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KTET Category 2 is for candidates preparing to teach upper primary classes (VI to VIII) in Kerala. The exam is scheduled for September 18, 2025. In this post, you’ll find the official syllabus PDF, detailed exam pattern, and subject-wise mark distribution to help you plan your preparation effectively. Download the syllabus and Let’s get started!
Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test Recruitment June 2025 Highlights
| Event | Details |
|---|---|
| Exam Name | Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test (KTET) |
| Conducting Body | Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan |
| Session | June 2025 |
| KTET Notification Release Date | July 2, 2025 |
| Application Form Dates | July 3 to July 15, 2025 |
| Admit Card Release Date | September 03, 2025 |
| KTET Exam Dates | September 18 and 19, 2025 |
| Mode of Exam | Offline (OMR-Based) |
| Official Website | ktet.kerala.gov.in |
What is KTET 2025 Category 2?
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Going through the syllabus is the first step to smart preparation. It helps you understand what to study, how to plan, and where to focus. We’ve attached the official KTET Category 2 syllabus PDF below, which covers all subjects and topics as per the latest guidelines. Download it now and start your preparation with a proper strategy.
KTET Category 2 Previous Year Question Paper
Going through previous year question papers gives you a clear idea of the type of questions asked and the difficulty level of the exam. It’s one of the most effective ways to fine-tune your preparation. You can download the KTET Category 2 previous year paper from the link below.
| Set | Download Link |
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| Category II – Set 1 | |
| Category II – Set 2 |
KTET 2025 Category 2 Model Question Paper
In addition to the syllabus and exam pattern, practicing with model question papers is also necessary. Below, we’ve added a KTET Category 2 model question paper prepared as per the latest syllabus. Download it and start practicing now!
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Join Now!KTET 2025 Category 2 Exam Pattern & Structure
The Category II exam of KTET 2025 is designed for candidates aspiring to teach Upper Primary classes (VI to VIII) in Kerala. This is an objective-type test with multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The exam includes a total of 150 questions, each carrying 1 mark, with no negative marking. Candidates are given 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the test.
The exam content is based on the SCERT Kerala syllabus for Classes V to VIII, focusing equally on subject knowledge and pedagogical understanding. The structure of the exam is divided into three parts:
| Part | Subject | No. of Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part I | Child Development & Pedagogy + Language I (Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada) | 30 | 30 |
| Part II | Language II (English/Arabic/Hindi/Sanskrit) | 30 | 30 |
| Part III | Mathematics & Science OR Social Science (as per candidate’s subject choice) | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
KTET 2025 – Kerala TET Category 2 Detailed Syllabus
Preparing for Category 2? This syllabus covers Child Development, Languages, and your subject choice—Maths & Science or Social Science, based on the SCERT Kerala syllabus (Classes V–VIII). Check the full details below to get started.CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY – 30 Questions
- Child Development and Learning (15 Questions)
- Methods of studying child behaviour – observation, case study, Interview, Psychological tests etc.
- Concept of development
- Principles of growth and development
- Influence of heredity and environment on human development
- Concept of learning
- Basic theories of learning : Conditioning (Pavlov, Skinner); Insight learning (Gestalt); cognitive learning (Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky)
- Relation between development and learning : learner readiness of maturation
- Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky : Constructs and critical perspectives.
- Concept of child – centered and progressive education – Activity based method of Teaching and Learning, Problem Based Learning
- Critical perspectives of construct of intelligence (Theories of Spearman, Guilford, Thurstone and Gardner).
- Language and Thought (Basic perspectives of Piaget, Chomsky and Vygotsky).
- 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.,
- Distinction between – Assessment for learning and Assessment of learning – school based Assessment (Internal assessment)
- Continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspectives and practice
- Assessing learner achievement – grading
- Personality development – concept of personality and basic approaches to personality (Psychoanalytic and Trait) – Adjustment mechanisms
- Concept of exceptional children
- Concept of children with special needs (CWSN)
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
- Concept of learning disability (LD) – Addressing the needs of children with learning disabilities
- Addressing the Talented, creative, specially abled children
- How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance
- Different factors influencing learning and achievement
- Basic process of teaching and learning: Children’s strategies of learning – Learning as a social activity – social context of learning
- Child as a problem solver and ‘scientific investigator’ (concept of the nature of child by Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky)
- Alternative concepts of Learning in children: Understanding children’s’ ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process (Self – corrective nature of the child)
- Cognition and Emotions – Emotion – Basic Emotions – characteristics of childhood emotionality.
- Emotional Development (Bridge’s)- cognition (Thinking, Reasoning, Problems solving and Investigation)
- Motivation and learning – How does motivation influence learning – Maslow’s theory of motivation
- Factors contributing to learning – Personal and environmental
II. LANGUAGE I – MALAYALAM/ENGLISH/TAMIL/KANNADA
A. MALAYALAM അവധാരണം (ഗദ്യം)- കേന്ദ്രാശയം കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- നിഗമന രൂപീകരണം
- വിശകലനം
- കേന്ദ്രാശയം കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- കാവ്യബിംബങ്ങൾ കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- വ്യാഖ്യാനിക്കൽ
- ഭാഷാപഠന സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങൾ
- വ്യത്യസ്ത കഴിവുള്ള കുട്ടികൾക്ക് പ്രത്യേക പരിഗണന നൽകുന്ന ഭാഷാപഠനം
- പാഠ്യപദ്ധതി വിനിമയത്തിന്റെ രീതിശാസ്ത്രം
- ശൈലികളും പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും
- പ്രായോഗിക വ്യാകരണം
- പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
- സാഹിത്യരൂപങ്ങൾ
- താളബോധം
- An unfamiliar passage or poem with questions on reading comprehension, inference, vocabulary and language elements.
- Questions to evaluate the knowledge of basic grammar such as Tense forms, Articles, Prepositions and Linkers.
- Language Acquisition and Learning – Theories and their classroom implications.
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Language skills – Strategies to develop them
- Problems and challenges in language classrooms
- Teaching learning materials – Textbook, ICT and other teaching aids.
- Learner Assessment – Self, Peer, Teacher
- Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN)
- Teacher Attitude and Aptitude
- Comprehension of theme
- Interpretation
- Inference
- Comprehension of themes
- Poetic images
- Interpretation
- Principles of Language Learning
- Classroom practices
- Inclusion of differently abled children
- Methodology of curriculum Transaction
- Books and Authors
- Functional Grammar
- Proverbs
- Forms of Literature
- Tamil Festivals
- Comprehension of Theme
- Interpretation
- Inference
- Comprehension of Theme
- Poetic images
- Principles of Language learning
- Classroom Practices
- Inclusion of differently abled children
- Methodology of curriculum transaction
- Idioms, Phrases and usages
- Functional grammar
- Proverbs
- Rhythms
- കേന്ദ്രാശയം കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- നിഗമന രൂപീകരണം
- വിശകലനം
- കേന്ദ്രാശയം കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- കാവ്യബിംബങ്ങൾ കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- വ്യാഖ്യാനിക്കൽ
- അർഥതലങ്ങൾ കണ്ടെത്തൽ
- ഭാഷാപഠന സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങൾ
- വ്യത്യസ്ത കഴിവുള്ള കുട്ടികൾക്ക് പ്രത്യേക പരിഗണന നൽകുന്ന ഭാഷാപഠനം
- പാഠ്യപദ്ധതി വിനിമയത്തിന്റെ രീതിശാസ്ത്രം
- ശൈലികളും പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും
- പ്രായോഗിക വ്യാകരണം
- സാഹിത്യത്തിലെ നൂതന പ്രവണതകൾ
- പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
- സാഹിത്യരൂപങ്ങൾ
- താളബോധം
- One or two unfamiliar passages or poems with questions on comprehension, inference, vocabulary and elements of grammar.
- A few questions to evaluate knowledge of basic grammar, such as – Article – Concord – Question tags – Prepositions – Tense and time – Modal Auxiliaries – Phrasal verbs and idioms – Degrees of comparison – Active and passive voice – Reported speech – Language functions – Error identification
- Language Acquisition and Learning – Theories and their classroom implications.
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Problems and challenges in the language classrooms
- Language skills – strategies to develop them
- Teaching learning materials – Textbook, ICT and other teaching aids.
- Assessment – Self, Peer, Teacher
- Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN)
- Concepts and process in language learning and acquisition.
- Developments – principles of language teaching.
- Role of listening and speaking.
- Functions of language and how children use it as a tool in formal and informal situations.
- Role of grammar in learning language for communicating ideas verbally and in written formscritical perspective.
- Challenges in language teaching.
- Diverse classroom – errors and disorders.
- Language skills.
- Evaluation in language learning-comprehension and proficiency.
- Teaching-learning material-other resource materials to be used in class rooms.
- Remedial measures to be taken in language class.
- Creating proper interactive situations in language class rooms.
- Competence of a teacher in selecting proper extended materials in language class rooms.
- Various forms of presentation of discourses in language class rooms.
- How to address the special needs of differently abled children in language class rooms.
- Reading unseen passages (prose, poem) and elements of language
- Division of Questions Question from Poem 5 Questions Question from Prose 6 Questions Question from Language Elements 4 Questions (Translation, technical terms, history of language, language elements)
- Question to be asked on the basis of the poem given to test the competence to comprehend ideas and enjoy the poetic emotions and feelings, imaginative elements, ideas and views beyond the lines, particular forms of composition, etc.
- Questions on the given prose or drama to test the competencey for comprehension, interpretation and language usage
- Language elements like structure of sentences, combination of words, usage of words in various situations, idioms in use and basic grammar.
- History & Culture of Languages – Major landmarks – developments of modern prose (Discourses)
- Steps of seed germination.
- Plant adaptations.
- Pest-pest control.
- Chemical and biological pest control.
- Cell structure.
- Cell organelles.
- Tissue.
- Types of tissues.
- Organ system.
- Levels of organisation.
- Micro organisms.
- Mode of disease transmission.
- Preventive measures.
- Different types of pollution.
- Bio-degradable and non bio degradable pollutants.
- Plastic waste
- Heart -blood-lymph
- Arteries- veins- capillaries
- Cardio vascular diseases
- Osmosis-diffusion-active transport
- Cellular equilibrium
- Kidney-skin.
- Agents of pollination
- Seed dispersal
- Types of fruits.
- Human digestive system
- Indigenous food
- Food adulteration.
- Brain-nervous disorders.
- Human skeletal system
- Joints
- First aid.
- Hybrid varieties of plants
- Crop rotation
- Nitrogen fixation
- Vegetative propagation- (budding, grafting, layering)
- Tissue culture
- Plant nutrition
- Chemical and bio fertilizers
- Integrated farming
- Pisciculture- sericulture- epiculture
- Plant diseases-plant disease control measures
- Agricultural garden- agricultural research institutes.
- Indegenous varieties of animals- hybrid varieties of animals.
- Taxonomy
- Two kingdom and five kingdom classification
- Binomial nomenclature.
- Food chain- food web- positive and negative interactions.
- Conservation of bio diversity
- Biosphere reserve- national park- zoological park- gene bank-
- Endemic species
- Hot spot- sustainable development.
- Biosphere reserve- national park- zoological park- gene bank-
- Endemic species
- Hot spot- sustainable development.
- Approaches to the science curriculum-criticism of contemporary science education-Aims and objectives of science education-science literacy.
- Approaches of science education-taxonomy of science education.
- Knowledge domain
- Problem solving skills-creativity domain-attitudinal domain-application domain Scientific inquiry
- Pedagogic strategies-activity based – collaborative and cooperative learning. Significance of the history of science
- Significance of laboratory
- Evaluation, CCE, assessment of performance
- Scientific attitude
- Methods of science teaching
- Role of science teacher
- Teaching and learning aids
- Psychological basis of science learning
- Fractions : Different forms of the same fraction and reduction to lowest terms. Operations on fractions.
- Representation of certain fractions as terminating decimals. Operations on such decimals.
- Percent : Concept of percent and its relation to fractions. Applications of percent in monetary transactions, such as interest (simple and compound), profit and loss, and discount.
- Average : Average as representative number of a group of numbers. Computation of average. Quick computation of the change in average when one number of the group is replaced by another. Average of combined groups
- Negative Numbers : Use of negative numbers in certain physical contexts such as temperature and scoring. Fundamental operations of negative numbers. Use of negative numbers in algebra.
- Exponentiation : Exponentiation as repeated multiplication. Positive integral powers. Multiplication and division of numbers expressed as powers. Meaning of negative powers and its use in simplification.
- Ratio and Proportion : Ratios for comparing two or more magnitudes using a common unit. Multiple interpretations of comparisons involving ratios. Uses of the idea in such contexts as comparing different types in a group, different ingredients in a mixture, monetary division, aspect ratio in geometry and so on.
- Proportion as change of quantities without changing the ratio. The idea of the constant of proportion.
- Inverse proportion as proportionality with the reciprocal. The equations y = kx and y =kx.
- Use of these ideas in physics, such as in elasticity, levers and gravitation.
- Time and Distance : The concept of average speed. Relation between time, distance and average speed.
- Finding average speed of trips done in two parts in various cases such as when the distance in both parts are equal and when the time for both parts are the same.
- Use of algebra to express unchanging relations between changing physical quantities. Algebraic expressions as shorthand for arithmetical operations on unspecified numbers. General properties of arithmetic operations, especially products of sums and differences as algebraic identities. Formulation and solution of a linear equation in one unknown, arising from certain physical and mathematical contexts.
- Angles : Angle as measure of slant and as measure of spread. Degree measure of an angle by dividing a circle into 360 equal sectors. Perpendicularity relation between the four angles made by two intersecting lines.
- Parallel Lines : A pair of parallel lines as lines keeping the same distance throughout and as lines having the same slant with a third line.
- Characterization of a pair of parallel lines in terms of various pairs of angles from the eight angles made by intersection with a third line. Sum of angles of a triangle and polygons.
- Triangles : Area of a triangle in terms of base and height. Drawing triangles according to some specified measures. Cases where two different triangles are possible and no triangle is possible. The concept of congruency of triangles, Sufficient conditions for two triangles to be congruent, such as having lengths of all three sides equal, lengths of two sides and included angle equal, lengths of one side and the two angles on it equal. Various applications of these ideas such as in proving properties of parallelograms and isosceles triangles, drawing the perpendicular bisector of a line and bisector of an angle.
- Quadrilaterals : Classification of quadrilaterals as rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, and trapezium and their various characterizations.
- Drawing these types of quadrilaterals of specified measures. Areas of various types of quadrilaterals.
- Solids : The idea of a rectangular prism. Its volume and surface area.
- Graphical Representation : Representing numerical data as pictographs, bar graphs, multiple bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts. Drawing inferences from such graphs.
- Tabular Representation : Representing numerical data as a frequency table.
- Nature of Mathematics Abstraction, Understanding children’s thinking and reasoning. Language of Mathematics.
- Stone Age, the beginning of agriculture
- Civilizations – Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, Harappa
- Industrial and agrarian revolutions, capitalism
- Socialism, labour movements and labour struggles
- Colonialism in India
- Struggles of peasants, workers, tribals, women, sepoys, poligars, rulers and chieftains
- Revolt of 1857
- Social reform movements of India
- Indian national movement and Gandhian era.
- Movements for social change, peasant struggles and national movement in modern Kerala
- Planets and other heavenly bodies
- Size, shape, the interior structure of the earth, seasons, temperature zones
- Latitude, longitude, longitude and time
- Map and its types, scale, topographical maps, globe
- Climate & weather, temperature, pressure, rainfall and winds
- India – Relief, climate, drainage, vegetation
- India – Resources, agriculture, industry, transport, population
- Kerala – Physiography, drainage, agriculture, transport, human life
- Environmental problems and conservative measures.
- Economic growth, development and human development – concepts and trends
- Five Year Plans
- Agriculture, food security and poverty
- Traditional industries of Kerala
- Money and banking
- Demographic trends – India and Kerala
- Globalisation and India
- Democracy
- People and state Governments
- Political parties – Types and functions
- Election Process and the Role of Election Commission
- Local Self Governments
- Nature, scope, importance and correlation
- National goals, aims & objectives of instruction
- Curriculum – trends, principles & organisations
- Analysis and planning of instruction.
- Types of learners and requirements for learning
- Learning resources and co-curricular activities
- Purpose and modern trends of evaluation
- Methods, approaches & techniques of instruction
- Characteristics of modern instructional strategies
How to Get KTET 2025 Category 2 Syllabus PDF
- Visit the Official KTET Website
Go to https://ktet.kerala.gov.in - Find the “Syllabus” Section
On the homepage or menu, click on the “Syllabus” tab. - Select Category 2
Choose Category II from the list. The syllabus PDF will be available for download. - Download the PDF
Click the link to open the syllabus. Press the download icon and save
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