Saturday, October 15, 2011

Chhattisgarh State Teacher Eligibility Test 2011

Chhattisgarh State Teacher Eligibility Test 2011
Syllabus 
(For becoming teacher of classes six to eight)


1. Child development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)
Unit 1: Development of child (Primary School Child)
Concept of development and relation with learning, various theories of children’s development, effect of heredity and environment, critical perspective of the construction of intelligence, multiple intelligence, language and thought, individual difference among the learners, language differences, differences in comprehension or understanding based on sex, community, caste and religion, difference between evaluation for learning and evaluation of learning, school based evaluation, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, perspective and practice
Unit 2: Concept of Inclusive education and teaching children with special needs
Education of children from deprived and weaker section of the society, difficulty in learning, teaching differently abled children. Teaching above average children, creative children and children with special abilities
Unit 3: learning and Pedagogy
Basic methods of teaching-learning, strategies for ensuring learning of children, learning through social activities, social context of learning, children- as a scientist to do some research and as a person to solve the problems
Cognition and emotions, motivation and learning, factors contributing for effective learning- individual and environmental


हिन्दी (30 बहुविकल्पी प्रश्न)इकाई-1: वर्ण विचार
स्वर, व्यंजन, अक्षर, वर्तनी, लिंग, वचन, काल, वाक्य, संधि और संधि के प्रकार, संधि-विच्छेद।
इकाई-2: शब्द विचार
शब्द रूप और शब्द रचना
स्त्रोत के आधार पर शब्दों के वर्ग- तत्सम, तद्भव, देशज, विदेशी।
अर्थ के आधार पर शब्द भेद - पर्यायवाची शब्द, विलोम शब्द, अनेकार्थी शब्द, शब्द-युग्म शब्द रचना-उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय, समास और उसके भेद, अनेक शब्दों या वाक्यांष के लिए एक शब्द; शब्द-शक्ति।
इकाई-3: पद व पद-भेद
संज्ञा, संज्ञा के प्रकार, सर्वनाम, विषेषण, क्रिया, कारक-चिह्न।
इकाई-4: वाक्य परिचयवाक्य के अंग, एवं वाक्य भेद।
इकाई-5: विराम चिह्न- प्रमुख प्रकार।
इकाई-6: रचना, मुहावरे तथा लोकोक्तियाँ।
इकाई-7: अपठित गद्यांष
इकाई-8: भाषाई कौशलों का अध्यापन
श्रवण, वाचन, लेखन, एवं पठन कौषल


3 English (30 Questions)
Unit 1 : Parts of Speech, Determiners, Tenses, Modal Auxiliaries
Unit 2 : Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
Unit 3 : Transformation of Sentences :
(a) Active Passive Voice
(b) Direct Indirect Narration
(c) Change of Degree
‘Wh’ questions and Question Tags
Unit 4 : Vocabulary : Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, one word substitution, Spellings
Unit 5 : Poetry : Figures of Speech , Literary Devices Elegy, Pun, Simile, Hyperbole, Sonnet, Ode, Metaphor, Alliteration Phonetic Transcriptions : Transcribing the given words phonetically through symbols.

4.1 Mathematics and Science (30-30 Questions)
Unit 1
Exponent: Multiplication and division of exponential numbers with equal exponents, Law of exponent. Algebraic expressions: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and division on algebraic expressions, equations.
Series: Parallel series and , nth term, sum of nth term.
Unit 2Interest: Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Profit-Loss.
Ratio and proportion: distribution in proportion Percentile, Birth and Death rate, Population growth, decrease rate
Time and distance: Speed, average speed, time, relative motion.
Unit 3
Line and angle: Line segment, straight and curved lines, types of angles.
Plane shapes: Triangle, congruency of triangle, quadrilateral and circle.
Unit 4
Area of plane objects: Triangle, rectangle, parallelogram and trapezium.
Surface area and volume- Cube, cuboids and right circular cylinder
Unit 5
Statistics: Collection of data and classification, frequency distribution table, tally sign, bar graph and rectangle graph, circular graph (pi chart). Graph: different types of graphs.
Unit 6
Living things- Different parts of plants, nutrition in plants, respiratory and structure and functions of plant and animal cells, cell division.
Human body and health- microbes(bacteria, virus, fungi), diseases spread by microbes (TB, measles, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid), prevention from diseases, different systems of human body, infectious diseases (causes and prevention), components of food and diseases due to their deficiency, balanced diet.
Unit 7
Force and motion- Types of forces (muscular forces, frictional force, gravitational force, magnetic force, electrostatic force, etc.), types of motion (linear, random, circular, vibrational motion and periodic motion), speed. Types of energy, traditional and alternative sources of energy.
Head- uses of heat, transmission of heat, concept of temperature, melting, boiling and evaporation, condensation and sublimation, examples of thermal expansion in daily life, good and bad conductors of heat, methods of heat transmission (conduction, convection and radiation).
Unit 8
Light- source of light, formation of shadow, reflection of light, formation of images by plane mirror, spherical mirrors (focus, focal length, center of curvature), formation of images by convex and concave mirrors, uses of lenses.
Sound- types of sound, transmission of sound, characteristics of sound, echo of sound, noise and methods to reduce noise.
Magnetism- Properties of magnet, magnetic induction, different uses of magnetism.
Unit 9
Electricity- Electric cell, direct and alternating current, conductor, semi-conductor and bad conductors and their uses, chemical properties of electric current, magnetic and heating effect of current, electric fuse, electric energy and prevention from misuse.
Science and Technology- Importance of science in daily life, artificial fibers, plastic, detergent, cement, etc. Science and technology in medical field (X-ray, CT scan, surgery, ultrasound and laser rays), Science and technology in telecommunications- Fax machine, computer, internet, e-mail and general information of website.
Unit 10
Structure of matter- Atom and molecule, structure of atom, element, compound and mixture, separation of impurities, symbols of elements, chemical formulae of compounds and chemical equations.
Chemical substances- Oxides of carbon, green house effect and global warming, hydrocarbons (general information), acid, base and salts, oxygen gas, nitrogen gas, nitrogen cycle.

4.2 Social Science (60 questions)
Unit I: Indian Society
Characteristics, family, marriage, status of women, present social problems-casteism, provincialism, poverty, child labour, urbanization
Unit II: Indian Culture and heritage
Sources of Indian history, Indus valley Civilization, vedic Culture
Unit III: Maurya Dynasty and Gupta Dynasty
Political history (background) and administration, contribution towards Indian Culture, Achievement in culture during Gupta period, Relation between Indian culture and the world
Unit IV: Bhakti and Sufi Movement
Social importance, cultural unity among Hindu, muslim
Unit V: Mughal Dynasty
Relation between Mughal and Rajput, administration during Mughal period, social, economical and cultural situations
Unit VI: British Period
British policy for Indian States, revolution of 1857 and its effects
Unit VII: Indian Constitution
Characteristics, fundamental rights and duties
Unit VIII: Regulatory, Executary and Judicial systems
Constitution- Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, President and Governor- their constitutional rights and their powers, Prime Minister and its Ministers, urban and local governing body
Unit IX: earth and its important components
Stratosphere, Ionosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere
Kinds of rocks, effects on the surface of the earth- earthquakes and volcano, rivers, water, ice, air, sea waves
Unit X: Study of India
Physical boundaries of the states, climate, natural vegetation, green revolution, multi-purpose planning, industries, human resources-
Unit XI: Chhattisgarh-its geographical conditions and resources
Physical boundaries (state), soil, climate, sources of water and water preservation, forest and wild life, agriculture, minerals, energy resources, conveyance and industries
Unit XII: History and culture of Chhattisgarh
Independence movement in Chhattisgarh, important personalities in Chhattisgarh, heritage and culture of Chhattisgarh (Fort, palace, fair, festivals, folk, art, handicraft), tourism