Sikkim TET 2025 Syllabus, Section & Subject Wise Syllabus – Check Here

The Sikkim TET is completely known as Sikkim Teacher Eligibility Test and this test is organized through Sikkim Human Resource Development Department to recruit candidates for the post of Primary Teacher for Classes I to V and for Elementary (Graduate) Teacher for Classes VI to VIII in the state. 

Applicants with Eligibility can apply in the Sikkim Teacher Eligibility Test and to select for the teacher job, candidates must have to obtain qualified marks in the Examination.

Through this content, candidates will get detailed information on the Sikkim Teacher Eligibility Test (STET) in which includes the Sikkim TET Syllabus.

Sikkim TET 2025 Syllabus

All of the applied candidates must have to check the syllabus to get the subjects and subtopics involved in the written exam.

It is also necessary for the candidates to refer to the Exam Pattern along with the syllabus for better preparation for the Examination. The syllabus details have mentioned below. The syllabus details have mentioned below.

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 for Paper 1: 

I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)

a) Child Development (Primary School Child) (15 Questions)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning.
• Principles of the development of children.
• Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy & preschool children.
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teachers, parents, peers.)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives.
• Development of speech and language.
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender bias and educational practice individual differences among
• learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
• Understanding child abuse.

b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs. (5 Questions)

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment, etc.
• Addressing the Talented, creative, especially able learners.

c) Learning and Pedagogy (10 Questions)

• How children think and learn.
• Factors contributing to learning –personal & environmental.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Cognition & Emotional development of the child.
• Motivation – Concept, and types of Motivation; Relationship between Motivation and Learning.
• Gathering data about children from a different context: Naturalist Observation, Reflective Journal, and Anecdotal Record.

II. Language: (30 Questions)

a) Language Comprehension (15 Questions)

• Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability ( Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive )

b) Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Questions)

• Learning and Acquisition.
• Principles of Language Teaching.
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom.
• Remedial Teaching.

III. Mathematics: (30 Questions)

a) Content (15 Questions)

Numbers

• Squares and Square roots
• Cubes and Cube roots
• Integers
• Decimals and Fractions
• Algebraic Expressions and Identities
• Factorizations
• Rational Numbers
• Exponents and Powers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Operation on Numbers
• Ratio and proportion
• Measurement
• Comparing Quantities
• Direct and Inverse Variations
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Mensuration
• Weight
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

b) Pedagogical Issues: (15 Questions)

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning.
• 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.

IV. Environmental Studies: 30 Questions

a) Content (15 Questions)

The term I and Term II textbooks developed by the state for classes I-V

1. Science: VI-VIII

• Food: Sources and Components
• Nutrition in Plants and Animals
• Light, Shadows, and Reflection
• Electric Current and its effects
• Sound
• Microorganism: Friend and Foe
• Pollution of Air and Water
• Physical and Chemical changes
• Fiber to Fabric

2. Social Science: (VI-VIII Social and Political Life, History –Our Pasts, Geography)

3. History:

• From Gathering to Growing Food
• Rulers and Buildings
• India after Independence

4. Geography:

• Motions of the Earth
• Life in the Temperate Grassland
• Mineral and Power Resources.

5. Social and Political Life:

• Diversity and Discrimination.
• Understanding Media.
• Understanding Marginalisation

b) Pedagogical Issues: (15 Questions)

• Environmental Studies: Meaning and Nature.
• Objectives of teaching Environmental studies.
• Approaches to teaching Environmental Studies. NCF-2005
• Meaning of Child Centric activity-based classroom.
• Principles and importance of a child-centered approach.
• Needs of the child.
• Development of various skills among the children through the teaching of Environmental studies.
• Steps in planning and conducting activities.
• Methods of teaching environmental studies – Meaning, importance, advantages, and disadvantages.
• Difference between various methods of teaching.
• Methods of teaching at the Primary Level.
• Problem-solving method.
• Question answer method or conversation method.
• Project method
• Play-way method
• Storytelling method
• Scientific method
• Principles and Characteristics of a good method of teaching.
• Different types of activities are needed to develop various skills among children.
• Teaching-Learning material –. Meaning, Importance, Qualities of teaching – Learning material, Types – Audio, Visual, Audio -Visual
• Meaning, importance, and principles of the lesson plan.
• Steps involved in Lesson Planning.
• Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:
• Difference between Assessment and Evaluation, the importance of evaluation.
• Types of assessment – Formative and Summative
• Tools and Techniques of Evaluation (Summative Assessment)
• Types of questions, Qualities of a good question paper. Educational objectives for framing questions (According to NCERT Model.)
• Grading System at Primary level -Meaning, Type of grading.

Note: For a detailed syllabus, please refer to Class I to VIII state and NCERT textbooks for the primary level and classes VI to X NCERT textbooks for the graduate level.

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 for Paper 2: 

I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)

a) Child Development (Elementary School Child) (15 Questions)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of development of children
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world and children (Teacher, parents, peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct and intelligence
• Multiple Intelligence
• Language and Thought
• Gender as a social construct: gender roles, gender- bias and education practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion
• Data organization, Graphical representation (Bar Diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Ogive, Pie and Line Graph), Mean, Mode, Median, Standard Deviation, Average Deviation, Quartile Deviation, Percentiles, and Ratio
• Principles of constructing Objective, short answer, essay, and Interpretative type
• Characteristics of good test: Reliability, Validity, Objectivity, and Usability.

b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs (5 Questions)

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.
• Mental Health and Mental Hygiene: Concept, causes, and remedial Measures.

c) Learning and Pedagogy (10 Questions)

• How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance.
• The basic process of teaching and learning: children’s strategies of learning and social activity: the social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator.
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s errors as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition and Emotions.
• Motivation and learning.
• Factors contributing to learning- personal and environmental.
• Personality- Types.
• Constructivism and learning.

II. Language: (30 Questions)

a) Language Comprehension (15 Questions)

• Two unseen prose passages(discursive or literary or narrative or scientific)with a question on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability.

b) Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Questions)

• Learning and Acquisition.
• Principles of Language Teaching.
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders Language Skills.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom.
• Remedial Teaching.

III. Mathematics: (30 Questions)

a) Content (20 Questions)

Number System

• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Real Numbers
• Fractions

Algebra

• Introduction to Algebra
• Polynomials
• Remainder Theorem
• Linear Equations up-to two variables
• Ratio and Proportion
• Quadratic Equations

Arithmetic Progressions

Introduction to Trigonometry

• Trigonometric Ratios
• Trigonometric ratios of some specific angles
• Trigonometric Ratios of Complementary Angles
• Trigonometric Identities

Some Applications of Trigonometry

• Heights and Distances Geometry.
• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D).
• Lines and Angles.
• Triangles, Polygons, and Circles.
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D).
• Symmetry: (reflection).

Mensuration

• Surface Area and volumes of the cube, cuboid, right circular cylinder, right circular cone, hemisphere, and Sphere.

Coordinate Geometry

Data handling

• Pictorial Representation of Data.
• Mean, Median, and Mode of Grouped and Ungrouped Data.
• Probability.

b) Pedagogical Issues: 10 Questions

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking.
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum.
• Language of Mathematics.
• Community Mathematics.
• Evaluation.
• Remedial Teaching.
• The problem of Teaching.

IV. Science (30 Questions)

a) Content:

• Motion
  • Velocity
  • Acceleration
  • circular motion
• Force and laws of motion
• Gravitation
• Work and energy
• Sound-its speed and characteristics
• Light
  • Reflection
  • Refraction
  • Human eye
• Electricity
  • Ohm’s law
  • Resistance
  • Magnetic effect of current
• Air
• Materials from daily life
  • Metals and non-metals
  • Acid, base, and salt
  • Carbon and its compounds
• Atoms and molecules
  • Structure of the atom
  • Periodic classification of elements
• Basic chemical reactions and equations
• Water
• Physiological processes in plants and animals
  • Respiration
  • Transportation
  • Reproduction
• Cell -structure, and functions
• Tissue- structure, and functions
• Forest
• Environment
• Natural resources
• Control and coordination

b) Pedagogical Issues: (10 Questions)

• Nature and Structure of Science
  • Aims of Objectives
  • Correlation with another subject i.e. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
  • Scientific method and inquiry.
• Science Curriculum
  • Recommendation of NCF 2005 on the teaching of Science.
• Approaches & Methods of teaching Science.
• Planning and Learning Resources for effective instruction in Science.
  • Unit plan, Lesson Plan & TLMs.
  • Community & Laboratory as Learning Resources.
• Evaluation of Learner progress
  • Tools & Techniques for assessment in Science.
  • Diagnostic & Remedial Teaching in Science.

V. Social Science: (40 Questions)

a) Content (20 Questions)

History:

• In the Earliest Cities.
• New Questions and Ideas.
• Ashoka, the Emperor who Gave up War.
• The Delhi Sultanate.
• The Mughal Empire.
• From Trade to Territory (The Company establishes Power).
• When People Rebel (1857 & After).
• Women, Caste and Reform.
• Nationalism in India.

Geography:

• Planet Earth in the Solar System.
• Globe.
• The environment in its totality: Natural and Human Environment.
• Air.
• Water.
• Human Environment: Settlement, Transport, and Communication.
• Resources: Types – Natural and Human.
• Agriculture.
• Physical Features of India.

Social and Political Life:

• Key Elements of a Democratic Government.
• How the State Government Works.
• The Indian Constitution.
• Judiciary.
• Electoral Politics.
• Federalism.
• Understanding Marginalisation.
• Gender: Women Change the World.
• Diversity and Discrimination.

b) Pedagogical Issues: (20 Questions)

I. Concept

• Social Science- Meaning, Importance, and branches of Social Science.
• Aims and Objectives of Teaching Social Science.
• Approaches to teaching Social Science (Discipline-based, Interdisciplinary based, and Integrated based).

II. Methods:

1. Different methods of teaching Social Science- Advantages and Disadvantages.

• • Lecture method
  • Discussion method
  • Project method
  • Source method
  • Question Answer method

III. Activities:

• • Various activities to develop skills through the teaching of Social Science.

IV. Development of various skills through the teaching of Social Science.

V. Teaching-Learning materials- Meaning, Objectives, Importance, and Types.

VI. Lesson Plan- Meaning, Objectives, Importance, and Steps.

VII. Evaluation and Assessment- Meaning, Difference between Evaluation and Assessment, Objectives of Evaluation, Educational objectives according to NCERT model), Types, Tools and Techniques of Evaluation.

Note: For a detailed syllabus, please refer Class I to VIII state and NCERT textbooks for the primary level and classes VI to X NCERT textbooks for the graduate level.

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