CTET Syllabus 2026 — every subject & topic

Concept of Development & Relationship with Learning · Principles of Development of Children · Influence of Heredity and Environment · Socialisation Processes · Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky · Concepts of Child-centred and Progressive Education · Critical Perspective on Construct of Intelligence · Multi-Dimensional Intelligence · Language and Thought · Gender as a Social Construct · Individual Differences among Learners · Distinction between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning · School-based Assessment & Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation · Formulating Appropriate Questions

Addressing Learners from Diverse Backgrounds · Addressing Learners with Difficulties / Disabilities / Impairment · Addressing the Talented, Creative & Specially-abled Learners

How Children Think and Learn · Basic Processes of Teaching and Learning · Child as a Problem Solver and Scientific Investigator · Alternative Conceptions of Learning · Cognition and Emotion · Motivation and Learning · Factors Contributing to Learning – Personal & Environmental

Unseen Prose / Drama Passage · Unseen Poem · Grammar and Verbal Ability

Learning and Acquisition · Principles of Language Teaching · Role of Listening and Speaking · Critical Perspective on the Role of Grammar · Challenges of Teaching in a Diverse Classroom · Language Skills · Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency · Teaching-Learning Materials · Remedial Teaching

Unseen Passage – Discursive / Literary · Unseen Passage – Narrative / Scientific · Grammar and Verbal Ability

Learning and Acquisition · Principles of Second-Language Teaching · Role of Listening and Speaking · Role of Grammar in Learning a Language · Challenges of Teaching Language in a Diverse Classroom · Language Skills (LSRW) · Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency · Teaching-Learning Materials · Remedial Teaching

Geometry · Shapes and Spatial Understanding · Solids around Us · Numbers · Addition and Subtraction · Multiplication · Division · Measurement · Weight · Time · Volume / Capacity · Data Handling · Patterns · Money · Fractions

Nature of Mathematics / Logical Thinking · Place of Mathematics in Curriculum · Language of Mathematics · Community Mathematics · Evaluation through Formal and Informal Methods · Problems of Teaching · Error Analysis · Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

Family and Friends · Relationships · Work and Play · Animals and Plants · Food · Shelter · Water · Travel · Things We Make and Do

Concept and Scope of EVS · Significance of EVS / Integrated EVS · Environmental Studies & Environmental Education · Learning Principles · Scope and Relation to Science and Social Science · Approaches of Presenting Concepts · Activities · Experimentation / Practical Work · Discussion · CCE in EVS · Teaching Material / Aids · Problems of Teaching EVS