The West Bengal Board of Primary Education has finally declared the exam date of WB TET. The exam is supposed to take place on 11th December, 2022. The syllabus, pattern of exam and distribution of marks is uploaded on the official website of WBBP. You can go there and check the exam pattern and syllabus for WBTET paper 1 and paper 2 separately. It is very important that you check both the paper syllabus. WBBP organizes two exams that is paper 1 and paper 2 and both have different syllabus and marks distribution. Before, filling out the form, confirm the paper type and then decide.
Important Details
- WB TET is the name of the exam and West Bengal Board of Primary Education is the one who conducts the exam.
- There will be two papers of WBTET conducted by WBBP. Paper 1 is for those who wants to apply for classes 1 to 5 and paper 2 is for those who wants to apply for classes 6 to 8.
- The first paper will consist of 5 subjects: -Child Development and Pedagogy – English – Bengali -Mathematics And – EVS
- The second paper which is for classes 6 to 8 will too have 5 subjects: -Child Development and Pedagogy – English – Bengali -Mathematics And – Social science or Science
- There will be no negative marking scheme in the paper (an official notification from WBTET said), total marks will be 150 and each question will carry one mark and will be in MCQ format.
How To Apply For WB TET 2022 Exam?
- Go to the official website of West Bengal Board of Primary Education.
- Once you are on the website, click on the notification of WBTET online application in order to fill the form.
- Once you have filled the form with your personal and professional details, click on submit and do the corrections if there are any.
- Download your admit card.
- Appear on the exam on the mentioned date and the center assigned to you.
WBTET 2022 APPLICATION FORM, FILL DIRECTLY: CLICK HERE
WB TET 2022 Highlights
| Exam Name | West Bengal Teachers Eligibility Test (WBTET) |
| Exam Mode | Offline |
| Conducting Body | West Bengal Board of Primary Education |
| Application Mode | Online |
| Exam Level | State Level |
| Number Of Papers | Paper I And Paper II |
| Paper I | Classes 1 to 5 |
| Paper II | Classes 6 to 8 |
WB TET 2022 Important Dates
| WB TET Form Release Date | 14th October 2022 |
| WB TET Form End Date | 3rd November 2022 |
| Registration Fees Last date to Submit | To Be Announced |
| Complete registration last date | To Be Announced |
| WB TET 2022 Exam Date | 11th December 2022 |
| WB TET Result 2022 | Click For Details |
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WBTET 2022 Exam Pattern Paper I
| PAPER I (For Class 1-5) | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Pedagogy and Child Development | 30 MCQ | 30 |
| Critical English | 30 MCQ | 30 |
| Bengali English | 30 MCQ | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 MCQ | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 MCQ | 30 |
| TOTAL | 150 | 150 |
WBTET 2022 Exam Pattern Paper II
| PAPER II (For Class 6-8) | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language-I: English | 30 | 30 |
| Language-II: Bengali | 30 | 30 |
| (A)For Mathematics and Science Teachers: Mathematics and Science (B) For Social Studies Teachers: Social Studies | 60 | 60 |
| TOTAL | 150 | 150 |
WBTET 2022 Syllabus Paper I
As mentioned PAPER 1 will consist of 5 subjects that is Child development and Pedagogy, Mathematics, EVS, Language one and language 2. Below is the detailed syllabus of Paper 1
| SUBJECT | SYLLABUS |
|---|---|
| PART 1- Pedagogy And Child Development | 1.1 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING – Development: Concept and its relationship with learning. – Development of children: principles – Influence on Heredity & Environment – Process of socialization: Children and social world – Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives – Progressive education and child centered concepts – Multi-Dimensional Intelligence – Thought and language – Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice – Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc – The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice – Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement. |
| 1.2 CONCEPTS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS – Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN). – Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived. – Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc. – Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners. | |
| 1.3 PEDAGOGY AND LEARNING – Alternative concepts of learning in children – Cognition and emotions – Motivation and learning – Classroom management – Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child. Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types. – How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance. – Basic processes of teaching and learning; – Children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning. – Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’ – Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process. – Cognition & Emotions. – Motivation and learning. – Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental. | |
| PART 2- Critical English: LANGUAGE 1 | 2.1 LANGAUGE COMPREHENSION – Determiners – Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with – questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary. – Subject-verb – Interrogatives – Concord – Framing Yes/No & ‘WH’ questions – Prepositions – Question tags – Tense and time – Gerunds & Participle – Phrasal verbs – Auxiliary verbs |
| 2.2 PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT – Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division. – Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching-learning materials. – Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN). – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing). – Learning and acquisition. – Remedial teaching. – Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool. – Principles of language Teaching – Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form. – Language Skills. – Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom. – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing. | |
| PART 3- BENGALI: LANGUAGE 2 | 3.1 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability. – Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division. – Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching-learning materials. – Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN). – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) – Remedial teaching. – Learning and acquisition. – Principles of language Teaching – Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form – Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool – Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders – Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom – Language Skills |
| PART 4- MATHEMATICS | 4.1 MAIN CONTENT – Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical problems. – Geometry – Arithmetic – Fractions – Numbers – Time – Weight – Data Handling – Money – Patterns 4.2 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS – Mathematics Language – Mathematics Community – Mathematics Nature – Instructional material in mathematics – Methods of teaching mathematics – Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics – Diagnostic and remedial teaching – Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching |
| PART 5- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | 5.1 KNOWLEDGE OF EVS – Environmental Studies: Concept and scope – Environmental Studies: Significance – Environmental Studies: Integrated Approach – Environmental Studies: Scope and relationship with science and social science – Environmental studies and environmental education – Approaches of presenting concepts – Activities, discussion and learning principles – Health and Hygiene – Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways – Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters – Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, impact of water pollution on environment, flood and drought – Different types of soil, soil erosion, impact of soil pollution and its prevention – Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on environment, greenhouse effect and global warming 5.2 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES – Pedagogical Issues – Concept and scope of EVS. – Significance of EVS, integrated EVS. – Environmental Studies & Environmental Education. – Learning Principles. – Scope & relation to Science & Social Science. – Approaches of presenting concepts. – Activities. |
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WBTET 2022 Syllabus Paper 2
As mentioned PAPER 2 will consist of 5 subjects that is Child development and Pedagogy, Mathematics, an option between science and social science, Language one and language 2. Below is the detailed syllabus of Paper 1
| SUBJECT | SYLLABUS |
|---|---|
| PART 1- Pedagogy And Child Development | 1.1 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING – Development: Concept and its relationship with learning. – Development of children: principles – Influence on Heredity & Environment – Process of socialization: Children and social world – Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives – Progressive education and child centered concepts – Multi-Dimensional Intelligence – Thought and language – Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice – Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc – The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice – Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement. |
| 1.2 CONCEPTS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS – Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN). – Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived. – Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc. – Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners. | |
| 1.3 PEDAGOGY AND LEARNING – Alternative concepts of learning in children – Cognition and emotions – Motivation and learning – Classroom management – Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child. Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types. – How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance. – Basic processes of teaching and learning; – Children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning. – Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’ – Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process. – Cognition & Emotions. – Motivation and learning. – Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental. | |
| PART 2- Critical English: LANGUAGE 1 | 2.1 LANGAUGE COMPREHENSION – Determiners – Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with – questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary. – Subject-verb – Interrogatives – Concord – Framing Yes/No & ‘WH’ questions – Prepositions – Question tags – Tense and time – Gerunds & Participle – Phrasal verbs – Auxiliary verbs |
| 2.2 PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT – Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division. – Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching-learning materials. – Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN). – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing). – Learning and acquisition. – Remedial teaching. – Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool. – Principles of language Teaching – Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form. – Language Skills. – Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom. – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing. | |
| PART 3- BENGALI: LANGUAGE 2 | 3.1 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability. – Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division. – Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders. – Teaching-learning materials. – Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN). – Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) – Remedial teaching. – Learning and acquisition. – Principles of language Teaching – Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form – Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool – Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders – Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom – Language Skills |
| PART 4- MATHEMATICS | 4.1 MAIN CONTENT – Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical problems. – Geometry – Arithmetic – Fractions – Numbers – Time – Weight – Data Handling – Money – Patterns 4.2 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS – Mathematics Language – Mathematics Community – Mathematics Nature – Instructional material in mathematics – Methods of teaching mathematics – Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics – Diagnostic and remedial teaching – Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching |
| PART 5- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | 5.1 KNOWLEDGE OF EVS – Environmental Studies: Concept and scope – Environmental Studies: Significance – Environmental Studies: Integrated Approach – Environmental Studies: Scope and relationship with science and social science – Environmental studies and environmental education – Approaches of presenting concepts – Activities, discussion and learning principles – Health and Hygiene – Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways – Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters – Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, impact of water pollution on environment, flood and drought – Different types of soil, soil erosion, impact of soil pollution and its prevention – Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on environment, greenhouse effect and global warming 5.2 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES – Pedagogical Issues – Concept and scope of EVS. – Significance of EVS, integrated EVS. – Environmental Studies & Environmental Education. – Learning Principles. – Scope & relation to Science & Social Science. – Approaches of presenting concepts. – Activities. |
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WB TET 2022: Selection Process
WB TET selection is done in three phases:
(A) PHASE 1: WRITTEN TEST- The first phase will be the written test. Candidates will have to appear for the written test which will be of 150 marks. Each will be of one marks with no negative marking. Candidates will get 3 hours in order to complete the exam. Once exams are over, education qualification, written test, and professional work will be taken into consideration while curating a grade.
(B) PHASE 2: VIVA AND DOCUMENT VERIFICATION: Those candidates who clear the written test will be moved for the second stage which will be interview, VIVA and document verification. An interview will be scheduled and then the documents you submitted will be verified. This will happen offline too.
(C) PHASE 3: MERIT LIST: The final and the last stage of the selection process will be the merit list. Candidates who have cleared the written test and have also passed the VIVA with their documents verified will get their name on the list. This will be the final list of selected candidates, They will be called for the job offer.
WB TET 2022 Important Books
| SUBJECT NAME | BOOK TO DISCOVER | NAME OF AUTHOR |
|---|---|---|
| English | A Text Book Of Higher English Grammar And Composition | P.K. De Sarkar |
| English | A Treasure Trove For English Learners | D.P. Bhattacharya |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | Child Development and Pedagogy for Paper I and Paper II | Shyam Anand |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | CTET Child Development and Pedagogy for Paper I and Paper II | Pearson |
| Bengali | Oxizone Books New Primary TET Practice Plus in Bengali – 2nd Edition | Editorial Team |
| Social Studies | West Bengal TET (VI-VIII) Social Study | Sumona Chakravarty |
| Environmental Studies | TET Environmental Studies | Arihant |
| Mathematics | Mathematics For TET | Pearson |
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WB TET 2022 Syllabus: FAQ’S
1. What is the exam mode of WB Primary TET 2022 exam?
WB TET 2022 application form will be available online and the exam will be conducted offline.
2. Which book is best for WB TET exam?
We have mentioned the list of books you should consider for studying for WB TET exams.
3. When TET exam will be held in 2022 in West Bengal?
WB TET exam is all set to take place on 11th of December, 2022.
4. What is the salary of WB primary teacher?
For a graduate school teacher, INR 33,400 is the salary per month. And for a primary school teacher INR 28,900 will be the basic pay.
5. Is CTET valid in West Bengal?
Yes, the certificate of CTET is valid in West Bengal.
6. What is the age limit for TET exam in West Bengal?
Candidates above 18 years of age are eligible to fill out the application form of WB TET, and there is no maximum age limit to apply for the same.
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