Syllabus Of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)

Syllabus Of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)

Having a BEd degree will no longer be enough to become a school
teacher. Aspirants will now have to clear an eligibility test with at
least 60% to be able to teach at any private orgovernment school.

The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) will be conducted once a year,
separately by the state governments and the Centre. If a state decides
not to conduct the test, schools in that state or union territory will
take into account the test conducted by the central government.
Validity of the qualifying certificate will be decided by the state
government, union territory or Centre, subject to the condition that
it cannot be more than seven years. There is no bar on the number of
attempts by an aspiring teacher for obtaining a TET certificate.
Moreover, an aspirant can appear a second time to improve the score.

The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) will maintain the
database, and be the repository of experts and resources that will be
shared with state governments and UTs. Considering the massive
recruitment of teachers that states will undertake to fulfill the
requirement under the Right to Education Act, NCTE on Friday issued
detailed guidelines for TET. In the next few weeks, many states are
going to start the recruitment process.

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Eligibility, Pattern for conducting Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)

TET will have two papers with multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Paper
I will be for those intending to become teachers for classes I-V.
Paper II will be for those aspiring to teach between classes VI and
VIII. Those interested in teaching from Class I to VIII will have to
appear for both papers.

Aspirants will have to clear a Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) with at
least 60% marks to teach at any pvt or govt school. The test will be
conducted once a year, separately by state govts and the Centre No bar
on number of attempts to clear test. Aspirant can also take test again
to improve score Teacher eligibility test to be in 3 parts

Syllabus and Pattern:

The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is set to be made mandatory for
aspirants to be able to teach in private and government school. For
Paper I of the test, candidates will be tested on five subjects —
child development and pedagogy, language I (medium of instruction) and
language II (chosen from a list other than language I), mathematics
and environmental studies. Each section will have 30 questions of one
mark each. Questions on child development and pedagogy will focus on
educational psychology of teaching. Emphasis will be laid on
understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners.
Questions on language I and II will focus on proficiency, elements of
language, communication and comprehension abilities. MCQs on
mathematics and environmental studies will focus on concepts and
problem solving abilities.

Paper II will have three compulsory sections on child development and
pedagogy, language I and II. For mathematics and science teachers,
there will be 60 MCQs of one mark each. For social studies teachers,
there will be 60 MCQs of one mark each.