APTET 2025 Exam Pattern - Check Marking Scheme, Total Marks, Chapter Wise Weightage, Duration

Child Development & Pedagogy

30

30

Language I

30

30

Language II (English)

30

30

Mathematics

30

30

Environmental Studies

30

30

Total

150 Questions

150 Marks (1 Mark Each)

Child Development & Pedagogy

30

30

Language I

30

30

Language II (English)

30

30

Mathematics & Science and Social Studies

60

60

Total

150 Questions

150 Marks (1 Mark Each)

Physical Education Pedagogy

30

30

Language I

10

10

Language II (English)

10

10

Physical Education (Content)

100

100

Total

150 Questions

150 Marks (1 Mark Each)

Incentive Marks for Meritorious Candidates

-

30

Child Development and Pedagogy

(30 MCQs)

•Development, Growth & Maturation — Concept & Nature, Differences between Growth and Development

• Principles of the development of children.

• Factors influencing development — Intelligence, aptitude, interest, attitude, creativity, thinking & Reasoning.

• Understanding learning — Concept, Definitions, Characteristics of Learning & Types of Learning

• Pedagogical concerns — Concept, Defenition and characteristics

• Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric

• Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner

• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence

• Learning resources — Self, Home, School, Community, Technology

• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice

• Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning

• School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice

• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

Language - 1 (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/kannada/Tamil/Odiya)

(30 MCQs)

• Verses and poems

• Telugu dialect and its Features

• Vocabulary — Meaning, Synonyms, Antonyms, Proverbs

• Sandhus — Atva, itva, utva, yadagama sandhus

• Samas and homonyms

• Avbodh — pathith, pathith , padya and gadhya

• Poems and Poets; Books and authors

• Hindi Alphabet system — Consonents and vowels

• Vocabulary — Meaning, Synonyms, Antonyms, Proverbs

• Hindi nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverb, part of speech

• Methodology including language, sense, hindi grammar

• Unitary Hindi

Language  -  2 (English)

(30 MCQs)

• Vocabulary —  Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms and phrarses, one word substitution

• Grammar — Sentence structure, degree of comparison, articles, preposition, clauses, orinary verbs, auxillary verbs, question tags, direct indirect speech, active and passive voice, 

• Mechanism of writting — Punctuation and capitalisation

• Discourses 

• Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem 

• nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverb, part of speech

• Methodology including language, sense, english grammar

• Unitary english

Mathematics

(30 MCQs)

• Numbers —  four fundamental operations ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), Prime and composite numbers, Factors, LCM & HCF, Methods of prime factorization, Coprimes,  twin primes, LCM-HCF, negative numbers,  integers, Fractions, Decimals,  Rational Numbers, Squares, Cubes, Square Roots and Cube roots, Profit and Loss .

• Mensuration — Area of square, rectangle, circle, triangle; The perimeter for square and rectangle through pattern; Area and volume of cylinder, cone, sphere, Frustum problems, cubes and cuboids

• Geometry — 2D figures including Triangle, Square and Rectangle; Introduction of Perimeter and Area of given shapes Geometrical patterns; Circles — center, diameter and radius; Primary Geometry concepts (Point, straight line, line segments, ray), Area and Perimeter, Lines and Angles; Triangle and its properties; Congruency of Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Practical Geometry; Construction of Traingles; Construction of Quadrilaterals; Exploring Geometrical Figures

• Data Handling — Data Interpretation, Graphical interpreatation of data, Bar graph, Histogram, frequency polygon, Pie chart; Tallymarks 

• Algebra — Linear equations, Graphical representation of equations, Expressions with variables & Rules, Algebric expressions, - Exponents & Powers, Factorization; Unitary Method, arithmatic 

Environmental studies

(30 MCQs)

• Living World —  Living and Non Living Organisms, Classification of plants, Plants and Animals, - Agricultural operation, Preservation and protection of food and plant products, Hybridization

• Climate change, deforestation, Weather, Climate, Soil, disaster management, pollution and causes

• Air — importance, atmospheric pressure, air pollution, Green House effect

• Water — Rivers, lakes, canals in A.P and India, Water conservation programmes, Rain water harvesting, drought and floods

• Life processes — Human Body, Sense organs, organ systems, Movement and Locomotion, Cell, Nutrition, excretion-respiration processes in plants, reproduction, Balanced diet, Good Touch and Bad Touch

• Natural Phenomena — classification of materials, Magnets, Standard units of measurement, Fabrics,  Acids and bases, Energy, Electricity, Sound, light, force and other physical phenomenons

• Transportation and Communication — Advantages and disadvantages, communication system, tourism

• Professions and Services — Different professions, helping agents

• Our Environment — trees, endangered, endemic species, Tribal life, Global warming, Acid rains, Our constitution, Child rights

• Our Universe, Production Exchange and Livelihoods, Political Systems and Governance, Social Organisation and Inequities, Religion and Society, Culture and Communication

Child Development and Pedagogy

(30 MCQs)

•Development, Growth & Maturation — Concept & Nature, Differences between Growth and Development

• Principles of the development of children.

• Factors influencing development — Intelligence, aptitude, interest, attitude, creativity, thinking & Reasoning.

• Understanding learning — Concept, Definitions, Characteristics of Learning & Types of Learning

• Pedagogical concerns — Concept, Defenition and characteristics

• Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric

• Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner

• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence

• Learning resources — Self, Home, School, Community, Technology

• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice

• Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning

• School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice

• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

Language - 1 (Tel/Urdu/Hindi/kannada/Tamil/Odiya/Sanskrit)

(30 MCQs)

• Verses and poems

• Telugu dialect and its Features

• Vocabulary — Meaning, Synonyms, Antonyms, Proverbs

• Sandhus — Atva, itva, utva, yadagama sandhus

• Samas and homonyms

• Avbodh — pathith, pathith , padya and gadhya

• Poems and Poets; Books and authors

• Hindi Alphabet system — Consonents and vowels

• Vocabulary — Meaning, Synonyms, Antonyms, Proverbs

• Hindi nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverb, part of speech

• Methodology including language, sense, hindi grammar

• Unitary Hindi

Language  -  2 (English)

(30 MCQs)

• Vocabulary —  Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms and phrarses, one word substitution

• Grammar — Sentence structure, degree of comparison, articles, preposition, clauses, orinary verbs, auxillary verbs, question tags, direct indirect speech, active and passive voice, 

• Mechanism of writting — Punctuation and capitalisation

• Discourses 

• Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem 

• nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverb, part of speech

• Methodology including language, sense, english grammar

• Unitary english

Mathematics and science/ Environmental studies

(60 MCQs)

Mathematics

• Arithmetic —  Rato, Proportion, Applications of ratio and proportion, Profit and Loss

• Number System —  four fundamental operations ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), Prime and composite numbers, Real numbers, Euclid's division lemma, Sets & its representation, Factors, LCM & HCF, Methods of prime factorization, Coprimes,  twin primes, LCM-HCF, negative numbers,  integers, Fractions, Decimals,  Rational Numbers, Squares, Cubes, Square Roots and Cube roots, .

• Mensuration — Area of square, rectangle, circle, triangle; The perimeter for square and rectangle through pattern; Area and volume of cylinder, cone, sphere, Frustum problems, cubes and cuboids

• Geometry — 2D figures including Triangle, Square and Rectangle; Introduction of Perimeter and Area of given shapes Geometrical patterns; Circles — center, diameter and radius; Primary Geometry concepts (Point, straight line, line segments, ray), Area and Perimeter, Lines and Angles; Triangle and its properties; Congruency of Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Practical Geometry; Construction of Traingles; Construction of Quadrilaterals; Exploring Geometrical Figures

• Probability — Distribution, uses of probability in real life

• Coordinate Geometry — Distance and section formula, Cartesian system, centroid of a triangle

• Trigonometry — Trigonometric ratios, Trigonometric identities, Heights and distances

• Statistics — Mean, median, mode, Central Tendency, Data Interpretation, Graphical interpreatation of data, Bar graph, Histogram, frequency polygon, Pie chart; Tallymarks 

• Algebra — Linear equations, Graphical representation of equations, Expressions with variables & Rules, Algebric expressions, - Exponents & Powers, Factorization; Unitary Method, arithmatic 

Environmental Studies

• Living World —  Living and Non Living Organisms, Classification of plants, Plants and Animals, - Agricultural operation, Preservation and protection of food and plant products, Hybridization

• Climate change, deforestation, Weather, Climate, Soil, disaster management, pollution and causes

• Air — importance, atmospheric pressure, air pollution, Green House effect

• Water — Rivers, lakes, canals in A.P and India, Water conservation programmes, Rain water harvesting, drought and floods

• Life processes — Human Body, Sense organs, organ systems, Movement and Locomotion, Cell, Nutrition, excretion-respiration processes in plants, reproduction, Balanced diet, Good Touch and Bad Touch

• Natural Phenomena — classification of materials, Magnets, Standard units of measurement, Fabrics,  Acids and bases, Energy, Electricity, Sound, light, force and other physical phenomenons

• Transportation and Communication — Advantages and disadvantages, communication system, tourism

• Professions and Services — Different professions, helping agents

• Our Environment — trees, endangered, endemic species, Tribal life, Global warming, Acid rains, Our constitution, Child rights

• Our Universe, Production Exchange and Livelihoods, Political Systems and Governance, Social Organisation and Inequities, Religion and Society, Culture and Communication