CTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2025 & Detailed Exam Pattern

This section focuses on educational psychology for teaching and learning, specifically for the 11-14 years age group.

• Child Development (Elementary School Child): Concept of development, Principles of development, Heredity & Environment, Socialization processes, Constructs of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky, Concept of child-centered and progressive education.
• Concept of Inclusive Education: Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds, Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties.
• Learning and Pedagogy: How children think and learn, Basic teaching-learning processes, Child as a problem solver, Cognition, Emotions, Motivation and learning.

This section tests language proficiency and pedagogical understanding.

• Language Comprehension (15 Questions):
  • Reading two unseen passages (prose, drama, or poetry).
  • Questions based on comprehension, grammar, and inference.
• Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Questions):
  • Learning and acquisition, Principles of language teaching.
  • Role of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  • Challenges of teaching in a diverse classroom; language difficulties.
  • Evaluating language proficiency, Teaching-learning materials.

This section covers content and pedagogical issues for both subjects.

• Mathematics (30 Questions):
  • Content (20): Number System, Algebra, Geometry, Mensuration, Data Handling.
  • Pedagogy (10): Nature of Mathematics, Place of Mathematics in the curriculum, Language of Mathematics, Community Mathematics, Evaluation, Problems of Teaching.
• Science (30 Questions):
  • Content (20): Food (Sources, Components), Materials, The World of the Living, Moving Things, People and Ideas, How Things Work, Natural Phenomena and Resources.
  • Pedagogy (10): Nature and Structure of Science, Aims of Science teaching, Scientific Method, Evaluation, Problems and Remedial Teaching.

This section covers a broad range of topics from History, Geography, and Social & Political Life, along with pedagogical issues.

• Content (40 Questions):
  • History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, The First Cities, Early States, The First Empire, New Ideas, Sultans of Delhi, Architecture, Creation of an Empire, Social Change, The Revolt of 1857-58, India After Independence.
  • Geography: Geography as a social study, Planet, Globe, Environment, Air, Water, Human Environment, Resources, Agriculture.
  • Social and Political Life: Diversity, Government, Local Government, Democracy, State Government, Understanding Media, Gender, The Constitution, Judiciary.
• Pedagogical Issues (20 Questions):
  • Concept & Nature of Social Science, Classroom Processes & Activities.
  • Developing Critical thinking, Enquiry/Empirical Evidence.
  • Problems of teaching Social Science, Sources (Primary & Secondary), Projects Work, Evaluation.