TS SET Paper 1 Subjects | Important Topics |
Teaching Aptitude | Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding, and Reflective), Characteristics, and basic requirements. |
Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional, and Cognitive), Individual differences. |
Factors affecting teaching related to Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment, and Institution. |
Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centered vs. Learner-centered methods; Off-line vs. Online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.). |
Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT based. |
Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of Evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher Education, Computer-based Testing, Innovations in evaluation systems |
Research Aptitude | Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post positivistic approach to research |
Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative, and Quantitative Methods. |
Steps of Research. |
Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing. |
Application of ICT in research. |
Research ethics |
Comprehension | A passage of text is given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered. |
Communication | Communication: Meaning, types, and characteristics of communication. |
Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication. |
Barriers to effective communication. |
Mass-Media and Society. |
Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude | Types of reasoning. |
Number series, Letter series, Codes, and Relationships. |
Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages, etc.). |
Logical Reasoning | Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, the structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations, and denotations of terms, and Classical square of opposition. |
Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning. |
Venn diagram: Simple and multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments. |
Indian Logic: Means of knowledge. |
Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication), and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension). |
Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference). |
Data Interpretation | Sources, acquisition, and classification of Data. |
Quantitative and Qualitative Data. |
Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart, and Line-chart) and mapping of Data. |
Data Interpretation. |
Data and Governance. |
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) | ICT: General abbreviations and terminology. |
Basics of the Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio, and Video-conferencing. |
Digital initiatives in higher education. |
ICT and Governance. |
People, Development and Environment | Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals. |
Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on the environment. |
Environmental issues: Local, Regional, and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions. |
Impacts of pollutants on human health. |
Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear, and Forests. |
Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies. |
Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance. |
Higher Education System | Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India. |
Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India. |
Oriental, Conventional, and Non-conventional learning programs in India. |
Professional, Technical, and Skill Based education. |
Value education and environmental education. |
Policies, Governance, and Administration |