Andhra Pradesh School Education Department conducts Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) cum Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) for the posts of Teachers.

The eligibility requirement and syllabus of APTET (Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test) Exam for School Assistants Biological Science are as follows:

Eligibility

One must possess a Bachelors Degree with Botany and Zoology as optional subjects or one of the two as main and the other as subsidiary subject or any two of other allied subjects viz. Public Health / Human Genetics / Genetics / Bio-chemistry / Environment Sciences / Micro-biology / Bio-Technology / Industrial Micro-biology / Agriculture/ Food Technology/ Fisheries/ Nutrition/ geology / Sericulture / Horticulture / Forestry / Poultry and a B.Ed. Degree with Biological Science / Natural Sciences / Science / Botany / Zoology/ as a methodology subject.

Syllabus

Part – I
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS (Marks: 10)
Part - II
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY (Marks: 30)
1. DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD
- Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
- Principles of development
- Factors influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological
- Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional,
Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood, Adolescence.
- Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers
- Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude,
Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment
- Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality
- Adjustment, Behavioural problems, Mental Health
- Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Observation, Interview, Case study,
Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal
- Developmental tasks and Hazards
2. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING
- Concept, Nature of Learning – input – process – outcome
- Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
- Approaches 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

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Paper Pattern

General Knowledge and Current Affairs 10 MCQs 10 Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy 30 MCQs 30 Marks
Language I (Opted by the candidate) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
Language II (English) 30 MCQs 30 Marks
Mathematics & Science (Bio. Science- 70,
Mathematics- 15 & Phy. Science-15) 100 MCQs 100 Marks
Total 200 MCQs 200 Marks

Attached Files

APTET Syllabus.pdf (851.0 KB, 90 views)