• TEACHING APTITUDE
o Teaching: Nature, Objectives, Characteristics and basic requirements
o Learner’s characteristics;
o Factors affecting teaching; o Methods of teaching;
o Teaching aids;
o Evaluation
• RESEARCH APTITUDE:
o Research: Meaning, Characteristics and types;
o Steps of research;
o Methods of research;
o Research Ethics; o Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference and symposium; o Thesis writing: its characteristics
• COMPREHENSION
o A passage to be set with questions to.
• COMMUNICATION:
o Communication: Nature, characteristics, types, barriers and effective classroom.
• MATHEMATICAL REASONING AND APTITUDE
• Number series ;
letter series; codes;
• Relationships;
• LOGICAL REASONING
o Understanding the structure of arguments;
o Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning;
o Verbal analogies; word analogy-Applied analogy;
o Verbal classification;
o Reasoning Logical Diagrams: Simple diagrammatic relationship, Multi-diagrammatic relationship;
o Venn diagram; Analytical
• DATA INTERPRETATION
o Sources, acquisition and interpretation of data;
o Quantitative and qualitative data;
o Graphical representation and mapping of data
• INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
o ICT: meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses;
o General abbreviations and terminology; o Basics of internet and e-mailing.
• PEOPLE, DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT
• People and environment interaction;
• Sources of pollution;
• Pollutants and their impact on human life, exploitation of natural and energy resources;
• Natural hazards and mitigation.
• HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
• Structure of the Institutions for higher learning and research in India; formal and distance education; professional / technical and general education; value education; governance, polity and administration; concept, institutions and their interactions.