Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET)
| Conducted by | Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan, Ajmer |
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| Exam type | Written, multiple-choice, 150 marks per level, 2 hours 30 minutesSource: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, Item 4.1 and 4.2, pp. 4-5 |
| Field | Teaching |
| Who can apply | Level 1 (Classes 1-5): Senior Secondary with at least 50% marks and a 2-year diploma in elementary education (or in the final year), or 4-year B.El.Ed., or a diploma in special education. Level 2 (Classes 6-8): a 2-year diploma in elementary education, or graduation/post-graduation with at least 50% and B.Ed., or Senior Secondary with 4-year B.El.Ed. or B.A./B.Sc.B.Ed., or B.Ed. (Special Education). NCTE norms apply; the notice also states relaxations for reserved categories.Source: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, Item 3, pp. 2-4 |
| Stages | Two papers: Level 1 (teachers of Classes 1 to 5) and Level 2 (teachers of Classes 6 to 8); a candidate may apply for either or both.Source: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, Item 4, pp. 4-5; p. 5 note |
| What it leads to | REET is an eligibility test only: the notice says the examination is only an eligibility test. Passing it makes a candidate eligible to be considered for appointment as a teacher at Level 1 (Classes 1-5) or Level 2 (Classes 6-8) in Rajasthan.Source: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, p. 1 (opening paragraph) |
| How to apply | Online application on the Board's website (rajeduboard.rajasthan.gov.in, link reetraj2022). The candidate first enters name, parents' names, mother's name, exam level, mobile number and chooses the bank/online payment, then fills the form after payment is verified. The photograph, entered particulars and final submission are checked; no correction is allowed after final submission except a single online correction opportunity.Source: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, Item 2, pp. 1-2 |
| Recognition | Government |
| Level | State |
Two levels, one paper each, all multiple-choice, 150 marks, 2 hours 30 minutes (REET-2022 notice). Level 1 (Classes 1 to 5): Section I Child Development and Pedagogy 30 questions/30 marks; Section II Language I 30; Section III Language II 30; Section IV Mathematics 30; Section V Environmental Studies 30. Level 2 (Classes 6 to 8): Section I Child Development and Pedagogy 30; Section II Language I 30; Section III Language II 30; Section IV 60 questions/60 marks: (A) Mathematics and Science (30 each) for mathematics and science teachers, or (B) Social Studies for social-studies teachers; teachers of other subjects choose A or B. Language I is the medium of instruction chosen in the application; Language II is a different language from the list (Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati). Questions follow the school curriculum of the State (session 2021-22) with difficulty up to the secondary stage (Level 1) or senior secondary stage, Class 12 (Level 2). Papers are bilingual (Hindi and English) except language papers.
Read from: Rajasthan Adhyapak Patrata Pariksha (REET)-2022 - Vigyapti no. 01/2022 (advertisement) with scheme, eligibility and structure and content of the test, pp. 4-5 (item 4: Structure and Content of REET-2022)
Child Development: concept of growth and development, principles and dimensions of development, factors affecting development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning; role of heredity and environment; meaning and concept of learning and its processes, factors affecting learning; theories of learning and its implication; how children learn and think; motivation and implications for learning; individual differences: meaning, types and factors affecting individual differences, understanding individual differences on the basis of language, gender, community, caste and religion; personality: concept and types, factors responsible for shaping it, its measurement; intelligence: concept, theories and its measurement, multidimensional intelligence, its implication; understanding diverse learners: backward, mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially abled; learning difficulties; adjustment: concept and ways of adjustment, role of teacher in the adjustment; teaching learning process, teaching learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005; meaning and purposes of assessment, measurement and evaluation, comprehensive and continuous evaluation, construction of achievement test; action research; Right to Education Act 2009 (role and responsibilities of teachers)
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 1 - Paper I - Child Development and Pedagogy (Classes 1 to 5), p. 2Unseen prose passage: synonyms, antonyms, spellings, word-formation, one word substitution; unseen prose passage: parts of speech, tenses, determiners, change of degrees; framing questions including wh-questions, active and passive voice, knowledge of English sounds and phonetic symbols; principles of teaching English, methods and approaches to English language teaching; development of language skills, teaching learning materials: text books, multi-media materials and other resources; comprehensive and continuous evaluation, evaluating language proficiency
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 1 - Paper I - Language I (Classes 1 to 5), all languages, p. 2Unseen prose passage: linking devices, subject-verb concord, inferences; unseen poem: identification of alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, assonance, rhyme; modal auxiliaries, phrasal verbs and idioms, literary terms: elegy, sonnet, short story, drama; basic knowledge of English sounds and their phonetic transcription; principles of teaching English, communicative approach to English language teaching, challenges of teaching English: language difficulties, errors and disorders; methods of evaluation, remedial teaching
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 1 - Paper I - Language II (Classes 1 to 5), all languages, p. 2Whole numbers up to one crore, place value, comparison; fundamental mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; Indian currency; concept of fraction, proper fractions, comparison of proper fractions of same denominator, mixed fractions, comparison of proper fractions of unequal denominators, addition and subtraction of fractions; prime and composite numbers, prime factors, Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) and Highest Common Factor (HCF); unitary law, average, profit-loss, simple interest; plane and curved surfaces, plane and solid geometrical figures, properties of plane geometrical figures; point, line, ray, line segment; angle and their types; length, weight, capacity, time, measurement of area and their standard units and relation between them; area and perimeter of plane surfaces of square and rectangular objects; nature of mathematics, logical thinking; 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
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 1 - Paper I - Mathematics (Classes I to V), p. 2Family: personal relationships, nuclear and joint families, social abuses (child marriage, dowry system, child labour, theft); addiction (intoxication, smoking) and its personal, social and economic bad effects; clothes and habitats: clothes for different seasons, maintenance of clothes at home, handloom and powerloom, habitats of living beings, various types of houses, cleanliness of houses and neighbouring areas, different types of materials for building houses; profession: professions of your surroundings (stitching clothes, gardening, farming, animal rearing, vegetable vendor etc.), small and cottage industries, major industries of Rajasthan State, need for consumer protection, co-operative societies; public places and institutions: school, hospital, post office, bus stand, railway station, public property (street light, road, bus, train, public buildings etc.), wastage of electricity and water, employment policies, general information about Panchayat, legislative assembly and parliament; our culture and civilization: fairs and festivals, national festivals, dresses, food-habits and art and craft of Rajasthan, tourist places of Rajasthan, great personalities of Rajasthan; transport and communication: means of transport and communication, rules for pedestrians and transport, effects of means of communication on the life style; personal hygiene: external parts of our body and their cleanliness, general information about the internal parts of the body, balanced diet and its importance, common diseases (gastroenteritis, amoebiosis, methaemoglobin, anemia, fluorosis, malaria, dengue), their causes and methods of prevention, Pulse Polio campaign; living beings: levels of organisation of plants and animals, diversity of living organisms, state flower, state tree, state bird, state animal, knowledge of reserve forest and wild life (national parks, sanctuaries, tiger reserve, world heritage), conservation of species of plants and animals, knowledge of Kharief and Rabi crops; matter and energy: common properties of substances (colour, state, ductility, solubility), various types of fuels, types of energy and transformation of one form into another, applications of energy in daily life, sources of light, common properties of light; basic knowledge of air, water, forest, wetlands and deserts, different kind of pollution, renewable and non-renewable resources of energy in Rajasthan and concept of their conservation, weather and climate, water cycle; concept and scope of Environment Studies; significance of Environment Studies, integrated Environment Studies; Environmental Studies and Environmental Education learning principles; scope and relation to Science and Social Science; approaches of presenting concepts; activities; experimentation/practical work; discussion; comprehensive and continuous evaluation; teaching material/aids; problems of teaching
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 1 - Paper I - Environment Studies (Classes I to V), p. 2Child Development: concept of growth and development, principles and dimensions of development, factors affecting development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning; role of heredity and environment; meaning and concept of learning and its processes, factors affecting learning; theories of learning (Behaviourist, Gestaltism, Bandura and Piaget); how children learn and think, experiential learning, concept mapping, investigatory approach, problem solving; motivation and implications for learning; individual differences: meaning, types and factors affecting individual differences, understanding individual differences on the basis of language, gender, community, community etc.; personality: concept and types, factors responsible for shaping it, its measurement; intelligence: concept, theories and its measurement, multidimensional intelligence, its implication; understanding diverse learners: backward, mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially abled; learning difficulties; adjustment: concept and ways of adjustment, role of teacher in the adjustment; teaching learning process, teaching learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005; meaning and purposes of assessment, measurement and evaluation, comprehensive and continuous evaluation, construction of achievement test; action research; Right to Education Act 2009 (role and responsibilities of teachers)
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Child Development and Pedagogy (Classes VI to VIII), p. 2Unseen prose passage: synonyms, antonyms, spellings, word-formation, one word substitution; unseen prose passage: parts of speech, tenses, determiners, change of degrees; framing questions including wh-questions, active and passive voice, knowledge of English sounds and phonetic symbols; principles of teaching English, methods and approaches to English language teaching; development of language skills, teaching learning materials: text books, multi-media materials and other resources; comprehensive and continuous evaluation, evaluating language proficiency
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Language I (Classes 6 to 8), all languages, p. 2Unseen prose passage: linking devices, subject-verb concord, inferences; unseen poem: identification of alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, assonance, rhyme; modal auxiliaries, phrasal verbs and idioms, literary terms: elegy, sonnet, short story, drama; basic knowledge of English sounds and their phonetic transcription; principles of teaching English, communicative approach to English language teaching, challenges of teaching English: language difficulties, errors and disorders; methods of evaluation, remedial teaching
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Language II (Classes 6 to 8), all languages, p. 2Indices: multiplication and division of numbers on equal bases, laws of indices; algebraic expressions: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, identities; factors: factors of simple algebraic expressions; equations: simple linear equation; square and square root; cube and cube root; interest: simple interest, compound interest, profit-loss; ratio and proportion: division into proportional parts, partnership; percentage, birth and death rate, population growth, depreciation; lines and angles: line segment, straight and curved lines, types of angles; plane figures: triangles, congruence of triangles, quadrilaterals and circle; area of plane figures: triangles, rectangles, parallelograms and trapeziums; surface area and volume: cube, cuboid and right circular cylinder; statistics: collection and classification of data, frequency distribution table, tally marks, bar graph and histogram, circular graph (pie diagram); graph: various types of graphs; nature of mathematics, logical thinking; place of mathematics in curriculum; language of mathematics; community mathematics; evaluation; remedial teaching; problems of teaching
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Mathematics and Science (Classes VI to VIII), p. 2 (Mathematics)Micro-organisms: bacteria, virus, fungi (beneficial and harmful); living being: different parts of plants, nutrition in plants, respiration and excretion, plant cell and animal cell - their structure and function, cell division; human body and health: diseases spread by micro-organisms (tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid), prevention from diseases, different systems of human body, infectious diseases (reasons of spreading and prevention), major components of food and diseases developed due to their deficiency, balanced diet; animal reproduction and adolescence: methods of reproduction, sexual and asexual, adolescence and puberty: changes in body, role of hormones in reproductions, reproductive health; force and motion: types of forces (muscular force, frictional force, gravitational force, magnetic force, electrostatic force), pressure, types of motion (linear, zigzag, circular, vibrating, periodic), speed, types of energies - traditional and alternative sources of energy, energy conservation; heat: applications of heat, transformation of heat, concept of temperature, melting, boiling and evaporation, condensation and sublimation, examples of thermal expansion in daily life, insulator and conductor of heat, methods of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation); light and sound: sources of light, formation of shadow, reflection of light, image formation in plane mirror, types of sound, sound propagation, characteristics of sound, echo, noise and methods to reduce noise; science and technology: importance of science in daily life, synthetic fibres and plastics - types and characteristics of synthetic fibres, plastic and its properties, plastic and environment, detergents, cement etc., science and technology in medical field (X-ray, C.T. Scan, Surgery, Ultrasound and LASER), in the field of telecommunication - general information about fax machine, computer, internet, e-mail and website; solar system: moon and stars, solar family - sun and planets, comets, constellation; structure of matter: atom and molecule, structure of atom, element, compound and mixture, separation of impurities of substances, symbols of elements, chemical formulae of compounds and chemical equations; chemical substances: oxides, green house effect and global warming, hydrocarbon (introductory knowledge), acids, alkali and salt, oxygen gas, nitrogen gas and nitrogen cycle, coal, petroleum and natural gas; nature and structure of sciences; natural science: aims and objectives; understanding the science; methods of science teaching; innovation; text material/aids; evaluation; problems; remedial teaching
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Mathematics and Science (Classes VI to VIII), p. 3 (Science)Indus valley civilization, Vedic culture, Indian society: characteristics, family, marriage, gender sensitization, rural life and urbanization
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Political history and administration, contribution to Indian culture, cultural achievement of Gupta's age, India (600-1000 AD), Indian cultural contacts with the outside world
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1The Bhakti and Sufi movement, Mughal-Rajput relations; Mughal administration, social, economic and cultural conditions during the medieval period, British policies towards Indian states, revolt of 1857, impacts of British rule on Indian economy, renaissance and social reforms, Indian national movement (1919-1947)
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Preamble, fundamental rights and fundamental duties, secularism and social justice
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Parliament, President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers; State Government; Panchayati raj and urban self-government
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere; types of rocks; interior and exterior forces modifying earth's surface
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Types of resources, conservation of resources, soils, minerals and power resources, agriculture, industries, human resources
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Physiographic regions, climate, natural vegetation, wild life, multipurpose projects, agriculture crops, industries, transportation, population, public amenities, economic and social programmes of development, consumer awareness
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Physical regions, water conservation and harvesting, agriculture crops, minerals and energy resources, transport, industries, population
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Ancient civilizations and Janpadas, freedom struggle in Rajasthan; integration of Rajasthan; heritage and culture of Rajasthan (forts, palaces, fairs, festivals, folk-arts, handicrafts), Rajasthani literature, tourism, conservation of heritage
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Concept and nature of Social Science/Social Studies; class room processes, activities and discourse; problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies; developing critical thinking
Read from: Syllabus - Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): Level 2 - Paper II - Social Studies (Classes VI to VIII), p. 1Enquiry/empirical evidence; teaching learning material and teaching aids; projects work; evaluation
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