Teaching Aptitude
- Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.
- Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
- Factors affecting teaching: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
- Methods of teaching: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
- Teaching Aptitude
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Research Aptitude
- Research: Meaning, characteristics and types.
- Steps of research.
- Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
- Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
- Application of ICT in research.
- Research Ethics.
Comprehension
- A passage of text will be given. Questions will be asked from the passage to be answered.
Communication
- Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.
- Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.
- Barriers to effective communication.
- Mass-Media and Society.
Mathematical Reasoning
- Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.
Logical Reasoning
- Understanding the structure of arguments: Argument forms, Structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.
- Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Analogies.
- Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.
- Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.
- Pramanas:
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Data Interpretation
- Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.
- Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
- Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Pie-chart, Table-chart, Line-chart) and mapping of Data.
- Data Interpretation.
- Data and Governance.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
- Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.
- Digital initiatives in higher education.
- ICT and Governance.
People, Development and Environment
- Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
- Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.
- Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its socio-economic and political dimensions.
- Impacts of pollutants on human health.
- Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil,
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Higher Education System
- Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.
- Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence India.
- Orientations: Conventional, Non-conventional and Open learning programmes.
- Professional, Technical and Skill-Based education.
- Value education and environmental education.
- Policies, Governance and Administration.
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