REET Level 1 case studies
REET Level 1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
REET Level 1 is the primary-stage eligibility test conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan (BSER), Ajmer. Clearing it makes a candidate eligible to be considered for teaching posts in Classes I–V in Rajasthan government schools. The REET Level 1 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,685 words.
1The common paper: Meera's low vision and two new Hindi-medium learners
At a government primary school, Class 4 has 41 children in a room with one tube-light and windows on only one side. Meera, aged 9, has low vision (corrected 6/60) and has been seated in the last row; she copies answers from a neighbour and has stopped starting the mathematics worksheet at all.
756 words, about 4 min2Class 3 Hindi: fluent choral readers who cannot say why the bird was sad
Class 3 Hindi (first language) has 36 children. Following the textbook, the teacher reads the lesson aloud, the class repeats it in chorus, and children then copy the exercise.
724 words, about 4 min3Class 5 English: the class that says 'Yes' to everything
Class 5 English (second language) in a rural school has 34 children and four 40-minute periods a week. The children can recite the alphabet, sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle', and read aloud 'The cat sat on the mat' with accurate pronunciation.
754 words, about 4 min4Class 5 fractions: why 1/3 beats 1/2 and 2/3 + 1/4 makes 3/7
Class 5 mathematics, 40 children. After a fractions unit the teacher marks 40 scripts.
712 words, about 4 min5The handpump that runs dry: EVS field work against a textbook and two objecting parents
Class 4 EVS, 38 children, in a village where the main drinking-water source is a handpump that yields water for about 40 minutes each morning. The textbook chapter explains that water comes from rain, rivers and 'under the ground', and calls water a renewable resource.
739 words, about 4 min