REET Exam Pattern 2024 (Changed): Level 1, 2 Pattern & Negative Marking

Have a look at the highlights of the REET exam pattern 2024 below.

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Have a look at the REET 2024 pattern for Level 1 and Level 2 below:

REET Exam Pattern 2024 for Level 1  

• There are five sections in Paper 1- Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Mathematics, and Environmental Studies.
• The difficulty level of the paper will be of the Class 12 standard.
• Candidates have to complete Paper 1 in 150 minutes or two hours and thirty minutes.

Check the table below to understand the REET exam pattern for Paper 1.

REET Exam Pattern 2024 for Level 2  

• There are four sections in Paper 2 - Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Science & Mathematics, or Social Science.
• The level of the paper will be Class 12 or Graduate level.
• Candidates have to complete Paper 2 in 150 minutes or two hours and thirty minutes.

Check the table below to understand the REET exam pattern for Paper 2.

Also Read: REET Syllabus 2024

The candidates can check the exam pattern for the REET 2024 below. The candidates who are preparing for the upcoming exam can check the REET recruitment exam pattern below for level 1 and level 2. 

REET Main Level 1 Exam Pattern

REET level 1 exam was taken for the candidates who want to become primary teachers (classes 1 to 5) in the government school of Rajasthan. The exam pattern for REET mains level 1 has been given below:

• The Reet main level 1 exam will be conducted for 300 marks
• The time duration of the REET main exam is 150 minutes
• The total number of questions is 150 in the REET main exam and the nature of the question is MCQ type 
• 1/3 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer and 2 marks will be awarded for each correct answer

REET Main Level 2  Exam Pattern 

The exam pattern for the REET main level 2 exam has been given below. The REET main level 2 exam is taken to recruit the upper primary teachers in the schools of Rajasthan. The candidates can go through the REET main exam pattern below:

• REET main level 2 exam is conducted for 300 marks 
• REET main level 2 exam has a negative marking scheme. The candidates will be awarded +2 marks for each correct answer and 1/3 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer
• The time duration of the REET main exam is 150 minutes 

The syllabus for the Rajasthan teacher recruitment exam has been given below on the page for the candidates. The main exam comprises two papers, paper 1 and paper 2. The paper 1 main exam will be conducted to recruit teachers in classes 1 to 5 and the paper 2 main exam will be conducted to recruit teachers in classes to class 6 to 8.

REET Mains Level 1 Syllabus

• Geographical, Historical, and cultural knowledge of Rajasthan 
• General Knowledge of Rajasthan, Educational Scenario, Act of Free and Compulsory Child Education, and Current Affairs
• School Subjects 
• Pedagogy
• Educational Pedagogy 
• Information Technology

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REET Mains Level 2 Syllabus 

• Geographical, Historical, and Cultural Knowledge of Rajasthan
• General Knowledge of Rajasthan, Educational Scenario, Act of Free and Compulsory Child Education, and Current Affairs
• Knowledge of the concerned school subject
• Pedagogy
• Educational Pedagogy
• Information Technology

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Candidates preparing for the REET 2024 exam must go through the syllabus to prepare for the Rajasthan Eligibility Test (RTET) exam. RTET 2024 syllabus will give a detailed idea of the subjects and sections. Following the structure, the candidates can make a strategy to complete their syllabus in time and score good marks in the RTET 2024 exam. The detailed syllabus of the REET 2024 exam has been given below in the article. 

REET 2024 Syllabus for Level 1 

The detailed syllabus for Level 1 has been given below for the REET 2024 exam. The candidates who aspire to teach in the primary schools of Rajasthan have to take the Level 1 exam:

REET Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus for Level 1 

• Child Development: Concept of growth and development, Principles and dimensions of development. Factors affecting development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning 
• Role of Heredity and Environment 
• Meaning and Concept of learning and its processes 
• Theories of learning (Behaviourism, Gestalt, Cognitivism, Constructivism) and their implications 
• How children learn, Learning process, Reflection, Imagination, Argument, constructivism, experiential learning, concept mapping, investigatory, approach, problem-solving 
• Motivation and Implications for Learning 
• Individual Differences: Meaning, Types, and Factors Affecting Individual Differences Understanding individual differences. 
• Personality: Concept and types of personality, Factors responsible for shaping it, and Its measurement 
• Intelligence: Concept, Theories, and its measurement. Multidimensional Intelligence and Its implication. 
• Understanding diverse learners: Backward, mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially-abled, CWSN, children with learning disabilities 
• Learning Difficulties. 
• Adjustment: Concept and ways of adjustment. Role of teacher in the adjustment. 
• Teaching-learning process, Teaching learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005. 
• Meaning and purposes of Assessment, Measurement, and Evaluation. Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation. Construction of Achievement Test, Learning outcomes 
• Action Research. 
• Right to Education Act 2009 (Role and Responsibilities of Teachers) 

REET Language-I & Language-II Syllabus for Level 1 

The REET Language-I and Language II need to be different. Candidates can choose languages from - Hindi, English, Urdu, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Punjabi and Gujarati. Have a look at the syllabus for the English language below:  

• Unseen Prose Passage 
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Spellings, Word-formation, One Word Substitution 
• Parts of Speech, Tenses, Determiners, Degrees of comparison 
• Framing Questions Including Wh-questions, Active and Passive Voice 
• Narration, Knowledge of English Sounds and Phonetic Symbols 
• Principles of Teaching English, Methods and Approaches to English Language Teaching 
• Development of Language Skills, Teaching Learning Materials: (Textbooks, Multi-Media Materials and other Resources) 
• Comprehensive & Continuous Evaluation, Evaluation in the English Language 

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REET Mathematics Syllabus for Level 1 

• Whole numbers up to one crore, Place Value, Comparison 
• Fundamental mathematical operations: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division 
• Indian Currency 
• Concept of fraction, proper fractions, comparison of proper fraction of same denominator, mixed fractions, comparison of proper fractions of unequal denominators, Addition and Substation of fractions 
• Prime and composite numbers, Prime factors, Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) and Highest Common Factor (HCF) 
• Unitary law, Average, Profit - Loss, simple interest 
• Plane and curved surfaces, plane and solid geometrical figures, properties of plane geometrical figures; point, line, ray, line segment; Angle and their types 
• Length, Weight, Capacity, Time, Measurement of area and their standard units and relation between them 
• Area and perimeter of plane surfaces of square and rectangular objects 
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking 
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum 
• Language of Mathematics 
• Community Mathematics 
• Data Management 
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods 
• Problems of Teaching 
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching 
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching 

REET Environmental Science Syllabus for Level 1 

• Family - Personal relationships, nuclear and joint families, social abuses (child marriage, dowry system, child labour, theft); addiction (intoxication, smoking) and its personal, social and economic bad effects. 
• Clothes and Habitats - Clothes for different seasons; maintenance of clothes at home; handloom and power loom; habitats of living beings, various types of houses; cleanliness of houses and neighbouring. 
• Profession - Profession of your surroundings (stitching clothes, gardening, farming, animal rearing, vegetable vendor, etc.), small and cottage industries; major industries of Rajasthan State, Need for consumer protection, co-operative societies areas; Different types of materials for building houses. 
• Our Culture and Civilization - National Symbols, National festivals, Fairs and festivals of Rajasthan, Dresses, and Ornaments of Rajasthan food-habits and Architecture of Rajasthan; Tourist places of Rajasthan; Major Great personalities and proud of Rajasthan, Heritage of Rajasthan (Forts, Palaces and Monuments), Paintings of Rajasthan, Lok-Devta of Rajasthan. 
• Transport and Communication - Means of transport and communication; Rules for pedestrian and transport, Traffic Symbols, Effects of means of communication on the lifestyle. 
• Personal Hygiene - External parts of our body and their cleanliness; general information about the internal parts of the body; Balance diet and its importance; Common diseases (gastroenteritis, amoebiosis, methemoglobin, anemia, fluorosis, malaria, dengue.)  
• Living Beings- Levels of organisation of plants and animals, diversity in living organisms, state flower, state tree, state bird, state animal; knowledge of reserve forest and wild life. 
• Water - Basic knowledge of water, forest, wetlands and deserts; different kind of pollution and pollution control, Water Properties. Sources, Management. Artistic water sources, potable water. 
• The earth and Space- Our Solar system, Indian Astronauts 
• Mountaineering- Equipments, Problems, Main women mountaineer of India 
• Concept and scope of Environment Studies  
• Environmental Pedagogy 

REET Syllabus 2024 for Level 2 

The REET Level 2 syllabus comprises topics from five subjects- Child Development and Pedagogy, Language-I, Language-II and Mathematics and Science or Social Studies. Have a look at the detailed syllabus below: 

REET Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus for Level 2 

• Child Development: Concept of growth and development, Principles and dimensions of development. Factors affecting development (especially in the context of family and school) and its relationship with learning 
• Role of Heredity and Environment 
• Meaning and Concept of learning and its processes 
• Theories of learning (Behaviourism, Gestalt, Cognitivism, Constructivism) and their implications 
• How children learn, Learning process, Reflection, Imagination, Argument, constructivism, experiential learning, concept mapping, investigatory, approach, problem-solving 
• Motivation and Implications for Learning 
• Individual Differences: Meaning, Types, and Factors Affecting Individual differences Understanding individual differences. 
• Personality: Concept and types of personality, Factors responsible for shaping it and Its measurement 
• Intelligence: Concept, Theories, and its measurement. Multidimensional Intelligence and Its implication. 
• Understanding diverse learners: Backward, mentally retarded, gifted, creative, disadvantaged and deprived, specially-abled, CWSN, children with learning disabilities 
• Learning Difficulties. 
• Adjustment: Concept and ways of adjustment. Role of teacher in the adjustment. 
• Teaching-learning process, Teaching learning strategies and methods in the context of National Curriculum Framework 2005. 
• Meaning and purposes of Assessment, Measurement, and Evaluation. Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation. Construction of Achievement Test, Learning outcomes 
• Action Research. 
• Right to Education Act 2009 (Role and Responsibilities of Teachers) 

REET Language-I & Language-II Syllabus for Level 2 

The REET Language-I and Language-II need to be different. Candidates can make the choice of languages from - Hindi, English, Urdu, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Punjabi and Gujarati. Have a look at the syllabus for the English language below:  

• Unseen Prose Passage 
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Spellings, Word-formation, One Word Substitution 
• Parts of Speech, Tenses, Determiners, Degrees of comparison 
• Framing Questions Including Wh-questions, Active and Passive Voice 
• Narration, Knowledge of English Sounds and Phonetic Symbols 
• Principles of Teaching English, Methods, and Approaches to English Language Teaching 
• Development of Language Skills, Teaching Learning Materials: ( Textbooks, MultiMedia Materials and other Resources) 
• Comprehensive & Continuous Evaluation, Evaluation in the English Language 

Also Read: REET Eligibility Criteria 2023 

REET Mathematics & Science Syllabus for Level 2 

The syllabus for Maths and Science has been given below for the Level 2 exam for the eligibility of Upper Primary Teacher:

Mathematics Syllabus 

• Indices 
• Algebraic expressions 
• Factors 
• Equations 
• Square & Square Root 
• Cube & Cube Root 
• Interest 
• Ratio and Proportion 
• Percentage 
• Lines and Angles 
• Plane figures 
• Area and perimeter of Plane figures 
• Surface Area and Volume 
• Statistics 
• Graph 
• Probability 
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking 
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum 
• Language of Mathematics 
• Evaluation 
• Remedial Teaching 
• Problems of Teaching 

Science Syllabus 

• Living & Non-Living 
• Micro-organisms 
• Living Being 
• Human body and health 
• Animal Reproduction and Adolescence 
• Mechanics 
• Heat and Temperature 
• Light & Sound 
• Electricity and magnetism 
• Science and Technology 
• Solar System 
• Structure of Matter 
• Chemical Substances 
• Agriculture Management 
• Nature & Structure of Sciences 
• Innovation 

REET Social Studies Syllabus for Level 2 

• Indian Civilization, Culture, and Society 
• Mauryan & Gupta Empires and Post-Gupta Period 
• Medieval and Modern Period 
• Indian Constitution and Democracy 
• Government: Composition and Functions 
• Earth and Our Environment 
• Geography and Resources of India 
• Geography and Resources of Rajasthan 
• History of Rajasthan 
• Art and Culture of Rajasthan 
• Pedagogical Issues 

In the REET 2024 exam, marking is done based on a predetermined method. The following REET marking scheme is followed by the RBSE.

There is no negative marking for incorrect answers in the REET exam, candidates should attempt as many questions as they can.

REET qualifying marks 2024 have been revised by the Rajasthan Government. Have a look at the REET minimum qualifying marks below:

The weightage of the REET certificate has been revised for the recruitment of Level 1 and Level 2. It has been decided that the ratio of the weightage of scores in the REET exam to scores in graduation and boards will be 9:1. Earlier, the weightage of the certificate for the REET exam was 7:1. 

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