Karnataka TET Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2024

Karnataka TET Syllabus and Exam Pattern, Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

 

Karnataka TET Syllabus and Exam Pattern : The education department of Karnataka conducts the Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test-2024 on 30th June 2024 to select candidates to be appointed as teachers in various government schools in Karnataka. Karnataka TET has two stages, one for primary school students and the other for upper primary school students.

Candidates who want to become government teachers should prepare for the exam by studying the topics given in the KARTET Syllabus 2024. Candidates should be aware of the syllabus, selection procedure, marking scheme, and exam pattern for both Paper 1 and 2 which will help them prepare accordingly. To understand the KARTET exam criteria, B.Ed graduates should read the detailed and updated syllabus.

KARTET Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2024

The official exam conducting authorities have released the Karnataka TET syllabus along with the KARTET 2024 notification for both papers (Paper 1 & 2). It is very important to understand the syllabus and exam pattern to score high marks in the state’s teacher eligibility test. Candidates preparing for the state level exam must have an overview of the exam syllabus from the table given below.

KARTET Syllabus 2024- Highlights
Organization	Education Department of  Karnataka
Exam Name	Karnataka TET Exam 2024
Exam Level	National Level
Exam Date	30th June 2024 (Sunday)
Mode of Exam	Offline
Type of Questions	Objective Type
Total Question	150 (for each paper)
Total Marks	150 (for each paper)
Negative Marks	0.25 marks

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KARTET Exam Pattern 2024

The Karnataka TET exam will consist of two papers- Paper 1 and Paper 2. The first paper will be conducted for candidates who wish to be appointed as government teachers for classes 1 to 5 and the second paper will be conducted for teachers for classes 6 to 8. The exam pattern for both the papers is summarized below.

KARTET Exam Pattern for Paper I (for Classes 1 to 5)

Paper 1 of the KARTET examination is to be conducted for a total of 150 marks including multiple-choice questions and it is divided into 5 parts with 150 MCQs for 1 mark each. The duration of the Karnataka TET Exam is 2 hours 30 minutes (180 minutes) and it will be will be English & Hindi. The examination will be conducted offline (pen-paper mode) with no negative marking.

Subjects	Questions	Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy	30	30
Language I (compulsory)	30	30
Language II (compulsory)	30	30
Mathematics	30	30
Environmental Studies	30	30
Social studies (For visually impaired candidates instead of mathematics and EVS)	60	60
Total	150	150

KARTET Exam Pattern for Paper 2 (for Classes 6 to 8)

Karnataka TET Paper 2 includes a total of 150 marks and consists of 150 multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Each question carries one mark in the teacher-eligibility test. There is no negative marking for wrong answers in the KARTET exam. The time duration paper 2 exam will be 180 minutes.

Subjects	Questions	Marks	Duration
Child Development and Pedagogy	30	30	3 hours
Language I (compulsory)	30	30
Language II (compulsory)	30	30
Subject Concerned (Mathematics & Science Or Social Studies)	60	60
Total	150	150

Karnataka TET Syllabus 2024

Candidates preparing for either Karnataka TET paper I or paper II must be aware of the subject-wise syllabus that needs to be covered by them. The candidates need to focus on the important topics carrying more weightage to obtain a higher score in the examination. Here, we have provided the subject-wise syllabus for both papers in detail.

KARTET Paper 1 Syllabus 2024

The KARTET paper 1 syllabus is divided into 5 parts: child development and pedagogy, mathematics, environmental studies, and language I & II. Social studies has been included for for visually impaired candidates instead of mathematics and environmental studies (EVS). The subject-wise topics that need to be prepared by the candidates for the selection in primary school examination are provided below.

Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

• Child development: 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)
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., 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.,
• The 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.
• Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc., addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
• Learning and Pedagogy: 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 and 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.

Language I (compulsory) Syllabus

• Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry)
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the function of language and how children use it as a tool. A 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 and Language Skills.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

Language II (compulsory) Syllabus

• Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry.)
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the function of language and how children use it as a tool. A 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 and Language Skills.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

Mathematics Syllabus

• Geometrical figures & the knowledge of space
• 3 – D Geometrical figures
• Numbers
• Fractions
• Mathematical operations on numbers and algebraic expressions
• Measurements – Weight, time, and volume
• Data Handling & Measures of central tendency
• Ratio and proportion
• Mathematics in daily life
• Lines & angles
• Polygons
• Basic algebra – Linear equations & Identities

Environmental Studies Syllabus

• Our Environment: Major components of the environment, types of ecosystem, life diversity and its features, food chain, and nature balancing factors, Food web, ecological Pyramids, Plant and animal species, factors of Biodensity, Tropic levels, Types of pollution, reasons – effects – remedial measures, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, sustainable development and its maintenance, waste management measures. Environment movements (Related to state and national level), Important Environment activists, state and national award-winning literature, and writers related to the environment, major environmental phenomena, and types of ecological conservation.
• Living world: Life processes, classification of organisms. How do organisms reproduce? Cell, Tissues, Organs, and organs system.
• Sources of Energy: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, Geothermal Energy, Biodegradable wastes, non-biodegradable wastes, and Chemicals in our daily life.
• Human Health and Hygiene: Carbohydrates: Types of Monomers, lipids, proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Deficiencies.
• Natural Phenomena: Motion, Force, Gravitation, Newton’s laws of motion, distance-speed graphs.
• How do things work: Electricity: Definitions of important terminologies, SI units, Numerical.

Social studies Syllabus For visually impaired candidates instead of mathematics and EVS

• History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, 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. Pedagogical issues: 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, Project Work, Evaluation.

KARTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2024

Candidates need to prepare topics from subjects like child development and pedagogy, 2 compulsory language subjects and at last mathematics, social studies, and science (as per the subject for which they have applied). The complete list of subject-wise topics for paper II of Karnataka TET is provided below.

Subject	Topics
Child Development and Pedagogy	Child development: 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) Concepts of child-centered and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., 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. The 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. Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc., addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners. Learning and Pedagogy: 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 and 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
Language I (compulsory)	Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry.) Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the function of language and how children use it as a tool. A 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 and Language Skills. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching
Language II (compulsory)	Comprehension: Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and Verbal Ability. Pedagogy of Language Development: 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, Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders, Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing, Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.
Subject Concerned (Mathematics & Science Or Social Studies)	Mathematics Arithmetic Progression Number system Statistics & Probability Trigonometry Coordinate geometry Identifies Pair of linear equations in two variables Quadratic equations Polynomials Mensuration Triangles Quadrilaterals Circles Area related to circles Science Physics Motion: Definitions, Types of motion, Law & Equations of motion. Laws and numerals. Gravitation: Law, numerical. How do things work : Light   – Reflection- Refraction Lens    – Concave, Convex Mirror – Concave, Convex  – Images formed in Spherical mirrors and lens Electricity and Electric Circuits – Definitions, units, derivations. Resistors – Numerical, circuit diagrams. Magnetism – Definition, Various laws, numerical, AC, DC motors, and generators. Natural phenomenon: Eye, Eye defects. : TIR, Dispersion. Chemistry Materials & Materials in our daily life – Metals, non-metals. Physical and chemical properties Acids, Bases, and Salts: Physical and chemical properties. Atoms and Molecules: Formulae, Masses, electronic configuration. Polymers: Artificial, natural, uses. Natural resources: Types and applications. Chemicals in our daily life: Soaps, detergents, Sweeteners, medicines, Drugs. Biology Food – Definition of food, Food, and its importance, Food chain, Food web, Food pyramid Food and its sources – Plant source and animal source implications. Food and its constituents : Energy-giving food– Carbohydrates & lipids, Bodybuilding food– Proteins, Body protectors– Vitamins & minerals, Roughage, and water. Living World: Microorganisms, Plant kingdom, Animal kingdom Animal kingdom: Vertebrates, Invertebrates Cell: Plant cell and Animal cell – Tissues, organ, organ system.

Minimum Qualifying Marks in KARTET Exam

To crack the Karnataka TET exam you have to score more than the minimum qualifying marks. The minimum qualifying marks for the unreserved category is 60% of the total marks i.e. 90 marks. The following table can be checked to know minimum qualifying marks for all categories.

Category	Qualifying percentage	Qualifying marks
General	60%	90
SC/ST/OBC	55%	82.5
PH and Visually impaired candidates	55%	82.5