REET Level 1 Syllabus 2025 & Detailed Exam Pattern

This section focuses on the psychological aspects of child development and teaching-learning processes.

• Child Development:
  • Concept of growth and development, principles and dimensions of development.
  • Factors influencing development (heredity and environment).
  • Role of Heredity & Environment in the development of the child.
  • Individual differences, Personality, Intelligence.
• Learning:
  • Meaning and theories of learning (Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism).
  • Factors affecting learning, motivation and implications for teaching.
  • How Children Learn and Think, Learning disabilities.
• Pedagogy:
  • Teaching-learning process, teaching methods, teaching aids.
  • Evaluation, measurement & assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE).
  • Action Research.
  • Right to Education Act 2009 (RTE 2009).

This section assesses proficiency in the chosen first language, generally the medium of instruction.

• Language Comprehension:
  • Unseen prose passage with questions on grammar, inference, literary, and factual aspects.
  • Unseen poetry passage with questions on grammar, comprehension, and literary aspects.
• Pedagogy of Language Development:
  • Principles of language teaching.
  • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders.
  • Language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing).
  • Evaluation of language comprehension and proficiency.
  • Teaching learning materials (textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom).
  • Remedial Teaching.

This section assesses proficiency in the chosen second language.

• Language Comprehension:
  • Unseen prose passage with questions on grammar (parts of speech, tenses, articles, vocabulary).
  • Unseen poetry passage with questions on figure of speech, comprehension.
• Pedagogy of Language Development:
  • Principles of language teaching, role of listening and speaking.
  • Challenges of teaching English; language difficulties.
  • Methods of teaching English, approaches to language teaching.
  • Teaching learning materials; evaluation of language skills.
  • Remedial teaching.

This section covers basic mathematical concepts and pedagogical issues.

• Content:
  • Whole numbers, prime/composite numbers, basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
  • Fractions, decimal numbers, percentage.
  • Measurement: length, mass, time, capacity, area, perimeter, volume.
  • Money, patterns.
  • Geometry: basic shapes, symmetry.
• Pedagogical Issues of Mathematics:
  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking.
  • 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.

This section covers foundational knowledge about the environment, social studies, and their pedagogy.

• Content:
  • Family and personal relationships, social evils (child marriage, dowry), healthy habits.
  • Clothes and housing, different types of houses, culture, and dress of Rajasthan.
  • Profession (occupations), village industries, public services.
  • Our body parts, healthy body, first aid.
  • Water: sources, quality, management, conservation.
  • Our Earth and Space, solar system, constellations.
  • Transport and Communication.
  • Major national symbols, national festivals, national unity.
  • Constitution of India.
  • Rajasthan: Districts, major physical regions, history, culture, famous personalities.
• Pedagogical Issues of Environmental Studies:
  • 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 of EVS teaching.