Maharashtra TET 2024 - Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

Maharashtra TET 2024 - The Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test acronym as MAHA TET or MH TET is conducted by the Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE). The examination is mandatory for aspiring teachers and all the schools in the state of Maharashtra.

Maharashtra TET 2024 Important Dates

Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration

• Yet to be announced.

Last Date of Submission of Application Form

• Yet to be announced.

Date of Entrance Exam

• Yet to be announced.

Date of Declaration of Result

• Yet to be announced.

Maharashtra TET 2023 was held on-

• 31th October 2023

Maharashtra TET 2024 Eligibility

Educational Qualification

• Aspiring candidates should possess academic and professional qualifications specified in the Government of Maharashtra Resolution. OR
• A person who is pursuing any of the teacher education courses (recognized by the appropriate authority, as the case may be) specified in the Maharashtra Resolution.

Maharashtra TET 2024 Syllabus

The exam consists of questions from the following subjects/topics.

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

I. Child Development and Pedagogy

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.
• A 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

• 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 

• 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

a) 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)

b) Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; a 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, Remedial Teaching
• Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, Multi-Media Materials, the Multilingual Resource for the Classroom

III. Language-II 

a) Comprehension 

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

b) Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; a 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
• Geometry, Numbers
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
• Measurement, Weight, Volume, Time, Money, Data Handling, Patterns

c) Pedagogical Issues

• Nature of Mathematics / Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies for 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

• Family and Friends:
  • Relationships
  • Work and Play
  • Animals
  • Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• 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

a) Child Development for Elementary 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 

• 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 

• 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

a) 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)

b) Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; a function of language and how children use it as a tool
• The 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

a) Comprehension

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

b) Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of Listening and Speaking; a function of language and how children use it as a tool
• The 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
• Remedial Teaching

IV. (A) Mathematics and Science

1. Mathematics 30 Questions

a) Content 20 Questions

• Number System, Whole Numbers
• Knowing our Numbers, Playing with Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions, Algebra, Geometry
• Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio and Proportion
• Basic Geometrical Ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry: (Reflection)
• Constructions (using Straight Edge Scale, Protractor, Compasses)
• Mensuration, Data Handling

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

a) Content 

• Food
  • Sources of Food
  • Components of Food
  • Cleaning Food
• 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

b) Pedagogical Issues

• 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

V. Social Studies / Social Sciences

a) Content - 40 Questions in All

(i) 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 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

(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 / State Government / Parliamentary Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution / The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised

c) Pedagogical Issues

• 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

Maharashtra TET 2024 Pattern

All questions in the MTET 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.

MAHA TET consists of two papers

• Paper-I - For the teachers interested in classes I to V
• Paper-II - For the teachers intended in classes VI to VIII

Note: However a person interested in both levels will have to appear in both the papers Paper I & 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.
• 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 the 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.

Important: The question paper shall be either in English or Hindi.

MAHA TET 2024 Qualifying Marks

A person who scores 60% or more in the TET exam will be considered a TET pass. A person belonging to SC, ST, VJ, NT, OBC, and differently-abled persons, who score 55% or more in the TET exam will be considered a TET pass.

MAHA TET 2024 Exam Dates

MAHA TET is normally held in the month of January/July.

How to apply for MAHA TET 2024?

Aspiring candidates can apply Only Online by visiting the official website i.e., http://mahatet.in/ and following the instructions given there.

Maharashtra TET 2024 Fee

The MAHA TET application fee is Rs. 500/- for one paper and Rs. 800/- for both papers.

MAHA TET 2024 Contact Details

The Commissioner(MSCE), Maharashtra State Council of Examinations
17, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Pune-411 001
Ph: 020-26123066  Fax: 020-26129919
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: https://mahatet.in/