No negative marking.
Official Structure + Subject Breakdown
PSTET-2025 Syllabus
A clean syllabus view for Paper I and Paper II, prepared from the official PSTET 2025 syllabus PDF so students can revise the exam structure and subject-wise topics in one place.
Each paper has 150 MCQs.
Primary stage pattern.
Elementary stage pattern.
Exam Overview
Core structure taken from the PSTET 2025 syllabus document.
PSTET Papers
- Paper I is for candidates intending to teach classes I to V.
- Paper II is for candidates intending to teach classes VI to VIII.
- Candidates eligible for both levels must appear in both papers.
Question Pattern
- All questions are MCQs.
- Each question carries one mark.
- There is no negative marking.
Paper I Structure
For classes I to V, Primary Stage.
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Punjabi) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
Paper I Topic-Wise Syllabus
Primary stage topics for the five compulsory sections.
I. Child Development and Pedagogy
Child Development
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of development of children
- Influence of heredity and environment
- Socialization processes and the social world of children
- Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
- Child-centered and progressive education
- Critical perspective of intelligence and multidimensional intelligence
- Language and thought
- Gender as a social construct
- Individual differences among learners
- Assessment for learning vs assessment of learning
- School-based assessment and continuous comprehensive evaluation
- Readiness-level questions and learner achievement
Inclusive Education + Learning & Pedagogy
- Addressing learners from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairments
- Addressing talented, creative and specially abled learners
- How children think and learn
- Why children fail to achieve success in school performance
- Teaching-learning as a social activity
- Child as a problem solver and scientific investigator
- Alternative conceptions of learning and the value of errors
- Cognition and emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Personal and environmental factors contributing to learning
II. Language I (Punjabi)
- Reading unseen passages: one prose/drama and one poem
- Questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking
- Function of language and classroom use
- Critical perspective on grammar in communication
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom
- Language difficulties, errors and disorders
- Language skills and multilingual resources
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency
- Remedial teaching
III. Language II (English)
- Two unseen prose passages with comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking
- Grammar for communication
- Challenges of teaching English in a diverse classroom
- Language difficulties, errors and disorders
- Language skills and proficiency evaluation
- Teaching-learning materials and remedial teaching
IV. Mathematics
Content
- Geometry, shapes and spatial understanding
- Solids around us
- Numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Measurement, weight, time and volume
- Data handling, patterns and money
Pedagogical Issues
- Nature of mathematics and logical thinking
- Children's reasoning patterns and meaning making
- Place of mathematics in curriculum
- Language of mathematics and community mathematics
- Evaluation, problems of teaching, error analysis and remedial teaching
V. Environmental Studies
Content
- Family and Friends
- Relationships, Work and Play
- Animals, Plants, Food and Shelter
- Water and Travel
- Things We Make and Do
Pedagogical Issues
- Concept and scope of EVS
- Integrated EVS and environmental education
- Learning principles
- Scope and relation to Science and Social Science
- Activities, experimentation, discussion and CCE
- Teaching materials, aids and problems of teaching
Paper II Structure
For classes VI to VIII, Elementary Stage.
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Punjabi) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (English) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics & Science | 60 | 60 |
| Social Studies / Social Science | 60 | 60 |
| Art & Craft / Physical Education / Home Science / Music / Urdu / Sanskrit | 60 | 60 |
Paper II Topic-Wise Syllabus
Elementary stage topics for compulsory and optional subject groups.
I. Child Development and Pedagogy
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of development of child
- Influence of heredity and environment
- Socialization processes: teachers, parents and peers
- Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
- Child-centered and progressive education
- Critical perspective of intelligence and multidimensional intelligence
- Language and thought, gender and learner diversity
- Assessment for learning, school-based assessment and CCE
- Inclusive education, cognition, motivation and learning factors
II. Language I (Punjabi)
- Unseen passages: prose/drama and poem
- Comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability
- Learning and acquisition, language teaching principles
- Listening, speaking and language use
- Grammar, language difficulties, errors and disorders
- Language skills, evaluation, materials and remedial teaching
III. Language II (English)
- Two unseen prose passages with comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
- Learning and acquisition, principles of language teaching
- Listening, speaking, grammar and classroom communication
- Language difficulties, errors, disorders and evaluation
- Teaching-learning materials and remedial teaching
IV. Mathematics & Science
Mathematics
- Knowing our numbers, whole numbers, integers and fractions
- Introduction to algebra, ratio and proportion
- Basic geometrical ideas and elementary shapes
- Symmetry, construction, mensuration and data handling
- Nature of mathematics, curriculum, evaluation and remedial teaching
Science
- Food, materials and the world of the living
- Moving things, people and ideas
- How things work, electric currents, circuits and magnets
- Natural phenomena and natural resources
- Nature of science, observation, experiment, evaluation and remedial teaching
V. Social Studies / Social Sciences
Content
- History: early societies, cities, empires, kingdoms and Delhi Sultanate
- Regional cultures, Company rule, colonialism, reform and nationalism
- India after independence
- Geography: earth, globe, environment, air, water and resources
- Settlement, transport, communication, agriculture and human environment
- Social and Political Life: diversity, government, democracy, media, gender and Constitution
Pedagogical Issues
- Concept and nature of social sciences / social studies
- Classroom processes, activities and discourse
- Developing critical thinking and enquiry
- Empirical evidence, primary and secondary sources
- Project work, evaluation and problems of teaching
Health Education
Additional listed topics from the attached syllabus PDF.
Aspects of Health Education
- Physical health
- Mental health
- Social health
- Spiritual health
- Factors influencing health
- Assessment tools of physical health
First Aid
- Meaning and objectives of first aid
- Equipment and rules of first aid
- First aider and qualities of first aider
- Methods of artificial respiration
- Conditions in which first aid is given
Important Notes
Quick reminders based on the syllabus PDF.
Difficulty Level
Questions follow the syllabus of the relevant classes, but difficulty and linkages may go up to secondary stage.
Paper I Focus
Paper I focuses on ages 6-11 with 30 questions each in CDP, Punjabi, English, Maths and EVS.
Paper II Focus
Paper II focuses on ages 11-14 with compulsory languages and pedagogy plus 60-mark subject groups.
Reference
For detailed class-wise syllabus, refer to PSEB and NCERT textbooks as noted in the official document.