Kerala SET 2022 Syllabus: Subject - Wise Syllabus Pdf, Preparation Tips

Kerala SET 2022 Syllabus 

Candidates must know the syllabus to fetch good marks in the exam. Also on knowing the syllabus, the candidates can prepare well for the examination. The aspirants can check the Kerala SET exam 2020 syllabus for both the papers hearby;

Kerala SET 2022 Paper 1 Syllabus - General Knowledge and Teaching Aptitude

Following is the syllabus for Kerala SET Paper 1:

• General Science - Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
• Social Science - Economics, History, Geography and Indian Polity
• Humanities- Literature (Classics and Masterpieces of World and Indian Literature), Art (Major art forms of India) and Culture (Life and Society in India)
• Kerala Studies – Kerala Model of Development, Social reforms, National Movements, Literature, Art and Culture

• Comprehension and Vocabulary
• Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability
• Basic English Grammar
• Numeracy Skills - Pattern Recognition and Orders of Magnitude

• Technology – Innovations, Discoveries and Inventions
• Environmental Issues, Movements, Treaties and Legislations -National and International.
• UN and Global Affairs
• Institutions of Higher Learning and Research, Scholarships and New Initiatives
• Indian Constitution and Politics and Recent Legislation –Right to Information and Right to Education
• Events, Persons and Awards
• Sports and Games
• Culture (Films, Literature, Music and Performing Arts)

• Educational Philosophy - Major Philosophical divisions and its impact on aims, curriculum, and methods of teaching - Concept of teacher, freedom and Discipline
• Major philosophical systems in the East – Six Schools of Indian philosophy, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islamic thought
• Major philosophical systems in the West – Humanism and Realism, Democracy and Critical Pedagogy, Idealism, Naturalism, Pragmatism
• Eminent thinkers in Education – Plato, Rousseau, Montessori, Gandhiji, Tagore, Vivekananda, Frobel, John Dewey, Paulo Freire
• Value education – Religious and moral education and development of values, Value crisis, Classification of values, Significance of value education

• The relation between education and sociology - Meaning and scope of education and sociology, Interactive role of education and society, sociology of Education, the relationship between education and culture.
• Social functions of education - functions of society towards education Various functions of education in society. Functions of education with regard to Culture – Preservation, Transformation and Transmission.
• Education and social institutions – Role of various social institutions to inculcate values connected with Democracy and Secularism, Major social institutions and National Integration, Concept of the global village.
• Education and socialization – Factors influencing socialization, value orientation - Teacher as a Change Agent and Nation builder, Cultural lag, cultural inertia, Cultural diffusion,  education and socialization process, Acculturation

• Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Clinical Psychology. Applications of Psychology, Guidance and Counselling, life skills education etc.
• Personality- Approaches- Psychoanalytic, Trait approaches, Behaviouristic, Humanistic. Motivation - Intrinsic and extrinsic. Approaches to motivation - behavioural, humanistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural
• Intelligence - Multiple intelligence, Factor theories. Measurement of intelligence Binet, Wechsler. 
• Social and Cognitive development- Vygotsky, Language, Erikson, Piaget- structure and development. 
• Adolescent characteristics- Cognitive, Emotional and Motivational aspects. Peer influence. Parenting difficulties
• History of Education in Kerala and India. Early education history of India, the introduction of modern English Education, Government’s role in pre-Independence India, major reports & documents on education. Important personalities in Education in India and Kerala
• Reports and Policies on Education in post-independence period – NPE - first, second & third, BPEGEL, IEDSS
• Acts and Bills Relevant to higher education: Major Bills and Acts on Higher education promulgated by the Parliament of India and the Legislative Assembly of Kerala
• Programmes for Universalisation of Education - SSA, RMSA, RTE, DPEP, RUSA, Saakshar Bharat 
• Institutions of Education at National and state-level - NUEPA, SCERT, DIET, CTE, MHRD, UGC, NCTE NCERT, SIET, etc

• Teaching aptitude – Teacher characteristics, Teaching as a profession, Skill-based theoretical knowledge, Teacher competency and teacher accountability,
• Administrative aptitude – Administrative models, administrative roles of teachers, obligations to students, parents and society
• Reflective practices –components in reflective practice, innovative teaching, mechanisms of feedback to learners, self-assessment.
• Professional Development – Needs for professional development, technological advancement, professional associations, Preservice and in-service training, cluster
  training, teacher rating & grading
• Teacher Characteristics – Essential characters for a quality teacher, professional qualities, teacher as an agent of social reformation. 
• Teaching skills, Methods of teaching, Techniques and approaches to teaching, Instructional models of teaching, Teaching & Learning resources, Learning theories, Applications of learning theories, Learner characteristics, Learning environment, Learners with special needs, Tools and techniques for evaluation, Continuous Evaluation, Terminal evaluation, Grading, Feedback and remediation.
• Communication and Education, Basic principles of communication, Types of communication, Barriers in communication, Classroom application of communication, Basics of Computer Knowledge, Computer Networks &Internet, Office Tools, ICT Enabled Learning, General Applications, Basic aspects of educational research, Types of research, Methods, Tools & techniques of research, Action research and Reporting of research.
• Planning and administration at the national level, Organisational structure of education in the state, School administration, Management & Governance, International agencies and education.

Kerala SET 2022 Paper 2 Syllabus -Based on PG Level subjects

Get the details of Kerala SET 2022 Paper 2 syllabus below:

• Social-Cultural Anthropology: Nature, Scope and Subject matter
• Branches of Anthropology
• Emerging trends and specializations in Anthropology.
• Culture, Society and Community
• Social structure and Social Organization
• Status and Role
• Culture- Explicit and Implicit, Structure, Attributes and paradoxes
• Culture Processes- Enculturation, Acculturation, Diffusion, Cultural Pluralism
• Concept, definitions, functions and universality; Family and household
• Residence patterns –matrilocal, patrilocal, neolocal, bilocal and others.
• Marriage payments- Dowry and Bride price; Wealth and its relation to marriage stability.
• Forms and types of marriage.
• Concept of Kinship and its place in Social structure.
• Rules of descent and residence.
• Kin groups - Lineage, Clan, Phratry, Moiety and Tribe
• Kinship Terminology
• Types of political organization, Concepts of power, authority and legitimacy.
• State and Stateless societies
• Social stratification and mobility in and outside the caste
• Approaches to the study of social stratification in India
• Forms of religion in tribal and peasant societies
• The distinction between magic religion and science
• Modes of exchange: Reciprocity, Distribution and Redistribution - Kula Ring and Potlatch
• Economic change and adaptation in societies
• Concept, history, development and scope
• Classification, distribution and features of living non-human primates (functional and adaptation significances)
• Chromosomes and genes
• Multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance (ABO blood groups, colour blindness, albinism, brachydactyly, Alkaptonuria)
• Evolution of Indian education system: British, British and Post-independence
• Study of a selected cultural region in India
• Social science, value, subjectivity, Intersubjective objectivity
• Hypotheses formulation
• Features of anthropological fieldwork
• Evolutionary school of thought
• Malinowski’s contributions to functionalism
• Health care system and Health care services; Heath education
• Constitutional Safeguards and Legislative measures
• Economic theories

• Muallaqath & Poets of Muallaqath
• Poets of Prophet and Muhalramoon
• Umayyad period
• Modern Period
• Islamic & Umayyath
• Thafseer and authors, Sihahu, sitha and other 
• Journalism, Essay & Biography, Arabic Grammer

• Bacteria - Classification, Ultrastructure of cell, metabolism, growth
• Viruses - Classification, Structure, reproduction. Bacteriophages, lysogenic and lytic cycles. viroids, virions, prions, retroviruses
• Phycology - Chlorophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyceae. Economic importance of Algae 
• Mycology - Classification of  fungi, General structure, reproduction and life cycle of different groups- Myxomycetes, Zygomycetes, Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, 
•  Morphology, Taxonomy of Angiosperms,  Histology, Microtechnique and Histochemistry
• Functional Plant Biology and Analysis Plant Physiology
•  Bioinformatics

• Periodicity and Chemistry of Main Group Elements
•  Chemistry of transition and inner transition elements
•  Organometallic chemistry
•  Bioinorganic chemistry
•  Electron displacement effects and Aromaticity
• Photochemistry and Pericyclic Reactions
•  Natural Products and Biomolecules
•  Thermodynamics
•  Electrochemistry
•  Surface Chemistry, Colloids and Catalysis
• Quantum Mechanics
• Basic principles in Analytical Chemistry
•  Environmental Chemistry

• Cell Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
• Biochemistry, Enzymology and Biophysics and Instrumentation
• Microbiology, Immunology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Genetic Engineering, Plant and Animal Bio Technology, Biosafety, Bioethics and Regulation
• Bioinformatics, Biostatistics Bioinformatics and computational biology, IPR , Patent laws in
  Biotechnology
• Environmental Biotechnology Food and Diary Biotechnology, Bio Process Engineering, Nano bio
  Technology, Environmental microbiology

• Basic concepts of management
• Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, communicating, motivating and controlling
• Business Environment, Policy and MIS
• Financial and Corporate Accounting
• Quantitative Techniques & Research methods
• Cost and Management Accounting
• Financial Management and Marketing

• Theory of Consumer Behaviour
• Market Structure and Equilibrium Price and Output Determination
• Macroeconomic Schools and Policies
• Macroeconomic Framework
• Statistical Methods
• Mathematical Methods
• Kerala’s Economic Development
• Quantitative Methods for Economic Analysis

• Download the Kerala SET 2022 detailed syllabus Pdf from here(for all subjects)
• Download the Kerala SET 2022 detailed syllabs pdf for Biotechnology

Preparation Tips for Kerala SET 2022

To begin with the preparation of Kerala SET (LBS) 2022, candidates can read the following prepatory tips to fetch good markd in the entrance exam:

• List out important topics: With the detailed syllabus provided above, list out important topics for exam which can be find out from previous year's question papers. Paractice those topics thoroly to get the concepts clear. Similarly, make a note of weak sections and then practice those topics.
• Make a proper and precise notes of all and prepare them in such a way that it helps in quick revision. Draw diagrams, pointers, flow charts, etc to make notes easily readable.
• Practise: Try to practice one topic a day from each paper. Maintain a schedule with different topics and of each subject and prepare them accordingly. Sceduled study helps in covering all sections.
• Revision: Fix the certain time of a day for revision. By revising topics each day, it will be easy for candidates to memorize different sections.