MPESB MSPSTET 2026 Exam Pattern & Syllabus – Primary & Secondary Teacher

1. Child Development & Pedagogy – 30 Questions

• Concept of child development and its relationship with learning
• Factors influencing development and growth
• Principles of child development
• Mental health and behavioural problems
• Influence of heredity and environment
• Socialization process
• Role of teachers, parents and peers
• Piaget, Pavlov, Kohler and Thorndike
• Constructivism and critical perspectives
• Child-centred and progressive education
• Intelligence and its measurement
• Multiple-dimensional intelligence
• Personality and its measurement
• Language and thought
• Gender as a social construct
• Gender bias and educational practices
• Individual differences among learners
• Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
• School-based assessment
• Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)

Inclusive Education – 5 Questions

• Inclusive education
• Disadvantaged and deprived learners
• Children with special needs
• Learning difficulties and disabilities
• Gifted and creative learners
• Specially-abled learners
• Identification of problematic children
• Child delinquency

Learning & Pedagogy – 10 Questions

• How children think and learn
• Reasons for poor school performance
• Teaching and learning processes
• Children's learning strategies
• Learning as a social process
• Child as a problem solver and scientific investigator
• Alternative conceptions of learning
• Children's errors as learning steps
• Attention and interest
• Cognition and emotion
• Motivation and learning
• Personal and environmental factors
• Guidance and counselling
• Aptitude
• Memory and forgetting

2. Language-I – 30 Questions

The Language-I section focuses on language comprehension and language pedagogy.

• Two unseen passages
• Prose passage
• Poetry passage
• Comprehension
• Explanation
• Grammar
• Verbal ability
• Learning and acquisition of language
• Principles of language teaching
• Listening and speaking
• Functions of language
• Role of grammar
• Language teaching in diverse classrooms
• Language difficulties and errors
• Listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Teaching-learning materials
• Textbooks and multimedia materials
• Remedial teaching

3. Language-II – 30 Questions

Language-II follows the broad structure of comprehension and language pedagogy. The selected Language-II must be different from Language-I.

4. Mathematics – 30 Questions

• Number system
• Whole numbers
• Fractions
• Basic arithmetic
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Patterns
• Data-related concepts
• Problem solving
• Mathematical reasoning
• Mathematics pedagogy
• Teaching-learning processes in mathematics
• Common learning difficulties and errors

5. Environmental Studies – 30 Questions

• Family and friends
• Animals and birds
• Food
• Shelter and housing
• Water
• Travel
• Plants
• Environment
• Pollution
• Natural resources
• Disaster-related awareness
• Basic space and science awareness
• Environmental Studies pedagogy
• Teaching-learning materials and classroom activities

Part-A – 30 Questions

1. Language-I – 8 Questions

• Word and language knowledge
• Punctuation
• Sentence formation
• Sentence transformation
• Types of sentences
• Idioms and proverbs
• Dialect and mother tongue
• Poetry and poetic forms
• Prosody
• Alankara
• Rasa
• Unseen prose and poetry
• Essay writing
• Letter writing
• Hindi literature
• Language pedagogy

2. General English – 5 Questions

Basic English language knowledge, comprehension and language-use related areas along with language-development pedagogy.

3. General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Reasoning & Numerical Ability – 7 Questions

• National and international current affairs
• Indian history and Indian National Movement
• Indian and World Geography
• Indian Constitution and political system
• Panchayati Raj
• Rights and public issues
• Economic and social development
• Environment and ecology
• Biodiversity and climate change
• General science
• Indian culture and sports
• Madhya Pradesh history, geography and political science
• Madhya Pradesh economic and social development
• Logical reasoning
• Coding-decoding
• Analogy
• Series and patterns
• Relations and hierarchy
• Numerical ability
• Data interpretation
• Direction sense

4. Pedagogy – 10 Questions

• Child development and learning
• Factors affecting development
• Child-centred education
• Intelligence
• Individual differences
• Assessment
• Inclusive education
• Children with special needs
• Learning difficulties
• Gifted and creative learners
• Learning and pedagogy
• Motivation
• Cognition and emotion
• Guidance and counselling
• Memory and forgetting

Part-B – 120 Questions

Part-B is the subject-specific section and carries 120 marks. Candidates should prepare the syllabus of the selected teaching subject at the prescribed level.

• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Science
• Hindi
• English
• Sanskrit
• Urdu
• Other prescribed subjects as applicable