HP TET 2021 Syllabus and Exam Pattern - Marking Scheme and Books

Exam Name

Himachal Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test

Conducting Authority

Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education

Frequency of the exam

Once a year

Examination mode

Offline

Total Papers

• Paper 1

• Paper 2

Duration of the Examination

2 hours 30 minutes

Events

Dates

HP TET 2021 exam dates

November 13, 14, 21 and 28, 2021

Sr. No.

Subject

Section

Syllabus Details

1.

Child Development and Pedagogy

Child Development (Primary School Child)

• Principles of the development of environmental

• Concepts of child-centred and progressive educational

• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence Language & Thought

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning

• Influence of Heredity & Environment

• Socialization processes: Social World & Children (Teacher, Parents & Peers)

• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence

• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice

Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived

• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.

Learning and Pedagogy

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.

• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

• Motivation and learning

• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.

• Cognition & Emotions

• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’

2.

Environmental Studies

• Concept and scope of E.V.S

• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science

• integrated E.V.S

• Learning Principles

• Approaches of presenting concepts

• Animals

• Plants

• The significance of E.V.S,

• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education

• Food

• Shelter

• Activities

• Experimentation/Practical Work

• Water & Travel

3.

Social Studies

• History

• Social and Political Life

• Geography

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies

• Classroom Processes, Activities and Discourse

• Developing Critical thinking

• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies

4.

Language

• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a too

• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form

• Language Skills

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

5.

Mathematics

• Language of Mathematics

• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

• Problems of Teaching

• Evaluation through formal and informal methods

• Evaluation through formal and informal methods

• Nature ofMathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning.

Subject

No. of Question

Marks

Child Psychology and Development, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning processes

30

150

General Awareness including Himachal Pradesh, Current Affairs & Environment Studies

30

English Literature & Grammar

30

Social Studies

60

Total

150

150

Subject

No. of Question

Marks

Child Psychology and Development, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning processes

30

150

General Awareness including Himachal Pradesh, Current Affairs & Environment Studies

30

Mathematics & Botany, Zoology

30

Physics & Chemistry

60

Total

150

150

Subject

No. of Question

Marks

Shastri Degree Course

120

120

General Awareness including Himachal Pradesh, Current Affairs & Environment Studies

30

30

Total

150

150

Subject

No. of Question

Marks

Hindi ,Punjabi, Urdu Course of Graduation level

120

120

General Awareness including Himachal Pradesh, Current Affairs & Environment Studies

30

30

Total

150

150

Subject

No. of Question

Marks

Child Psychology and Development, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning processes

30

150

English Literature & Grammar

30

Hindi Literature & Grammar

30

Mathematics

30

Social Science, Environmental Studies and General Awareness & Current Affairs including Himachal Pradesh

30

Total

150

150

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