Kerala SET Exam Date 2022

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The education department conducts the Kerala State Eligibility Test (SET) to select candidates as Higher Secondary School Teachers and Non-Vocational Teachers in VHSE. Every year the LBS Centre for Science and Technology conducts the SET exam. The Kerala SET conducts 37 subjects, and any postgraduates from these subjects are eligible to appear for SET. LBS has finally decided to conduct the written exam of the SET in July. The entrance examination application will start on April 20, 2022. Candidates can pay the Kerala SET application fee till April 22, 2022. The Kerala SET application correction window opens on April 23, 2022. The Kerala SET July notification 2022 was released on April 1, 2022. Check out the details of Kerala SET Exam Date 2022 given below.

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Kerala SET Important Exam Dates 2022

The Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre (LBS), decided to conduct the SET exam soon.

Event	Date
Online Registration Starts from	20th April 2022
Last Date to apply	3rd June 2022
Online Payment of Registered Candidate	5th June 2022
Online Kerala SET Admission Ticket	3rd August 2022
Examination Date	14th August 2022
Release of Answer Key	13th September
Declaration of Result	Before 25th September 2022

Kerala SET Exam Pattern 2022

The Kerala State Eligibility Test (SET) has two papers. Paper 1 is common for all candidates and consists of two parts, General Knowledge and Aptitude in Teaching. The Paper-II shall be a test based on the subject of specialization of the candidate at the Post Graduate (PG) Level. There are 31 papers/ subjects available for candidates in SET 2022. The available subjects in Kerala SET 2022 are Anthropology, Arabic, Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Economics, English, French, Gandhian Studies, Geography, Geology, German, Hindi, History, Home Science, Islamic History, Journalism, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Russian, Sanskrit, Social Work, Sociology, Statistics, Syriac, Tamil, Urdu, Zoology, Biotechnology. Grab The Latest Kerala SET 2022 Study Material, Register Now!

Paper 1

For Mathematics and Statistics, there shall be only 80 questions carrying 1.5 marks each. There is no negative marking for wrong answers. The exam pattern for the objective mode SET exam is:

SL No	Papers	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Exam Duration
1	Paper: 1 General Knowledge	60	60	02 hours
2	Paper-II: Teaching Aptitude	60	60	02 hours
3	Optional Subject*	120	120	02 hours

The minimum requirement for a pass in the State Eligibility Test shall be:

Category	Paper 1	Paper-II	Total
General	40	40	48
OBC (Non-Creamy layer)	35	35	45
Differently Abled/ SC/ ST	35	35	40

Paper 2

The Kerala SET exam 2022 Paper-II will be performed in 31 various languages. The candidates ought to select their preferred language during the time of filling Kerala SET application form. They also choose the subject of specialization at the Post of Post Graduation level during the registration procedure. Examine the following table to know more about the Kerala SET exam pattern for Paper-II:

Subject	Total No. of Questions	Marks Allotted for Each Question (Total Marks)
For 31 various subjects (Except Maths & Statistics)	120	1 (120)
For Mathematics & Statistics	80	1.5 (120)

Best Books For Kerala SET 2022

the Kerala SET written examination will include two papers as per the latest notification released by the LBS Centre for Science and Technology. 120 marks each for both papers. Paper 1 will contain questions from General Knowledge and Teaching Aptitude while Paper 2 will be on the specialized subject. The subject-wise Kerala SET Books are noted below.

Paper 1

Paper 1 will include different topics like General Studies, Language and Reasoning, Current Affairs, Foundation of Education, and Communication as per the Kerala SET Syllabus. The following mentioned table contains all the necessary Kerala SET Books for all these subjects.

Sr. No.	Subjects / Topics	Kerala SET Books (Authors / Publications)
1.	General Studies	General Knowledge (Lucent) General Knowledge (Arihant)
2.	Language and Reasoning	High School English Grammar and Composition Key (Wren & Martin) Objective General English (SP Bakshi) Quantitative Aptitude (RS Aggarwal) Aptitude (Talent Publication)
3.	Current Affairs	Daily Newspapers (The Hindu, The Indian Express, etc) Current Affairs Monthly Compilation (Vision IAS) Manorama Year Book
4.	Foundation of Education and Communication	Foundations of Education (A. Chaube and S. P. Chaube) Foundations of Education (Jason C. Robinson)

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Paper 2

In Kerala SET Paper 2, candidates will have to choose a certain subject out of the list of a total of 31 subjects noted in the official notification. We have cited important Kerala SET Books for most of the subjects mentioned in the following tables:

Anthropology

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Physical anthropology	P. Nath
2	An Introduction to Social Anthropology	D.N. Majumdar & T. N. Madan
3	Anthropology	Ember and Ember
4	Indian Anthropology	R. N. Sharma
5	Indian Anthropology	Nadeem Hasnain
6	Tribal India	Nadeem Hasnain
7	State, society, and tribes	Virginius Xaxa
8	Xaxa committee report

Arabic

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	The Kalimni Arabi Series
2	Arabi Liblib

Botany

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Cell Biology.	De Robertis and Ambrose and Easy or Powar
2	Genetics	Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi
3	Ecology	Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh

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Chemistry

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	A textbook of environmental chemistry and Pollution.	S. S. Dara
2	Advance physical chemistry	Gurdeep Raj
3	Advanced Inorganic Chemistry	(J.D. Lee

Commerce

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Corporate Accounting	Naseem Ahmed
2	Auditing Students’ Guide to Auditing	Aruna Jha
3	Accounting Standards	D. S. Rawat
4	Income Tax	V.K. Singhania or Girish Ahuja
5	Cost Accounting; Theory & Problems.	Maheshwari & Mittal
6	Indian Financial System	M. Y. Khan
7	Human Resource Management	C.B. Gupta
8	Industrial Relations	T.N. Chabra and R.K. Suri

Economics

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Indian Economy	Ramesh Singh
2	Banking	S.B. Gupta
3	Dictionary of Economics	Graham Bannock, T.E. Baxter, Ray Rees
4	Economic Growth and Development.	Mayer and Baldwin
5	Growth and Development	M L Jhingan
6	International Economics	Bo Soderston
7	Monetary Theory and Public Policy	Kenneth Kurihara
8	Outline of Monetary Economics	A. C. I.Day
9	Public Finance	H. L. Bhatia

English

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Introduction to English Literature	W. H Hudson
2	The Routledge History of Literature in English
3	The Tempest	William Shakespeare
4	Canonization	John Donne
5	Upon Westminster Bridge	William Wordsworth
6	The Mill on the Floss	George Eliot
7	Hard Times	Charles Dickens
8	Gulliver’s Travels	Jonathan Swift
9	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
10	Tom Jones	Henry Fielding

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French

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Corneille	Le Cid
2	Beaumarchais	Le Mariage de Figaro
3	Victor Hugo	La Conscience. Elle Avait Pris Ce Pli
4	Apollinaire	Nuit Rhénane, Le Pont Mirabeau

Gandhian Studies

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Gandhian Thoughts	Swanand S. Pathak

Geography

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Indian geography	D. R. Khullar
2	Human Geography	Majid Hussain
3	Models and Theories	Majid Hussain
4	Geographical Thoughts	Dixit
5	Oxford Atlas
6	Class 10th, 11th & 12th Geography	NCERT

Geology

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Concise Glossary of Geology	S. M. Mathur
2	Principles of Petrology	G. W. Turre
3	The dimension of Himalayan Geology	A. K. Biyani
4	Marine Geology	T. K. Malik

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Hindi

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Aadhunik Sahitya Ki Pravritiyan	Namavar Sinhaas
2	Khadi Boli Ka Prarambhik Swaroop	Nilesh Jain
3	Hindi Bhasha Ki Parampara Aur Vikas	Dr Ramprakash
4	Hindi Bhasha	Dr Hardev Bihari
5	Hindi Sahitya Ka Sankshipt Itihas	(Dr. Vishwanath Tripathi
6	Godan	Munshi Premchand
7	Maila Anchal	Phanishwar Nath Renu
8	Bharat Durdasha	Bhartendu Harishchandra
9	Skandagupta	Jai Shankar Prasad
10	Kavita Ke Naye Pratiman	Dr Namvar Singh

History

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Medieval India.	Satish Chandra
2	From Plassey to Partition and after a History of Modern India.	Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
3	India’s Struggle for Independence.	Bipan Chandra
4	India since Independence.	Bipan Chandra

Home Science

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Home Science.	Surjeet Publications

Journalism

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	The Art and Craft of Feature Writing.	William E. Blundell
2	On Writing Well.	William Zinsser
3	The Press.	A. J. Liebling

Kannada

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Linguistic History of Kannada Language.	M.H. Krishnaiah
2	Kannada Bhasha Shastra.	R. Y. Dharwadkar
3	Kannada Sahitya Charitre.	R. S. Mugali
4	Madhavi.	Arupama Niranjana)
5	Odalaala.	Devanuru Mahadeva
6	Devaru.	A. N. Moorty Rao
7	Janapada Swaroopa.	Dr H. M. Nayak
8	Kannada Janapada Kathegalu.	J. S. Paramashivaiah
9	Kannada Sanna Kathegalu.	G. H. Nayak

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Malayalam

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	100 Chintha Vishayangal	T. Chandy
2	Charithram Ethra Eluppam	Jayakar Thalayolaparambu
3	Jeevithathile Tholvikal Engane Vijayangalakkam	Jobin S Kottaram/Sebin S Kottaram and Asin

Mathematics

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Linear Algebra	Hoffman and Kunze
2	Mathematical Analysis	S. C. Malik and Savita Arora
3	Analytical Solid Geometry.	Shanti Narayan and P K Mittal
4	Ordinary and partial differential equations	M. D. Raisinghania
5	Dynamics and Statics	Krishna Series
6	Contemporary Algebra	Joseph Gallian
7	Schaum Series	Spiegel, Lipschitz, Schiller, Spellman

Philosophy

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	History of Philosophy	Frank Thilly
2	Survey of Indian Philosophy	C. D. Sharma
3	Existentialism: A Reconstruction	David Cooper
4	A Critical Survey Of Indian Philosophy.	C. Sharma
5	Contemporary Western Philosophy	Dr B. K. Lal
6	Introduction to political theory	O. P. Gauba
7	Introduction to political theory	O. P. Gauba

Physics

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	Classical Mechanism	Gupta, Kumar & Sharma, Takewale, Puranik &H.Goldstein
2	Mechanics	Kleppner & Kolenkov
3	Quantum Mechanics	A. Ghatak
4	Waves and Oscillations	Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
5	Special Relativity	R.Resnic, Gupta & Goyal
6	Optics	Ajay Ghatak & B.S. Agarwal
7	Fundamental of Magnetism electricity	B.N. Basudeva
8	Introduction of Electrodynamics	David Griffiths
9	Thermal Physics	Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B.S. Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava
10	Statistical Physics	B.B. Laud

Political Science

SI No	Title of the Book	Name of the Writer
1	An Introduction to Constitution	D. D. Basu
2	An Introduction to Political Theory.	O.P. Gauba
3	Foundations Of Indian Political Thought	V. R. Mehta
4	A New Look at Modern Indian History	B. L. Grover & Alka Mehta
5	A New Look at Modern Indian History	B. L. Grover & Alka Mehta
6	India’s Struggle for Independence	Bipan Chandra
7	Indian Government and Politics	B. L. Fadia
8	India’s Foreign Policy	V. P. Dutt
9	International Organisations	Spectrum Books Publication
10	Challenge And Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy	Rajiv Sikri
SI No	Subject	Book and Writer
1	Psychology	Psychology Class XI & XII (NCERT) Introduction to Psychology (Morgan & King) Systems & Theories of Psychology (Krawiec & Chaplin) Psychology (Morgan and King) Psychology (Ciccarelli) Social Psychology (Baron & Byrne) Theories of Personality (Hall & Lindzey) Social Psychology (Robert Baron, Branscombe, Gopa Bhardwaj, Byrne) The Psychology of Small Groups (Shaw)
2	Sociology	Sociology Themes and Perspectives. (Michael Haralambos and Martin Holborn) Society In India: Concepts, Theories and Recent Trends. (Ram Ahuja) Social Problems in India. (Ram Ahuja) Sociology (Anthony Giddens) Sociological Theory (George Ritzer) Modernization Of Indian Tradition (Yogendra Singh) Sociological Thought. (Francis Abraham, John Henry Morgan) Social Change In Modern India (M. N. Srinivas) Caste Its Twentieth Century Avatar (M. N. Srinivas) Persistence and Change in Tribal India (M. V. Rao) Social Background of Indian Nationalism (A. R. Desai)
3	Statistics	An Introduction to Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics (V. K. Rohtagi) Fundamentals of Applied Statistics (S. C. Gupta & V. K. Kapoor) Fundamentals of Statistics (2 Vol.) (A. M. Goon, M. K. Gupta and B. Dass Gupta) Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications (Paul Meyer) Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics (A. C. Gupta and V. K. Kapoor) Sampling Theory of Surveys with Applications. (P. V. Sukhatme and B. V. Sukhatme) Sampling Techniques (William G. Cochran)
4	Sanskrit	Sanskrit Sahitya ka Itihaas (Umashankar Sharma “Rishi”) Sanskrit Kavi Darshan (Bhola Shankar Vyas) Rachna Nuvid Kaumudi (Kapildev Dwivedi) Shukanasopadesh – Varnanam (Dr. Rajendra Kumar) Bhasha Vigyan evam Bhasha Shastra. (Kapildev Dwivedi) Brihad Anuvad Chandrika. (Chakradhar Nautiyal “Hansa” Shastri) M. R. Kale’s books on each of the Mahakavya.
5	Tamil	Mozhi varalaru (Mu. Varadarasanar) Tamil ilakkiya varalaru (Mu. Varadarasanar) Oppilakkiya kotpadu (Ka. Na. Kailasapathy) Naatupura iyal aaivu (Su. Sakthivel) Ulaga sevviyal mozhigalin varisaiyil tamil (V. C. Kulandaiswamy) Valluvar padikkum vaiyathu sorkkam (V. C. Kulandaisamy) Tamil mozhiyum varalarum (Devira) Mozhi nool (Mu. Varadarasanar) Ithazhiyal (Su. Sakthivel) Tholkappiar Kanda Samuthayam (Dr. Natesan) Tamil Kadhal (V. Suba Manickam) Thambiyar Iruvar (A. S. Gnanasambandan) Silambu silambu (Arasan Santhuvanar) Silapathikaram Tamizhagam (Sami Chidambaranar)
6	Zoology	Modern Zoology (Ramesh Gupta) Organic Evolution (Evolutionary Biology) (Veer Bala Rastogi) Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology Cell Biology (C. B. Powar) Genetics (P. K. Gupta) Modern Textbook of Zoology – Invertebrates (R. L. Kotpal) Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (David Nelson, Michael Cox) An Introduction to Embryology (A. K. Berry) Ecology And Environment (P. D. Sharma) Applied And Economic Zoology (V. B. Upadhyay & G. S. Shukla)
7	Biotechnology	Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA (Bernard R. Glick and Jack J. Pasternak) Genentech (Sally Smith Hughes) Biotechnology (U. Satyanarayana)

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