KARTET Syllabus 2026: Download Official Paper 1 & 2 PDF

KARTET Paper I (for Classes I to V) Primary Stage Syllabus

KARTET Paper I Syllabus  For Child Development and Pedagogy

• Child development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity & Environment.
• Socialisation processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Concepts of child-centred and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence, Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Language and 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.,
• The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning: School-Based Assessment, Continuous and 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.
• Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: 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
• Learning and Pedagogy: 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 and 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

KARTET Language I Syllabus

• Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages: Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry.)
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the 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 and Language Skills.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

KARTET Language II Syllabus

• Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages: Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry).
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the 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 and Language Skills.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

KARTET Mathematics Syllabus

• Geometrical figures & the knowledge of space
• 3 – D Geometrical figures
• Numbers
• Fractions
• Mathematical operations on numbers and algebraic expressions
• Measurements – Weight, time, and volume
• Data Handling & Measures of Central Tendency
• Ratio and proportion
• Mathematics in daily life
• Lines & angles
• Polygons
• Basic algebra – Linear equations & Identities

KARTET Mathematics: Pedagogical Framework

This section covers the nature of mathematics and logical reasoning; understanding student cognition; curriculum integration; the language of mathematics; community-based math applications; formal and informal evaluation methods; addressing common teaching challenges; error analysis; and diagnostic/remedial teaching strategies.

KARTET Syllabus For Environmental Science

• Our Environment: Major components of the environment, types of ecosystem, life diversity and its features, food chain, and nature balancing factors, Food web, ecological Pyramids, Plant and animal species, factors of Biodensity, Tropic levels, Types of pollution, reasons – effects – remedial measures, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, sustainable development, and its maintenance, waste management measures. Environment movements (Related to state and national level), Important Environment activists, state and national award-winning literature, and writers related to the environment, major environmental phenomena, and types of ecological conservation.
• Living world: Life processes, classification of organisms. How do organisms reproduce? Cell, Tissues, Organs, and organ systems.
• Sources of Energy: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, Geothermal Energy, Biodegradable wastes, Biodegradable wastes, and Chemicals in our daily life.
• Human Health and Hygiene: Carbohydrates: Types of Monomers, lipids, proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Deficiencies.
• Natural Phenomena: Motion, Force, Gravitation, Newton’s laws of motion, distance-speed graphs.
• How do things work: Electricity: Definitions of important terminologies, SI units, Numerical.

KARTET Environmental Science (EVS) Pedagogy Syllabus

• Important methods of teaching
• Current teaching-learning interaction.
• Main features of NCF – 2005
• Features and uses of practical methods.
• Values are to be integrated with the classroom learning process.
• Evaluation methods, existing evaluation methods, and maintenance of records.

KARTET Social Studies (For Visually impaired instead of Maths and EVS) Syllabus

This module focuses on the concepts, content, and pedagogy related to Social Studies for Classes 6 to 8, with a difficulty level calibrated up to the secondary education (Class 10) standard.

Content

• History: When, Where, and How, The Earliest Societies, 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.
• Geography: 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.
• Social and Political Life: Diversity, Government, Local Government, Making a Living, Democracy, State Government, Understanding Media, Unpacking Gender, The Constitution, Parliamentary Government, The Judiciary, Social Justice and the Marginalized. Pedagogical issues: 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, Project Work, Evaluation.

KARTET Syllabus For Paper II

KARTET Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

• Child development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity & Environment.
• Socialisation processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Concepts of child-centred and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., 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.
• The 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.
• Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 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.
• Learning and Pedagogy: 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 and 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

KARTET Syllabus for Language I

• Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama, or Poetry.)
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the 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 and Language Skills.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

KARTET Syllabus For Language – II

• Comprehension: Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and Verbal Ability.
• Pedagogy of Language Development: 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, Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders, Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing, Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

KARTET Syllabus For Mathematics

Core Content Requirements

• Arithmatic Progression
• Number system
• Statistics & Probability
• Trigonometry
• Coordinate geometry
• Identifies
• Pair of linear equations in two variables
• Quadratic equations
• Polynomials
• Mensuration
• Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Circles
• Area related to circles

Pedagogical Issues: Nature of Mathematics, Logical Thinking, Mathematics in the Curriculum, Language of Mathematics, Community-Centered Math, Evaluation Techniques, Remedial Teaching, and Teaching Methodologies.

KARTET Science Syllabus

KARTET Physics Syllabus

• Motion: Definitions, Types of motion, Law & Equations of motion.Laws and numerals.
• Gravitation: Law, numerical.
• How do things work :
• Light   – Reflection- Refraction
• Lens    – Concave, Convex
• Mirror – Concave, Convex  – Images formed in Spherical mirrors and lens
• Electricity and Electric Circuits – Definitions, units, derivations.
• Resistors – Numericals, circuit diagrams.
• Magnetism – Definition, Various laws, numerical, AC, DC motors, and generators.
• Natural phenomenon: Eye, Eye defects. : TIR, Dispersion.

KARTET Chemistry Syllabus

• Materials & Materials in our daily life – Metals, non-metals. Physical and chemical properties
• Acids, Bases, and Salts: Physical and chemical properties.
• Atoms and Molecules: Formulae, Masses, electronic configuration.
• Polymers: Artificial, natural, uses.
• Natural resources: Types and applications.
• Chemicals in our daily life: Soaps, detergents, Sweeteners, medicines, Drugs.

KARTET Biology Syllabus

• Food – Definition of food, Food, and its importance, Food chain, Food web, Food pyramid
• Food and its sources – Plant source and animal source implications.
• Food and its constituents :
  • Energy-giving food     – Carbohydrates & lipids
  • Bodybuilding food     – Proteins
  • Body protectors    – Vitamins & minerals, Roughage, and water.
• Living World: Microorganisms, Plant kingdom, Animal kingdom
• Animal kingdom: Vertebrates, Invertebrates
• Cell: Plant cell and Animal cell – Tissues, organ, organ system.

Pedagogical Issues: Nature and Structure of Sciences, Natural Science Objectives, Scientific Understanding, Integrated Approaches, Scientific Methods (Observation/Experimentation/Discovery), Innovation, Instructional Aids, Evaluation, and Problem-Solving through Remedial Teaching.

KARTET Social Studies/ Social Sciences Syllabus

Subject Content Focus:

• History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, 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.
• Geography: 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.
• Social and Political Life: 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.

Pedagogical Issues: Concept and Nature of Social Science, Classroom Discourse, Critical Thinking Development, Empirical Evidence, Inquiry-Based Learning, Teaching Challenges, Source Analysis (Primary vs. Secondary), Project-Based Work, and Modern Evaluation Methods.