TS TET Syllabus 2025 & Exam Pattern PDF Download (Paper 1, Paper 2)

1. Mathematics & Science for Mathematics and Science Teachers
2. Social Studies for Social and Science Teachers
3. For other Teachers either 1 or 2.

• Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
• Principles of Development & their Educational Implications
• Factors Influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological
• Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, and Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, and Adolescence.
• Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers and Erikson
• Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
• Development of Personality – Concept, Factors affecting the development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
• Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
• Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal
• Developmental Tasks and Hazards

Understanding Learning

• Concept, Nature of Learning – Input – Process – Outcome
• Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
• Approaches to Learning and their applicability – Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
• Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance
• Motivation and Sustenance -its role in learning.
• Memory & Forgetting
• Transfer of Learning

Pedagogical Concerns

• Teaching and its Relationship with Learning and Learners
• Learners in Contexts: Situating learners in the socio-political and cultural context
• Children from diverse contexts – Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education
• Understanding of Pedagogic methods – Enquiry based learning, Project-based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Co-operative & Collaborative learning
• Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in the classroom like Study habits, Self-learning and Learning to learn skills
• Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups – Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interests
• Paradigms of organizing Learning – Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric
• Theory of Instruction – Bruner
• Teaching as Planned Activity – Elements of Planning
• Phases of Teaching – Pre active, Interactive and Post active
• General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of a good facilitator
• Learning Resources – Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology
• Classroom Management: Role of the student, teacher, the Leadership style of the teacher, Creation of a non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counseling, Child Abuse, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management
• The distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice
• Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009

• Telugu
• Urdu
• Hindi
• Bengali
• Kannada
• Marathi
• Tamil
• Gujarati

• Parts of speech
• Tenses
• Types of sentences
• Prepositions & articles
• Degrees of comparison
• Direct and indirect speech
• Questions and question tags
• Synonyms Antonyms
• Active & passive voice
• Phrasal verbs
• Reading comprehension
• Composition
• Vocabulary
• Meaning of idiomatic expressions
• Correction of sentences
• Sequencing of the sentences in the given paragraph
• Error identification within a sentence
• Pedagogy
• Aspects of English:- (a) English language – History, nature, importance, principles of English as a second language (b) Problems of teaching/learning English
• Objectives of Teaching English
• Phonetics
• Development of Language skills:- (a) Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing (LSRW), (b) Communicative skills
• Approaches, Methods, and Techniques of Teaching English
• Introduction, Definition, and Types of Approaches Methods and Techniques of Teaching English and Remedial Teaching
• The teaching of structures and vocabulary items
• Teaching-learning materials in English
• Lesson Planning
• Curriculum & Textbooks
• Evaluation in English language Teaching – CCE

• Number System
• Fractions
• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Measurements
• Data Applications
• Algebra
• Pedagogy

• Family
• Work & Play
• Plants and Animals
• Food
• Shelter
• Air
• Energy
• Water
• Body-Health-Cleanliness
• Mapping
• History and Culture of India
• Our country (India)
• Our state (Telangana)
• Indian constitution
• Security – Earth Quakes, Floods, Fire, First Aid, 108, 104 Vehicles
• Pedagogy

• Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
• Principles of Development & their Educational Implications
• Factors Influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological
• Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, and Adolescence.
• Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers and Erikson
• Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
• Development of Personality – Concept, Factors affecting the development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
• Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
• Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal
• Developmental Tasks and Hazards

Understanding Learning

• Concept, Nature of Learning – Input – Process – Outcome
• Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
• Approaches to Learning and their applicability – Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
• Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance
• Motivation and Sustenance -its role in learning.
• Memory & Forgetting
• Transfer of Learning

Pedagogical Concerns

• Teaching and its Relationship with Learning and Learners
• Learners in Contexts: Situating learners in the socio-political and cultural context
• Children from diverse contexts – Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education
• Understanding of Pedagogic methods – Enquiry based learning, Project-based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Co-operative & Collaborative learning
• Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in the classroom like Study habits, Self-learning and Learning to learn skills
• Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups – Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interests
• Paradigms of organizing Learning – Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric
• Theory of Instruction – Bruner
• Teaching as Planned Activity – Elements of Planning
• Phases of Teaching – Pre active, Interactive and Post active
• General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of a good facilitator
• Learning Resources – Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology
• Classroom Management: Role of the student, teacher, the Leadership style of the teacher, Creation of a non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counseling, Child Abuse, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management
• The distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice
• Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009

• Telugu
• Urdu
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Marathi
• Tamil
• Gujarati

• Parts of speech
• Tenses
• Types of sentences
• Prepositions & articles
• Degrees of comparison
• Direct and indirect speech
• Questions and question tags
• Active & passive voice
• Verbs
• Reading comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Meaning of idiomatic expressions
• Correction of sentences
• Sequencing of the sentences in the given paragraph
• Error identification within a sentence
• Conjunction
• Opposite words
• Antonyms, Synonyms and Spellings
• Composition – letter writing – precise writing
• Pedagogy

• Number System
• Trigonometry
• Arithmetic
• Sets
• Geometry
• Mensuration
• Data Handling
• Algebra
• Pedagogy

• Natural Resources – Air, Water
• Our Universe
• Natural Phenomenon
• Mechanics – Kinematics, Dynamics
• Magnetism and Electricity
• Matter around us
• Laws of Chemical Combination and Chemical Calculations
• Atomic Structure
• Periodic classification and chemical bonding
• Metallurgy
• Biology
• Living World
• Plant World
• Animal World
• Microbes
• Recent Trends in Biology
• Pedagogy

• Diversity on the earth
• Production – exchange and livelihoods
• Political Systems and Governance
• Social organization and inequities
• Religion and Society
• Culture and communication
• Pedagogy