The Department of School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh, has published the AP TET Syllabus & Exam Pattern for the Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (APTET) on its official website. Conducted annually, the APTET offers numerous opportunities to aspiring candidates seeking to embark on a teaching career in the state.
AP TET Syllabus
For the year 2024, candidates are advised to thoroughly review the comprehensive AP TET Syllabus 2024 and Exam Pattern for both Paper 1 & 2, which are detailed in this article.
AP TET Syllabus – Overview
| Name of the Examination | Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (APTET) |
| Exam Conducting Body | Commissioner of School Education Andhra Pradesh (CSEAP) |
| Level of Exam | State-Level |
| Mode of Application | Online |
| Mode of Examination | Online |
| Language of Medium | English and Language I were chosen by the candidate |
| Number of Papers | Paper-I Paper-II |
| Frequency of Exam | Once a Year |
| Duration of Examination | 2 hours and 30 minutes (150 Minutes) |
| APTET Exam Mode | Online |
| APTET Exam pattern | Paper 1: 150 MCQs Paper 2: 150 MCQs |
| AP TET Syllabus | Paper 1: Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Mathematics and Environmental Studies Paper 2: Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Mathematics and Science or Social Studies or languages |
| APTET Official Website | https://aptet.apcfss.in |
| Language | Kannada, Tamil, Odia, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu |
AP TET Exam Pattern 2024
In the below section the applicants will be able to get the complete information about the AP TET 2024 Exam Pattern for the entrance exam such as the exam mode, exam duration, exam language, total questions, total marks, marking scheme, negative markings, and many more.
- The APTET exam will be organized in online mode as Computer Based Test
- The duration of AP TET Exam is 2.5 hours (150 minutes).
- The applicant will have to appear for the AP TET exam in the English language and language chosen from Kannada, Tamil, Odia, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
- The question paper of the AP TET exam will contain a total of 150 questions for the applicants to answer.
- The applicant will be awarded with 1 mark for each correct answer given
- No provision of negative markings in the entrance exam.
APTET Exam New Pattern Paper-I (A)
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
| Child Development and pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/Kannada/Tamil/ Odiya/Sanskrit) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
APTET Exam Pattern Paper-I (B)
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
| Child Development and pedagogy (in Special Education) | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/Kannada/Tamil/ Odiya | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
APTET Exam Pattern Paper-II (A)
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
| Child Development and pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/Kannada/Tamil/ Odiya) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics and Science (or) Social Studies (or) Languages (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English, Kannada, Odia, Tamil and Sanskrit) | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
APTET Exam Pattern Paper-II (B)
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
| Child Development and pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/Kannada/Tamil/ Odiya | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Category of Disability Specialization and pedagogy | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
AP TET 2024 Qualifying Marks
The candidates have to score more than AP TET 2024 Qualifying marks to pass the examination which has been tabulated below for each category.
| Category | Cut-Off Marks |
| General | 60% Marks and above |
| BC | 50% Marks and above |
| SC/ ST/ Differently abled (PH) & Ex-servicemen | 40% Marks and above |
AP TET Syllabus – Paper 1
AP TET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy
I. Development Of Child
- Development, Growth & Maturation — Concept & Nature
- Principles of development and their education implication
- Factors influencing Development — Biological, Psychological, Sociological, emotional
- Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships — Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, Adolescence.
- Understanding Development — Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Erikson ξ Individual differences — Infra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment
- Development of Personality — Concept, Factors affecting development of personality, self concept
- Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Mental Health, Defense mechanism
II. Understanding Learning
- Concept, Nature of Learning — input — process — outcome
- Factors of Learning — Personal and EnvironmentalApproaches to Learning and their applicability—Behaviourism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
- Dimensions of Learning — Cognitive, Affective and Performance Motivation and Sustenance —its role in learning.
- Memory & Forgetting
- Transfer of Learning
III. Pedagogical Concerns
- Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context – Children from diverse contexts—Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education
- Understanding of pedagogic methods — Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Cooperative and collaborative learning
- Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in classroom like Study habits, Self learning
- and Learning to learn skills
- Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups — Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest
- Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice
AP TET Syllabus for Language 1
- Creator / compositions theme, characterization, language style etc.
- Literary genres and their characteristics.
- Language Elements and Grammar (i) Word Idea: Prefix – Suffix (ii) Word Difference (iii) Gender, Word, Cause, Tense (iv) Word Variation (v) Word – Meaning, Different Meaning, Synonyms and Antonyms (vi) Word introduction – similar, tadbhav, indigenous and foreign (vii) sentence structure, distinction (viii) speech – concatenation (ix) idioms – proverbs, proverbs.
AP TET Syllabus for Language 2
- Parts of Speech
- Tenses
- Active voice & Passive voice
- Prepositions and Articles
- Degrees of comparison
- Clauses
- Verbs — Main Verbs — Auxiliary Verbs – Phrasal Verbs
- Adverbs — Types of Adverbs
- Conjunction — coordinating conjunction — subordinating conjunction.
- Direct and Indirect speech
- Questions and question tags
- Types of sentences — simple, compound and complex — synthesis of sentences
- Phrases — uses of phrases.
- Composition — letter writing —précis writing
- Reading Comprehension
- Vocabulary — Antonyms, Synonyms and Spellings.
- Correction of Sentences.
- Methodology
- Aspects of English:- (a) English language — History, nature, importance, principles of English as a second language. (b) Problems of teaching/learning English.
- Objectives of teaching English.
- Development of Language skills:-
- Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing (LSRW).
- Communicative skills — Imparting values through Communication.
AP TET Syllabus for Mathematics
- Number system: Natural Numbers, Whole numbers, Integers, Rational numbers place value.
- Fractions: Concept of fractions, proper fractions
- Arithmetic: Unitary method, Averages, Ratio & Proportion, Percentages.
- Geometry: Basic ideas of geometry (2D & 3D shapes), types of angles, construction and measurement of lines and angles, Triangles.
- Measurements: Length, Area, Weight, Capacity, Time and their Standard Units, Surface Area and volume of a cube and a cuboids.
- Data Applications: Introduction to Data, Data Presentation, Preparation of Frequency distribution table, Bar Graph,
- Algebra: Introduction to Algebra, Basic terminology – Constant, Variable, Expression, Polynomial, Identity and equations, solving linear equations in one variable, Exponents and Powers.
AP TET Syllabus for EVS
- My Family – My Family – Family tree, migration, changing structures of family – nuclear and joint families, festivals.
- Work & Play – Occupations, Child labor, Games – Local, National and International, Marshal Arts, Effects of games on respiration and breathing, fairs, Circus.
- Plants and Animals-Plants & animals in our surroundings
- Our Food – Different types of food, storage of grains and vegetables, storage of food, Food -animal husbandry, Nutrients of food, deficiency diseases.
- Shelter – Need, different types of houses, electrical appliances – their use, social life in ants and honey bees, Animals shelter – variation.
- Mapping – Direction, Mandal, District, State, India
- History and culture of India – Evolution of Man, Pre-historic period
- Our country (India) – Location, Area, Physical features, Climate, Natural resources, Continents and Oceans, Historical places in India, Population.
AP TET Syllabus for Paper 2
Child Development and Pedagogy- Similar as Paper-I
Language I: Similar as Paper-I
Language – II: English- Similar as Paper-I
AP TET Syllabus for Mathematics
- Number System – Prime and Composite NumbersAlgebra -Introduction to Algebra
- Sets – Concept of set, set language, empty set, finite and infinite sets, subset and equality of sets, cardinal number of set, set operations, representation of sets, Venn diagrams and their properties.
- Geometry – History of Geometry, Contribution of India in the Development of Geometry, Euclid Geometry, Lines and Angles, Similar Triangles
- Coordinate Geometry- Coordinates of a point, plotting of points, representing linear equations in two variables (of the form ax+by+c=0, ) in the Cartesian
- Menstruation – Perimeter and Area of a Square and Rectangle. Area of Triangle
- Data Handling(Statics and Probability) – Collection and Classification of Data, Frequency distribution table,
- Trigonometry – Introduction of Trigonometry
AP TET Syllabus for Science
- Natural Resources – Air, Water: Water pollution
- Our Universe: Solar eclipse – lunar eclipse – Constellation – Zodiac, Space travel; Solar system, Satellites, stars, comets; Earth.
- Light: How can we see objectsSound Mechanics – Kinematics, Dynamics
- Magnetism: Natural Magnets and Artificial Magnets, properties of Magnets, uses magnets – methods of magnetization – Magnetic Induction – magnetic field – Magnetic lines of force.
- Electricity: Electric Circuit – Primary Cells – conductors and insulators – electric charge – electric field – electric potential – potential difference – EMF – Ohm’s law –
- Matter around us: States of matter
- Laws of Chemical Combination and Chemical Calculations: Physical change.
- Atomic Structure : Atoms and molecules – elements – atomicity
- Metallurgy : Extraction of metals and steps – reactivity of metals and its role in extraction of metals -various methods of extraction of metals.
Plant World – Types of plants:
- Parts of a plant – their functions, seed dispersal, fibers from plants. Reproduction – Asexual, Sexual, Vegetative propagation, Nutrition, Photosynthesis, Excretion, Respiration, Economic importance of plants.
- Microbes: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Protozoan — useful and harmful microbes, microbial diseases in plants & animals.
- Our Environment: Biotic & Abiotic factors, Natural resources, Biodiversity, different eco systems, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, oxygen cycle.
AP TET Syllabus for Social Science
I. Diversity On The Earth
- Globe – oceans and continents – latitudes and longitudes – origin of earth – realms of the earth (lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere) – landforms – movements of the earth and its effect -seasons – interior of the earth
- Solar Energy – insolation – temperature and its measuring – terrestrial radiation – polar regions
- Elements of climate – types of rainfall.
- Europe, Africa – location – physical features – climate – forests and wildlife – population – agriculture -minerals – industries – transportation – trade, exports and imports.
- Geography of India and Andhra Pradesh – physical features – rivers and other water sources – seasons -forests – climate and its factors affecting – floods and droughts – forests – soils -electricity – agriculture – mineral wealth – industries – population, literacy rate – density of population -settlements and migration – transportation.
- Disaster management – types of disasters – drought – accident related – threat of terrorism – human induced disasters.
II. Production – Exchange And Livelihoods
- Livelihood of earliest people – sites in Andhra Pradesh – domestication – settled life Agriculture – types of farming – crop
- Production and Employment – sectors of the economy – National Income (GDP) – Per Capita Income -HDI – employment – organized and unorganized sectors – impact of technology on three sectors of the economy.
- Public Health and Government – health care services – public and private health insurance.
- Globalization – flows in economic exchange – MNCs – Foreign trade – factors enabling globalization -WTO, IMF impact.
- Food Security and Nutritional Status of India – PDS – sustainable development meaning – sustainable development with equity.
III. Political Systems And Governance
- Tribal Panchayat system – present local body system (Gram Panchayat, Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad) & Urban Governments – formation and functions.
- Emergence of kingdoms and republics – first empires – Mouryas – Rajputs – Rastrakutas – Cholas -Deccan kingdoms – Satavahana – Kushans – Guptas.
- Regional Kingdoms : Kakatiyas – Vijayanagara Empires – Qutub Shahis.
- Moghals – Asafjahis – British Empire – landlords and tenants under the British and Nizams and Mughals.
IV. Social Organization And Inequities
- Diversity in India – gender inequalities – sex ratio – employment – status of women and their work with wages – women protection acts.
- Caste discriminations – reformers initiations.
- Abolition of Zamindari System – Rural poverty at the time of independence – Land ceiling – Bhoodan Movement.
- Poverty – distress in rural areas – poverty as chronic hunger – food inequality – elimination of poverty – access to affordable food – the right to life
- Human Rights and Fundamental Rights – Right to Information – Right to Education – Lok Adalat.
- Social Movements – Civil Rights movement in USA – Green Peace movements – Bhopal gas disaster -NBM – meira paibi – Human Rights Movement in USSR.
APTET
The Department of School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh, has published the AP TET Syllabus & Exam Pattern for the Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (APTET) on its official website. Conducted annually, the APTET offers numerous opportunities to aspiring candidates seeking to embark on a teaching career in the state.
- Syllabus
- Question Papers
- Answer Key
- Result