KARTET Syllabus

KARTET Syllabus 2025-26:

The Karnataka TET Syllabus 2025-26 is prescribed by the officials of the board. The KARTET Syllabus 2025-26 is in such a way that it describes the details of the KARTET Exam Question Paper. The Exam Syllabus will explain the subject-wise marking scheme. 

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For Paper I

Child Development	The Children’s Profile at the Beginning of Primary Education-Physical and Cognitive The Children’s Profile at the Beginning of Primary Education—Social and Emotional Physical & Intellectual Development during Primary School Years (6 to 10 Years) Social and Emotional Development during Primary School Years (6 to 10 Years) Moral Development during Primary School Years (6 to 10 Years)
Learning	Learning Types, levels, and approaches to Learning Concepts and constructs Factors Contributing to Learning Constructivist Approach to Learning Learning and Knowledge language
English	Listening Reading Speaking Vocabulary Writing Language Functions
Mathematics	Numbers Shapes and Figures Patterns Measurements Study of Data
Environmental Studies and Science	Plants Animals & Birds Small Creatures Around the children Day and Night Water Air Food My Body Keeping Healthy and Clean Man, Matter, and Materials Work Science in Everyday Life Travelogue

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.
• 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, 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 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.

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

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, 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, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

Mathematics Content:

• Geometrical figures & the knowledge of space
• 3-D Geometrical figures
• Numbers             
• Fractions
• Mathematical operations on numbers and algebraic expressions
• Measurements- Weight, time and volume
• Data handling & Measures of central tendency
• Ratio and proportion
• Mathematics in daily life
• Lines & angles
• Polygons
• Basic algebra – Linear equations & Identities
• 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.

Environmental Science Syllabus:

Our Environment:

Major components of the environment, types of ecosystem, life diversity and its features, food chain, and nature balancing factors, Food web, ecological Pyramids, Plant and animal species, factors of Biodensity, Tropic levels, Types of pollution, reasons-effects- remedial measures, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, sustainable development and its maintenance, waste management measures.

Environment movements (Related to state and national level), Important Environment activists, state and national award-winning literature and writers related to the environment, major environmental phenomena, types of ecological conservation.

Living world:

Life processes, classification of organisms. How do organisms reproduce? Cell, Tissues, organ and organ 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, Numericals.

Pedagogy of Environmental Science:

• Important methods of teaching
• Current teaching-learning interaction. Main features of NCF-2005
• Features and uses of practical methods.
• Values that are to be integrated into the classroom learning process.
• Evaluation methods, existing evaluation methods and maintenance of records.

Social Studies

• 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, Evaluation.

For Paper II

Child Development	Nature of Educational Psychology Human Growth and Development Cognitive Development Social, Emotional and Moral Development Learning Intelligence and Creativity Motivation and Group Dynamics Personality and Assessment Mental Health and Hygiene Guidance and Counselling
English	Listening Speaking Reading Writing Grammar Vocabulary Language Functions
Mathematics	Number System Measurements Algebra Life Mathematics Geometry Data handling Practical Geometry
History	Pre-historic Period Indus Valley Civilization Ancient Land of Thamizhagam Vedic Period Jainism and Buddhism Rise of Empires Kushana Empire
Geography	Resources and their types-Resources and Human Activity Primary Activity-Types of Primary Activities- Gathering, Hunting and Fishing-Mining-Classification of minerals Primary Activity-Agriculture-Agriculture and Crops-Factors Determining Agriculture Secondary Activity-Industries-Classification of Industries-Factors Determining Development of Industries Tertiary Activity-Transport, Trade-Transport-Trade-Other Services Population and Resource-Population Growth and distribution population Growth and Resource Depletion-Resources and Space Technology
Civics	Our Nation Location, Political Administration and National Symbols Indian Constitution Salient Features Political Parties Functions, Structures & Types – Regional and National parties United Nations Organization- Objectives – Organs - Functions Legislation and Welfare schemes for Children and Women

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.
• 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, 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 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

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.

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 - Numericals, 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

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.