Unit-I: Teaching Aptitude

• 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, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-
  positivistic approach to research.
• Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative
  and 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 and characteristics of communication.
• Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and 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 and Relationships.
• Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and
  Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and 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 and 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) and
  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)

• 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 and 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 and 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.