Latest Update:- State Board of exam authority will be going to some change in PSTET syllabus and exam pattern. As per the new notification of state board syllabus and exam pattern for Level 1 & Level 2 is Changed. You Can check Detail For New Pattern of PSTET is given Below.
PSTET Syllabus, (New) Exam Pattern For Paper / Level 1 & 2
SCERT (State Council of Educational Research & Training) conduct written Exam of SCERT for Level 1 & 2 every year. SCERT is some changes in the PSTET Syllabus and pattern of Teacher Eligibility Test. So we provide you PSTET Syllabus and the new exam Pattern on our web portal. You can check in given below.
| Name Of Organization | SCERT |
| Examination Name | PSTET |
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| Category | Syllabus |
| Job Location | Punjab |
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PSTET Syllabus & New Exam Pattern for (Level-I/II) As per official Notification
PSTET Level 1 / Paper 1 Exam Pattern –
| Name of Subject | No of Question | Max Marks | Duration |
| Child Development & Pedagogy | 30 Questions | 30 Marks |
2:30 Hours
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| Language I | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Language II | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Mathematics | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Environmental Studies | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Total | 150 Questions | 150 Marks |
PSTET Level 2 / Paper 2 Exam Pattern –
| Name of Subject | No of Question | Max Marks | |
| Child Development & Pedagogy | 30 Questions | 30 Marks |
2:30 Hours |
| Language I | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Language II | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Specific Subject I | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Specific Subject II | 30 Questions | 30 Marks | |
| Total | 150 Questions | 150 Marks |
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PSTET Syllabus:-
PSTET Level 1 / Paper 1 Syllabus –
1. Child Development and Pedagogy:
Child Development (Primary School Child):
- Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
- Language & Thought
- Gender as a social construct: gender-bias, gender roles & educational practice
- Principles of development of children
- Influence of Environment & Heredity
- Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
- Individual differences among learners & understanding differences based on
- The diversity of language, gender, caste, community, religion etc.
- Distinction b/w assessment of learning & Assessment for learning; School-Based
- Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
- Continuous, Assessment & Comprehensive Evaluation: practice & perspective
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Kohlberg, Piaget & Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
- Concepts of child-centred & progressive education
- Questions formulating for examining readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning, critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement.
Inclusive education & children’s Special Needs :
- Addressing to Creative, Talented, Specially disabled children
- Addressing to the children’s necessity in learning impairment & difficulties
- Addressing children from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged & deprived
Learning & Pedagogy:
- How children learn & think; why & how children ‘fail’ in achievement of success in school performance
- Basic processes of learning & teaching; learning strategies of children’s; learning as a social activity.
- The social context of learning.
- Child as a ‘scientific investigator’ & as a problem solver.
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning- environmental & personal
- Cognition & Emotions
- The learning process
2. Languages:
Language Comprehension:
Reading unseen passages- two passages one poem with questions on comprehension & one with prose or drama, grammar, inference and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, narrative, scientific or discursive)
Pedagogy of Language Development:
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency
- Language Skills
- Teaching-learning materials
- Role of listening and speaking: function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical view on the role of grammar in learning a language in communication of ideas written form & verbally
- Challenges in teaching language in the various classroom; disorders, errors & language.
- Learning and acquisition
- Remedial Teaching
- Principles of Language Teaching
3. Mathematics:
- Multiplication
- Division
- Geometry
- Shapes & Spatial Understanding
- Addition and Subtraction
- Measurement
- Weight
- Numbers
- Money
- LCM &HCF
- Decimal
- Fractions
- Time
- Volume
- Data Handling
- Patterns
Pedagogical issues:
- Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
- Nature of Logical/Mathematics thinking; understanding children’s reasoning & thinking patterns
- and strategies of making meaning and learning
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Problems of Teaching
- Evaluation through informal and formal methods.
4. Environmental Studies:
- Days and Nights
- Disposal of solid waste
- Local Bodies (Rural & urban)
- Transportation, communication and its development
- Parts of Body (internal & external)
- Air
- Habitats, types
- Clothes dresses &their care
- Group songs
- Pollution
- Our Surroundings
- Festivals (school, family & national)
- Health, good habits & personal hygiene
- Looking after the trees, plants & animals
- Weather & climate
- Community Buildings
- Diseases
- Living and nonliving
- Parts of plants
- Geographical features and changes
- National property
- First Aid
- Disaster management
- Natural Resources
- Our Punjab
- Solar System
- Basic needs
- Food, resources and care
- Water
Pedagogical Issues:
- Teaching material/Aids
- Activities
- Experimentation/Practical Work
- Discussion
- learning Principles
- Concept and scope of EVS
- Approaches of presenting concepts
- Problems
- CCE
- Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
- Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
- Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
PSTET Level 2 / Paper 2 Syllabus –
1. Child Development and Pedagogy:
Child Development (Elementary School Child):
- 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)
- Kohlberg, Piaget & Vygotsky: critical & constructs perspectives
- Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
- Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
- Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
- Language & Thought
- Gender as a social construct
- Specific differences in learners, understanding differences based on diversification of language, religion, gender, community, caste etc.
- Distinction b/w appraisal for learning and appraisal of learning; School-Based appraisal
- Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
- Questions formulating for examining readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning, critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement.
Inclusive education & children’s Special Needs :
- Addressing to the children’s necessity with learning impairment & difficulties etc
- Addressing children from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged & deprived
- Addressing to the children’s Creative, Talented, Specially abled Learners
Learning and Pedagogy:
- Cognition & Emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental
- How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
- Basic processes of teaching & learning; learning of children’s strategies; learning as a social activity;
- Learning on alternative conceptions in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in
- Learning on Social Context.
- Child as a scientific investigator & problem solver
- The learning process.
2. Languages
Language Comprehension
Reading unseen passages- two passages one poem with questions on comprehension & one with prose or drama, grammar, inference and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, narrative, scientific or discursive)
Pedagogy of Language Development:
- Challenges in teaching language in the various classroom; disorders, errors & language.
- Evaluating language proficiency & comprehension: listening, reading, writing & speaking.
- Language Skills
- Teaching-learning materials: multi-media materials, Textbook, multilingual resource of the classroom
- Role of speaking & listening; function of language & how children use it as a tool
- Critical view on the role of grammar in learning a language in communication of ideas verbally
- and in written form
- Learning and acquisition
- Remedial Teaching
- Principles of Language Teaching
3. Social Studies/ Social Sciences:
A: 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:
- Local Government
- Making a Living
- Diversity
- Government
- Understanding Media
- The Judiciary
- Social Justice and the Marginalized
- Unpacking Gender
- The Constitution Democracy
- State Government
- Parliamentary Government
Pedagogical issue:
- Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
- Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
- Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
- Projects Work
- Evaluation
- Developing Critical thinking
- Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
- Sources – Primary & secondary
B: History:
- The First Cities
- Early States
- Contacts with Distant Lands
- When, Where and How
- The First Empire
- Sultans of Delhi
- Architecture
- Culture and Science
- The Earliest Societies
- The First Farmers and Herders
- Political Developments
- New Ideas
- New Kings and Kingdoms
- The Establishment of Company Power
- Rural Life and Society
- Colonialism and Tribal Societies
- The Revolt of 1857-58
- The Nationalist Movement
- India After Independence Creation of an Empire
- Social Change
- Regional Cultures
- Women and reform
- Challenging the Caste System
4. Mathematics and Science:
A. Science:
- Components of food
- Cleaning food
- Food
- Sources of food
- Materials
- Change of matter
- Structure of Atom
- Materials of daily use
- Air
- Water
- Molecule
- Compounds
- Acids, base, salt
- The World of the Living micro organism, organisms & diseases
- Metals & Nonmetals
- Carbon
- Soil
- Food; production & management
- Moving Things People and Ideas
- Motion
- Effect of population growth & human activities on environment
- The Universe
- Force
- Work & Energy
- Electric current and circuits
- Natural Phenomena
- Natural Resources
- Sources of energy
- Magnets & magnetism
- Light
- Pollution
- Sound
- Environmental concerns; regional & national
Pedagogical issues:
- Natural Science/Aims & objectives
- Approaches/Integrated Approach
- Understanding & Appreciating Science
- Nature & Structure of Sciences
- Innovation
- Problems Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)
- Remedial Teaching
- Text Material/Aids
- Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/affective
B: Mathematics:
- Whole Numbers
- Negative Numbers and Integers
- Number System
- Knowing our Numbers
- Exponents; surds, squares, cube, square root, cube root
- playing with Numbers
- Fractions
- Profit & Loss
- Compound Interest
- Discount
- Algebra
- Introduction to Algebra; Algebraic identities, polynomials
- Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
- Symmetry: (reflection)
- Ratio and Proportion
- Geometry Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
- Constructions (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
- Data handling, statistics
- Quadrilateral
- Mensuration:- Cone, cylinder, circle, sphere, triangles
Pedagogical issues:
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Remedial Teaching
- Problems of Teaching
- Language of Mathematics
- Evaluation
- Community Mathematics
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
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| Book Name | Publisher | Author | Flipkart | Amazon |
| Paper-2 Maths & Science | Gyanm | VMS Grover |
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| Paper-2 Social Studies | Gyanm | VMS Grover |
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| Paper-2 Social Studies | Unique |
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