Kerala SET Syllabus 2025: Paper 1 & 2 Topics

Kerala SET syllabus 2025 is released by the conducting authority, LBS Centre for Science and Technology, on the official website along with the notification of the exam. The Kerala State Eligibility Test 2025 will only have one stage, a written test, according to the official announcement.

Every year, the LBS Centre publishes a syllabus for the Kerala SET 2025. Papers 1 and 2 have different Kerala SET 2025 syllabus. Kerala SET Paper 1 syllabus includes General Knowledge and Teaching Aptitude themes. Kerala SET Paper 2 syllabus, on the other hand, varies based on the topic candidates select when submitting the application. Paper 2 covers 31 different topics.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 PDF

There will be two papers in the Kerala SET Written Exam. Paper 1 will test General Knowledge and Teaching Aptitude, and paper 2 will cover a specialized subject (out of a list of 31 subjects). The Board of Examinations has approved the Kerala SET syllabus 2025. The Kerala SET 2025 syllabus is detailed below for both papers.

According to the existing Special Rules, passing the SET written test is regarded as a prerequisite for appointment as a Higher Secondary School Teacher in the State.

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Kerala SET Paper 1 Syllabus 2025 - Teaching Aptitude and General Knowledge

The following topics will be covered in the written examination of the Kerala SET syllabus paper 1 2025 exam.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Teaching Aptitude

• Teaching, Learning & Evaluation
• Communication
• Learning Theories & Evaluation
• Educational Administration
• Teaching Methods
• Teaching Aptitudes
• Computer and ICT
• History & Policies of Education
• Foundations of Education: Philosophical, Sociological, Psychological
• Research in Education.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for General Knowledge

• Humanities: Literature, Art and Culture
• Social Science: Economics, History, Geography and Indian Polity (Basics – Class X Level)
• English Language and Reasoning
• General Science: Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Basics – Class X Level)
• Current Affairs related to Latest Technologies, Environmental Issues, UN, Global Affairs, New Initiatives (both National and State level), Indian Polity, Sports, Awards, Events, Persons, Culture, etc.

Kerala SET Paper 2 Syllabus 2025 - Specialized Subject

Kerala SET paper 2 will have questions from any one subject chosen by the candidates from a list of 31 subjects. The brief descriptions of the Kerala SET syllabus 2025 for each subject are provided below.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Botany

• Functional Plant Biology and Analysis Plant Physiology: Metabolism, Growth, differentiation and development, Photoreceptors, Stress physiology and senescence, Chemical Bonds, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Carbohydrates, Amino Acids, etc.
• Reproductive Biology
• Ecology and Environment
• Molecular Cell Biology and Heredity
• Applied Botany
• Diversity of Lifeforms: Bacteria, Viruses, Phycology, Lichenology, Mycology, Briology, Gymnosperm, Morphology, Angiosperms, Ethnobotany, Histology, Microtechnique and Histochemistry, etc.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Zoology

• Taxonomy, Animal Diversity, and Applied Zoology
• Evolution, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Ethology
• Physiology, Immunology and Developmental Biology
• Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biostatistics
• Genetics, Biotechnology, and Microbiology
• Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Bioinformatics

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Economics

• Development Experiences of India and Kerala
• Economic Development and Environmental Economics
• Macroeconomic Theory and Applications
• Microeconomic Theory and Applications
• Money, Banking, Public Finance, and International Trade
• Quantitative Methods for Economic Analysis.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Chemistry

• Analytical Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Surface Chemistry, Colloids, and Catalysis
• Inorganic Chemistry: Periodicity and Chemistry of Main Group Elements, Transition and Inner Transition elements, Coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry
• Theoretical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics, Chemical Bonding, Molecular Symmetry, and Group Theory, etc.
• Organic Chemistry: Electron displacement effects and Aromaticity, Reagents and Name Reactions, Stereochemistry, Photochemistry, and Pericyclic Reactions, etc.
• Selected Topics: Green, Medicinal, Environmental and Material Chemistry, Polymers, etc.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Commerce

• Quantitative Techniques & Research methods
• Financial and Corporate Accounting
• Cost and Management Accounting
• Business Environment, Policy, and MIS
• Financial Management and Marketing
• Management concepts and strategies.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Geography

• Physical Geography: Geomorphology, Endogenic process, Formation of soils and rocks, Oceanography, Atmosphere, Biogeography,
• Urban and Regional Geography
• Resource Geography: Economic, Agricultural, Population and it's dynamics
• Traditions in Geography
• Geoinformatics: Cartography, GIS, Method of Data Interpretation, etc.
• Geography - meaning, nature, and scope
• Indian Geography
• Development of Geographical thought
• Foundation in Human Geography.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for History

• Ancient and Medieval Indian History
• Select Themes World History
• Kerala History
• Historical Methods
• Modern Indian History
• Historiography.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Geology

• Planetary Geoscience
• Igneous Petrology
• Paleontology
• Hydrogeology
• Metamorphic Petrology
• Crystallography and Mineralogy
• Physical Geology
• Marine Geology
• Geomorphology
• Exploration & Mining Geology
• Quaternary Geology
• Environmental Geology
• Economic Geology
• Structural Geology
• Remote sensing
• Geotectonics
• Stratigraphy
• Sedimentary Petrology
• Indian Geology
• Engineering Geology
• Geochemistry
• Geoinformatics
• Field Geology.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Home Science

• Advances & Assessment of children
• Textile Science and Fashion Designing
• Family Resources Management
• Human Development and Family Relations
• Research and Development in Family and Community Science
• Marriage & Family Relations
• Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics
• Extension and Development Communication.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Journalism

• Reporting and Editing
• Communication Research
• Electronic and Digital Media
• Media History & Laws
• Dimensions of Mass Communication
• Advertising, Public Relations, Corporate Communication & Media Management.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Mathematics

• Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
• Real and Complex Analysis
• Fundamental Concepts: Sets and Functions, Analytic Geometry, Elementary Calculus, Probability.
• Topology and Functional Analysis
• Abstract Algebra: Groups, Rings, Fields
• Number Theory and Differential Equations.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Physics

• Classical Mechanics
• Electromagnetic Theory
• Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Mathematical Physics
• Quantum Mechanics
• Electronics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Atom and Molecular Physics
• Condensed Matter Physics.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Statistics

• Distributions in Statistics
• Sample Surveys and Design of Experiments
• Mathematical Methods for Statistics
• Multivariate Analysis, Stochastic Processes, and Index Numbers
• Probability Theory
• Estimation and Testing of Hypotheses.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Bio-Technology

• Genetic Engineering, Plant and Animal Biotechnology, Biosafety, Bioethics, and Regulation
• Biochemistry, Enzymology and Biophysics and Instrumentation
• Environmental Biotechnology Food and dairy Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Nano bio Technology, Environmental microbiology
• Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.
• Microbiology, Immunology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics, Biostatistics Bioinformatics, and computational biology, IPR, Patent laws in Biotechnology.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Psychology

• Psychometry and Research Methodology
• Cognitive Processes
• Psychopathology
• Motivation, Emotion, and Learning
• Personality and Social Psychology
• Applied Psychology.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Sociology

• Sociology: Discipline, Concepts, and Processes
• Sociological Theories
• Social Research Methods and Statistics
• Sociology of India
• Theory and Practice of Development
• Globalization and Emerging Challenges.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Philosophy

• Classical Indian Philosophy
• Contemporary Indian Philosophy
• Western Philosophy
• Contemporary Western Philosophy
• Logic
• Ethics.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Social Work

• History and Philosophy of Social Work
• Social Legislations
• Sociology
• Developmental Psychology
• Counseling
• Social Case Work
• Social Group Work
• Community Organization
• Social Work Research and Statistics
• Project Planning.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Political Science

• Modern Political Analysis
• Political Thoughts
• Indian Government and Politics
• Comparative Politics
• International Relations
• Public Administration.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Anthropology

• Meaning and Scope of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Basic Concepts of Anthropology
• Nature and Configuration of Culture
• Family, Marriage & Kinship
• Political Organisation and Social Control
• Social Stratification
• Religious Organizations
• Economic Organizations
• Meaning and Scope of Biological Anthropology
• Man's place in the animal kingdom
• Introduction to human evolution
• Theories of organic evolution
• The emergence of man fossil evidence
• The biological basis of life, heredity, and variations
• Human genetics - basic concepts and principles
• Concept of race, ethnicity, and population
• Biological anthropology in service of human society
• Application of Biological Anthropology
• Indian society, civilization, and culture
• Hindu religious and philosophical traditions
• Indian education system
• Composition of the Indian population
• Social disabilities
• Approach to the study of Indian culture and civilization
• Process of social changes
• The tribes of India
• Aesthetic and Creative Aspects of Indian Culture
• Changing village India
• Science and Scientific Research
• Construction of Research Design
• Fieldwork Tradition in anthropology
• The ethnographic approach in anthropological research
• Basic Techniques of data collection
• Quantitative analysis
• Qualitative analysis
• The ethnographic approach in anthropology
• Preparation of Anthropological research report
• Method and Theory in Socio-Cultural and Development Anthropology
• Evolutionism, Diffusionism, Functionalism, Continuum
• Structural Functionalism
• Structuralism and Post Structuralism
• Ecological, Medical and Economic Anthropology.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Islamic History

• Islam Under the Prophet and Pious Caliphs
• Muslim dynasties of the Middle Age
• Intellectual contributions of Medieval Islam
• Reform and Revivalist Movements in Islam
• Islam in India
• Modern and Contemporary Muslim World.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Arabic

• Arabic Prose: Mu'allaqat, Poets of Mu'allaqat, Prophet and Muhala Moon, Umayyad and Abbasid Period, Modern Period, Islamic and Umayyad
• Contemporary Arab World
• Encyclopedic work in Arabic
• Arabic Grammar: Rhetorics, Linguistic, Prosody
• Arabic Criticism
• Indo Arabic Literature
• Journal Arabic
• Travel and Tourism
• Translation.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for English

• Chaucer's Age, Early Renaissance in England, Rise of English Drama and Prose, Revenge Tragedy, Shakespeare, Elizabethan Theatre, Milton, Restoration.
• Neoclassical Age, Heroic Drama, Popular Prose Writing, Dryden and Pope, Dr. Johnson, Rise of Novel, Transition Poetry
• Beginning, early, and later Romanticism
• Early Feminist Writing
• Victorian Age: Prose, Biography, Novel, Poetry, Drama, Women Novelists, Transition, Colonial Enterprise
• 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature: Edwardian Period, War Poets, Pink Poet, Avant, Modernist Poetry, Verse Drama, Ted Hughes, Post War Fiction, Irish Dramatic Movements, Immigrants Writings, etc.
• American, Indian, and New Literatures in English
• African Literature and Colonialism
• History and Structure of English and English Language Teaching
• Literary Theory and Criticism.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for German

• Linguistik / Deutsche Sprachgeschichte Basic Linguistics
• Deutsche Literaturgeschichte
• Deutsche Literatur/ Literaturwissenschaft
• History of Western Philosophy and German Culture
• Politische Geschichte / Landeskunde
• Methods of Teaching German as a Foreign Language.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Latin

• History
• Grammar
• Prose
• Poetry
• Translation (Latin to English and English to Latin)
• Short Story & Drama.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Sanskrit

• History of Sanskrit
• Vrtta and Alankar
• Linguistics
• Sahitya: Poetry & Drama
• Jyotisa
• Vyakaran
• Nyaya
• Vedanta.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Tamil

• Literature: Society, Justice, Epic & Devotional
• Short Literature
• Contemporary Literature
• Tamil Grammar
• Performance and Literary Theories
• History of Tamil Literature
• Communication
• Tourism
• Folklore
• Anthropology
• Philosophy.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Russian

• Russian Grammar: Noun, Pronoun, Adverb, Verb, Adjective, etc.
• Modern Russian Language: Phonetics and Lexicology
• Morphology and Syntax
• Russian Cultural History
• Russian Literature: Prose Fiction
• Russian Literature: Poetry and Drama.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Syriac

• Syriac Grammar, History and Structure of Syriac Language
• Syriac Poetry and Liturgical Literature
• Secular, Biblical, and Monastic Literature
• India and Syriac Literature
• History of Syriac Churches
• Current affairs.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Urdu

• Beginning of Urdu Literature and Language
• Beginning and Fall of Urdu Language
• Messinian
• Habits of Sufi
• Vitan Vati and its characteristics
• Guilds
• Urdu poetry and trends
• Urdu Prose
• Ferris literature services
• Umm and her oaths, etc.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Malayalam

• Verse
• Prose
• Visual Arts - Literary Drinking
• Cultural Studies
• Literary Theories and Malayalam Criticism
• Linguistics History & Grammar.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Kannada

• Modern, medieval, and ancient literature
• Folklore and Cultural Studies
• Prosody and Literary Criticism
• History of Kannada Language and Linguistics (General and Dravidian)
• Research Methodology, Textual Criticism, Journalism and Computer knowledge.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Hindi

• Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas-Aadikal Se Poorv Bhartendu Yug Tak
• Hindi Sahitya ka itihas- bhartendu Yug se unnis sou chalees tak
• Aadhunik Kal- 1940 Se 2015 Tak
• History of Hindi Language & Structural Grammar
• Western and Eastern Literary Thoughts, Prosody & Poetics
• Functional Hindi, Translation & Linguistics.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for French

• Middle ages to 17th century
• 18th and 19th century
• 20th and 21st century
• Literary criticism
• Culture and Civilization (Geography, History, Art & Cuisine, Heritage)
• Linguistics, Methodology & Fle
• Grammar
• Francophone Literature, Culture, and Civilisation
• Contemporary France.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Gandhian Studies

• Making of the Mahatma: Early Life and Education, Education in England, Gandhi as a Lawyer in South Africa, Western Influence, Advent of Satyagraha in South Africa
• Fundamentals of Gandhian Thoughts: Concept of Human Nature and Perfectibility, Truth, Relation between ends and means, Pursuit of Truth through Nonviolent means, Cardinal and Ashram Vows
• Political and Economic Thought
• Social and Educational Ideas
• Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
• Gandhi and the modern world.

Kerala SET Syllabus 2025 for Music

• History of Music
• Vedic Music
• Lakshana granthas
• 72 Sampoorna melakarta scheme
• Composers and Vaggeyakaras of the pre-Tyagaraja period
• Raga Lakshana of the melakartas
• Music and Temples
• Musical inscriptions in Kudumiyanmalai and thirumayam
• Talas
• Origin and evolution of musical forms
• Evolution of musical concerts
• Composers and Vaggeyakaras of the Tyagaraja period
• Raga Lakshana
• Stringed, Percussion, and Wind instruments of South and North with playing technique
• Manodharma Sangeetha
• Exposition of Pallavi
• Advance knowledge of musical prosody
• Group kritis of Tyagaraja, Dikshitar, Syama Sasthri, and Swathithirunal
• Treatment of music in geyanataka, nritya natika, Bhagavata Mela natakam, yakshagana and kathakalakshepam
• Composers and Vaggeyakaras of the Tyagaraja period
• Raga Lakshana
• Bharata’s experiment Dhruva veena and Chala veena, the cycle of 4th and cycle of 5th
• Music and mathematics
• Geographical factors and their influence
• Music and physiology – Larynx and Ear
• Yazh – its origin evolution and decline
• Composers and Vaggeyakaras of the modern period
• Music Therapy
• Music and Yoga
• Modern trends in Music, etc.

Kerala SET Exam Pattern 2025

The Kerala SET test would consist of two papers, each lasting 120 minutes. Paper I will have two parts: Part (A) General Knowledge and Part (B) Aptitude in Teaching, and Paper II will feature the candidate's subject of specialization at the Post Graduate (PG) level.

Subject	Total No. of Questions	Marks Allotted for Each Question
General Knowledge (Part A) and Aptitude in Teaching (Part B)	120 (60 questions each part)	1
All 33 subjects except Mathematics and Statistics	120 questions	1
Mathematics and Statistics	80 questions	1.5

• Exam Mode: Offline
• Number of Papers: Paper 1 and 2
• Subjects: Paper 1 ( General Knowledge and Aptitude in Teaching) and Paper 2: 31 subjects
• Total Questions: 240 (Paper 1 and 2: 120 questions each)
• Maximum Marks: 240 (Paper 1 and 2: 120 marks each)
• Duration: 2 hours