PSTET Syllabus 2022: The Punjab State Education Board (PSTET) has released the PSTET Syllabus for the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) on its official website. Candidates must be familiar with the most updated PSTET Syllabus 2021 for Paper 1 and Paper 2 in order to prepare effectively for the exam. The level of questions asked in Paper 1 is of secondary level, on the other hand, the level of questions in Paper 2 is of senior secondary level.

Candidates can download the PSTET Syllabus PDF from this page to study in offline mode. Before starting preparation, candidates must know the PSTET 2022 syllabus. Read on to find out complete details on PSTET Exam Syllabus and Punjab TET Syllabus for Paper 1 and Paper 2.

Latest: Download PSTET 2021 Syllabus for Paper 1 & Paper II PDF.

PSTET 2022 Syllabus

According to the PSTET notification, there will be two papers: paper 1 and paper 2. The following is the syllabus for both papers:

Punjab TET Syllabus 2022: Paper 1 (Classes I to V) Primary Stage

PSTET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 Questions

•  Child Development (Primary School Child): 15 Questions
  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
  • Principles of the development of children
  • Influence of heredity & environment
  • Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
  • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
  • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
  • Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
  • Multi-dimensional intelligence
  • Language & Thought
  • Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice
  • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on
  diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
  • Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning; school-based assessment, continuous & comprehensive evaluation: perspective and practice
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

PSTET Syllabus for Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: 5 Questions

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, creative, specially-abled learners.

PSTET Syllabus for Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

Punjab TET Syllabus for Language-I (Punjabi): 30 Questions

PSTET Syllabus for Language Comprehension: 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

PSTET Syllabus For Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

Punjab TET Syllabus for Language- II (English): 30 Questions

PSTET Syllabus for Comprehension: 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogy of Language Development: 15Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

PSTET Syllabus for Mathematics: 30 Questions

1. Content 25 Questions
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money
• LCM &HCF
• Decimal
Fractions

PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

PSTET Syllabus for Environmental Studies: 30 Questions

1. Content: 25 Questions
• Family and Friends

a) Relationships

b) Work and Play

c) Animals

d) Plants

• Food

• Shelter

• Water

• Travel

•Things We Make and Do

The questions in Paper-I will be based on the topics of the prescribed syllabus of the State for classes I-V, but their difficulty standard, as well as linkages, could be up to the secondary stage.

PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches to presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/
• Problems

Syllabus of PSTET Paper 2 (Classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 Questions

1. Child Development (Elementary School Child): 15 Questions
• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi Dimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement.

2. Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: 5 Questions
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

3. Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

II. Language-I (Punjabi): 30 Questions

1. Language Comprehension: 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

2. Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language- II (English): 30 Questions

1. Comprehension: 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

2. Pedagogy of Language Development: 15Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

PSTET Exam Syllabus for Mathematics and Science: 60 Questions

1. Mathematics: 30 Questions
a) Content: 25 Questions

• Number System

a) Knowing our Numbers

b) Playing with Numbers

c) Whole Numbers

d) Negative Numbers and Integers

e) Fractions

• Algebra

a) Introduction to Algebra

b) Ratio and Proportion

• Geometry

a) Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)

b) Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)

c) Symmetry: (reflection)

d) Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

• Mensuration

• Data handling

b) Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problems of Teaching

2. Science: 30 Questions
a) Content: 25 Questions
• Food
• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food
• Materials
• Materials of daily use
• Air
• Water
• Change of matter
• Structure of Atom
• Molecule
• Compounds
• Metals & Nonmetals
• Carbon
• Soil
• Acids, base, salt
• The World of the Living organisms, microorganisms and diseases
• Food; production & management
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• Effect of population growth & human activities on the environment
• The Universe
• Force
• Motion
• Work & Energy
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets & magnetism
• Light
• Sound
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources
• Sources of energy
• Environmental concerns; regional & national
• Pollution

b) Pedagogical issues: 5 Questions
• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)
• Innovation
• Text Material/Aids
• Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

PSTET Syllabus for Social Studies/ Social Sciences: 60 Questions

a) Content: 50 Questions
1. History: 20 Questions
• Sources of History— When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• The First Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India After Independence

PSTET Syllabus for Geography: 15 Questions
• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment.
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication.
• Resources: Types- Natural and Human
• Agriculture

PSTET Syllabus for Social and Political Life (Civics): 15 Questions
• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised

b) Pedagogical issues: 10 Questions
• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation

PSTET Exam Pattern

Generally, there will be two papers in PSTET:

(i) Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V.
(ii) Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.

Let’s have an overview of Exam Pattern to get an idea about the paper pattern and section-wise distribution of marks.

PSTET Exam Pattern for Paper 1

Subject	Number of MCQs	Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy (Compulsory)	30	30
Language I (Compulsory)	30	30
Language II (Compulsory)	30	30
Mathematics	30	30
Environmental Studies	30	30
Total	150	150

The total duration of the exam is 1 hour and 30 mins.

PSTET Exam Pattern for Paper 2

The PSTET Exam Pattern for Paper 2 is tabulated below:

Subject	Number of MCQs	Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy (Compulsory)	30	30
Language I (Compulsory)	30	30
Language II (Compulsory)	30	30
Mathematics and Science   (for Mathematics and Science teacher)	60	60
Social Studies/Social Science   (for Social Studies/Social Science teacher)	60	60
Total	150	150

Note: For any other teacher, it is compulsory to attempt either of the last two sections.

FAQs on PSTET Exam Syllabus

The frequently asked questions regarding the Punjab TET Syllabus 2022 are given below:

Q.1: What is the PSTET exam?
Ans: It is conducted by the Punjab State Education Board (PSEB). PSTET exam is administered to qualify eligible candidates for recruitment as a teacher in the state of Punjab. Finally selected candidates are awarded the PSTET Certificate which is valid for up to 07 years.

Q.2: How many papers are there in PSTET 2021 exam?
Ans: There are two papers in PSTET 2021, paper 1 and paper 2.

Q.3: Why there are 2 different papers in the PSTET exam?
Ans: Generally, there will be two papers in PSTET: (i) Paper I will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V. (ii) Paper II will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.

Q.4: What is after PSTET?
Ans: Candidates who clear the PSTET exam can apply for the post of teacher of primary classes or upper primary classes as per the eligibility certificate.

Q.5: What is the exam pattern of PSTET?
Ans: PSTET consists of two papers namely paper-1 and paper-2. Each paper will have 150 questions for 150 marks.

Also, Check-

• PSTET Answer Key
• PSTET Result
• PSTET Admit Card

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