Assam TET Syllabus 2024: Download PDF, Exam Pattern, Books

The Assam TET syllabus 2024 is drafted by the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). In addition to this, SEBA also conducts the examination. The Assam TET exam 2024 will have two papers. The syllabus for both vary and are very detailed.

The Assam Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is an entrance examination for the recruitment of teachers in the state. The Assam TET is conducted in two levels: Lower Primary (LP) and Upper Primary (UP). The Assam TET is conducted for the recruitment of teachers in the primary and upper primary schools of the state. 

Candidates will find more information about the Assam TET exam 2024 from our website. In addition, the applicants are asked to read the sarkari exam pages and get a free job alert on the available vacancies and recruitment procedures.

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Assam TET 2024 Overview

The Assam TET is conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). The Assam TET is conducted under the Right to Education Act, of 2009. The Assam TET is conducted in both offline and online modes. The Assam TET is conducted twice a year, in February and August.

Below provided are some highlights related to the Assam TET 2024 exam. The applicants are asked to adhere to it:

Assam TET 2024 Exam Pattern

The exam pattern for the exam is provided below for both the lower primary and upper primary examinations for the convenience of the applicants.

Assam TET Exam Pattern for Lower Primary Teacher (Class I-V)

The exam pattern for the lower primary teacher post is provided in the table below, and the applicants are asked to adhere to it. 

Assam TET Exam Pattern for Upper Primary Teacher Exam Pattern

The exam pattern for the upper primary teacher is provided in the table below. The applicants are asked to adhere to it: 

Assam TET Syllabus 2024 Overview

To provide candidates with all the essential information, we have provided an overview of the Assam TET syllabus 2024 below. In addition, this page has detailed information about the subjects and topics covered in the Assam TET syllabus.

The Assam TET syllabus for both lower primary and upper primary sections is provided below. The applicants are asked to adhere to it.

Assam TET Syllabus 2024 for Lower Primary 

The lower primary syllabus is provided below to ensure that the applicants make a detailed note of it. The syllabus excludes the language papers. However, a PDF link for it is provided below for the convenience of the applicants.

Assam TET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy:

• Child Development (For children 6-11 years group): concept and stages of development, characteristics of different stages of development.
• Factors Influencing Child Development: biological, heredity, psychological and environmental factors.
• Dimensions of Child Development: physical, cognitive, emotional, social and moral: development of language during early childhood and later childhood.
• individual Differences: concept and areas of individual differences, intra and inter-individual differences in various areas of interest, habit, aptitudes, intelligence, creativity and their assessment.
• Personality: concept and types of personality and factors influencing personality.
• Common Behavioral Problems of Children: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional, defiant
  disorder, conduct disorder, causes and remedies.
• Adjustment: concept of mental health and hygiene.
• Process of Learning: meaning and nature of learning- factors affecting learning- maturation and readiness for learning- motivation and learning.
• Methods of Learning: Major laws of learning with their educational implications.
• Theories of Learning: connectionism (stimulus-response theory)- conditioning- classical and operant constructivism.
• Pedagogy: knowledge of children from diverse contexts — socio-cultural backgrounds, children with special needs- inclusive understanding of children with learning difficulties and behavioural problems.
• Organising Teaching: teaching as a planned activity- phases of teaching (pre-active, interactive and post-active phases)- different methods of teaching – lecture method- project method- demonstration method- heuristic method- the concept of TLM and its importance- diagnostic and remedial teaching.
• Classroom management: role of teacher and the students- leadership quality of teacher- time and task management.
• Concept of child-centred teaching and competency-based teaching Evaluation: continuous and comprehensive evaluation, formative and summative evaluation.

Assam TET Syllabus for Mathematics:

• Numbers: natural numbers, whole numbers, even and odd numbers, prime and composite numbers, place
  value system, four fundamental operations on numbers (Addition, subtraction, multiplication and
  division), factors and multiples, prime factors, lowest common multiples (LCM), highest
  common factors (HCF), skip counting, group counting, comparison, ascending and descending
  order, application of numbers in real life, unitary method and average.
• Fraction: concept of fractions, types of fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of
  fractions, decimal fractions, percentage and their use.
• Money: concept of money, conversion of rupee to paisa and vice versa, four operations in solving
  problems involving money, simple problems involving profit and loss.
• Geometry and Mensuration: concept and understanding of different shapes, lines, line segments, rays, angles, types of angles, types of triangles, types of quadrilaterals, circles- length, perimeter and area of
  different geometrical figures, weight, time, capacity and volume.
• Data Handling: introduction to data, representation of data, pictograph, bar diagram, pie chart and drawing inferences.
• integration of ICT in teaching Mathematics: the importance of ICT in teaching mathematics- use of ICT in teaching mathematics.

Assam TET Syllabus for Environmental Studies:

• Children’s environment (near and far)
• Natural environment (biotic and abiotic components)
• Social and man-made environment
• Festivals
• Some social issues
• Environment and children’s need
• Care and protection of the environment
• integration of ICT in teaching environmental science etc.,

Assam TET Syllabus 2024 for Upper Primary 

The upper primary syllabus for the Assam TET exam 2024 is provided below. The syllabus does not include the language papers. However, the applicants can find the link to download the pdf file of the syllabus provided by the official website below:

Assam TET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy:

• Factors influencing Development: concept and stages of Development, Biological, Psychological and
  Environmental factors.
• Dimensions of Child Development: physical changes, cognitive, emotional, social and moral,
  understanding changes during the stages of development.
• Individual differences: concept and areas of individual Differences, intra and inter-individual differences in
  various areas of interest, habits, aptitudes, intelligence, creativity and their assessment.
• Personality: concept and types of personality and factors influencing personality.
• Adjustment: Concept of mental health and hygiene
• Adolescence: Stages of adolescence, problems of adolescence, adolescence education, guidance and
  counselling, and understanding developmental hazards.
• Process of learning: same as lower primary
• Theories of learning: same as lower primary
• Pedagogy: same as lower primary

Assam TET Syllabus for Mathematics:

• Numbers: natural numbers, test of divisibility, whole numbers, negative numbers and integers, rational numbers,
  irrational numbers, fractions, decimal fractions, LCM and HCF of rational numbers, comparisons and
  operations of rational numbers, properties of numbers, square, square roots, cube, cube roots, powers and
  exponents, laws of exponents.
• Socially applicable Mathematics: ratio and proportion, simple and compound interest, use of unitary method, discount, profit and loss.
• Algebra: preliminary concept of algebra, algebraic expressions and their types, operations on algebraic
  expressions, factorization on algebraic expressions , linear equations in one variable, linear equations in
  two variables, linear inequalities, algebraic solutions of linear inequalities of one variable, algebraic method
  of solutions of a pair of linear equations.
• Geometry and Mensuration: lines and angles, pairs of angles, properties of triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons, congruency of triangles, area of a triangle, Pythagoras theorem, perimeter and area of different geometrical figures, idea of pie, surface area and volume of cube, cuboid, cone, cylinder and sphere, surface area and volume of combination of solids.
• Introduction to Graphs and Data Handling: Cartesian plane, co-ordinate of points, plotting of points in different situations, distance between two points, reading and drawing of linear graphs, collection and organization of data, classification of data, class interval, frequency of a class, frequency distribution table, introduction of graphs, bar and pie graphs, reading bar graphs, interpretation of data from graphs, measures of central tendency.
• Integration of ICT in teaching Mathematics: importance of ICT in teaching Mathematics- use of ICT in teaching mathematics.

Science: This subject is classified into three categories: physics, chemistry and biology. The syllabus of these categories is provided separately:

I. Physics

• Kinematics: motion in a straight line- distance and displacement, speed and velocity, uniform and
  non-uniform motion, average and instantaneous speed and velocity, uniform acceleration, graphical representation of motion, periodic motion, pendulum, oscillatory motion.
• Laws of Motion: Newton’s first law of motion, the qualitative concept of force, the inertia of rest and inertia of motion and their examples, Newton’s second law of motion, the quantitative concept of force, Newton’s third law of motion and examples, Law of conservation of linear momentum.
• Heat and Temperature: differences between heat and temperature, measurement, transfer of heat.
• Light: rectilinear propagation of light, shadows, eclipses, transparent, opaque and translucent objects, reflection of light, plane and spherical mirrors, laws of reflection, refraction of light, refractive index, total internal refraction, refraction in lenses, laws of refraction, image formed by spherical mirrors and lenses, defects of vision, power of
  lenses.
• Sound: oscillations and waves, kind of waves, sound waves, sources of sound, propagation of sound through solids, liquids and gases, Speed of sound in different mediums, ultrasound.
• Electricity: electric charge and Coulomb’s law, electric cell, conductors, insulators, electric field, electric intensity and electric potential and potential difference, electric current, primary cell, Ohm’s law, AC and DC, series and parallel combination of resistances, heating effects of electric current, magnetic effects of electric current.

II. Chemistry

• Metals and Non-Metals: physical properties of metals and non-metals, chemical properties of metals and non-metals, reaction with water and acids, use of metals and non-metals.
• Physical and Chemical Change: differences between chemical and physical change, rusting of iron, galvanisation, crystallisation.
• Acids, Bases and Salts: acids and bases, indicators, the reaction of acids and bases with metals, the reaction of acids and bases with each other, strong or weak solutions of acid and base, the idea of pH, the importance of pH in everyday life, chemicals from common salts.
• Fibre and Fabric: natural and synthetic fibre, making of fabric, plastics, chemical effects of electric current- electrolysis and electroplating.
• Pollution: air pollution and water pollution.

III. Biology

• Cells: concept of cell, cell types, structure of cells and functions of cell organelles, difference between plant and animal cells, cell division.
• Transportation in Animals and Plants: circulatory system, excretory system in humans, blood vessels, human heart, transportation of substances and water in plants, transpiration.
• Respiration in organisms: cellular respiration, anaerobic respiration.
• Reproduction in plants: mode of production, vegetation propagation, fragmentation, sexual reproduction, fertilisation, seed dispersal.
• Nutrition in plants: nutrients, mode of multiplication in plants, photosynthesis, saprotrophs
• Crop production and Management: kharif and rabi crops, fertiliser and manure, weeds and protection from weeds, different types of soil and crop production.
• Microorganisms: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, common ailments like cold, influenza, diseases like polio and chicken pox, dysentery and malaria, beneficial microbes.
• Animal nutrition: the major nutrients in human food and its sources, functions of nutrients, and diseases occurring due to deficiency of different nutrients.
• Reproduction in Animals: different modes of animal reproduction, reproductive organs in
  animals, development of embryo and related processes, asexual reproduction in animals.
• Integration of ICT in teaching Science: importance of ICT in teaching science- use of ICT in teaching science.

Social Studies: This subject is also classified into three sections, namely: history, geography and civics. The syllabus of these three sections is provided below separately:

I. History

• Pre-history: evolution of human civilization from hunting to agriculture.
• Ancient urban civilizations: features of Indus Valley civilization-T=town planning, religious beliefs, occupation, trade and commerce, art and culture, Harappan culture and contemporary world civilization.
• Vedic Age: settlement of the Aryans, religious practices, livelihood, social system, the composition of Vedas.
• History of Assam: pre-history of Assam-geographical location of ancient Kamrupa, socio-economic condition of ancient Kamrupa, Sakstambha and Pal dynasties.
• Medieval Assam: The Ahom, and Koch Kingdom, the Kachar Emergence of new religious ideas-Jainism and Buddhism- major political dynasties of India and their contribution – (i) Ancient period – Mauryans and Guptas, (ii)
  Medieval period – Turko-Afghans and Mughals.
• Rise and growth of the British power in India: the regulating act, The Pitt’s India Act, the doctrine of
  lapse, sepoy mutiny, growth of Indian nationalism, social reform movements, non-cooperation
  movement, civil disobedience movement and quit India movement, the role of Assam in the freedom movement
  of India from 1857 to 1947.
• Reforms during the rule of East India Company: administrative reforms, revenue collection, educational reforms, Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Arya Samaj.

II. Geography:

• Our Earth
• Solar system
• Major domains of the earth
• Major landforms of the earth
• About Assam
• About India

III. Economics

• Basic concepts of economics
• Market
• Human resources
• Planning and Budget
• Financial institutions

IV. Political Science

• The government
• Democracy
• Constitution of India
• Integration of ICT in teaching Social Science.

Assam TET Exam 2024 Preparation Tips

The applicants must adhere to the following tips to prepare for the Assam TET syllabus 2024. The preparation strategy of every candidate should be according to the provided syllabus. Candidates can follow these preparation tips mentioned below to ace the written examination.

• The first step to prepare for the TET exam is to understand the exam pattern. Knowing the exam pattern will help you to plan your preparation accordingly.
• Once you understand the exam pattern, make a study plan. Divide your time for each subject and stick to it.
• Make sure that you revise the topics regularly. This will help you to remember the topics better.
• Refer to the NCERT books of primary and upper primary sections.
• Practice the previous year’s question papers regularly.

Assam TET Exam Reference Books 2024

Candidates can refer to plenty of books for their Assam TET 2024 preparation. The prescribed books have not changed, as the Assam TET Syllabus 2024 for SGT has remained the same. Here are some of the top reference books which will help the candidates initially with their preparations:

• Popular Master Guide for Assam TET- by R Gupta
• Quantitative Aptitude- RS Aggarwal

Assam TET Syllabus 2024 FAQs

Upcoming Government Exam’s Syllabus

The various upcoming government exam syllabus are as follows:

• Maha TET Syllabus
• TNPSC Group 2 Syllabus
• APPSC Group 2 Syllabus
• ICDS Syllabus
• KPSC FDA SDA Syllabus

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