Teaching Aptitude

  1. Two narratives/newspaper reports

    • Reports about schools/teachers/children
    • Questions on data/information/analysis
    • Issues related to gender, school access, teacher’s work, scores
  2. Education-based Media

    • Popular films on education
    • Books and documentaries
    • Struggles of girls’, tribals’, and Dalits'
  3. Science

    • Based on observation of natural phenomena
    • Famous Indian Scientists and women scientists
    • Current information (COVID, technology, science programs)
  4. Mathematics

    • Sense of proportion and perspective
    • Famous mathematicians and women mathematicians
    • Difficulties children face while learning Mathematics
  5. Arts, Music and Drama

    • Academies of art teaching
    • Benefits of practicing art forms
    • Indian art and music traditions
  6. Social Sciences

    • Children’s difficulties in social sciences
    • Details of subjects being taught
    • Nobel and other award winners in economics/other fields
    • Historical teachers: Buddha, Jain, Upanishadic teachers
  7. Language and Literature

    • Famous stories, novels, poems from NCERT syllabus (6th-12th)
    • Biographies/autobiographies of famous women/tribals/Dalits
    • Children’s difficulties in learning poems or grammar