Child Development and Pedagogy
CCE = 3C Formula — Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation covers three domains: Cognitive, Co-scholastic, Curricular. Remember "3C" to recall it assesses academics + extra-curricular + life skills holistically throughout the year.
Formative = DURING, Summative = DONE — Formative assessment happens *during* learning (quizzes, observations); Summative happens when learning is *done* (final exams, term tests). "During vs Done" fixes the timing confusion.
Piaget's 4 Stages = Some Pre-teens Can't Formally Operate — Sensorimotor (0-2y), Preoperational (2-7y), Concrete Operational (7-11y), Formal Operational (11+). First letters: S-P-C-F for age-wise cognitive development stages.
Heredity vs Environment = HE (fixed) vs ENV (flexible) — Heredity: Eye color, blood group, genetic traits (fixed at birth). Environment: Language, habits, skills (acquired/changeable). "HE" for what you inherit, "ENV" for what you learn.
Adolescence = SPIES Period — Social changes, Physical changes (puberty), Identity crisis, Emotional instability, Sexual maturation. "SPIES" covers the five key developmental dimensions in Paper II adolescence questions.
Language II — English
FANBOYS for Coordinating Conjunctions — For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. These seven words coordinate equal clauses. Frequent TET grammar question topic; memorize "FANBOYS" exactly.
12 Tenses = 4×3 Grid — Four times (Present, Past, Future, Past-in-Past) × Three aspects (Simple, Continuous, Perfect). Makes 12 tenses easy to visualize and construct systematically in grammar questions.
Active to Passive Voice: OSV flip — Object becomes Subject; Subject becomes "by" object; Verb changes form. Example: "Ram ate rice" → "Rice was eaten by Ram." OSV sequence reversal trick.
LSRW = Listen-Speak-Read-Write Natural Order — Language skills develop naturally in this sequence: Listening first (infants), then Speaking, then Reading, then Writing. Teaching should follow this developmental order per TET pedagogy.
Articles: A/AN/THE = Consonant/Vowel/Specific — Use "A" before consonant sounds, "AN" before vowel sounds (a book, an apple), "THE" for specific/already-mentioned nouns. Sound matters, not spelling (an hour, a university).
Mathematics
Divisibility by 11: Odd-Even Difference — Subtract sum of digits in odd places from sum in even places. If result is 0 or divisible by 11, original number is divisible by 11. Example: 121 → (1+1)–2=0, so divisible.
BODMAS Order — Brackets, Of (powers/roots), Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. Solve expressions strictly in this order to avoid calculation errors. Essential for TET arithmetic problems.
Area Formulas: Triangle = ½bh, Trapezium = ½(a+b)h — Triangle area needs "half base-height"; Trapezium needs "half of sum of parallel sides times height." Both use "½" and height; remember parallel sides get added first.