Bihar TET Syllabus For Paper 1 & Paper 2

Notification for the Bihar TET Exam is out. You all should buckle up for the preparations of the exam. In this post, we have provided Bihar TET Syllabus for paper 1 and paper 2 so that you can get an idea about the exam pattern and can score well.

Syllabus for Paper 1

Below we have provided the syllabus for Bihar TET Paper 1. Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy, Hindi, English, Mathematics, Environmental Studies. Detailed syllabus is provided. This syllabus is also available in pdf format hence you can download it. Download Study Material and Notes for Bihar TET Exam

Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

You can also check out the notes and study material for the Child Development and Pedagogy Exam in English and Hindi Language Child Development (Primary 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)
  • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical 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; 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
  • the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
  • 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; 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 Syllabus

  • Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

Language 2 Syllabus

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

Mathematics Syllabus

  • Geometry
  • Shapes & Spatial Understanding
  • Solids around Us
  • Numbers
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Measurement
  • Weight
  • Time
  • Volume
  • Data Handling
  • Patterns
  • Money

Environmental Studies Syllabus

  • Family and Friends: Relationships, Work and Play, Animals, Plants
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Travel
  • Things We Make and Do

Syllabus For Paper 2

Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus 

You can also check out the notes and study material for the Child Development and Pedagogy Exam in English and Hindi Language Child Development (Primary 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)
  • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical 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; 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
  • the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
  • 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; 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 Syllabus

  • Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

Language II Syllabus

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

Mathematics Syllabus

  • Number System: Knowing our Numbers, Playing with Numbers, Whole Numbers, Negative Numbers and Integers, Fractions, Algebra
  • Introduction to Algebra: Ratio and Proportion
  • Geometry Basic geometrical ideas (2-D) Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D) Symmetry: (reflection) Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
  • Mensuration
  • Data handling

Science Syllabus

  • Food
  • Sources of food
  • Components of food
  • Cleaning food I
  • Materials
  • Materials of daily use
  • The World of the Living
  • Moving Things People and Ideas
  • How things work
  • Electric current and circuits
  • Magnets
  • Natural Phenomena
  • Natural Resources

Social Science Syllabus

  • History : When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, The First Farmers and Herders, 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 Chang, 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 II. 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 Marginalised