

  • Family
  • Work
  • Play
  • Plants/Animals
  • Food
  • Shelter, air, energy, and water are essential for health and cleanliness.
  • Mapping the History and Culture of India.
  • Telangana follows the Indian constitution.
  • Earthquakes, floods, fire, first aid, 108 and 104 vehicles
  • Pedagogy 

TS TET Syllabus 2024: Paper 2

The TS TET syllabus for Paper 2 includes themes in Child Development & Pedagogy, Language-I, Language-II, Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies. Check out the detailed syllabus for each section below:

TSTET Paper 2: Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

  • Development of the child
  • Development, Growth, and Maturation: Concept and Nature
  • Principles of Development and their Educational Implications
  • Development is influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors. It involves physical, motor, cognitive, emotional, social, moral.
  • language development across infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence.
  • Understanding Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, and Erikson
  • Individual differences - Intra and interindividual differences in the domains of attitudes, aptitude, interest, habits, thinking (divergent and convergent), intelligence, and assessment
  • Personality development is influenced by various factors such as child-rearing practices, self-concept, adjustment, behavioral issues, defense mechanisms, and mental health.
  • Methods and Approaches for Child Development: Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case Study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal, Developmental Tasks and Hazards.

Understanding Learning

 

  • Concept, nature of learning, input, process, and outcome, with personal and environmental factors.
  • Approaches to learning and their applicability - behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka), and observational (Bandura)
  • Dimensions of learning: cognitive, affective
  • Performance
  • Motivation and Sustenance: Their Role in Learning.
  • Memory, Forgetting
  • Transfer of Learning 

Pedagogical concerns

  • Teaching's Relationship to Learning and Learners
  • Learners in Contexts: Placing learners in the sociopolitical and cultural setting.
  • Children from varied environments - Children with special needs (CWSN), inclusive education.
  • Understanding of Pedagogic Methods - inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, survey, observation, activity-based learning, cooperative and collaborative learning.
  • Individual & group learning: Issues and issues with classroom learning organization, such as study habits, self-learning, and learning to learn skills.
  • Organizing learning in diverse classroom groups. - Socioeconomic background, skills, and interests.
  • Learning paradigms include teacher-centric, subject-centric, and learner-centric.
  • Bruner's Theory of Instruction Teaching as a Planned Activity - Planning Elements Teaching Phases: Pre-active, Interactive, and Post-active.
  • General and subject-related abilities, competencies needed for teaching, and characteristics of a competent facilitator
  • Learning Resources: Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology.
  • Classroom Management: The student's role, the teacher's leadership style, Creating a non-threatening learning atmosphere, managing behavioural issues, Guidance and Counselling Child Abuse and Punishment: Legal Implications The rights of a child Time Management
  • Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009.

TS TET Paper II Language-I Syllabus

The TS TET Paper 2 syllabus for Language-I vary depending on the language selected by the candidates from the given options:

  • Telugu
  • Urdu
  • Hindi
  • Kannada
  • Marathi
  • Tamil
  • Gujarati

TS TET Paper 2 Language-II English Syllabus.

  • Speech Parts
  • Tenses
  • Types of sentences
  • Prepositions and articles.
  • Degrees of Comparison
  • Direct and indirect speech
  • Questions and Question Tags
  • Active and passive voice.
  • Verbs
  • Reading comprehension
  • Vocabulary
  • Meaning of Idiomatic Expressions
  • Correction of sentences.
  • Sequencing sentences in a paragraph and identifying errors within them.
  • Conjunction
  • Antonyms, synonyms, and spelling.
  • Composition: letter writing, precise writing
  • Pedagogy

TSTET Paper 2 Maths and Science Syllabus

The TS TET syllabus for Mathematics covers topics from the following sections:

  • Number System
  • Trigonometry
  • Arithmetic Sets
  • Geometry Mensuration
  • Data Handling
  • Algebra
  • Pedagogy

The TS TET syllabus for Science covers topics from the following sections:

  • Natural Resources: Air, Water
  • Our universe 
  • natural phenomenon.
  • Mechanics: Kinematics, Dynamics
  • Magnetism and electricity 
  • matter around us.
  • Laws of Chemical Combination
  • Calculations
  • Atomic structure
  • Periodic classification and chemical bonds.
  • Metallurgy
  • Biology
  • The living world 
  • Plants world
  • Animals world
  • microbes 
  • Trends in Biology 
  • Pedagogy

TSTET Paper 2: Social Studies Syllabus

The TS TET syllabus for Social Studies covers topics from the following sections:

  • The diversity of the world
  • Production: trade and livelihoods
  • Political System and Governance
  • Social organization and disparities
  • Religion & Society
  • Culture and Communication
  • Pedagogy 

TS TET Exam Pattern 2024

Candidates who wish to submit an application for the TS TET exam must first review the exam pattern. The TSTET exam pattern is broken into two parts: paper 1 and paper 2. The paper 1 exam is used to verify candidates' eligibility to teach in grades 1 through 5. On the other side, the TSTET paper 2 exam is used to verify candidates' eligibility to teach in Telangana's upper primary classes (6 to 8).

How Do I Prepare for TSTET 2024?

Applicants can prepare for TS TET 2024 by following the TSTET preparation strategies listed below:

  • Set your goal and begin preparing early for the exam.
  • Be diligent with the syllabus and develop a study plan.
  • Clear your basic concepts from high school textbooks.
  • Solve past years' question papers to understand the types of questions asked on the exam.
  • Try mock tests to improve speed and accuracy.
  • Identify your weak subjects and begin working on them.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many subjects are in the TS TET exam?

The total number of subjects in the TS TET (Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test) exam varies for every paper. The TS TET test consists of two papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2. TS TET Paper 1 covers five subjects: Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Mathematics, along with Environmental Studies. TS TET Paper 2 covers five subjects: Child Development & Pedagogy, Language I, Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies.

Who determines the TS TET syllabus?

The Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test (TS TET) syllabus is set by the Department of School Education, Government of Telangana. The syllabus relies on the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), as well as the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education's (TSBSE) syllabus for classes I through V and VI through VIII.

Does the TS TET syllabus change each year?

The Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test (TSTET) syllabus remains consistent each year. The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, prescribes the syllabus for TSTET, which is based on the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education (TSBSE) syllabus for classes I to V and VI to VIII.

What is the time limit of the TSTET 2024 exam?

The TSTET (Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test) exam consists of two papers, each lasting 2 hours and 30 minutes. Each paper contains 150 multiple-choice questions (MCQs), with each question worth one mark. Candidates must attempt all of the questions within the time frame specified for the exam.

Can I complete a single application form for both TSTET Papers 1 and 2?

Candidates can apply for both TSTET exam papers using a single application form. TSTET is taken at two levels: Paper 1 and Paper 2. Paper 1 is for candidates who want to teach classes I-V, while Paper 2 is for those who want to teach classes VI-VIII.

What types of questions are asked on the TS TET exam?

The TS TET (Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test) is a multiple-choice exam that assesses knowledge in subjects like Child Development & Pedagogy, Language I and II, Mathematics, Environmental Studies, Science, and Social Studies. The TS TET questions are aimed to assess candidates' suitability for teaching posts in Telangana's government schools. The questions are based on the syllabus given by the Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, and range in difficulty from easy to moderate.

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