CG TET Paper 1 study materials
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CG TET Paper 1 study plan

CG TET Paper 1 · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Child Development and Pedagogy

  • Diagram the sequence of physical, cognitive, social and emotional development from birth to eleven years on a single annotated timeline.

  • Compare Piaget's four stages with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and scaffolding in a two-column table, adding one Indian primary-classroom example to each row.

  • Explain Kohlberg's three levels of moral reasoning and write one child response for each level.

  • Solve 40 multiple-choice questions on development and learning, and log the reason for every wrong answer in an error notebook.

Your checkpoint

A four-page handwritten concept map of development theories plus a 40-question error log showing at least 65% accuracy.

Week 2

Child Development and Pedagogy & Mathematics

  • Distinguish maturation from learning, and classical from operant conditioning, using two classroom examples for each pair.

  • Summarise inclusive education, the three common specific learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia) and the RTE 2009 provisions that Paper 1 tests.

  • Write ten short-answer pedagogy questions in exam format under a 60-minute timer.

  • Convert 30 fractions, decimals and percentages mentally, then verify each with written work.

Your checkpoint

A 25-question Child Development and Pedagogy sectional test scored at 70% or above, plus a one-page glossary of 20 pedagogy terms in your own words.

Week 3

Mathematics

  • Solve 50 number-system items covering place value, LCM and HCF, divisibility and simplification word problems.

  • Derive the formulas for perimeter, area and volume of standard shapes once from a labelled diagram, then apply them to 25 mixed problems.

  • Complete 15 pattern and series items by stating the rule before the answer.

  • Analyse ten deliberately incorrect worked solutions and name the misconception behind each.

Your checkpoint

A timed 40-question Mathematics test completed in 60 minutes at 60% or above, with a named-misconception list of at least eight recurring errors.

Week 4

Mathematics & Language I

  • Solve 30 measurement, time, money and data-handling items, including reading a table, a pictograph and a bar graph.

  • Outline the pedagogy of primary mathematics: concrete to pictorial to abstract sequencing, van Hiele levels of shape reasoning, and a three-step method for diagnosing a child's error.

  • Read two Hindi passages with unfamiliar vocabulary and answer eight comprehension questions per passage without a dictionary.

  • List 20 Hindi grammatical terms (sandhi, samas, upsarg, pratyay, ling, vachan, kaal) with one correct example each.

Your checkpoint

One combined sectional mock of 60 questions (30 Child Development and Pedagogy, 30 Mathematics) in 90 minutes at 60% or above, with the five weakest sub-topics written down.

Week 5

Language I

  • Classify and produce ten examples each of sandhi, samas, upsarg and pratyay, writing the rule beside every example.

  • Identify alankar and ras in 20 short verse or prose lines, naming the identifying clue for each.

  • Explain 30 muhavare and lokoktiyan and use each in an original sentence.

  • Draft exam-format answers on language pedagogy: listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, mother tongue versus second language, and how to evaluate language learning.

Your checkpoint

A 30-question Hindi sectional test at 65% or above plus a grammar notebook containing 60 verified items with rules.

Week 6

Language II & Language I

  • Correct 20 vakya-shuddhi and cloze items and record the grammatical rule violated in each.

  • Build a 40-item English grammar checklist covering tense, articles, prepositions, subject-verb agreement and reported speech, with one self-written example per item.

  • Answer inference and vocabulary-in-context questions from two English passages of about 250 words each.

  • Compare Language I and Language II pedagogy notes side by side so shared principles are memorised once, not twice.

Your checkpoint

Two 20-question mini-tests, one Hindi and one English, both scored at 65% or above, with corrected scripts kept for revision.

Week 7

Environmental Studies & Language II

  • Complete English pedagogy: communicative approach, total physical response, phonics versus whole-word reading, and types of oral and written error correction.

  • Sort the entire EVS syllabus into six themes: family and friends, food, water, travel, shelter, and things we make and do.

  • Explain 30 core EVS facts with a local Chhattisgarh example where possible (sources of water, food groups, life cycles of frog and butterfly, types of houses, means of transport).

  • Solve 30 EVS multiple-choice questions and re-read the explanations for every wrong option.

Your checkpoint

A one-page theme map of EVS plus a 40-question combined English and EVS sectional test at 65% or above.

Week 8

Environmental Studies & Child Development and Pedagogy & Language I & Language II & Mathematics

  • Revise the six EVS themes and EVS pedagogy (observation, experimentation, discussion, use of the local environment) using 60 flashcards.

  • Re-attempt every question previously marked wrong in all five error logs until each is answered correctly twice.

  • Take two full-length mocks of 150 questions in 150 minutes under exam conditions.

  • Write one page of final-revision notes per domain containing only facts you have got wrong at least once.

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length mocks at 70% or above in each domain, plus a five-page final cheat sheet dated for the last 48 hours before the exam.

Milestones

Week 2: Child Development and Pedagogy sectional test at 70% or above; error log shows every wrong answer with a written reason, and no repeated error of the same type.

Week 4: Combined Child Development and Pedagogy plus Mathematics mock at 60% or above in 90 minutes, with a written list of the five weakest sub-topics and a fix plan for each.

Week 6: Both language mini-tests at 65% or above; Hindi grammar notebook has 60 items and English checklist has 40 items, each with a self-written example.

Week 8: Two full-length mocks at 70% or above overall, no domain below 60%, and every item from the five error logs answered correctly on a clean re-attempt.