CG TET Paper 1 case studies
CG TET Paper 1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
CG TET Paper I is the primary-level paper of the Chhattisgarh Teacher Eligibility Test, the state eligibility examination for people who want to teach Classes I to V in Chhattisgarh schools, including government primary schools and many private unaided schools that require a TET-qualified teacher. It is run by the Chhattisgarh Professional Examination Board (CG Vyapam) on behalf of the state education department, and it is a eligibility test only: clearing it puts you in the candidate pool but does not by itself give you a posting, which comes through separate recruitment. The CG TET Paper 1 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,802 words.
1Over-age, retained twice, and faster at money than at the test
Ganesh is 9 years 4 months old and still sits in Class 2 of a government primary school in a forest-fringe village of Bastar. He has already been retained twice - once in Class 1 and once in Class 2 - and the head teacher now proposes holding him back a third time.
776 words, about 4 min2Chorus reading in Class 3 hides a decoding problem
In a Class 3 Hindi classroom of 32 children in a semi-urban school near Raipur, the weekly routine is fixed: the teacher reads the lesson aloud twice, the children repeat it in chorus, then copy each 'कठिन शब्द' five times. A running record taken last month showed 5 children reading the Class 3 text fluently, 14 reading 15–20 correct words per minute from the Class 2 text, and 9 who recognised only familiar sight words such as 'घर', 'पानी' and 'माँ'.
705 words, about 4 min3Forty minutes of translation four times a week
A Class 5 teacher in a government school in Durg district has 38 children, almost all first-generation learners whose homes have no English. English is timetabled for 40 minutes, four days a week.
735 words, about 4 min4Fifty-two minus twenty-seven is thirty-five
In a Class 4 mathematics class of 35 children, the teacher has just marked the subtraction unit. Nineteen children gave 52 − 27 = 35, and the same children gave 63 − 28 = 45 and 40 − 26 = 26.
851 words, about 4 min5The handpump that contradicts the textbook
A Class 5 teacher in a village in Surguja district has 40 children and is beginning the EVS theme on water. The textbook states that groundwater is clean and fit for drinking.
735 words, about 4 min