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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 related to Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment, and Institution.

Methods of teaching in higher learning institutions: Teacher-centred vs learner-centered methods; offline vs online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.).

Teaching support system: Traditional, modern, and ICT based.

Evaluation systems: Elements and types of evaluation, evaluation in Choice Based Credit Systems in higher education, computer-based testing, innovations in evaluation systems.

Research Aptitude

Research: Meaning, types, and characteristics, positivism and post-positivistic approach to research.

Methods of research: Experimental, descriptive, historical, qualitative and quantitative methods.

Steps of research.

Thesis and article writing: Format and styles of referencing.

Application of ICT in research.

Research ethics.

Comprehension

A passage of text is given. Questions are asked from the passage which needs 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 and Aptitude

Types of 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, the structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure, formal and informal fallacies, uses of language, connotations, and denotations of terms, the classical square of opposition.

Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.

Analogies.

Venn diagram: Simple and multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments.

Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.

Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension)

Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)

Logical Reasoning

Data Interpretation

Sources, acquisition and classification of data.

Quantitative and qualitative data.

Graphical representation (bar-chart, histograms, pie-chart, table-chart and line-chart) and mapping of data

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:

Human and environment interaction

Environmental issues

Impacts of pollutants on human health

Natural and energy resources

Natural hazards and disasters

Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance

Natural hazards and disasters

Higher Education System

Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.

Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence India.

Oriental, conventional and non-conventional learning programmes in India

Professional, technical and skill-based education.

Value education and environmental education

Policies, governance, and administration