KTET Exam Pattern: Know the Marking Scheme and Question Distribution

Table Of Contents

1.	Kerala TET Exam
2.	K-TET Exam Pattern: An Overview
a)	KTET Category 1 Exam Pattern
b)	KTET Category 2 Exam Pattern
c)	KTET Category 3 Exam Pattern
d)	KTET Category 4 Exam Pattern
3.	Marking Scheme of KTET Exam
4.	KTET Exam: Question Distribution
5.	Tips For Preparing or The KTET Exam

1.Kerala TET Exam

The KTET or Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test is an exam constituted by the Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan and serves the purpose of evaluating teachers in order to assess their ability to combat various levels of challenges involved in schooling. This certification test also ensures that teaching quality will not be compromised at any cost under public service departments that it substantiates as a mandatory eligibility for teachers to apply in various Kerala PSC posts.

2.K-TET Exam Pattern: An Overview

The KTET exams are conducted in various categories like Lower Primary level or K1 (category 1), Upper Primary level or K2 (category 2), High School level or K3 (category 3) and Specialist teachers or K4 (category 4). And each category has a different syllabus and marking scheme.

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The recent KTET exam was conducted in December 2022 and the next exam will be around the corner by the month of June and will be intimated soon from the Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan. The exam is scheduled in MCQ format with a total of 150 questions. Each exam category has three parts.

The exam pattern for the various categories are given below.

a) KTET Category 1 Exam Pattern

Category 1 (Lower Primary Classes)

Part	Subjects	No. of questions	Marks
I	Child development & Pedagogy (Age group 6-11)	30	30
	Mathematics	30	30
	Environmental Studies	30	30
II	1st language (Malayalam, Tamil, Arabic)	30	30
III	2nd language (English, Arabic)	30	30
	Total	150	150

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b) KTET Category 2 Exam Pattern

Category 2 (Upper Primary Classes)

Part	Subjects	No. of questions	Marks
I	Child development & Pedagogy (Age group 11-14)	30	30
	(1) For Mathematics and Science teachers: Mathematics & Science Or (2) For Social Science Teachers: Social Science Or (3) For other teachers (1) or (2)	60	60
II	1st language (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, English)	30	30
III	2nd language (except 1st language, English, Malayalam)	30	30
	Total	150	150

c) KTET Category 3 Exam Pattern

Category 3 (High School Classes)

Part	Subjects	No. of questions	Marks
I	Adolescent Psychology, Theories of Learning and Teaching Aptitude	40	40
II	1st language (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, English)	30	30
III	Subject specific areas (Content and Pedagogy)	80	80
	Total	150	150

d) KTET Category 4 Exam Pattern

Category 4 (Upper Primary Language teachers)

Part	Subjects	No. of questions	Marks
I	Child development, Pedagogy and Teacher Aptitude	30	40
II	language (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, English)	40	30
III	Subject specific areas (Content and Pedagogy)	80	80
	Total	150	150

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3. Marking Scheme of KTET Exam

The KTET exam is mainly conducted for 4 categories and each category has its own specified marking scheme. The overall scheme and nature of exam is below.

• The KTET exams are conducted for a total of 150 marks
• The total number of questions are 150 and
• Each question carries ‘1’ mark each
• There will be no negative marking as this is a qualifying exam
• The exam is for a total duration of 150 minutes or 2 hour and 30 minutes

4. KTET Exam: Question Distribution

The question distribution for various categories differs when analysed section-wise however the overall number of questions will be same for all categories. For instance, the psychology paper has 30 questions in K1, K2 and K4 papers whereas there will be 40 questions for the K3 paper.

5. Tips For Preparing or The KTET Exam

Exam preparations do feel like a Herculean task that require a lot emotional and mental strength to be at par with the competent ones. However, following certain steps of routine habits can help you tackle any problem. Some tips to do so are given below.

• First, try to map the syllabus down and devise a study plan
• You should design a study plan such that it is executable within the time span
• Set some realistic goals each day and check whether you are able to execute it or not on that particular day
• Learn in small chunks and try to revise at the end of the day as well as cyclically each week
• Be consistent in your preparation because remember ‘Rome was not built in a day!’
• After the initial prep phase, give mock tests to test yourself
• Analyse your weak points, and try to concentrate on such topics
• Check out previous year question papers and find out repeatedly asked questions or portions
• If you have very little time, then always go for model question paper practice as much as you can before you attempt the exams

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