TNSET 2025 - GENERAL PAPER ON TEACHING & RESEARCH APTITUDE

GENERAL PAPER-I

GENERAL PAPER ON TEACHING & RESEARCH APTITUDE

Code No. : 2400 

Unit-I Teaching Aptitude (Click here to see Tamil Notes) 

• 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 Institutions of higher learning:
• Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods;
• Off-line vs. On-line 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 System in Higher education,
• Computer based testing,
• Innovations in evaluation systems.

Unit-II Research Aptitude

• Research:
• Meaning
• Types
• Characteristics
• Positivism and Post- positivistic approach to research.
• Methods of Research
• Experimental
• Descriptive
• Historical
• Qualitative
• Quantitative methods.
• Steps of Research.
• Thesis and Article writing:
• Format and styles of referencing.
• Application of ICT in research.
• Research ethics.

Unit-III Comprehension

• A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

Unit-IV Communication

• Communication:
• Meaning
• Types
• Characteristics of communication.
• Effective communication:
• Verbal and Non-verbal,
• Inter-Cultural
• Group communications
• Classroom communication.
• Barriers to effective communication.
• Mass-Media and Society.

Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude Types of reasoning.

• Number series
• Letter series
• Codes
• Relationships.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
• Fraction
• Time & Distance
• Ratio
• Proportion
• Percentage
• Profit and Loss
• Interest
• Discounting
• Averages etc..

Unit-VI Logical Reasoning

• Understanding the structure of arguments:
• Argument forms
• Structure of categorical propositions
• Mood and Figure
• Formal and Informal fallacies
• Uses of language
• Connotations
• 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:
• Pratyaksha (Perception),
• Anumana (Inference)
• Upamana (Comparison)
• Shabda (Verbal testimony)
• Arthapatti (Implication)
• Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).
• Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference)
• Vyapti (invariable relation)
• Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).

Unit-VII 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 Interpretation.
• Data and Governance.

Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT):

• General abbreviations and terminology.
• Basics of Internet
• Intranet
• E-mail
• Audio and Video-conferencing.
• Digital initiatives in higher education.
• ICT and Governance.

Unit-IX People, Development and Environment

• Development and environment:
• Millennium development
• 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
• Hydro
• Geothermal
• Biomass
• Nuclear
• Forests.
• Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.
• 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.

Unit-X 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.

NOTE:

• (i) Five questions each carrying 2 marks are to be set from each Module.
• (ii) Whenever graphical/pictorial question(s) are set for sighted candidates, a passage followed by equal number of questions and weightage be set for visually impaired candidates.