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REET 2021
Published on May 10, 2021 by Abhishek Shekhawat |
Last Updated on March 15, 2023 by Abhishek Shekhawat
An Overview of the REET Exam
INTRODUCTION
Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teacher (REET) is a state level exam conducted every year to recruit teachers at two level i.e., Level I or Primary Teacher and Level II or Upper Primary Teacher in government schools. The exam is conducted by Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan (BSER).EVENT & DATES:
| EVENTS | DATES |
| Notification | 05-Jan-2021 |
| Application Starts | 11-Jan-2021 |
| Application Ends | 20-Feb-2021 |
| Admit Card | 14-April-2021 |
| Exam Date | 25-April-2021 |
| Result | To be updated |
ELIGIBILITY:
AGE- There is no age limit for the candidates to apply.EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION-
- For Level I or Primary Teacher – Candidate should be a senior secondary or equivalent with at least 50% marks along with passed or appearing in the final year of two-year Diploma in Elementary Education/ or appearing in the final year of 4 year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed)/ appearing in the final year of 2 year Diploma in Education (Special Education)
- For Level II or Upper Primary Teacher – Candidate must have Graduation with at least 50% and passed or appearing in 1-year B.Ed (Special Education)
- A candidate has to score a minimum of 60% marks to get qualify.
EXAM PATTERN:
- There will be no negative marking.
- Total number of questions and marks will be 150.
- Exam duration will be 2 hours 30 mins (150 mins)
For Level I, exam pattern will be:
| Section | No. of Ques | Marks |
| Child Development & Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Language -1 | 30 | 30 |
| Language -2 | 30 | 30 |
| EnvironmentalScience | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
For Level II, exam pattern will be:
| Section | No. of Ques | Marks |
| Child Development& pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I (Hindi, Sindhi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Punjabi & Gujarati) | 30 | 30 |
| Language II (Hindi, Sindhi, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati) | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics & Science (for Maths & Science teacher)Social Science (for Social Science Teacher) | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
SYLLABUS:
REET LEVEL I- Child Development & Pedagogy
- Concept of growth and development, Principles and dimensions of development.
- Factors affecting development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning.
- Role of Heredity and environment
- Factors Affecting learning
- Theories of learning and its implication
- How Children learn and think.
- Motivation and Implications for Learning
- Meaning, Types and Factors Affecting Individual differences
- Understanding individual differences on the basis of language, gender, community, caste & religion.
- Personality: Concept and types of personality, Factors responsible for shaping it. Its measurement.
- Intelligence: Concept, Theories and its measurement. Multidimensional Intelligence. Its implication.
- Backwards, mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially-abled.
- Learning Difficulties.
- Adjustment: Concept and ways of adjustment. Role of teacher in the adjustment.
- Teaching-learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005.
- Meaning and purposes of Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation.
- Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation.
- Construction of Achievement Test.
- Action Research.
- Right to Education Act 2009 (Role and Responsibilities of Teachers)
- Environmental Studies
- Personal relationships, nuclear and joint families, social abuses (child marriage, dowry system, child labour, theft)
- Addiction (intoxication, smoking) and it’s personal, social and economic bad effects.
- Clothes for different seasons
- Maintenance of clothes at home
- Handloom and power loom
- Habitats of living beings, various types of houses
- Cleanliness of houses and neighbouring areas
- Different types of materials for building houses.
- The profession of your surroundings
- (stitching clothes, gardening, farming, animal rearing, vegetable vendor etc.)
- Small and cottage industries
- Major industries of Rajasthan State
- Need for consumer protection, co-operative societies.
- Public places like school, hospital, post office, bus stand, railway station
- Public property (street light, road, bus, train, public buildings etc.)
- Wastage of electricity and water
- Employment policies
- General information about Panchayat, legislative assembly and parliament.
- Fairs and festivals, National festivals
- Dresses, food-habits and art and craft of Rajasthan
- Tourist places of Rajasthan
- Great personalities of Rajasthan.
- Means of transport and communication
- Rules for pedestrians and transport
- Effects of means of communication on the lifestyle.
- External parts of our body and their cleanliness
- General information about the internal parts of the body
- Balance diet and its importance
- Common diseases (gastroenteritis, amoebiasis, methaemoglobin, anaemia, fluorosis, malaria, dengue.)
- Their causes and methods of prevention
- Pulse Polio campaign.
- Levels of organisation of plants and animals
- Diversity of living organisms, state flower, state tree, state bird, state animal
- Knowledge of reserve forest and wildlife (national parks, sanctuaries, tiger reserve, world heritage)
- Conservation of species of plants and animals
- Knowledge of Kharif and Rabi crops.
- Common properties of substances (colour, state, ductility, solubility) various types of fuels
- Types of energy and transformation of one form into another
- Applications of energy in daily life, sources of light, common properties of light.
- Basic knowledge of air, water, forest, wetlands and deserts
- Different kind of pollution
- Renewable and non-renewable resources of energy in Rajasthan and concept of their conservation
- Weather and climate
- Water cycle.
- Significance of Environment Studies, Integrated Environment Studies
- Environmental Studies & Environmental Education learning Principles
- Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
- Approaches to presenting concepts
- Activities
- Experimentation/Practical Work
- Discussion
- Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation
- Teaching material/Aids
- Problems of Teaching
Mathematics
- Whole numbers upto one crore, Place Value, Comparison
- Fundamental mathematical operations: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
- Indian Currency.
- Concept of fraction
- proper fractions
- comparison of proper fraction of the same denominator
- mixed fractions
- comparison of proper fractions of unequal denominators
- Addition and Subtraction of fractions.
- Prime and composite numbers
- Prime factors
- Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
- Highest Common Factor (HCF).
- Unitary law
- Average
- Profit – Loss
- simple interest
- Plane and curved surfaces
- plane and solid geometrical figures
- properties of plane
- geometrical figures
- the point, line, ray, line segment
- Angle and their types
- Length, Weight, Capacity, Time,
- Measurement of area and their standard units and relation between them
- Area and perimeter of plane surfaces of the square and rectangular objects.
- Mathematics Pedagogy
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Mathematics Pedagogy
- Evaluation through formal and informal methods
- Problems of Teaching
- Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
- Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
English Language
PART I
Unseen Prose Passage- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Spellings
- Word-formation
- One Word Substitution
- Parts of Speech
- Tenses
- Determiners
- Change of Degrees
- Active and Passive Voice
- Knowledge of English Sounds
- Phonetic Symbols
- Principles of Teaching English
- Methods and Approaches to the English Language Teaching
- Development of Language Skills
- Teaching Learning Materials: Textbooks, Multi-Media Materials and other Resources
- Comprehensive & Continuous Evaluation
- Evaluating Language Proficiency
PART II
Unseen Prose Passage- Linking Devices
- Subject-Verb Concord
- Inferences
- Identification of Alliteration
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Assonance
- Rhyme
- Modal Auxiliaries
- Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
- Literary Terms
- Elegy
- Sonnet
- Short Story
- Drama
- Basic knowledge of English Sounds and their Phonetic Transcription
- Principles of Teaching English
- Communicative Approach to English
- Language Teaching
- Challenges of Teaching English:
- Tools and techniques of Evaluation
- Methods of Evaluation
- Remedial Teaching
Hindi Language
- शब्द ज्ञान, तत्सम, तद्भव, देशज, विदेशी शब्द
- उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय, संधि, समास,संज्ञा, सर्वनाम
- विशेषण, क्रिया, लिंग, वचन, काल
- भाव सौंदर्य
- विचार सौंदर्य
- नाद सौंदर्य
- शिल्प सौंदर्य
- जीवन दृष्टि
Sanskrit Language
- संस्कृतभाषा-शिक्षण-विधयः
- संस्कृतभाषा-शिक्षण-सिद्धान्ताः
Science
- Micro-organisms: Bacteria, virus, fungi (Beneficial & Harmful)
- Living Being: different parts of plants, nutrition in plants, respiration and excretion, plant cell and animal cell- their structure and Function, Cell Division
- Human body and health: Diseases spread by microorganisms, (tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid)
- Prevention from diseases
- Different systems of the human body
- Infectious diseases (reasons for spreading and prevention); Major components of food and diseases developed due to their deficiency;
- Balanced diet;
- Animal Reproduction and Adolescence: Methods of Reproduction; Sexual and asexual.
- Adolescence and puberty: Changes in the body, the role of hormones in reproductions, Reproductive health
- Force and Motion: Types of forces- (muscular force, frictional force, gravitational force, magnetic force, electrostatic force), Pressure.
- Types of motion (linear, zigzag, circular, vibrating, periodic) speed
- Types of energies: traditional and alternative sources of energy; energy conservation
- Heat: applications of heat; transformation of heat, the concept of temperature; melting, boiling and evaporation; condensation and sublimation; examples of thermal expansion in daily life; insulator and conductor of heat; Methods of heat transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation).
- Light & Sound: sources of light, the formation of shadow, the reflection of light, image formation in a plane mirror, Types of sound, sound propagation Characteristics of sound, echo, noise, and methods to reduce noise.
- Science and Technology: Importance of science in daily life;
- Synthetic Fibres & Plastics: Types and characteristics of synthetic fibres. Plastic and its properties, Plastic and environment, detergents, cement, etc.;
- Science and Technology in the medical field (X-ray, C.T. Scan, Surgery, Ultrasound and LASER); In the field of Telecommunication – general information about the fax machine, computer, internet, e-mail, and website.
- Solar System: Moon and stars, Solar family-Sun and Planets, Comets, Constellation
- Structure of Matter; Atom and molecule; the structure of the atom; element, compound, and mixture; separation of impurities of substances; symbols of elements; chemical formulae of compounds and chemical equations.
- Chemical Substances: Oxides, greenhouse effect and global warming, Hydrocarbon (Introductory knowledge), Acid, Alkali and Salt, Oxygen gas, Nitrogen gas, and nitrogen cycle, Coal, Petroleum and natural gas
- Nature & Structure of Sciences
- Natural Science: Aims & objectives
- Understanding the Science
- Methods of Science teaching
- Innovation
- Text Material/Aids
- Evaluation
- Problems
- Remedial Teaching
Maths
- Indices: Multiplication and division of numbers on equal bases, Laws of Indices
- Algebraic expressions: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
- Identities Factors: factors of simple algebraic expressions
- Equations: Simple linear equation
- Square & Square Root Cube & Cube Root
- Interest: Simple interest, Compound interest, Profit – Loss
- Ratio and Proportion: Division into proportional parts, Partnership
- Percentage, Birth and Death rate, Population growth, Depreciation,
- Lines and Angles: Line segment, straight and curved lines, types of angles
- Plane figures: Triangles, Congruence of Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and Circle
- Area of Plane figures: Triangles, Rectangles, Parallelograms, and Trapeziums
- Surface Area and Volume: cube, cuboid, and right circular cylinder.
- Statistics: collection and classification of data, frequency distribution table, Tally marks, bar graph and histogram, circular graph (pi diagram)
- Graph: Various types of graphs
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Evaluation
- Remedial Teaching
- Problems of Teaching
Social Science
- Indus valley civilization
- Vedic culture
- Indian Society: Characteristics, Family, Marriage, Gender Sensitization, Rural Life, and Urbanization.
- Political history & administration
- contribution to Indian culture
- Cultural achievement of Gupta’s age
- India (600-1000 AD) Indian cultural contacts with the outside world.
- The Bhakti and Sufi Movement
- Mughal-Rajput relations
- Mughal administration, social, economic and cultural conditions during the Medieval period
- British policies towards Indian states
- Revolt of 1857, Impacts of British Rule on Indian Economy
- Renaissance and Social reforms
- Indian National Movement (1919-1947)
- Preamble
- Fundamental Rights and Fundamental duties
- Secularism and Social justice.
- Parliament
- President
- Prime minister and Council of Ministers
- State Government
- Panchayati raj and Urban Self -Government
- lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere
- types of rocks
- Interior and Exterior forces modifying earth’s surface
- Types of Resources
- Conservation of Resources
- Soils
- Minerals and Power Resources
- Agriculture
- Industries
- Human Resources
- Physiographic regions
- Climate
- Natural vegetation
- Wild Life
- Multipurpose projects
- Agriculture crops
- Industries
- Transportation
- Population
- Public amenities
- Economic and Social Programmes of Development
- Consumer awareness
- Physical regions
- Water conservation and Harvesting
- Agriculture Crops
- Minerals and Energy Resources
- Transport
- Industries
- Population
- Ancient Civilizations and Janpadas,
- Freedom Struggle in Rajasthan
- Integration of Rajasthan
- Heritage and Culture of Rajasthan (Forts, Palaces, Fairs, Festivals, Folk-arts, Handicrafts)
- Rajasthani Literature, Tourism
- Conservation of Heritage
- Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
- Class Room Processes, activities, and discourse
- Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
- Developing critical thinking
- Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
- Teaching Learning Material and Teaching Aids
- Projects Work
- Evaluation
IMPORTANT BOOKS:
REET LEVEL I- REET Hindi Language Level-I, Level-II, Level-III – Rai Publication. (Based on Latest Pattern)
- REET Level-1 Mathematics – Sunita Publication
- IREET Bal Vikas Evam Shiksha Shashtra Level – I (Class 1-5) – Rai Publication
- Lakshaya REET Bhasha Hindi, Sanskrit, & English – Lakshaya Publication
- Lakshay REET Paryavaran Adhyan, Ganit, Balvikas (Combo) Level – I for class 1-5 (Hindi) – Lakshaya Publication
- Pedagogy for CTET, UPTETE, HTET, REET, UKTET, BTET, CGTET – S.D. Publication
- REET Environment Level-I – Sunita Publication
- REET Environment Studies, Math Level -1, Class 1-5 with free solved papers, practice sets – Rai Publications
- REET Question Bank – Ahmar Kareem Publication
- 15 Practice sets REET Class 1-5, Level -I – Arihant Publication
- Lakshaya REET Samajaik Adhyan Bhasha Hindi, Sanskrit, & English Level – II for Class 6-8 – Lakshaya Prakashan
- REET/RTET Level I and II Shiksha Manovigyaan – RBD Publication
- REET Hindi Language level I, Level II and Level III – Rai Publication
- Lakshaya REET Samajik Adhyan Balvikas And Shiksha shashtra Class 6-8, Level II – Lakshaya Prakashan
- REET Ganit and Vigyaan Level – II (Hindi Edition) – Lakshaya Prakashan
- REET Samajik Adhyana Level II (Class6-8) – Rai Publication
