UPTET Syllabus 2026 and Exam Pattern

Child Development and Pedagogy — Child Development

• Meaning, need and scope of child development
• Stages of development
• Physical, mental, emotional, social and language development
• Development of creativity and expressive ability
• Factors affecting development — heredity and environment (family, society, school, mass media)

Child Development and Pedagogy — Learning and Its Theories

• Meaning of learning; factors affecting learning
• Effective methods of learning
• Thorndike's laws of learning
• Trial and Error theory, Pavlov's Conditioning theory, Skinner's Operant Conditioning
• Kohler's Insight theory, Piaget's theory, Vygotsky's theory
• Learning curve
• Causes and remedies of learning difficulties

Child Development and Pedagogy — Teaching Methods

• Meaning and objectives of teaching
• Teaching principles
• Sources and techniques of teaching
• Innovative teaching methods; micro-teaching
• Basic teaching skills

Child Development and Pedagogy — Inclusive Education, Guidance and Counselling

• Meaning and types of inclusive education; identification and remedies
• Inclusion for disadvantaged groups by language, caste, religion, region, gender and disability
• Teaching materials and activities for inclusion; assessment tools
• Special teaching methods such as Braille
• Guidance and counselling — meaning, objectives, types, methods and scope
• Supporting institutions such as DIET, psychological centres, hospitals and NGOs

Child Development and Pedagogy — Learning and Teaching

• How children think and learn
• Reasons for success and failure in school performance
• Learning as a social process; child as a problem solver
• Alternative concepts in learning and understanding children's errors
• Motivation in learning
• Personal and environmental factors affecting learning

Language I — Hindi content

• अपठित गद्यांश (unseen passage)
• Hindi alphabet — vowels and consonants; word formation; sentence formation
• Sound differences such as श, स, ष
• Use of anuswar, anunasik and chandrabindu; compound letters; matras; punctuation marks
• Antonyms and synonyms
• Nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives; gender, number and tense
• Prefixes and suffixes; tatsam and tadbhav words
• Idioms and proverbs; sandhi, samas, alankar
• Works of poets and writers

Language I — Language Development Pedagogy

• Language acquisition and learning; principles of language teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; role of grammar in language learning
• Challenges in language teaching
• Language skills — speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Evaluation of language proficiency
• Teaching-learning materials such as textbooks and multimedia
• Remedial teaching

Language II — English / Urdu / Sanskrit content

• Unseen passage
• Sentences — subject and predicate; kinds of sentences
• Parts of speech — noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction
• Tenses — present, past, future
• Articles, punctuation, word formation
• Active and passive voice
• Singular and plural; gender

Mathematics

• Core Mathematics: numbers and operations; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; LCM and HCF; fractions and decimals; percentage; profit and loss; simple interest
• Geometry and Measurement: shapes, angles, triangles, circles; money; measurement of time, weight, length, temperature and capacity; perimeter and area; calendar; volume and capacity
• Applied Mathematics: time and distance; data handling; data presentation and interpretation
• Pedagogical Issues: nature of mathematical thinking; place of mathematics in the curriculum; mathematical language; community mathematics; formal and informal assessment; teaching difficulties; error analysis; diagnostic and remedial teaching

Environmental Studies (EVS)

• Content: family, food, health and cleanliness, shelter, plants and animals, surroundings, festivals, occupations, water, transport and communication, games and sports
• India's rivers, mountains and forests; state studies; constitution; governance system; national symbols
• Environment conservation and government schemes
• Pedagogical Issues: concept and scope of EVS; importance of integrated EVS; EVS and environmental education; learning theories; relation between science and social science; concept presentation; activities and practical work; discussion; continuous and comprehensive evaluation; teaching materials and tools; problems in teaching EVS

Child Development and Pedagogy

The same five strands as Paper 1, pitched at the upper primary stage.

• Child Development — meaning, need, scope and stages; physical, mental, emotional, social and language development; development of expression ability, creativity and creative potential; factors influencing development including heredity and environment (family, society, school, mass media)
• Learning and Its Theories — meaning of learning; factors influencing learning; Thorndike's laws; Trial and Error (Thorndike), Conditioning (Pavlov), Operant Conditioning (Skinner), Insight (Kohler), Cognitive Development (Piaget), Socio-cultural (Vygotsky); learning curve; causes of learning difficulties and remedies
• Teaching and Teaching Methods — meaning and objectives of teaching; communication in teaching; principles of teaching; teaching sources and techniques; innovative approaches including micro-teaching; basic teaching skills
• Inclusive Education, Guidance and Counselling — meaning, identification, types and remedies; inclusion of disadvantaged groups by language, religion, caste, region, colour and gender; inclusion of children with physical disabilities and mental challenges; teaching aids, TLM and activities; assessment tools; Braille; guidance and counselling; supporting institutions including the Psychological Laboratory (UP, Prayagraj), Divisional Psychological Centres, District Hospitals, DIET institutions and trained mentors, inspection and supervision, community and school support committees, government and non-government organisations
• Learning and Teaching — how children think and learn; reasons for success and failure in school performance; learning as a social process; child as a problem solver and scientific investigator; alternative concepts and children's errors; motivation and learning; personal and environmental factors

Language I — Hindi

• Grammar and reading comprehension
• भाषा शिक्षण के सिद्धांत (principles of language teaching)
• भाषा कौशल का विकास (development of language skills)
• मूल्यांकन प्रक्रिया (evaluation process)
• उपचारात्मक शिक्षण (remedial teaching)

Language II — English / Urdu / Sanskrit

• Unseen passage
• Nouns, pronouns, verbs and their kinds
• Adjectives (kinds and degrees), adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
• Singular and plural; subject and predicate
• Negative and interrogative sentences
• Masculine and feminine gender; punctuation
• Root words and suffixes; phrasal verbs
• Use of somebody, nobody and anybody
• Parts of speech; narration; active and passive voice
• Antonyms and synonyms; homophones
• Use of requests in sentences; silent letters in words

Mathematics (subject option)

• Natural numbers, whole numbers and rational numbers; integers
• LCM and HCF; square root and cube root
• Algebraic expressions and identities; linear, quadratic and simultaneous equations
• Geometry — parallel lines, quadrilaterals, triangles, circles and tangents
• Commercial mathematics — ratio, proportion, percentage, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, tax and banking
• Statistics — classification of data, mean, median, mode, bar and pie charts
• Probability; mensuration; exponents
• Pedagogical Issues — nature of mathematical and logical thinking; place of mathematics in curriculum; mathematical language; community mathematics; assessment methods; remedial teaching; teaching difficulties

Science (subject option)

• Science in daily life and technological development
• Living and non-living things; classification of plants and animals
• Human body systems; nutrition in plants and animals
• Health, hygiene and diseases
• Matter, force, motion, energy, sound and light
• Electricity and magnetism
• Environment — air, water, soil, pollution and conservation
• Natural resources and alternative energy sources
• Carbon and its compounds
• Pedagogical Issues — nature and structure of science; aims and objectives of science education; scientific inquiry and experimentation; innovation and creativity; teaching-learning materials; assessment; remedial teaching

Social Science (subject option)

• History — sources of history; ancient, medieval and modern Indian history; freedom movement and post-independence challenges
• Civics — society, governance, constitution, democracy and citizenship; national security and foreign policy
• Geography — earth, globe and maps; climate; natural resources; population; disasters; geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Environmental Studies — natural resources, pollution, conservation and disaster management
• Home Science — health, nutrition, hygiene; food preservation; household management
• Physical Education and Sports — physical education, yoga, games, national and international sports, first aid
• Music — swar knowledge, ragas, rhythm, patriotic and devotional songs
• Agriculture and Horticulture — soil, irrigation, crops, fruits and vegetables, preservation, climate science
• Pedagogical Issues — concept and methods of social studies teaching; classroom processes and activities; discussion method; project work; assessment and evaluation