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Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KARTET)

KARTET Syllabus 2021 Pdf | Karnataka TET Syllabus

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Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KARTET), is a state-level examination conducted by The Department of School of Education of the Karnataka Government. It is the popular eligibility Entrance Examination of Karnataka State for the recruitment of candidates for the posts of Primary and Upper Primary Level Teachers in various schools of Karnataka.

KARTET – Exam Pattern 2021

The highlights of the exam are given below:

Exam Name Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KARTET / Karnataka TET)
Conducting Authority State Education Board of Karnataka
Post Primary & Upper Primary Teacher Posts
Type of Examination Teacher Eligibility Test
KARTET frequency Once a Year
Application Mode Online
Medium of examination English, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi
Exam Mode Offline
Question Type MCQs
Duration of Exam 2 hours 30 minutes
Paper Paper I: Primary Level

Paper-II: Higher Primary Level
KARTET Official Website sts.karnataka.gov.in

Aspirants can download the KARTET Syllabus 2021 pdf from the official website.

Karnataka TET consist of two papers:

  1. Paper -Iwill be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V. It has 5 sections.
  2. Paper-IIwill be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII. It has 2 sections.

Karnataka TET Exam Pattern 2021 for Paper 1 (Class 1 to 5)

Subject Number of Questions Max Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy 30 30
Language I 30 30
Language II 30 30
Mathematics 30 30
Environmental Studies 30 30
Social studies (For visually impaired candidates) 60 60
Total 150 150

Karnataka TET Exam Pattern 2021 for Paper 2 (Class 6 to 8)

Subject Number of Questions Max Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy

(compulsory)

 30 30
Language I (compulsory) 30 30
Language II (compulsory) 30 30
I) For Mathematics & Science teacher: Mathematics and Science 60 60
II) For Social Studies Teacher: Social Studies 60 60
Total 150 150

KARTET Syllabus 2021

Those who are going to appear for both the papers must go through the KARTET syllabus for paper 1 and paper 2.

KARTET Syllabus 202I For Paper 1 (for classes I to V)

  1. 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.
  • 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, especially 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

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  1. Language I
  • 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, 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 and Language Skills. Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.
  1. Language – II
  • 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, 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 and Language Skills. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.
  1. Mathematics Content:

1) Geometrical figures & the knowledge of space

2) 3-D Geometrical figures

3) Numbers

4) Fractions

5) Mathematical operations on numbers and algebraic expressions

6) Measurements- Weight, time and volume

7) Data handling & Measures of central tendency

8) Ratio and proportion

9) Mathematics in daily life

10) Lines & angles

11) Polygons

12) Basic algebra – Linear equations & Identities

Pedagogical issues: Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning, 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.

  1. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
  • Our Environment:
  1. a) Major components of environment, types of ecosystems, life diversity and its features, food chain, and nature balancing factors, Food web, ecological Pyramids, Plant and animal species, factors of Bio density, Tropic levels, Types of pollution, reasons effects- remedial measures, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, sustainable development and its maintenance, waste management measures.
  1. b) Environment movements (Related to state and national level), Important Environment activists, state and national award-winning literature and writers related to environment, major environmental phenomena, types of ecological conservation.
  • Living world: Life processes, classification of organisms. How to organisms reproduce. Cell, Tissues, organ and organs system.
  • Sources of Energy: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, Geothermal Energy, Biodegradable wastes, non-biodegradable wastes, 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.

  • Pedagogy of Environmental Science:
  • Important methods of teaching
  • Current teaching learning interaction.
  • Main features of NCF-2005
  • Features and uses of practical methods.
  • Values which are to be integrated in classroom learning process.
  • Evaluation methods, existing evaluation methods and maintenance of records.
  1. Social Studies: (For Visually impaired instead of mathematics and EVS)

Concepts, content and pedagogy of social studies pertaining to classes 6 to 8 and difficulty level up to secondary level (class 10).

Content:

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 Syllabus 202I For Paper 1 (for classes VI to VIII)

  1. 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-centred 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, especially 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
  1. Language I
  • 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, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching III. Language – II
  • Comprehension:
    • Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and Verbal Ability.

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  1. Mathematics and Science:

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 numerical.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Body-building food – Proteins
    • Body protectors – Vitamins & minerals, Roughage, and water.

Living World: Microorganisms

  • Plant kingdom: Thallophyta
  • Animal kingdom:
    • Bryophyta
    • Pteridophyta
    • Gymnosperms
    • Angiosperms
    • Protista, Protozoa, Fungi Prokaryotic, and Eukaryotes.

Animal kingdom:

  • Vertebrates:
    • Pisces
    • Amphibia
    • Reptiles
    • Aves
    • Mammals
  • Invertebrates:
    • Porifera
    • Coclenorata
    • Platyhelminthes
    • Nematoda
    • Aanelia
    • Arthropoda
    • Mollusca
    • Echino dermata
  • Cell: Plant cell and Animal cell
    • Tissues, organ, organ system
  1. Social Studies/Social Sciences
  • 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, Classroom Processes, activities, and discourse, Developing Critical thinking, Enquiry/Empirical Evidence, Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies, Sources – Primary & Secondary, Project Work, Current methods of Evaluation.