Karnataka TET Syllabus 2025 and Exam Pattern: Download Paper 1 and Paper 2 Syllabus PDF with Important Topics

Particular

Details

Exam Conducting Body

Department of School Education, Government of Karnataka

Exam Name

Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KARTET)

Purpose

To determine the eligibility of candidates willing to become Class 1 to 8 teachers.

Exam Mode 

Offline

Exam Date

December 7, 2025

Question Type

Objective

Number of Questions

150 for each paper

Maximum Marks

150 for each paper

Negative Marking Scheme

No

Subjects

Questions

Marks

Exam Duration

Child Development and Pedagogy

30

30

2 hours and 30 minutes

Language I (compulsory)

30

30

Language II (compulsory)

30

30

Mathematics

30

30

Environmental Studies

30

30

Social Studies (For visually impaired candidates instead of Mathematics and EVS)

60

60

Subjects

Questions

Marks

Exam Duration

Child Development and Pedagogy

30

30

2 hours and 30 minutes

Language I (compulsory)

30

30

Language II (compulsory)

30

30

Subject Concerned (Mathematics & Science or Social Studies)

60

60

English Language I

Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages - Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama or Poetry.) 

Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and acquisition, Principles of language Teaching, Role of listening and Speaking, function of language and how children use it as a tool.

Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.

Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom and Language Skills.

Teaching - learning Materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

English Language II

Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages - Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama or Poetry.)

Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and acquisition, Principles of language Teaching, Role of listening and Speaking, function of language and

how children use it as a tool.

Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.

Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom and Language Skills. 

Teaching - learning Materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

Paper 1

1. Number system -Natural numbers, whole numbers, Integers, Rational numbers, Irrational numbers, Real numbers.Playing with numbers

2. Fractions and decimals -Types, Basic operations, conversion and applications in daily life.

3. Square and square roots, cube and cube roots.

4. Data handling -Types of data, Measures of central tendency, pictorial representation.

5. Ratio and proportion-Ratio, proportions, types, direct proportion, inverse proportions, applications in daily life situations.

6. Comparing quantities- percentage, profit and loss, discount, simple interest, compound interest, Sales tax, VAT, GST, mathematics in daily life

7. Algebra - Basics of algebra, Algebraic expressions, operations on algebraic expressions, identities.

8. Equations - Types of equations, Linear equation in one variable and two variables, pair of linear equations in two variables, applications in daily life situations, graphs.

9. Exponents and powers.

10.Factors and factorizations - Factors, factorisation, H.C.F and L.C.м,

11.Polynomials- types of polynomials, value of a polynomial, zeros of polynomials,

factors theorem, remainder theorem.

12.Introduction to Euclid's Geometry.

13. Lines and angles.

14.Triangles-concept, types of triangles, properties of triangles, congruency of triangles, theorems on triangles, Exterior angle theorem, Angle sum properties.

15. Quadrilaterals-Concept, types of quadrilaterals and their properties, area and

perimeter, theorems related to Quadrilateral and its types.

16.Circles - Basic concepts on circles, theorems on circles, area and perimeter of circles, angles in circles, cyclic quadrilaterals.

17.Constructions - Construction of angles, Triangles, Circles, Quadrilaterals and its types.

18. Visualising solid shapes.

19.Mensuration - Area and perimeter of 2 dimensional plane figures, surface area and volumes of 3 dimensional solids- Cube,cuboid, cylinder, Cone, frustum of a cone,

sphere, Hemisphere, combination of solids, conversion of solids.

20. Probability.

Paper 2

1. Number system -Natural numbers, whole numbers, Integers, Rational numbers, Irrational numbers, Real numbers. Euclid's division lemma, Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, prime factorisation, HCF and LCM.

2. Fractions and decimals - Types of fractions, Basic operations, conversions and applications in daily life.

3. Square and square roots, cube and cube roots.

4. Data handling - Types of data, Measures of central tendency, pictoral representation.

5. Ratio and proportion-Ratio, proportions, types, direct proportion, inverse proportions, application examples in daily life situations.

6. Comparing quantities- percentage, profit and loss, discount, simple interest, compound interest, Sales tax, VAT, GST, mathematics in daily life

7. Arithmetic progression.

8. Algebra - Basics of algebra, operations on Algebraic expressions and identities.

9. Equations - Types, Linear equation in one variable and two variables, pair of linear equations in two variables, Quadratic equations.

10.Exponents and powers.

11.Factors and factorizations - Factors, factorisation, H.C.F and L.C.M

12.Polynomials- types of polynomials, the value of a polynomial, zeros of polynomials, factorization of polynomials, division of polynomials, factors theorem, remainder theorem,

HCF and LCM., division of polynomials.

13.Trigonometry and applications of trigonometry

14.Introduction to Euclid's Geometry.

15. Lines and angles.

16.Coordinate geometry.

17.Triangles- types of triangles, properties of triangles, congruence of triangles, similarity of triangles, area of triangles, theorems on triangle, Exterior angle theorem, Angle sum properties, Heron's formula.

18.Constructions - Construction of angles, Triangles, Circles, Quadrilaterals and its types, division of line segment, construction of similar triangles.

19.Quadrilaterals- Types of quadrilaterals and their properties, area and perimeter, theorems related to Quadrilateral and its types.

20. Circles - Basic concepts on circles, theorems on circles, area and perimeter of circles, angles in circles, areas related to circles, cyclic quadrilaterals.

21. Visualising solid shapes.

22.Mensuration - Area and perimeter of 2 dimensional plane figures, surface area and volumes of 3 dimensional solids- Cube,cuboid, cylinder, Cone, frustum of a cone, sphere, Hemisphere, combination of solids, conversion of solids.

23.Statistics and Probability.