JTET Paper 1 study plan

List the major characteristics of development in the 6–11 year age group and write two classroom implications for each characteristic.

Explain Piaget's four stages of cognitive development and match one concrete primary-classroom activity to each stage.

Compare Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and scaffolding with Piaget's stage theory in a written 10-point table.

Describe Kohlberg's three levels of moral reasoning and frame one moral dilemma that can be discussed with primary learners.

Distinguish behaviourist, cognitivist and constructivist views of learning and give one classroom example of each.

Classify the intelligence theories of Gardner, Guilford and Sternberg and state one teaching implication per theory.

Solve 60 problems on place value, the four basic operations and LCM/HCF, showing full working steps.

Explain intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and write three strategies for raising motivation in a primary classroom.

Convert 40 values among fractions, decimals and percentages without a calculator.

Solve 25 word problems on ratio, proportion and the unitary method.

Compute perimeter and area of rectangles, squares and triangles, and convert units of length, mass, capacity, time and money.

Diagnose three typical primary-level computational errors and write the exact remediation step for each.

Describe the nature of mathematics and its language of symbols and reasoning, using primary-level examples.

Identify the steps of problem solving and design one five-step activity that teaches a mathematics concept through a game or manipulative.

Read pictographs and bar graphs, then draw two graphs from data collected in class.

Summarise the EVS themes 'family and relationships' and 'plants and animals' with ten factual points each.

Outline the six EVS themes (family and friends, food, water, shelter, travel, things we make and do) and list eight key facts under each.

Explain plant–animal interdependence, food chains, and classify animals by habitat and feeding habit.

Trace the water cycle and describe sources, purification and conservation of water at primary level.

Collect regional examples of food, festivals, crafts and transport that can be used as EVS teaching material.

Answer 30 EVS pedagogy questions on the scope of EVS, its integration of science and social science, and theme-based teaching.

Design one EVS activity or field-trip plan with learning outcomes, materials required and three assessment questions.

Explain language acquisition versus language learning and the place of listening, speaking, reading and writing in primary teaching.

Solve three comprehension passages in your opted Language I within 25 minutes at 80% accuracy.

Apply the grammar rules of your opted Language I (for Hindi: sandhi, samas, muhavare, paryayvachi/vilom; equivalent items for other languages) to 40 practice items.

Solve two English reading comprehension sets covering factual, inferential and vocabulary items in 20 minutes each.

Apply English grammar rules - articles, tenses, prepositions, subject–verb agreement, voice and direct/indirect speech - to 50 items.

Explain the pedagogy of English at primary level: phonics versus whole-word approach, LSRW activities, teaching aids and evaluation of language skills.

Revise Language I grammar and comprehension through 30 mixed items.

Take three full-length mock tests covering all five domains under actual exam timing and record section-wise accuracy.

Re-solve every item in the earlier error logs until at least 90% of them are answered correctly.

Recite the key frameworks from memory (Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, intelligence theories, CCE and RTE provisions) in a 15-minute self-explanation.

Fix an exam-day strategy: section order, minutes per section and a rule for when to guess.