TS TET Paper 1 case studies

TS TET Paper 1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.

TS TET Paper 1 - the Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test, Paper I - is the eligibility test that candidates must clear to be considered for teaching posts in Classes I to V in Telangana schools. It is an objective, pen-and-paper test answered on an OMR sheet. The TS TET Paper 1 case studies are 5 cases and about 5,079 words.

Oral Strength, Empty Notebook: The Case of Sirisha, Class IV

Sirisha is 9 years 2 months old, in Class IV of a government primary school in Karimnagar district, in a class of 41. Her teacher's running record shows she reads a Class IV Telugu lesson at about 70 words per minute with 95% accuracy, and she answers oral EVS and Mathematics questions fully and correctly.

1,034 words, about 5 min 2

Dialect in the Reading Circle: What Counts as a Reading Error in Class III Telugu

Rao teaches Language I (Telugu) to Class III in a government school in Nalgonda district. Her 36 children mostly speak the district's local variety of Telugu at home, while the textbook is in standard Telugu.

1,041 words, about 5 min 3

Ninety-Six Percent Accurate and Still Not Reading: Class V English

Kumar teaches English (Language II) to Class V in a government school in Warangal: 38 children, one 40-minute period five days a week. He ran a running record on a 60-word Class V passage about Meena, who misses her bus.

959 words, about 5 min 4

The Answer Is Always Bigger: A Subtraction Bug in Class IV

In a Class IV mathematics class of 33 children in a government school in Khammam, the teacher gave a 12-item subtraction diagnostic. Lakshmi's paper shows: 68 – 42 = 26 (correct); 47 – 28 = 21; 84 – 57 = 33; 302 – 156 = 254; 500 – 78 = 578.

1,006 words, about 5 min 5

Cold Water, Clean Water: A Class V EVS Survey and a Parent's Objection

The EVS lesson in a Class V of 34 children in a village school in Medak district is 'Water'. The children's two-day survey shows: 6 children collect water from a piped standpipe, 19 from a handpump in the temple lane, 9 from an open well near the fields.

1,039 words, about 5 min