UPTET Syllabus 2026: Official Exam Pattern & PDF Download (Hindi/English)

• Meaning, need, scope, and stages of child development
• Physical, mental, emotional, social, and language development
• Development of expressive ability, creativity, and creative skills
• Bases of child development and influencing factors such as heredity and environment (family, social, school, and mass media)

Learning and Its Theories

• Meaning of learning and factors affecting learning
• Effective methods of learning
• Laws of learning by Thorndike and their importance
• Major learning theories and their classroom applications, trial and error theory, Pavlov’s conditioning theory, Skinner’s operant conditioning, Kohler’s insight theory, Piaget’s theory, Vygotsky’s theory
• Learning curve, meaning, and types
• Causes and remedies of learning difficulties

Instructional Strategies and Teaching Methods

• Meaning and objectives of teaching
• Teaching principles, sources, techniques, and innovative teaching methods
• Micro-teaching and basic teaching skills

Inclusive Education (Guidance and Counselling)

• Meaning, identification, types, and remedies of inclusive education
• Inclusion related to disadvantaged groups based on language, religion, caste, region, colour, gender, and physical challenges (visually impaired, hearing impaired, speech impaired), and mental challenges
• Teaching aids, materials, methods, TLM, and activities for inclusion
• Tools and techniques for assessing the learning of inclusive children
• Special teaching methods for inclusive children (such as Braille)
• Guidance and counselling for inclusive children, meaning, objectives, types, methods, needs, and scope
• Supporting institutions and departments: Psychological laboratories (UP, Prayagraj),  Divisional psychological centres,  District hospitals, DIET institutions, Inspection and supervision systems, Community and school support committees, Government and non-government organisations.
• Importance of guidance and counselling in child learning

The Dynamics of Learning and Teaching

• How children think and learn
• Reasons for success and failure in school performance
• Learning as a social process
• Child as a problem solver and scientific thinker
• Alternative concepts in learning and understanding children’s errors
• Motivation and learning
• Factors influencing learning, personal and environmental

• अपठित अनुच्छेद
• हिंदी वर्णमाला (स्वर और व्यंजन)
• वर्णों के मेल से मात्रिक तथा अमात्रिक शब्दों की पहचान
• वाक्य रचना
• हिंदी की सभी ध्वनियों के पारस्परिक अंतर की जानकारी, विशेष रूप से श, स, ष, ब, व, ड़, ढ़, क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ तथा न की ध्वनियाँ
• हिंदी भाषा की सभी ध्वनियों, वर्णों, अनुस्वार, अनुनासिक और चंद्रबिंदु के बीच अंतर
• संयुक्ताक्षर एवं अनुनासिक ध्वनियों के प्रयोग से बने शब्द
• सभी प्रकार की मात्राएँ
• विराम चिह्नों का प्रयोग, जैसे अल्प विराम, अर्ध विराम, पूर्ण विराम, प्रश्नवाचक, विस्मयबोधक
• विलोम, समानार्थी, तुकांत, अतुकांत तथा समान ध्वनि वाले शब्द
• संज्ञा, सर्वनाम, क्रिया और विशेषण के भेद
• वचन, लिंग और काल
• प्रत्यय, उपसर्ग, तत्सम, तद्भव और देशज शब्दों की पहचान एवं उनमें अंतर
• लोकोक्तियाँ और मुहावरों के अर्थ
• संधि: स्वर संधि (दीर्घ संधि, गुण संधि, वृद्धि संधि, यण संधि, अयादि संधि), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि
• वाच्य, समास और अलंकार के भेद
• कवियों और लेखकों की रचनाएँ

भाषा विकास का अध्यापन (Language Development Pedagogy)

• अधिगम और अर्जन
• भाषा अध्यापन के सिद्धांत
• सुनने और बोलने की भूमिका, भाषा का कार्य तथा बालक भाषा का प्रयोग किस प्रकार एक उपकरण के रूप में करता है
• मौखिक और लिखित रूप में विचारों की अभिव्यक्ति के लिए भाषा अधिगम में व्याकरण की भूमिका
• भिन्न-भिन्न कक्षाओं में भाषा पढ़ाने की चुनौतियाँ, जैसे भाषा की कठिनाइयाँ, त्रुटियाँ और विकार
• भाषा कौशल
• भाषा बोधगम्यता और प्रवीणता का मूल्यांकन, बोलना, सुनना, पढ़ना और लिखना
• अध्यापन-अधिगम सामग्री, जैसे पाठ्यपुस्तकें, मल्टीमीडिया सामग्री और कक्षा के बहुभाषी संसाधन
• उपचारात्मक अध्यापन

• Unseen passage
• Sentences (subject and predicate, kinds of sentences)
• Parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction)
• Tenses (present, past, future)
• Articles
• Punctuation
• Word formation
• Active and passive voice
• Singular and plural
• Gender

• Numbers and operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• LCM and HCF
• Fractions and decimals
• Basic rules
• Percentage
• Profit and loss
• Simple interest
• Geometry (shapes, angles, triangles, circles)
• Money
• Measurement (time, weight, capacity, length, temperature)
• Perimeter and area
• Calendar
• Data handling
• Volume and capacity
• Time and distance
• Data presentation and interpretation

Mathematics Pedagogical Issues

• Nature of mathematical thinking
• Place of mathematics in curriculum
• Mathematical language
• Community mathematics
• Formal and informal assessment
• Teaching difficulties
• Error analysis
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching

• Family
• Food, health, and cleanliness
• Shelter
• Plants and animals
• Our surroundings
• Festivals
• Occupations
• Water
• Transport and communication
• Games and sports
• India, rivers, mountains, forests, transport
• Our state
• Constitution
• Governance system (local bodies, panchayats, municipal corporations, state and national governance)
• National symbols, festivals, voting, national unity
• Environment, importance, conservation, social responsibility, and government schemes

Environmental Studies Pedagogical Issues

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Importance of integrated EVS
• EVS and environmental education
• Learning theories
• Relationship between science and social science
• Concept presentation
• Activities and practical work
• Discussion
• Continuous and comprehensive evaluation
• Teaching materials and tools
• Problems in teaching EVS