CTET 2024 December 15 Notification – Apply Central Teacher Eligibility Test Examination

Duration of Online Application: 17.09.2024 to 16.10.2024
Last date for submission of online Application: (Before 16.10.2024 11:59PM)
Last date for submission of fee: 16.10.2024 (Before11:59PM)
Date of Examination: 15th DECEMBER, 2024

Overview of Exam:

CTET AT A GLANCE

In accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 23 of the RTE Act, the National
Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) vide Notification dated 23rd August, 2010 subsequently
amended from time to time has laid down the minimum qualifications for a person to be eligible for
appointment as a teacher for class I to VIII. It had been inter alia provided that one of the essential
qualifications for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher in any of the schools referred to
in Clause (n) of section 2 of the RTE Act is that he/she should pass the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)
which will be conducted by the appropriate Government in accordance with the Guidelines framed by
the NCTE.
The rationale for including the TET as a minimum qualification for a person to be eligible for
appointment as a teacher is as under:
i. It would bring national standards and benchmark of teacher quality in the recruitment process;
ii. It would induce teacher education institutions and students from these institutions to further
improve their performance standards;
iii. It would send a positive signal to all stakeholders that the Government lays special emphasis on
teacher quality

Conducted By: Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi (CBSE)

Exam Type: Eligibility Test in Teaching ( Class 1 to 8)

Level of Exam: National Level

Exam Conducted: Twice a Year (Generally July and December)

Mode of Exam: Offline (OMR Based)

Exam Duration: 150 Mins

Medium: English or Hindi

Marking Pattern: 1 for each correct answer

Negative Mark: No

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF CTET-
All questions in CTET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), with four alternatives out of which
one answer will be most appropriate. Each carrying one mark and there will be no negative marking.
There will be two papers of CTET.
(i) Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V.
(ii) Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.
Note: A person who intends to be a teacher for both levels (classes I to V and classes VI to VIII) will have to
appear in both the papers (Paper I and Paper II).

Paper I (for Classes I to V) Primary Stage; Duration of examination-Two-and-a-half hours
Structure and Content (All Compulsory):

Paper II (for Classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage: Duration of examination-Two-and-a-half hours Structure and Content (All Compulsory):

EXAMINATION FEE FOR CENTRAL TEACHER ELEGIBILITY TEST:

How to fill up the CTET online form 2024:

Eligible candidates can apply the CTET online form 2024 by following the following steps:

• Visit the official website- ctet.nic.in
• Click on the “Apply for CTET Dec 2024” link.
• Click on ‘New Registration’
• Go through the details, click on acknowledgement and proceed,
• Register by filling the required details,
• Fill up the application form- personal information, contact details and educational details etc
• Upload the documents such as photograph and signature of required resolution
• Pay the CTET application fee and
• Submit and save the confirmation page,
• Take a print of the application for future use.

Important Links:

Official Website: https://ctet.nic.in

Official Notification: ctet 2024 december notification

Apply Here: https://examinationservices.nic.in/examsysctet/root/Home.aspx?enc=Ei4cajBkK1gZSfgr53ImFfEytN2I3LFrLvNrMJcZJNnx30PznCVoaU9e1Vfdia78

QUALIFYING MARKS AND AWARD OF CTET CERTIFICATE-
As per NCTE Notification No.76-4/2010/NCTE/Acad dated 11.02.2011: A person who scores 60% or
more in the TET exam will be considered as TET pass.
(a) School managements (Government, local bodies, government aided and unaided) may consider
giving concessions to person belonging to SC/ST, OBC, differently abled persons, etc., in
accordance with their extant reservation policy.
(b) Should give weightage to the CTET scores in the recruitment process however, qualifying the
CTET would not confer a right on any person for recruitment/employment as it is only one of the
eligibility criteria for appointment.

CTET SYLLABUS

Paper I (for classes 1 to V) Primary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy -30 Questions
a) Child Development (Primary School Child)- 15 Questions
• 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.

b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs- 5 Questions
• 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
c) Learning and Pedagogy- 10 Questions
• 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 Mathematics- 30 Questions
a) Content -15 Questions
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time

• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

b) Pedagogical issues -15 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/ Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking
and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
III. Environmental Studies 30 Questions
a) Content 15 Questions
i. Family and Friends:
Relationships
Work and Play
Animals
Plants
ii. Food
iii. Shelter
iv. Water
v. Travel
vi. Things We Make and Do

b) 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

IV. Language I 30 Questions
a) Language Comprehension 15 Questions
• 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)
b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• 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

V. Language-II 30 Questions
a) Comprehension 15 Questions
• Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on
comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
• 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

Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a) Child Development(Elementary School Child) 15 Questions
• 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.
b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs
5 Questions
• 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

c) Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions
• 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. Mathematics and Science 60 Questions
(i) Mathematics 30 Questions
a) Content 20 Questions
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 10 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problem of Teaching

ii) Science 30 Questions
(a) Content 20 Questions
 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 10 Questions
• 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

III. Social Studies/Social Sciences  60 Questions
a) Content  40 Questions
 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 Marginalized

II. Pedagogical issues 20 Questions
• 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

IV. Language I 30 Questions
• Language Comprehension 15 Questions

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
• 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

•Remedial Teaching

V. Language-II 30 Questions
• Comprehension 15 Questions
• 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
• 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.