OSSTET 2024 Exam - Application form (Released), Dates, Admit card, Pattern, Syllabus, Preparation Tips

Language-II-English: Unit 01

• Unseen passage
• From a poem
• Grammar and usage: Prepositions, direct and indirect speech, passives, tense, identification of error in a sentence, phrasal verbs, clause patterns, punctuations, types of sentences, spelling, agreement of verbs with subjects
• Speaking (commonly mispronounced words)

Physics: Unit 01

• Newton's law of motion, kinematic equations of motion with acceleration, graphical representation of kinematic equation of motion, relative velocity and relative acceleration, work, energy, and power, conservation of energy
• Collision problem and conservation of linear momentum, forces of nature, frictional force
• Circular motion rotational kinematics, conservation of angular momentum, moment of inertia
• Motion under gravity, projectile motion
• Simple harmonic motion and kinematics of simple harmonic motion, simple pendulum

Physics: Unit 02

• Kepler's law of planetary motion, Newton's law of gravitation, acceleration due to gravity
• Gravitational field and potential, escape velocity and satellite motion, geostationary satellites

Physics: Unit 03

• Inter-atomic and intermolecular force, elasticity, stress, strain, and Hook's law, elastic module
• Kinetic theory of gasses, concept of heat, pressure and temperature, specific heat, law of equal-partition of energy, universal gas laws, measurement of pressure
• Surface tension, surface energy, angle of contact, excess pressure, capillarity, viscosity, Poiseuille's law, Stoke's law, Bernoulli's equation of fluid motion
• Hydrostatics, buoyancy, Archimedes principle, law of flotation

Physics: Unit 04

• Waves, progressive and stationary waves, mechanical waves, equation of a progressive wave, transverse vibration of a string, speed of sound waves, Newton's formula, superposition of sound waves, beats, echo, Doppler effect
• Musical sound and its characteristics

Physics: Unit 05

• Laws of reflection and refraction in transparent medium, total internal reflection, refraction through prism, dispersion reflection and image formation in plane, and spherical mirrors, equation for object and image distances for spherical mirrors
• Image formation in convex and concave lenses, lens equation for convex and concave lenses, power of single and combination of two lenses
• Image formation in the eye and defects of vision, microscope and astronomical telescope
• Wave optics, Huygens principle, coherent sources and interference, Young's double slit, Bi-prism, Newton's ring experiments, diffraction of light through single slit, and plane transmission grating

Physics: Unit 06

• Coulomb's law and unit of charge, force on a charge due to discrete and continuous charge distributions, lines of force and electric field, field due to a point charge and a dipole, electrostatic potential
• Potential due to a point charge and an electric dipole, electric potential energy of a group of point charges, electric flux, Gauss law and applications
• Capacitor, capacitance of parallel plate, and spherical capacitors, combination of capacitors in series and parallel

Physics: Unit 07

• Ohm's law, Current and voltage measurements, resistance and resistivity, combination of resistances in series and parallel, electromotive force, grouping of resistors and cells, Kirchhoff's laws and their applications
• Electric energy and power, heating effect of electric current, Faraday's law of electrolysis
• Magnetic field and magnetic induction, Biot-Savart law, magnetic field due to straight conductor, a circular coil and a solenoid carrying current
• Ampere's circuital law, Lorentz force on a charge particle in uniform electric and magnetic fields
• Force between two parallel conductors carrying current

Physics: Unit 08

• Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's law, eddy current, self and mutual induction, EMF induced in a rotating coil
• Alternating current, average and RMS values of alternating currents, simple AC circuits ( RC, RL, and RLC), concept of admittance and impedance
• Transformers and simple AC devices (motor, dynamo)

Chemistry: Unit 01

• Atomic, molecular, and equivalent masses, mole concept, types of chemical reactions, calculations based on stoichiometry
• Equivalent mass of acid, base, salt, oxidant, and reductant

Chemistry: Unit 02

• Gas laws-Boyle's law, Charles's law, combined gas equation, ideal gas equation
• Graham's law of diffusion/ effusion, Dalton's law of partial pressure
• Characteristics of liquids: Vapour pressure, viscosity, and surface tension
• Colligative properties of solutions (solute and solvent forming binary solution)

Chemistry: Unit 03

• Bohr's model and its limitations, concept of shells and sub-shells, dual nature of matter and light
• De Broglie's relationship, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concept of orbitals, quantum numbers, shape of s, p, and d orbitals, rules of filling electrons-Aufbau principle and Hund's rule, electronic configuration of atoms
• Stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals

Chemistry: Unit 04

• Modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table, periodic trends in properties of elements-atomic radii, ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, electro negativity, valency

Chemistry: Unit 05

• Ionic bond, covalent bond, polar character of covalent bond, covalent character of ionic bond, concept of hybridization, VSEPR theory and shapes of some simple molecules, hydrogen bond and metallic bond

Chemistry: Unit 06

• Types of chemical reactions, redox reaction, oxidation number calculation, balancing of redox equations by oxidation number and ion-electron methods
• Neutralization reactions and volumetric analysis

Chemistry: Unit 07

• Equilibrium in physical and chemical processes , law of mass action, equilibrium constants (Kc, Kp, and Kx) relation among them, the reaction quotient and its relation with equilibrium
• Le-Chatelier's principle and its applications
• Theories of acids and bases, ionization of weak acids and bases, ionic product of water pH and other logarithmic terms, common ion effect, solubility product and its application in salt analysis

Chemistry: Unit 08

• Occurrence of metals, ores and minerals, concentration, calcinations, roasting, smelting, reduction methods (carbon reduction, aluminothermic process, electrolytic and self-reductions) and metal extraction, flux and slag, refining of metals
• Reactions involved in the blast furnace for the extraction of iron

Chemistry: Unit 09

• Classification and IUPAC nomenclature or organic compounds
• Electronic displacement in a covalent bond: Inductive effect, electronic effect, resonance and hyper conjugation
• Homolytic and heterolytic fission of a covalent bond: Free radicals, carbocations, carbanions, electrophiles and nucleophiles, types of organic reactions

Chemistry: Unit 10

• Classification of hydrocarbons: i) Aliphatic hydrocarbons: General methods of preparation, properties, and uses of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
• Classification of hydrocarbons: ii) Aromatic hydrocarbons: Benzene-resonance aromaticity, chemical properties, directive influence of functional group in monosubstituted bezone

Mathematics: Unit 01

• Union intersection, difference complement, power set, number of elements in union and inter-section of finite sets

Mathematics: Unit 02

• Reflexive, symmetric, transitive, and equivalence relations, injective, surjective, and bijective functions, inverse of a function

Mathematics: Unit 03

• Natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, irrational number, real numbers, absolute values of numbers, triangle inequality

Mathematics: Unit 04

• Fundamental theorem of algebra, roots, discriminants, nature the roots, relation between the roots and coefficients

Mathematics: Unit 05

• Group, semi-group, monoid, finite group, abelian group, sub-group, coset, Lagrange's theorem, normal sub-groups

Mathematics: Unit 06

• Limit, continuity, derivative, tangent, normal, increasing, and decreasing functions

Mathematics: Unit 07

• Arithmetic and geometric progressions, monotonic sequence, exponential series, logarithmic series, Taylor's series, Maclaruin's series

Mathematics: Unit 08

• Distance formula, section formula, area of a triangle, locus and its equation, straight line, circle, conic section

Mathematics: Unit 09

• Plane, straight line, sphere

Mathematics: Unit 10

• Trial, sample point, sample space, event, addition theorem, binomial distribution

Mathematics: Unit 11

• Mean, mode, median, mean deviation, standard deviation, variance

Mathematics: Unit 12

• Angles associated with 90°, 180°, 270°, 360° compound angle formula, multiple angle formula, sub-multiple angle formula, trigonometric equations, inverse trigonometric functions

Mathematics: Unit 13

• Circumference of circle, length of the area of a circle, area of a circle, sector and segment, area of a circular annulus, area of a sectional region, area of a segment, surface area and volume of a prism, right circular cylinder, cone and sphere

Mathematics: Unit 14

• Determinant, minors, cofactors, Cramer's rule, matrix, singular, non-singular, transpose, adjoint inverse, solution of equations by matrix method

Botany: Unit 01

• Nomenclature and classification of plant kingdom, plant divisions-thallophyta, bryophyta, pteridophyta, gymnosperms and angiosperms, their habitat and complexity in their structural organization
• Endangered plant species and their conservation measure

Botany: Unit 02

• Meristematic and permanent tissues: Their types, organization, and functions
• Tissue system: Epidermal, ground and vascular tissue system, internal structure of dicot and monocot stems, and roots, secondary growth in plants

Botany: Unit 03

• Structure and photosynthetic pigments, light reaction: Light absorption, electron transport and photophosphorylation, dark reaction-CO₂ fixation by C₃, C₄, and CAM plants, photorespiration

Botany: Unit 04

• Auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene and abscisic acid, their role in plant growth regulation

Botany: Unit 05

• Vegetative reproduction: Fission, budding, and cutting (grafting) and propagation in angiosperms
• A sexual reproduction: Sporulation, comidia formation and other special structure formation
• Sexual reproduction: Isogamy, anisogamy, and oogamy, double fertilization and triple fusion in angiosperms
• Parthenogenesis: Tissue culture and micropropagation

Botany: Unit 06

• Mendelian factors, monohybrid cross and principles of dominance, and segregation
• Dihybridcross: Laws of independent assortment
• Deviations from Mendelian principles

Botany: Unit 07

• Casual organisms, symptoms, life cycle and control measures of following diseases: Late blight of potato, powdery mildew, rust and smut of wheat, leaf sport and blast disease of rice

Zoology: Unit 01

• Five kingdom classification, characteristics and examples of each animal phylum (in case of phylum chordata up to classes)

Zoology: Unit 02

• Cell structure and cell division (mitosis and meiosis), DNA and RNA

Zoology: Unit 03

• Linkage, crossing over, mutation, chromosomal aberration and chromosomal mechanism of sex determination

Zoology: Unit 04

• Darwinism, modern synthetic theory of evolution (variation, selection, and isolation)

Zoology: Unit 05

• Ecosystem, food chain and food web, energy flow, ecological pyramids, renewable and non-renewable energy resources, biodiversity (meaning and conservation), causes, effects, and control of air pollution

Zoology: Unit 06

• Types of food and types of nutrition, names, and functions of digestive enzymes

Zoology: Unit 07

• Types of respiration (aerobic and anaerobic) glycolysis and Krebs cycle

Zoology: Unit 08

• Blood (composition and function) in man, structure and working of human heart

Zoology: Unit 09

• Human kidney (structural details), mechanism of urine formation

Zoology: Unit 10

• Structure and neuron, synaptic transmission, structure of human brain and function of its different parts, names of endocrine

History: Unit 01

• Asoka-conquests, administration, and missionary activities
• Kharavela-achlevement as mentioned in hatigumpha inscription
• Samudragupta-conquests
• Harshavardhana-conquests, administration, and religious activities

History: Unit 02

History: Unit 03

History: Unit 04

History: Unit 05

History: Unit 06

• Robert Clive and foundation of British power
• Revenue reforms of Lord Cornwallis
• Subsidiary alliance
• Reforms of Lord William Bentinck
• Doctrine of lapse

History: Unit 07

• Revolt of 1857
• Development of press and literature
• Education
• Formation of political associations

History: Unit 08

• Swadeshi movement
• Non-cooperation movement
• Civil disobedience movement
• Quit India movement
• Indian national army
• Partition and independence

History: Unit 09

• Causes and consequences of first world war
• Causes, progress, and effects of Russian revolution

History: Unit 10

• Causes and consequences

Political science: Unit 01

Political science: Unit 02

Political science: Unit 03

• President, prime minister, council of ministers, parliament, and supreme court

Political science: Unit 04

• Governor, chief minister, council of ministers, legislative assembly, and high court

Political science: Unit 05

Political science: Unit 06

Political science: Unit 07

Political science: Unit 08

Political science: Unit 09

Political science: Unit 10

• General assembly, security council human rights

Political science: Unit 11

Political science: Unit 12

Geography: Unit 01

• Physiography
• Drainage
• Climate

Geography: Unit 02

• Types and classification; land resources; biotic resources
• Mineral, energy, water resources
• Agriculture and industrial resources

Geography: Unit 03

• First, second, and third order land forms; development of land forms-work of rivers, wind, and glaciers
• Interior of the earth, rocks, and their types
• Structure and composition of the atmosphere, insolation and temperature; pressure and winds; humidity and rainfall
• General relief of ocean floor: Salinity and temperature of the ocean water
• Oceanic circulation-waves, tides currents

Geography: Unit 04

• Basic features; types of maps; map scale; contours of relief features
• Concept of latitude and longitude; international dateline time zone; local and standard time

Economics: Unit 01

• Features and broad demographic characteristics; need and policies for facing the challenges of over population

Economics: Unit 02

• Poverty-measures of poverty; causes, consequences, policy, and programmes adopted for poverty eradication; remedies
• Unemployment-types and measures of unemployment; causes, consequences, and programmes adopted for reducing unemployment
• Inflation-meaning and types; demand pull and cost push inflation; causes and consequences, and measures taken to control inflation

Economics: Unit 03

• Meaning and indicators-national income, PQLI, HDI; concept of and need for sustainable development

Economics: Unit 04

• Meaning, types, and functions of money; banking: Commercial banks-meaning, functions; credit creation by commercial banks; central banking-meaning and functions; monetary policy

Economics: Unit 05

• Inclusive growth, financial inclusion, food security and PDS, consumer awareness, economic reforms

English: Unit 01

• Unseen passage
• Poem

English: Unit 02

• Prepositions, direct and indirect speech, passives, tense, identification of error in a sentence, phrasal verbs, clause patterns, punctuations, types of sentences, spelling, agreement of verbs with subjects, agreement of verbs with subjects

English: Unit 03

English: Unit 04

• Importance of teaching/ learning English in the present context
• Objectives of teaching/ learning English with reference to language skills and sub-skills
• Language acquisition vs. language learning/ mother tongue vs. second language learning
• Strategies of teaching/ learning English with special reference to NCF-2005
• Planning the various stages for teaching/ learning-prose, poetry, grammar, and composition lessons
• Stages of planning for a text (pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading)
• Assessment of language skills: Tools and techniques with reference to continuous, and comprehensive assessment

Urdu: Unit 01

Urdu: Unit 02

Urdu: Unit 03

Urdu: Unit 04

Urdu: Unit 05

Urdu: Unit 06

• Altaf Hosen Hall, Neyaz Fateh Puri, All Sardar Jafri, Amir Khusroo, Majrooh Sultanpuri

Telugu: Unit 01

• Mother tongue, aims of teaching through mother tongue, language teaching skills, language-methodology

Telugu: Unit 02

• Teaching methods, teaching practice; teaching aids, literature works-teaching methods

Telugu: Unit 03

• Technology, assessment of learning, planning, and designing achievement tests, other tools for assessment, utilization of educational sources, evaluation

Telugu: Unit 04

• Vocabulary, opposite words, identification of parts of speech; identification of genders

Telugu: Unit 05

• Pronunciation-voice, words formation, words, parts of speech; sentences, tense, genders, figures of speech, punctuation marks, meanings, synonyms, antonyms, deviations, clauses, phrases, subjective and non-subjective sentence
• Different types of sentences, active voice-passive voices, direct-indirect speech, formation of sentences, foreign country and village words; same, idioms, phrases and other meaning

Telugu: Unit 06

• Nannaya-'Mahabharat' chapter 4 (120-165)
• Karlvi/ Goparaju-Salivahana Vidyam chapter-1 (115-165)
• Garimella Satyanarayan-we do not want British ruling
• Shri Shri-Mahaprastanam
• Vimala-vantillu enta adbutam

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 01

• Growth and development: Concept, difference, principles of development, factors affecting development (nutrition, intelligence, psycho-social, diseases, injury, etc)
• Factors affection different developmental aspects: Cognitives, social (Erikson's theory), emotional, Moral (Kohlberg theory), language development, needs and problems at childhood and adolescence
• Approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence: Psychometric approach (Thurstone, Guilford, Gardner), information processing approach-Sternberg, cognitive development approach-Piaget, social constructivist approach-Vygotsky
• Addressing problems of adolescence: Role of teachers, parents, and community, development of self-concept of adolescents, counselling services for the adolescents

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 02

• Understanding the learning process: Learning as a process and an outcome, approaches-humanistic (Carl Rogers), constructivist (Piaget and Vygotsky), basic conditions of learning: Readiness, maturation, motivation, task, and methods
• Organizing learning: Teachers-centric, learner-centric, learning-centric, characteristics and process
• Critical pedagogy: Concept, characteristic/ features, stages, approaches
• Addressing classroom diversity: Using varieties of TLMs, using context of the learner, using variety of activities while group learning, small group learning, and independent learning
• Addressing classroom diversity: Adopting curriculum to the needs of children with special needs multilingual education

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 03

• Educational management: Concept, importance, scope, types of management: Democratic, autocratic, centralized, decentralized, command and control
• Management structure at different levels: National, state, district, sub-district (BRCs, CRCs, SMCs, SMDC)
• School development plan: Concept, purpose, key actions: Headmaster, teachers, students, parents, and SMDC, steps in planning for school development, annual and perspective plan
• School-based management: Concept/ meaning, why school-based management?, objectives, management of: Curriculum, physical resources, human resources, financial resources, community resources, role of headmasters, teachers, community

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 04

• Assessment and evaluation: Assessment and evaluation in constructivists perspective, concept, continuous, and comprehensive evaluation, formative, summative, and diagnostic assessment
• Assessment and learning: Assessment of learning, assessment for learning, assessment as learning, subject-based learning in a constructivist perspective, assessment tools and techniques-projects, assignments, observation, teacher made tests
• Assessment and learning: Self-assessment, peer-assessment, portfolios, rubrics
• Test construction: Steps and principles of test construction, development of blue print, preparation of test items
• Recent developments in assessment: Grading, assessment in co-scholastic area, implementation strategy of continuous and comprehensive evaluation, recommendations of NCF-2005

Language-II English: Unit 01

• Unseen passage
• From a poem
• Grammar and usage: Prepositions, direct and indirect speech, passives, tense, identification of error in a sentence, phrasal verbs, clause patterns, punctuations, types of sentences, spelling, agreement of verbs with subjects
• Speaking (commonly mispronounced words)

Physical education: Unit 01

• Meaning, objectives, aims of physical education
• Relationship of physical education to general education, health education, and recreation
• Importance of physical exercise, physical training, and physical culture
• Physical education as a socializing agencies
• Leadership and its importance, qualification, and qualities of a physical education teacher
• Contribution of physical education teachers to general education
• Scout and guides, NCC, JRC, SGFI, NFC, and its contributions
• Contribution of yoga in modern civilization
• Olympic and Asian games
• Teacher training and professional preparation in physical education

Physical education: Unit 02

• Meaning and importance in physical education
• Mental process-body, mind, relationship, and neuromuscular coordination
• Transfer of training, theories of play, learning process, and play way in education
• Individual differences as personality, mental hygiene, and child guidance
• Discipline and behaviour: Nature and development

Physical education: Unit 03

• Importance, objectives, and guiding principles
• Construction and care of gymnasium and swimming pools
• Preparation of different playground
• Need, purchase and maintenance of sports equipments and maintenance of different registers, and records
• Preparing time table and factor affecting time table in physical education, and sports
• Scheduling school sports, problem in school sports, intramural and extramural competitions
• Preparation of budget, accounting, and auditing
• Importance of recreation in human life

Physical education: Unit 04

• Joints structure, types, and movements of the joints, importance of good posture and remedies of bad posture
• Effect of regular activities on muscles, heart, and respiratory system
• Fatigue, its causes, and remedies
• Blood pressure, oxygen debt, second wind
• Importance of health education and the role of physical education teachers in school health programme
• Medical examination, effects of narcotics, and drugs
• Nutrition and importance of diet for players, and athletes
• Different diseases and their symptoms, detection care and prevention of diseases like cholera, diarrhea, chicken pox, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, and malaria

Physical education: Unit 05

• Meaning, scope, and importance of methods in physical education
• Drill and marching commands, teaching aids, various methods of teaching physical activities, games, sports and indigenous activities
• Various tournaments and competitions
• Test, measurement, and evaluation in physical education, national physical efficiency test
• Layout of the track and field events, and different play grounds
• Demonstration and exhibitions, awards and incentives
• Lesson planning-general and specific

Physical education: Unit 06

• The qualities of a good officials, relation of official with management, coaches, players, and spectators
• Duties of the officials
• Promoting and maintaining different games, publicity, arrangement of training camps, and schedules
• Conditioning of players and teams-general, fundamental, workload
• Warming up-types and values
• Various training methods-isometric and isotonic exercises, circuit training, weight training, fartlek training, and internal training
• Play of various positions in games
• Officiating of different games and track, and field events-its rules, signals, and positional play
• Track and field events, major games like Kho-Kho, Kabaddi, volleyball, football, basket ball, soft ball, cricket, hockey, and badminton

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 01

• Meaning of growth and development
• Different stages of development
• Physical, mental, emotional, and social development of a child
• General characteristics of various stages of growth and development of a child

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 02

• Teaching techniques (lecture method, demonstration method, discussion method, and project method etc
• Important devices and methods of teaching
• Teaching procedure
• Different between teaching methods and teaching aids

Child development, pedagogy, school management and evaluation: Unit 03

• School management
• Programme planning, principle of programme planning in physical education
• Function of planning
• Evaluation of school physical education activities and school health education programme