UPTET Paper I syllabus (for classes I to V) Primary Stage:
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a) Child Development (Primary School Child) 15 Questions b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 c) Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions
II. Language I. 30 Questions
a) Language Comprehension 15 Questions b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
III. Language – II 30 Questions
a) Comprehension 15 Questions b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
IV. Mathematics 30 Questions
a) Content 15 Questions b) Pedagogical issues 15 Questions
V. Environmental Studies 30 Questions
a) Content 15 Questions b) Pedagogical Issues 15 Questions
Child Development and Pedagogy
Unit-1 (Marks-06)
- Child Development: Concept of growth and development, Principles and dimensions of development. Factors affection development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning
- Role of Heredity and environment
Unit-2 (Marks-06)
- Meaning and Concept of learning and its processes. Factors Affection learning.
- Theories of learning and its implication
- How Children learn and think.
- Motivation and Implications for Learning.
Unit-3 (Marks-06)
- Individual Differences: Meaning, types and factors Affection Individual differences Understanding individual differences on the basis of language, gender, community, caste & relign.
- Personality: Concept and types of personality, Factors responsible for shaping it. Its measurement.
- Intelligence: Concept, Theories and its measurement, Multidimensional Intelligence.
Unit-4 (Marks-06)
- Understanding diverse learners: Backward, Mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially abled.
- Learning Difficulties.
- Adjustment: Concept and ways of adjustment. Role of teacher in the adjustment.
Unit-5 (Marks-06)
- Teaching learning process, Teaching learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005.
- Meaning and purposes of Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation. Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation. Constriction of Achievement Test.
- Action Research.
- Right to Education Act 2009 (Role and Responsibilities of Teachers)
Languages
English
Divided in to 6 Units and each unit carrying 5 marks.
Unit-I (Marks-05)
- Unseen Prose Passage
- Synonyms, Antonyms, Spellings, Word-formation, One Word Substitution.
- Unseen Prose Passage
- Part of Speech, Tenses, Determiners, Change of Degrees.
- Framing Question including Wh-questions, Active and Passive Voice, Knowledge of English sounds and Phonetic Symbols.
- Principles of Teaching English, Methods and Approaches to English Language Teaching.
- Development of Language Skills, Teaching Learning Materials: Text books, Multi-Media Materials and other resources.
- Comprehensive & Continuous Evaluation, Evaluation Language Proficiency.
Hindi Language
Sanskrit Language
Urdu Language
Mathematics
Unit-I
Whole number up to one crore, Place Value, Comparison, Fundamental mathematical operations:
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division; Indian Currency.
Unit-II
Concept of fraction, proper fractions, comparison of paper fraction of same denominator, mixed
fraction, comparison of proper fractions of unequal denominators, Addition and Substation of
fractions. Prime and composite number, Prime factors, Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) and
Highest Common Factor (HCF).
Unit-III
University Law, Average, Profit-Loss, Simple interest.
Unit-IV
Place and curved surfaces, plane and solid geometrical figures, prosperities of plane geometrical
figures; pint, line, rey, line segment; Angle and their types.
Length, Weight, Capacity, Time, measurement f area and their standard units and relation between
them; Area and perimeter of plane surfaces of square and rectangular objects.
Unit-V
Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking.
Place of Mathematics in Curriculum.
Language Mathematics.
Community Mathematics.
Unit-VI
Evaluation through formal and informal methods.
Problems of Teaching.
Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching.
Environmental Studies
Unit I (Marks-05)
Family Personal relationships, nuclear and joint families, social abuses (child marriage, dowry
system, child labour, theft); addiction (intoxication, smoking) and its personal, social and economical
bad effects.
Clothes and Habitats Clothes for different seasons; maintenance of clothes at home; handloom
and powerloom; habitats of living beings, various types of houses; cleanliness of houses and
neighboring areas; Different types of materials for building houses.
UnitII (Marks-05)
Profession Profession of your surroundings (stitching clothes, gardening, farming, animal rearing,
vegetable vendor etc.), small and cottage industries; major industries of Rajasthan State, Need for
consumer protection, co-operative societies.
Public places and Institutions Public places like school, hospital, post office, bus stand, railway
station; Public property (street light, road, bus, train, public buildings etc.); wastage of electricity and
water; employment policies; general information about Panchayat, legislative assembly and
parliament.
Our Culture and Civilization Fairs and festivals, National festivals; Dresses, food-habits and art
and craft of Rajasthan; Tourist places of Rajasthan; Great personalities of Rajasthan.
Unit III (Marks-05)
Transport and Communication Means of transport and communication; Rules for pedestrians and
transport; Effects of means of communication on the life style.
Personal Hygiene External parts of our body and their cleanliness; general information about the
internal parts of the body; Balance diet and its importance; Common diseases (gastroenteritis,
amoebiosis, methaemoglobin, anemia, fluorosis, malaria, dengue.) their causes and methods of
prevention; Pulse Polio campaign.
Living Beings~ Levels of organisation of plants and animals, diversity of living organisms, state
flower, state tree, state bird, state animal; knowledge of reserve forest and wild life (national parks,
sanctuaries, tiger reserve, world heritage), conservation of species of plants and animals, knowledge
of Kharif and Rabi crops.
Unit IV (Marks-05)
Matter and Energy Common properties of substances (colour, state, ductility, solubility) various
types of fuels; types of energy and transformation of one form into another; Applications of energy
in daily life, sources of light, common properties of light. > Basic knowledge of air, water, forest,
wetlands and deserts; different kind of pollution, renewable and non-renewable resources of energy
in Rajasthan and concept of their conservation; weather and climate; water cycle.
Unit V (Marks-05)
Concept and scope of Environment Studies
Significance of Environment Studies, Integrated Environment Studies
Environmental Studies & Environmental Education learning Principles
Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
Approaches of presenting concepts Activities
Unit VI (Marks-05)
Experimentation/Practical Work
Discussion
Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation
Teaching material/Aids
Problems of Teaching
