OTET Syllabus 2025: BSE Odisha releases the OTET 2025 syllabus online. Candidates should cover the entire syllabus of OTET 2025 to qualify the Odisha Teachers eligibility test. Here, we have provided the OTET exam syllabus containing the important subjects and chapters. Candidates can also check out the Odisha TET syllabus at bseodisha.ac.in. OTET syllabus 2025 for Paper- 1 & 2 is made available in pdf format.
Board of Secondary Education conducts Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test every year to select eligible candidates for recruitment to the post of teachers in Class 1 to 8 in government schools of Odisha. OTET is conducted for two papers- Paper- 1 (for class 1 to 5) and Paper- 2 (for class 6 to 8). Aspirants can appear for both the papers, the questions likely to be asked multiple-choice questions. Read the article to get complete information about the Odisha TET syllabus 2025. Also Read- OTET Admit Card
OTET Syllabus 2025
Below we have provided the paper 1 and paper 2 syllabus of OTET 2025. Candidates should cover each and every topic of the OTET exam syllabus to score good marks in the exam.
Cognitive, physical, social, emotional and moral development of child
Understanding Learners and Learning Process
Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with special needs
Development of creative thinking
Approaches to teaching and learning
Assessment
Language
Odia/Hindi/Urdu/Telugu/Bengali
Group: A
Learning Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/Bengali at the elementary level
Teaching, Reading and Writing Skills
Group: B
Language items
Assessment of learning Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/ Bengali
Language Comprehension
Language (English)
Group: A
Language Learning
Learning English at the Elementary Level
Skills in learning English
Assessment of English
Group: B
Language items (Nouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Tense and Time, Preposition, Articles, Adjectives, Prepositions, Punctuation)
Comprehension (Two unseen prose passage (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability)
Mathematics
Group: A
Mathematics Education in Schools Nature of Mathematics (exactness, systematic, patterns, preciseness) Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics
Assessment in Mathematics
Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning
Group: B
Data Handling and Patterns
Shapes and spatial Relationship
Measurement
Number System and Operation in Numbers
Number system (natural, whole, rational, real)
Fundamental operation on numbers
Fractional numbers and decimals – operations in fractional numbers and decimals
Physical Features of Odisha and India (India Landscape Climate Natural resources Agriculture and industry)
Governance (Local-self, Government – State and Central Judiciary)
Freedom Struggle in India and Odisha
Health and Diseases (Nutritional, elements, balanced diet, Nutritional, deficiency and diseases, Waste materials and disposal, First-aid, Air and water pollution)
Internal Systems of Human Body
Matter, Force and Energy
OTET Syllabus 2025 Paper- 2
Categories
OTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2024
Child Development and Pedagogy
Child Development (Focus on Upper Primary School Children)
Learning (Learning as meaning making knowledge and construction, How children learn – observation, initiation, trial, error, experience, Learning as social activity, Rote learning and meaningful learning, Factors affecting learning, Strategies for promoting lessons, Addressing learners from diverse background including disadvantaged and deprived, Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment, Addressing the talented, creative and specially abled learners)
Curriculum Teaching-Learning Approaches and Evaluation, Learning Approaches and Evaluation,Teacher-centred, learner centred and learning-centred approaches, Principles of curriculum organization etc.
Language
Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/Bengali
Group: A
Learning Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/Bengali at Upper Primary Level
Teaching Language
Assessment of Language
Group: B
Elements of Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/Bengali language
Language Items
Contribution of famous literates for development of Odia/Urdu/Hindi/Telugu/Bengali
English Language – ll
Group: A
Learning English at Upper Primary Level
Development of English Language Skills
Basic skills of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing), interdependence of skills
Teaching of prose, poetry and composition
Assessment of learning English Language
Group: B
Language Items (Parts of speech, tense, voice change and change of narration, use of article, use of punctuation mark, Vocabulary – meaning and spelling)
Comprehension (Two unseen passages (one from prose/drama and another from poem) with questions on comprehension, grammar)
Mathematics
(Only for Mathematics & Science Teacher)
Group: A
Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage (Nature of Mathematics–logical, systematic, abstractions, pattern, mathematical language, Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics, Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics)
Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning Mathematics
Evaluation in Mathematics (Formal and informal evaluation, Error analysis, Remedial and enrichment programmes)
Group: B
Number System (Number System (focus on real and rational numbers), Properties in different number systems
Algebra (Basic concepts : terms, co-efficient, powers, Algebraic equations and their applications (with one), Polynomials – operations in polynomials, Laws of inducing, Identities)
Commercial Arithmetic (Percentage & its application, ratio & proportion etc)
Shapes and Spatial Relationship
Triangles and Quadrilaterals
Angles, complementary and supplementary angles, opposite angles, exterior angles of the triangle
Angle sum property etc.
Science
(Only for Science & Mathematics Teacher)
Group: A
Nature of Science
Aims and objectives of teaching-learning science at upper primary stage
Methods and Approaches
Methods: Observation, Experimentation, Discovery, Project and Problem- solving
Candidates should have the details of OTET syllabus along with paper patter. The exam pattern contains the number of questions, marks and others. Below is the complete exam pattern.
OTET 2025 Paper 1 Pattern
Categories
Maximum Marks
No. Of Questions
Time of Exam
Child Development & Pedagogy
30 marks
30 questions
2 hours 30 minutes
Language- l
30 marks
30 questions
Language- ll
30 marks
30 questions
Mathematics
30 marks
30 questions
Environmental Science
30 marks
30 questions
Total
150 Marks
150 Questions
OTET 2025 Paper 2 Pattern
Categories
Maximum Marks
No. Of Questions
Time of Exam
Child Development & Pedagogy
30 marks
30 questions
2 hours 30 minutes
Language- l
30 marks
30 questions
Language- ll
30 marks
30 questions
Mathematics
30 marks
30 questions
Social Studies
30 marks
30 questions
Total
150 Marks
150 Questions
OTET 2025 Best Books
To score better marks in the Odisha TET, candidates need to cover the OTET syllabus from the best books. Below is the list of some important books for OTET 2025.
NTA/UGC- NET/SET/JRF (Teaching and Research Aptitude by person)
By R.S Agarwal- Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examination
By Upkar Prakashan- Teacher Eligibility Test Environmental Studies