MAHA TET 2026 syllabus is designed in a way to evaluate candidates’ teaching aptitude and subject knowledge for primary and upper primary levels in Maharashtra. The exam has two papers, Paper 1 for teaching to Classes 1 to 5 and Paper 2 for teaching to Classes 6 to 8, with each paper containing 150 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to be completed in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Both papers have three common sections, Child Development & Pedagogy, Language 1, and Language 2. The other sections vary with paper.
MAHA TET Paper 1 Syllabus
Paper 1 is for Classes 1 to 5 or primary standard. The subjects of Paper 1 include Child Development & Pedagogy, Language 1, Language 2, Mathematics and Environmental Studies.
MAHA TET Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus 2026
The topics of this section are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Child Development |
- Development, Growth & Maturation: Concept & Nature
- Principles of Development
- Factors influencing Development: Biological, Psychological, Sociological
- Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships: Physical & Motor,
- Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, Early Childhood, late Childhood.
- Understanding Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers
- Individual differences: Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes,
- Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment
- Development of Personality: Concept, Factors affecting the development of Personality
- Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Mental Health
- Methods and Approaches of Child Development: Observation, Interview, Case
- The study, Experimental, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal
- Developmental tasks and Hazards
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| Understanding Language |
- Concept, Nature of Learning – Input – Process – Outcome
- Factors of Learning: Personal and Environmental
- Approaches to Learning and their applicability: Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov,
- Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
- Dimensions of Learning: Cognitive, Affective and Performance
- Motivation and Sustenance: its role in learning.
- Memory & Forgetting
- Transfer of Learning
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| Pedological Concerns |
- Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner
- Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context
- Children from diverse contexts: Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education
- Understanding of Pedagogic methods: Enquiry based learning, Project-based
- learning, Survey, Observation and Activity-based learning
- Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns concerning organizing
- learning in the classroom like Study habits, Self-learning and Learning to learn skills
- Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups: Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest
- Paradigms of organizing Learning - Teacher centric, Subject centred and Learner centric
- Teaching as Planned activity: Elements of Planning
- Phases of Teaching:Pre active, Interactive and Post active
- General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator
- Learning resources: Self, Home, School, Community, Technology
- Classroom Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of the teacher,
- Creation of non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems,
- Guidance & Counseling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management.
- The distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice
- Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009.
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MAHA TET Language 1 Syllabus 2026
The languages included in this section are English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Sindhi, or Kannada. Its syllabus topics are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Language Comprehension |
- Reading unseen passages: Two passages prose or drama, and one poem, with questions on comprehension
- Inference
- Grammar
- Verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)
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| Pedagogy Concerns |
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language, and how children use it as a tool
- A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language Skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Language 2 Syllabus
This section covers two languages, i.e., English and Marathi. Candidates can choose any one language. The topics of this section are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Language Comprehension |
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability. |
| Pedagogy Concerns |
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language, and how children use it as a tool
- A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language Skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: Textbooks, multimedia materials, and multilingual resources in the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Mathematics Syllabus 2026
The topics of this subject are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Mathematics |
- Geometry
- Shapes & Spatial Understanding
- Solids around Us
- Numbers
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Measurement
- Weight
- Time
- Volume
- Data Handling
- Patterns
- Money
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| Pedagogy concerns |
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children's thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies for making meaning and learning
- Place of Mathematics in the Curriculum
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Evaluation through formal and informal methods
- Problems of Teaching
- Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
- Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Environmental Studies Syllabus 2026
The topics that this subject covers are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Environmental Studies |
- Family and Friends: Relationships, Work and Play, Animals, Plants
- Food
- Shelter
- Water
- Travel
- Things We Make and Do
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| Pedogogy concerns |
- Concept and scope of EVS
- Significance of EVS-integrated EVS
- Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
- Learning Principles
- Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
- Approaches to presenting concepts
- Activities
- Experimentation/Practical Work
- Discussion
- CCE (Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation)
- Teaching material/Aid
- Problems
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MAHA TET Paper 2 Syllabus 2026
Paper 2 is for those candidates who aspire to teach in Classes 6 to 8, or upper primary standard. The subjects of Paper 2 include Child Development & Pedagogy, Language 1, Language 2, Mathematics & Social Science/Social Studies.
MAHA TET Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus 2026
The topics of this subject include:
| Section |
Topics |
| Child Development |
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of the development of children
- Influence of Heredity & Environment
- Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
- Concepts of child-centred and progressive education
- Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
- Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
- Language & Thought
- Gender as a social construct: gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice
- Individual differences among learners: understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
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| Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs |
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds, including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, 'impairment', etc.
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, and Specially abled Learners
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| Learning and Pedagogy |
- How children think and learn; how and why children 'fail' to achieve success in school performance
- Basic processes of teaching and learning; children's strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning
- Child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's errors as significant steps in the learning process
- Cognition & Emotion
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
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MAHA TET Language 1 Syllabus 2026
The topics included in the English language paper are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Language Comprehension |
Reading unseen passages – two passages, one prose or drama, and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive) |
| Pedagogical concerns |
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language, and how children use it as a tool
- A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language Skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Language 2 Syllabus 2026
The topics included in Language Paper 2 are given below:
| Subject |
Topics |
| Language 2 |
Reading unseen passages – two passages, one prose or drama, and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive) |
| Pedagogy Concern |
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language Skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Mathematics Syllabus
The topics included in Mathematics section are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Mathematics |
- Number System
- Knowing our Numbers
- Playing with Numbers
- Whole Numbers
- Negative Numbers and Integers
- Fractions
- Algebra
- Introduction to Algebra
- Ratio and Proportion
- Geometry
- Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
- Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
- Symmetry: (reflection)
- Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
- Mensuration
- Data handling
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| Pedagogy concerns |
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking
- Place of Mathematics in the Curriculum
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
- Evaluation
- Remedial Teaching
- Problem of Teaching
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MAHA TET Science Syllabus 2026
The topics that MAHA TET science syllabus includes are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| Science |
- Food: Sources of food, Components of food, Cleaning food
- Materials of daily use
- The World of the Living
- Moving Things, People, and Ideas
- How things work “Electric current and circuits” Magnets
- Natural Phenomena
- Natural Resources
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| Pedagogy Concern |
- Nature & Structure of Sciences
- Natural Science/Aims & objectives
- Understanding & Appreciating Science
- Approaches/Integrated Approach
- Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
- Innovation
- Text Material/Aids
- Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
- Problems
- Remedial Teaching
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MAHA TET Social Science Syllabus 2026
The topics of this subject are given below:
| Section |
Topics |
| History |
- Nature & Structure of Sciences
- Natural Science/Aims & objectives
- Understanding & Appreciating Science
- Approaches/Integrated Approach
- Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
- Innovation
- Text Material/Aids
- Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
- Problems
- Remedial Teaching
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| Geography |
- Planet: Earth in the solar system
- Globe
- Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
- Air
- Water
- Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
- Resources: Types-Natural and Human
- Agriculture
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| Social & Polical Life |
- Diversity
- Government
- Local Government
- Making a Living
- Democracy
- State Government
- Understanding Media
- Unpacking Gender
- The Constitution
- Parliamentary Government
- The Judiciary
- Social Justice and the Marginalized
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In MAHA TET, the minimum qualifying marks are set at 60% (90 out of 150) for the General category. Reserved categories (SC/ST/OBC/PwBD) are required to obtain 55% (82 out of 150) to qualify. These qualifying marks apply irrespective of whether the candidate sits for Paper 1 (Classes 1 to 5) or Paper 2 (Classes 6 to 8) of the exam.
MAHA TET Syllabus 2026 FAQs
Ques: How many papers are included in MAHA TET exam?
Ans: MAHA TET consists of two papers, Paper 1 for teaching Classes 1 to 5 and Paper 2 for teaching Classes 6 to 8, both based on different syllabi and levels.
Ques: What is the marking scheme for MAHA TET 2026?
Ans: Each paper carries 150 questions for 150 marks, with one mark for each correct answer. There is no negative marking, encouraging candidates to attempt all questions confidently.
Ques: What is the exam duration for both MAHA TET papers?
Ans: Each paper of MAHA TET exam is conducted for 2 hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes), requiring effective time management to complete all questions.
Ques: What languages are available in MAHA TET exam papers?
Ans: MAHA TET exam is offered in multiple languages including Marathi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, and others, allowing candidates to select their preferred language.
Ques: Is MAHA TET syllabus the same for both papers?
Ans: No. The syllabus differs. Paper 1 focuses on basic teaching and child learning concepts, while Paper 2 emphasizes subject specialization and advanced teaching methodology for upper primary classes.
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