Punjab State School Board Conducts exam for the primary teacher recruitment. For this, It is necessary to qualify the PSTET Paper 2, For Further details about PSTET Application form and How to apply online Read this article. Then only you will be eligible for the further recruitment process. In this article, we are sharing the PSTET Paper 2 Exam Pattern and PSTET Paper 2 Syllabus. As there will be five subjects in the exam. 30 questions on each subject will be asked by the board to test the candidates. There would be no negative marking for any incorrect answer. Also See: PSTET Previous year Question Paper Download PDF

PSTET Paper 2 Exam Pattern

S. No. Name of Subject Number of Questions Marks
1. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 30
2. Language I 30 30
3. Language II 30 30
4 (a) For Mathematics or Science Teacher 60 60
4 (b) For Social Science Teacher 60 60
4 (c) For Any other Teacher either 4(a) or 4(b) 60 60
Total 150 150

PSTET Paper 2 Syllabus

Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage Syllabus in detailed form

Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 Questions

Child Development (Elementary School Child): 15 QUestions
  • 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.
  • 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: 5 Questions
  • Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
  • Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, 'impairment' etc
  • Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions

  • 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 (Punjabi): 30 Questions

Language Comprehension: 15 Questions 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) Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
  • 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; language difficulties, errors and disorders
  • Language Skills
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource for the classroom
  • Remedial Teaching

Language- II (English): 30 Questions

Comprehension: 15 Questions Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
  • 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; language difficulties, errors and disorders
  • Language Skills
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource for the classroom
  • Remedial Teaching

Mathematics and Science: 60 Questions

Mathematics: 30 Questions
  • Content: 25 Questions
  • Number System
  • Knowing our Numbers
  • playing with Numbers
  • Whole Numbers
  • Negative Numbers and Integers
  • Fractions
  • Exponents; surds, squares, cube, square root, cube root
  • Profit & Loss
  • Compound Interest
  • Discount
  • Algebra
  • Introduction to Algebra; Algebraic identities, polynomials
  • Ratio and Proportion
  • Geometry
  • Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
  • Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
  • Symmetry: (reflection)
  • Constructions (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
  • Quadrilateral
  • Mensuration; circle, sphere, cone, cylinder, triangles
  • Data handling, statistics
Pedagogical issues: 5 Questions
  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
  • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
  • Language of Mathematics
  • Community Mathematics
  • Evaluation
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Problems of Teaching.
Science: 30 Questions Content: 25 Questions
  • Food
  • Sources of food
  • Components of food
  • Cleaning food
  • Materials
  • Materials of daily use
  • Air
  • Water
  • Change of matter
  • Structure of Atom
  • Molecule
  • Compounds
  • Metals & Nonmetals
  • Carbon
  • Soil
  • Acids, base, salt
  • The World of the Living organisms, microorganism, and diseases
  • Food; production & management
  • Moving Things People and Ideas
  • Effect of population growth & human activities on environment
  • The Universe
  • Force
  • Motion
  • Work & Energy
  • Electric current and circuits
  • Magnets & magnetism
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Natural Phenomena
  • Natural Resources
  • Sources of energy
  • Environmental concerns; regional & national
  • Pollution
  1. b) Pedagogical issues: 5 Questions
  • Nature & Structure of Sciences
  • Natural Science/Aims & objectives
  • Understanding & Appreciating Science
  • Approaches/Integrated Approach
  • Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)
  • Innovation
  • Text Material/Aids
  • Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/effective
  • Problems
  • Remedial Teaching

Social Studies/ Social Sciences: 60 Questions

Content: 50 Questions (i) History: 20 Questions
  • When, Where and How
  • The Earliest Societies
  • The First Farmers and Herders
  • The First Cities
  • The 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: 15 Questions
  • 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 (Civics): 15 Questions
  • 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
Pedagogical issues: 10 Questions
  • 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
  • Projects Work
  • Evaluation