REET Level 2 case studies
REET Level 2 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
REET Level 2, formally the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (Upper Primary), is the state eligibility test for candidates who want to teach Classes VI to VIII in Rajasthan government schools. It is a qualifying examination: clearing it makes you eligible to take part in teacher recruitment, but it does not itself give you a posting. The REET Level 2 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,455 words.
1The Disruptive Student Who Reads the Room
In a government upper primary school, a Class 7 section has 44 students. Ravi, aged 12, scored 18/50 on the last written science test while answering the same questions orally with about 80% accuracy during discussion.
734 words, about 4 min2Matra and Cluster Errors in Hindi Dictation
In a Class 6 Hindi classroom in western Rajasthan, 36 students whose home language is Marwari take a weekly dictation of 20 words. The most recent results show 19 students made at least three matra errors, 11 also omitted or misordered consonant clusters, and only 6 spelled all 20 words accurately.
651 words, about 3 min3Literal Reading High, Inferential Reading Low
In a Class 8 English classroom of 40 students, the teacher uses a 120-word passage about a village boy who walks four kilometres to a library and hides his books under his shirt when it rains. An eight-item multiple-choice quiz has five literal items and three inferential items.
703 words, about 4 min4Decimal Multiplication: The Rule That Makes Numbers Bigger
In a Class 6 mathematics class of 42 students, the teacher tests decimal multiplication after a unit on whole-number multiplication and place value. On the item 0.5 × 0.2, 31 students answer 1.0, 7 answer 0.7, and 4 answer 0.10.
691 words, about 3 min5Two Accounts of a Village Well
In a Class 8 social science class of 36 students, the teacher presents two short sources about a well built in a village in the 1890s. Source A is an excerpt from a colonial district officer's report: it states that the officer 'caused a well to be sunk for the improvement of sanitation.' Source B is a transcribed oral history from a local family: it says a merchant's widow funded the well after a famine, and that the officer's name was added later.
676 words, about 3 min