Tripura Teachers’ Eligibility Test (Tripura TET) is a state-level examination conducted by Teachers Recruitment Board, Tripura (TRBT). This test is conducted to provide the best opportunity for the candidates, those aiming to get teachers job in Tripura. Candidates who qualify the Tripura TET exam are awarded a certificate that remains valid for seven years.
Tripura TET- Exam Pattern 2021
| Exam Name | Tripura Teachers’ Eligibility Test (Tripura TET) |
| Conducting Body | Teachers Recruitment Board, Tripura (TRBT) |
| Exam Level | State |
| Exam Frequency | Once a year |
| Exam Mode | Offline |
| Exam Duration | 150 minutes |
| Negative marking | No negative marking |
| Exam Purpose | To shortlist candidates for appointment as teachers in classes I to VIII |
| Exam Helpdesk No. | 03812304868 |
| Official Website | http://www.trb.tripura.gov.in/ |
Aspirants can download the Tripura TET- Syllabus 2021 pdf from the official website.
Tripura TET is conducted for two papers:
- Paper I for candidates who plan to teach classes I-V
- Paper II is for candidates who want to teach classes VI-VIII
Details of Tripura TET Exam – Pattern 2021
- Question Type: Multiple Choice Question (MCQ)
- Total Question: 150
- Total marks: 150 (One Number per Question)
- Negative Marking: NO
- Language: English & Bengali
- Exam Mode: Offline
- Exam Type: OMR Sheet Based
Tripura TET 2021 for Paper-1
| Subject | Number of Questions | Max Marks |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I | 30 | 30 |
| Language II | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
Tripura TET Exam Pattern 2021 for Paper-2
| Subject | Number of Questions | Max Marks |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I | 30 | 30 |
| Language II | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics and Science Teacher | 60 | 60 |
| Social Science teacher | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 210 | 210 |
Tripura TET Syllabus 2021 for Paper-I
Paper-I of the Tripura TET 2021 examination consist of five compulsory subjects. Each subject carries 30 marks leading to a total of 150 marks in. Below is the subject wise syllabus of Paper-I:
- Child Development & Pedagogy (30 MCQs)
- Child Development (Elementary School Child):
- Child development & learning.
- Growth and development, stages of development, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Principles of development of children.
- Language and thought, different stages of language development, the role of the teacher in the process of language development.
- Gender as a social construct, gender roles, gender-bias and educational practices, gender equality, teacher’s role.
- Influence of heredity and environment on the development of the child, the role of the teacher. Socialization process, social world, and children, the role of parents, peers, and teachers in the process of socialization.
- Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives, cognitive development theory of Piaget, moral development, the theory of Kohlberg, social constructivism, a theory of Vygotsky and their educational implications.
- Concept of child-centred and progressive education, methods of teaching and learning, the concept of progressive education, the role of the teacher.
- Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence, multidimensional intelligence, Sternberg’s information processing theory, the concept of I Q, intelligence tests.
- Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, and religion.
- The distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning, school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, perspective, and practices.
- Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner’s achievement.
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(B) Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs:
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds, including disadvantaged and deprived, educational implications.
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, mentally retarded, physically challenged, socially and culturally deprived, identification, and remedial measures. Addressing the needs of exceptional children, gifted, creative, specially-abled children.
(C) Learning and Pedagogy:
- Process of teaching and learning, creating learning situations, criteria of learning experiences, different modes of learning, social learning, co-operative and collaborative learning, group discussion, the role of teacher.
- Cognitive processes: Perception, concept formation, thinking, imagination, reasoning, inductive and deductive, problem-solving and memory,
- Motivation and learning, factors affecting learning, theories of learning: Pavlov, Thorndike, Skinner, Piaget, and Vygotsky.
- Motivation: Concept, types, and importance to learning, theories of motivation.
- Emotion: Characteristics, emotional quotient (EQ). Personality and adjustment: Concept, approaches, type and trait, measurement of personality, emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, projective and non-projective techniques, and adjustment mechanisms.
- Language-I(English) (30 MCQs)
- Prose passage
- Poetry passage
- Language comprehension
- Inference
- English grammar
- Vocabulary
- Pedagogy for language development
PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas in oral
- and written form.
- Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
- Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
- Teaching-learning materials.
- Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
- Remedial teaching
- Language-II(Bengali or Kokborok) (30 MCQs)
- Passage comprehension
- Poetry comprehension
- Literature
- Language
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Mathematics (30 MCQs)
- Geometry
- Mensuration
- Measurement
- Numbers
- Arithmetic
- Fractions
- Language of mathematics
- Community of mathematics
- Nature, understanding, history of mathematics
- Methods of teaching mathematics
- Instructional material in mathematics
- Evaluation concepts
- Problem in teaching mathematics
- Remedial teaching and error analysis
PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Nature of mathematics
- Methods of teaching mathematics
- Instructional material in mathematics
- Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
- Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
- Diagnostic and remedial teaching.
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- Environmental Studies (30 MCQs)
- Family & friends
- Plants & animals
- Food
- Health & hygiene
- Shelters
- Travel
- Water
- Air
- Soil
- Energy
- Environment of Tripura
- Environmental protection
- Concept and scope of environmental studies
- Significance of environmental studies
- Integrated approach in environmental studies
- scope and relation of EVS to science & social science
- Comprehensive and continuous evaluation
- Teaching material-aids
- Approaches of presenting concepts
Tripura TET Syllabus 2021 for Paper-II
Paper-II of the Tripura TET 2021 examination consist of four subjects. Among these, there are three compulsory subjects of 30 marks each. On the other hand, candidates can choose from two options as the fourth subject. The options are mathematics & science and social studies carrying 60 marks. Below is the subject wise syllabus of Paper-II:
- Child development & pedagogy (30 MCQs)
- Child development (elementary school child)
- Concept of inclusive education & understanding children with special needs
- Learning and pedagogy
PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms – language difficulties, errors and
- Disorders
- Introduction to English Phonology-vowels and consonant classification as per IPA, syllable
- Division
- Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia materials, ICT, multilingual resources of
- the classroom.
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW
- Language-I (30 MCQs)
- Language comprehension
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Pedagogy for language development
PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms – language difficulties, errors and
- disorders.
- Introduction to English Phonology-vowels and consonant classification as per IPA, syllable
- division.
- Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia materials, ICT, multilingual resources of
- the classroom.
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW
- Language-II(Bengali/Kokborok) (30 MCQs)
- Passage comprehension
- Poetry comprehension
- Literature
- Language
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Mathematics (30 MCQs)
- Number System: whole numbers, positive and negative integers, rational numbers-their properties, fractions and decimals.
- Algebra: Formation of algebraic expressions, idea about monomials, binomials and Polynomials.
- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of algebraic expressions.
- Arithmetic: Square and square root, cube and cube root, ratio and proportion, inverse proportion
- as proportionality with the reciprocal, percentage, profit and loss, simple and compound interest.
- Geometry: basic geometrical ideas (2-D), understanding elementary shapes (2-D and 3-D).
- Lines and angles, triangles and its properties, congruence of triangles, classification of quadrilaterals as rectangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezium, and their various
- Mensuration: Perimeter and area of rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezium, triangle and circle.
- Data handling: Graphical representation, representing numerical data, as pictographs, bar graphs,
- double bar graph and pie chart, representing numerical data as frequency table, mean, median, mode and their applications.
- Science (30 MCQs)
- Food and Nutrition
- Microorganism and activities
- Circulation and conduction
- Ecosystem and Natural Resources
- Agriculture and Tools
- Pollution: types of pollution and pollutants, greenhouse effect, global warming, acid rain, impacts of different types of pollutants
- Motion, Force and Pressure: rest and motion, graphical presentation of straight-line motion.
- Newton laws of motion and their application
- Thermal Physics: heat and temperature, thermal conductivity, radiation, application of thermal
- insulators, thermometer.
- Sound: characteristic of sound, application of sound, intensity of sound, sound pollution.
- Electrostatics, current electricity and magnetism, frictional electricity, electroscope, earthling
- lightning, electric current and circuits, electric cell, heating, chemical and magnetic effects of
- current, magnets, properties of magnet, applications, earth’s magnetism.
- Optics: reflection in plane and spherical mirrors, image in lenses.
- Solar System: sun, planets, satellite, comets, galaxy.
- Metal and Non-metal
- Geography as social study and as science.
- The Solar System.
- Social Studies (60 MCQs)
GEOGRAPHY (15 MCQs)
- Globe, Latitudes and Longitudes.
- Interior of the Earth.
- Rocks: types and characteristics.
- Geography as social study and as science.
- The Solar System.
- Our changing earth
- Geomorphic process
- Atmosphere
- Hydrosphere
- Economic geography
- Agriculture
- Industry
- Human Environment
- Physical Environment
- Pollution of air and water, deforestation and its impact, ozone depletion and green-house effect.
- Concept of hazard and disaster, industrial hazard, biological hazard, wildfire hazard, landslides.
- India as a physical unit (relief drainage).
- Forest, mineral and power resources of Tripura
HISTORY (15 MCQs)
- Civilization
- Sixteen Mahajan pada and the First Empire
- Sultans of Delhi
- Beginning of the Mughal Rule
- The Establishment of Company Power in India
- The National Movement
- India after Independence
- Tribal Society and Festivals of Tripura
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE (15 MCQs)
- Diversity in Indian Society
- Democracy, Government, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, the Constitution of India, Parliamentary
- System of Government, Central Government, State Government, Local Self-Government in Tripura, Election Process in India
PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL STUDIES (15 MCQs)
- Concept and Nature of Social Studies/ Social Science.
- Nature, Scope and Significance of Social Science Curriculum