CTET 2025 - Central Teacher Eligibility Test : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

CTET 2025 – Central Teacher Eligibility Test acronym CTET is conducted by CBSE Delhi for a person to be eligible for an appointment as a teacher for classes 1 to VIII.

Central Teaching Eligibility Test is compulsory for becoming eligible to apply for the job as a teacher in the Government as well as private schools. Candidates are desirous to take teaching as a profession in schools after completing their B.Ed is supposed to clear CTET or Teacher Eligibility Test.

CTET shall apply to schools of the Central Government including:

• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
• Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti - NVS
• Tibetan Schools, etc. to name a few and

schools under the administrative control of UT of Chandigarh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

CTET may also apply to the unaided private schools, which may exercise the option of considering the CTET. Besides schools owned and managed by the State Government and local bodies and aided schools shall consider the TET conducted by the State Government. However, a State Government can also consider the CTET in case it is not conducting the STET.

CTET July 2025 Important Dates

Date of Start of Application Process

• To be notified.

Last date for Submission of Online Application

• To be notified.

Date of CTET Exam 2025

• To be notified.

Date of Declaration of Result

• To be notified.

CTET January 2024 was held on-

• Paper 1: 21st January 2024 (Morning Shift)
• Paper 2: 21st January 2024 (Afternoon Shift)

CTET 2025 Eligibility

Educational Qualification

For Classes I-V

• Aspiring students should have passed a Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks or appearing in the final 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education  or equivalent OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in final 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education or equivalent), in accordance with the NCTE Recognition Norms and Procedure. OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in the final 4-year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed) OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in the final 2-year Diploma in Education (Special Education)

Important

• Relaxation of 5% in minimum qualifying marks at BA / B.Sc / Senior Secondary level is admissible for SC/ST/Differently abled Candidates.
• For this year only, a candidate with BA / B.Sc / B.Com with at least 50% marks and B.Ed qualification shall also be eligible for test for classes I to V, provided he/she undergoes, after appointment, an NCTE recognized 6-month special program in Elementary Education.

For Classes VI-VIII

• Aspiring students should have passed a B.A / B.Sc / B.Com and passed or appear in the final 2- year Diploma in Elementary Education  or its equivalent OR
• B.A/ B.Sc/ B.Com with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1  year Bachelor in Education(B.Ed OR
• B.A/ B.Sc/ B.Com with at least 45% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year Bachelor in Education B.Ed, in accordance with the NCTE Recognition Norms and Procedure. OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final 4-year Bachelor in Elementary Education B.El.Ed OR
• Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in final 4-year BA / B.Sc (Ed) or B.A (Ed)/ B.Sc (Ed) OR
• B.A / B.Sc / B.Com with at least 50% marks and passed or appearing in 1-year B.Ed. A diploma/degree course in teacher education recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) only shall be considered. However, in the case of Diploma in Education (Special Education) and B.Ed (Special Education), a course recognized by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) only shall be considered.

Imp. There will be a relaxation of 5% in minimum qualifying marks at BA/B.Sc./Senior secondary level is admissible for SC/ST and Differently abled Candidates.

CTET 2025 Syllabus

CTET will consist of questions from the following given syllabus

Syllabus of Paper I - for classes I to V- Primary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy - 15 Questions in All

a) Child Development (Primary School Child)

• The concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence on 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 the 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; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement.

b) The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs - 5 Questions in All

• 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

c) Learning and Pedagogy -10 Questions in All

• 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

II. Language - 30 Questions in All

a) Language Comprehension - 5 Questions in All

• 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)

b) Pedagogy of Language Development - 15 Questions in All

• 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; 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 resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language II - 30 Questions in All

a) Comprehension - 15 Questions in All

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

b) Pedagogy of Language Development -15 Questions in All

• 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; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, the multilingual resource for the classroom
• Addition and Subtraction
• Division
• Data Handling
• Geometry, Numbers, Multiplication
• Patterns, Measurement
• Money
• Remedial Teaching
• Solids Around Us
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Time
• Volume
• Weight

c) Pedagogical issues - 15 Questions in All

• 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

IV. Mathematics

a) Content

• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

V.Environmental Studies

a) Content

1. Family and Friends:

• Relationships
• Work and Play
• Animals
• Plants

2. Food
3. Shelter
4. Water
5. Travel
6. Things We Make and Do

b) Pedagogical Issues

• Concept and scope of EVS
• The significance of EVS integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches to presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/Aids
• Problems

Paper-II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions in All

a) Child Development for Elementary School Child - 15 Questions in All

• The concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence on 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 the 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; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

b) The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs - 5 Questions in All

• 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

c) Learning and Pedagogy - 10 Questions in All

• 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;
• the 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

II. Language I - 30 Questions in All

a) Language Comprehension - 15 Questions in All

• 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)

b) Pedagogy of Language Development - 5 Questions in All

• 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; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, a multilingual resource for the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language II - 30 Questions in All

a) Comprehension -15 Questions in All

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

b) Pedagogy of Language Development - 15 Questions in All

• 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; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, a multilingual resource for the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

IV. (A) Mathematics and Science: - 60 Questions in All

1. Mathematics 30 Questions

a) Content 20 Questions

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

b) Pedagogical issues 10 Questions

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problems of Teaching

2. Science - 30 Questions in All

a) Content - 20 Questions in All

I Food

• Sources of Food
• Components of Food
• Cleaning Food

II. Materials

•  Materials of daily use

III. The World of the Living

IV. Moving Things People and Ideas

V. How things work

• Electric current and circuits

Magnets

VI. Natural Phenomena

VII. Natural Resources

b) Pedagogical issues - 10 Questions in All

• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/effective
• Innovation
• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
• Text Material/Aids
• Understanding & Appreciating Science

V. Social Studies/ Social Sciences  - 60 Questions in All

a) Content - 40 Questions in All

(i) History

• When, Where, and How
• Architecture
• Culture and Science
• Creation of an Empire
• Contacts with Distant Lands
• Challenging the Caste System
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• Early States
• India After Independence
• New Ideas
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Political Developments
• Regional Cultures
• Rural Life and Society
• Social Change
• Sultans of Delhi
• The First Cities
• The First Empire
• The Earliest Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• The Nationalist Movement
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Women and reform

(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

(iii) 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

c) Pedagogical issues - 20 Questions in All

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities, and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Inquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation

CTET 2025 Exam Pattern

All questions in the CTET test will be Multiple Choice Questions- MCQs- carrying one mark each with four alternatives out of which one answer will be correct.

Note: There will be no negative marking.

CTET consists of two papers

• The paper-I - for the teacher interested in classes I to V.
• Paper-II - for teachers intended for classes VI to VIII.

Note: However a person interested in both levels will have to appear in both the papers Paper I and Paper II

Paper-I  (Compulsory)  2-1/2 hour duration

Nature and Level of Questions

• The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on the educational psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the age group of 6-11 years. They will focus on understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners, interaction with learners, and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
• For the Test items for Language, I will focus on the proficiencies related to the medium of instruction.
• Language II will be from among the prescribed options other than Language I. A candidate may choose any one language from the available language options and will be required to specify the same in the application form. The test items in language II will also focus on the elements of language, communication, and comprehension abilities.
• The test items in Mathematics and Environmental Studies will focus on the concepts, problem-solving abilities, and pedagogical understanding of the subjects. In all these subject areas, the test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject prescribed for classes I-V, by the NCERT/CBSE.
• The questions in the tests for Paper I will be based on the topics prescribed for classes’ I-V, but their difficulty standard, as well as linkages, could be up to the secondary stage.

Paper-II (for classes VI to VIII)  2-1/2 hour duration

Nature and Level of Questions

• The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on the educational psychology of teaching and learning, relevant to the age group 11-14 years. They will focus on understanding the characteristics, needs, and psychology of diverse learners, interaction with learners, and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
• The test items for Language I will focus on the proficiency related to the medium of instruction, as chosen from a list of prescribed options in the application form.
• Language II will be a language other than Language I. A candidate may choose any one language from among the available options and as in the specified list in the application form and attempt questions in the one indicated by the candidate in the application form by him. The Test items in Language II will also focus on the elements of language, communication, and comprehension abilities.
• The test items in Mathematics and Science and Social Studies/Social Science will focus on the concepts, problem-solving abilities, and pedagogical understanding of these subjects. The test items for Mathematics and Science will be 30 marks each. The test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject as prescribed for classes VI-VIII by the NCERT/CBSE.
• The questions in the tests for Paper II will be based on the topics of the prescribed syllabus of the NCERT/CBSE for classes VI-VII but their difficulty standard, as well as linkages, could be up to the senior secondary stage.

Imp. The question paper shall be either in English or Hindi.

CTET 2025 Exam Dates

CTET is normally held twice a year in July and December months.

How to apply for CTET 2025?

Interest candidates can apply Only Online by visiting the official website of CTET i.e., www.ctet.nic.in.

After registration, the confirmation form should be sent to CBSE/CTET unit after affixing a passport size photograph and signature in the space provided, in an envelope of size 12" x  9" superscribed in the bold letter "Application for CTET  by registered/speed post so as to reach before the closing date to:

• The Assistant Secretary (CTET)
• CBSE
• PS 1-2, Institutional Area, 1P Extension
• Patparganj, Delhi-110092 

CTET 2025 Exam Fees

CTET Exam Fee will be as follows:

CTET 2025 Contact Details

Central Board of Secondary Education
CTET 2022
Ph: 011-22509256, 22509257, 22509258, 22509259
Helpline No. 1800-11-8002
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://cbse.nic.in/