Meghalaya TET case studies

Meghalaya TET · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The Meghalaya Teacher Eligibility Test (MTET) is the state-level eligibility examination for candidates who want to teach in Meghalaya schools. The Department of Education, Government of Meghalaya hosts the MTET application link and the MTET notices, handbook and guidebooks on its official portal, and the Directorate of Educational Research and Training (DERT) is the directorate listed for teacher training and MTET. The Meghalaya TET case studies are 5 cases and about 3,643 words.

Reading difficulty or language difference? A Class V placement decision

In a government lower primary school in West Khasi Hills, Class V has 41 children, and six of them speak Garo at home while all written work is in English. Ten-year-old Rikrak reads a 60-word passage haltingly, substitutes similar-looking words, avoids oral reading, and misspells common words, but retells the same story accurately and with detail when the teacher tells it in Garo.

745 words, about 4 min 2

Accurate reading, empty answers: comprehension in a Class VI Language I lesson

English is the Language I subject in a Class VI classroom of 36 students in a semi-urban school near Nongstoin. The teacher has five 45-minute periods a week and eight lessons left before the terminal examination in six weeks.

735 words, about 4 min 3

The two-digit multiplication error that is not carelessness

At the end of a Class IV unit on multiplication, 33 students in a rural school sat a ten-item test. For the item 23 × 14, 19 students wrote 92, seven wrote 2,312, four wrote 322, and three left it blank.

704 words, about 4 min 4

A drying spring and a textbook list of water sources

In a Class IV EVS class of 29 children in a South Garo Hills village, the chapter 'Sources of Water' lists rivers, lakes, ponds, wells, and rain. Most children fetch drinking water from a hill spring that dried two months early this year; a nearby stream is used for washing clothes and utensils.

722 words, about 4 min 5

Two accounts of the same uprising: textbook and community booklet

In a Class VII Social Studies class of 38 students in Shillong, the textbook describes a nineteenth-century uprising in two paragraphs and calls a local chief a rebel leader. A community-published booklet, written by a retired teacher and available in the school library, describes the same events, names the chief as a protector of his people, and gives different casualty figures.

737 words, about 4 min