Syllabus

No, and they are set by different authorities. CTET is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education for the whole country. The West Bengal Primary TET is conducted by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, and the Upper Primary test is set by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission — it is not a WBBPE examination, which is a common source of confusion. The subjects overlap a great deal, but the papers, the weightings and the wording are each Board’s own, so both are reproduced here separately rather than merged into one list.

643 headings across the 4 papers covered here, and each card above gives the breakdown for its own track — subjects, topics and headings counted from the published syllabus rather than estimated. The heading is the smallest unit: it is what a question is set on and what a lesson is written against.

From the Board that sets it: West Bengal Board of Primary Education at wbbpe.wb.gov.in, and Central Board of Secondary Education at ctet.nic.in. The Boards’ own documents are not rehosted here, because a PDF copied onto another site is the one that goes out of date without anybody noticing. What this page gives you instead is the same syllabus as a structure you can open, search and study from, with each line marked as the Board’s wording or as our breakdown of it.

It is taken from the latest syllabus document each Board has published, and every line says which document that was. One exception is marked on the card above and worth knowing: Upper Primary TET follows an earlier framework that has not been confirmed against a current notification, so it is labelled provisional rather than presented as settled. Always check the notification you are applying under before you rely on any syllabus, here or anywhere else.

The headings themselves are reproduced in the Board’s own wording, which is English, because translating an official line and presenting it as official would be putting words in their mouth. The study material written against those headings is a different matter: 10 lessons are written in Bengali, practice questions carry Bengali wherever a full translation exists, and you choose the language when you start a paper.

Yes — a TET paper can draw on any part of its syllabus, and there is no section that is reliably left out. What changes between subjects is how many marks each carries, which is set out on the exam pattern page. The useful way to use this syllabus is not to look for shortcuts in it but to work down it heading by heading, so that nothing is a surprise on the day.

The Boards publish their syllabus at a certain level of detail, and some of their topics are broad enough that studying them straight is hard. Where we have split one into smaller headings to make it workable, that heading is labelled as ours rather than presented as official wording. It is the same content, divided more finely — and labelled so you can tell the difference at a glance.