West Bengal · Upper Primary

Upper Primary TET

Classes VI–VIII

Strengthen your knowledge and shape confident learners. Every topic below is one you can open, study and practise.

  • Concept clarity for higher classes
  • Subject-wise practice
  • Build pedagogical skills

This track follows an earlier West Bengal TET framework. It has not been confirmed against a current official notification, so treat its structure and syllabus as provisional.

5

Subjects

38

Topics

250

Subtopics

873

Practice questions

Key features

Syllabus

Chapter-wise topics across all five parts of the paper.

Practice questions

Bilingual MCQs in Bengali and English, each with an explanation.

Mock tests

Timed full papers, marked on the server the way the real one is.

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Previous papers

Past papers with solutions, once verified against their source.

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Progress tracking

Know your strengths, subject by subject and topic by topic.

Study materials

Notes and reading for each topic as they are written.

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About this exam

The Upper Primary TET is the eligibility test for teaching classes VI to VIII in West Bengal, conducted by the Central School Service Commission. The paper carries 150 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes: Child Development and Pedagogy, two languages chosen from eight, and either Mathematics and Science or Social Studies. Preparation here is in English, Hindi and Bengali.

Provisional structureConducted by West Bengal Board of Primary EducationOfficial site
Qualifying mark
60%

West Bengal applies a 5% relaxation, so 55% qualifies for SC, ST, OBC-A, OBC-B, PH/DA, EC, Ex-Servicemen and Death-in-harness candidates.

Negative marking
None

Every question carries one mark and nothing is deducted for a wrong answer.

Optional subject
Maths & Science or Social Studies

You sit one of the two, not both. It is worth 60 of the 150 marks.

Languages
Two from eight

The Commission offers Bengali, English, Hindi, Nepali, Oriya, Santhali, Telugu and Urdu — one as Language I and a different one as Language II. This site prepares three of them: English, Hindi and Bengali.

Syllabus status
Topics not confirmed

The pattern above comes from the Commission’s own 2016 question booklet. The list of topics does not: no official Upper Primary syllabus has been found — the documents in circulation are either reverse-engineered from past papers or are the CTET syllabus relabelled — so the syllabus here stays provisional.

Exam pattern

How the paper is made up, subject by subject.

Paper II

150 questions · 150 marks · 90 minutes · no negative marking

SubjectQuestionsMarks
Child Development & Pedagogy3030
Language IChoose from Bengali, English, Hindi3030
Language IIChoose from Bengali, English, Hindi3030
Mathematics & Science6060
Social Studies / Social Science6060
Total150150

These parts add up to more than 150 because the paper offers a choice: you sit one of the optional subjects, not all of them. Your own paper still comes to 150 questions.

5 subjects, 38 topics and 250 subtopics you can work through one at a time.

Books, a globe, a laptop and a microscope on a desk

Better teachers, stronger generations.

Subject depth and teaching sense together — the two things this paper actually tests.

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“Educate. Empower. Enable a brighter tomorrow.”— Birana TET