UPTET Syllabus and Exam Pattern for Paper 1 and Paper 2

UPTET exam pattern at a glance

Think of UPTET as a licence rather than a job test. A pass makes you eligible for the state's teacher vacancies, and those posts are filled later through a separate selection such as the Super TET. Each paper is a pen and paper test answered on an OMR sheet, set in Hindi and English, with no penalty for a wrong answer.

Each paper runs for 150 minutes. Anyone aiming at primary and upper primary posts alike fills the form for each paper; the two are scheduled in different shifts.

Child development and pedagogy (both papers)

This 30-mark block is common to both papers, and it is where many candidates lose easy marks because they read it like general knowledge. It asks you to apply ideas to classroom situations.

• Child development: meaning, stages and principles; physical, mental, emotional, social and language development; heredity and environment
• Learning: factors that affect it, learning curves and plateaus, motivation, memory and forgetting
• Theories you must know well: Thorndike's trial and error and his laws, Pavlov's classical conditioning, Skinner's operant conditioning, Kohler's insight learning, Piaget and Vygotsky on how children think
• Teaching: principles, methods, maxims and core teaching skills; teaching aids
• Inclusive education: learners with special needs, gender and language diversity, guidance and counselling
• Assessment: continuous and comprehensive evaluation, diagnostic and remedial teaching

UPTET syllabus for Language I and Language II

Hindi is compulsory as Language I. For Language II you choose English, Urdu or Sanskrit. Each language section has two parts: grammar and comprehension, and language teaching.

Hindi

• Unseen passage, varnamala, matra, sandhi, samas, upsarg and pratyay
• Paryayvachi, vilom, anekarthi shabd, ling, vachan, kaal, vachya
• Muhavare and lokoktiyan, alankar, punctuation, famous writers and their works
• Pedagogy: learning and acquisition of language, listening and speaking skills, the role of grammar, remedial teaching

UPTET English syllabus

• Unseen passage, articles, parts of speech, subject and predicate
• Tenses, active and passive voice, singular and plural, gender, punctuation
• Kinds of sentences and word formation
• Teaching English: methods, the four skills, teaching aids and evaluation

Sanskrit and Urdu

Sanskrit covers an unseen passage, shabd roop, dhatu roop, sandhi, samas, karak, pratyay and well-known poets. Urdu covers an unseen passage, grammar, idioms, major poets and prose forms. Both include a pedagogy part like Hindi.

Subject topics: maths, EVS and the Paper 2 block

Paper 1 mathematics

Number operations, fractions and decimals, LCM and HCF, unitary method, percentage, profit and loss, simple interest, basic geometry (lines, angles, triangles, circles), measurement of length, weight, capacity, time and temperature, perimeter, area and volume, money, calendar and data handling, plus how children learn maths and error analysis.

Paper 1 environmental studies

Family, food, shelter, water, health and hygiene, plants and animals, transport and communication, local occupations, rivers, mountains and forests, national symbols, local bodies and basic governance, environmental protection, and EVS teaching methods such as activity-based and integrated learning.

UPTET Paper 2 syllabus: the 60-mark block

Choose one of two options. Option A, maths with science, covers upper primary level number system, algebra, geometry, mensuration and data, together with everyday science: matter, living things and their functions, health and nutrition, force, motion, light, electricity and natural resources. Option B, social studies, covers history, geography, Indian Constitution and civics, and basic economics at the Class 6 to 8 level. Both options include teaching methods for the subject. Questions sit at the level of the school textbooks for those classes.

What to focus on for the most marks

The paper rewards breadth. Every section is worth the same in Paper 1, so a weak subject costs as much as a strong one earns. A few patterns help you choose where to spend time.

• Pedagogy questions repeat ideas. Learning theories, inclusive classrooms and evaluation return in different wording, so understanding beats memorising.
• Language sections are fast. Grammar questions take seconds when your basics are firm; keep the comprehension for last within the section.
• Teaching method questions sit inside every subject. Expect several questions in maths, EVS and science about how you would teach a topic, not just the topic itself.
• No negative marking. Never leave a bubble empty; an informed guess can only help.

A 12-week UPTET study plan

This plan assumes about three hours a day. Stretch it if you work.

1. Weeks 1 to 3: pedagogy first, one learning theory or concept per day, with ten practice questions each evening.
2. Weeks 4 to 6: Hindi grammar and your second language; read one unseen passage daily.
3. Weeks 7 to 9: maths and EVS for Paper 1, or your chosen 60-mark block for Paper 2, using Class 1 to 8 school textbooks.
4. Weeks 10 to 12: full 150-question papers under a 150-minute timer, then revise only the sections where you scored below 60%.

Books and study material

Start with the state's own school textbooks for Classes 1 to 8 and NCERT books for the same classes; most content questions sit at that level. For pedagogy, a standard child development and pedagogy textbook from your teacher training course is enough. Past UPTET papers are the best guide to wording, and the CTET syllabus overlaps heavily if you want extra practice material.

UPTET ka syllabus in Hindi for Paper 1 and Paper 2

यूपीटीईटी का सिलेबस दो पेपर में बँटा है। प्राथमिक स्तर (कक्षा 1 से 5) वाले पेपर 1 में बाल विकास एवं शिक्षण विधि, हिंदी, दूसरी भाषा (अंग्रेज़ी, उर्दू या संस्कृत), गणित और पर्यावरण अध्ययन से 30-30 प्रश्न आते हैं। उच्च प्राथमिक स्तर (कक्षा 6 से 8) वाले पेपर 2 में बाल विकास, हिंदी और दूसरी भाषा से 30-30 प्रश्न और गणित व विज्ञान या सामाजिक अध्ययन से 60 प्रश्न आते हैं। दोनों पेपर 150-150 अंकों के होते हैं, अवधि ढाई घंटे। नेगेटिव मार्किंग नहीं है। सामान्य वर्ग को पास होने के लिए 90 अंक चाहिए।