WB Primary TET Syllabus

From the official West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) documents · last checked 3 October 2026

TET (Classes I-V)

Part A: Child Development and Pedagogy (30 questions)

  • Growth, development and maturation: meaning, principles, and how development links to learning
  • Heredity and environment as factors in development
  • Socialisation: role of teachers, parents and peers
  • Stages of the lifespan, and physical, psychological and social development in each stage
  • Physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive development: ideas of Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky
  • Personality: meaning, nature and theories (Freud, Erikson)
  • Intelligence: meaning, nature and theories (Spearman, Thorndike, Guilford, Gardner, Sternberg)
  • Individual differences among learners and what they mean for teaching
  • Inclusive education: learners from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds
  • Children with learning difficulties and disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, non-verbal learning disabilities)
  • Talented, creative and differently abled learners
  • Gender as a social construct, gender roles and gender bias in schools
  • Learning theories (Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike, Gestalt) and their use in class
  • Child-centred, learner-centred and progressive education
  • Teaching: meaning, phases and levels
  • Constructivism and the 5E model
  • Motivation: Maslow's theory and achievement motivation
  • Teaching methods: lecture, demonstration, discussion, discovery, heuristic, inductive, deductive, project and problem solving
  • Bloom's taxonomy, instructional objectives and learning outcomes
  • Microteaching and teaching skills
  • Formative and summative evaluation, assessment for and of learning, school-based assessment, CCE and diagnostic tests
  • Framing good questions to check learning and build critical thinking

Part B: Language I (30 questions)

  • Two unseen passages (prose and poetry) with questions on comprehension, grammar and language ability
  • Learning versus acquisition of language
  • Basics of language teaching skills
  • Role of listening and speaking
  • Role of grammar in oral and written communication
  • Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: errors and disorders
  • Teaching the first language in a multilingual classroom
  • Evaluating language proficiency and comprehension
  • Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia and ICT, multilingual resources
  • Remedial teaching, lesson planning, microteaching, assessment and evaluation

Part C: Language II - English (30 questions)

  • Unseen passages with questions on comprehension, grammar and vocabulary
  • Learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching
  • Role of listening and speaking; how children use language as a tool
  • Role of grammar in spoken and written communication
  • Challenges in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors and disorders
  • Language skills
  • Approaches, methods and techniques of teaching English
  • Evaluating listening, speaking, reading and writing
  • Teaching-learning materials: textbook, multimedia and multilingual resources
  • Lesson plan, microteaching, assessment and evaluation, remedial teaching

Part D: Mathematics (30 questions)

  • Content: geometry, shapes, numbers
  • Content: addition and subtraction, multiplication, division (division algorithm)
  • Content: area and perimeter, time, patterns, money
  • Pedagogy: nature and theory of mathematics education
  • Pedagogy: aims and objectives of teaching mathematics at the primary stage
  • Pedagogy: curriculum and resources for learning mathematics
  • Pedagogy: teaching methods and approaches, and pedagogic content knowledge
  • Pedagogy: planning lessons and evaluating mathematics learning
  • Concept-based application problems linked to teaching ability

Part E: Environmental Studies (30 questions)

  • Living and non-living environment; social environment
  • Environmental geography and environment-related historical events
  • Ecology, ecosystems and food chains
  • Atmosphere, land and water
  • Pollution: soil, water, air, sound, ocean, pesticide and plastic
  • Plants, animals, biodiversity and natural resources
  • Conserving biodiversity: sanctuaries, national parks, biodiversity reserves, threatened/endangered plants and animals, loss of species
  • Forests, oceans, mountains, rivers and lakes
  • Conventional and non-conventional energy sources
  • Natural disasters: floods, cyclones, famines, volcanoes
  • Waste and waste management
  • Global issues: global warming, ozone hole, El Nino, red tides, algal bloom, oil spills
  • Environment and health; migration of animals and human migration
  • Bioremediation; techniques of growing plants and raising animals
  • Pedagogy: concept, scope and importance of EVS; integrated EVS; EVS and environmental education
  • Pedagogy: learning principles; links with science and social science
  • Pedagogy: activities, observation, data collection, experiments, discussion, drawing inferences
  • Pedagogy: lesson plan, assessment and evaluation, remedial teaching

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