HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

TGT English is built around classroom application. Grammar appears as something you must be able to explain, phonetics as something you must be able to model, and literature as material you would be teaching rather than simply reading. The pedagogy questions are where prepared candidates separate themselves.

This guide covers the complete official syllabus: sixty marks of core English grammar, phonetics, literature and language teaching, the ninety marks of common papers taken by every Level-2 candidate, and the 2026 exam pattern as notified by the Board.

HTET TGT English Exam Pattern at a Glance - HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

The mark distribution is worth fixing in your head before you look at the topics. HTET Level-2 has only one paper of 150 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) carrying 150 marks, with a duration of two-and-a-half hours and no negative marking. Each question has four alternatives, out of which one is correct.

The qualifying mark is 60% (90 marks) for all categories, and 55% (82 marks) for Scheduled Castes and Differently Abled/Physically Challenged candidates of Haryana.

Part 1: Common Subjects Syllabus (90 Marks) - HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

Securing high scores in the common section is the secret to clearing the cut-off. The same three sections appear in every Level-2 paper.

1. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Marks)

This section focuses on the educational psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the age group of 11–16 years. HTET Child Development and Psychology practice questions.

• Child Development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, principles of the development of children, influence of Heredity & Environment.
• Socialization Processes: Social world & children – teacher, parents and peers.
• Key Theories: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky – constructs and critical perspectives.
• Concepts: Child-centred and progressive education; critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence; Multi-Dimensional Intelligence; Language & Thought.
• Gender & Diversity: Gender as a social construct, gender roles, gender bias and educational practice; individual differences among learners based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community and religion.
• Assessment: Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment; Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation; formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels and critical thinking.
• Inclusive Education: Understanding children with special needs, learners from disadvantaged and deprived backgrounds, children with learning difficulties and impairment, and addressing talented, creative and specially abled learners.
• Learning & Pedagogy: How children think and learn; why children “fail” to achieve success; basic processes of teaching and learning; learning as a social activity; child as a problem solver and “scientific investigator”; understanding children’s “errors” as significant steps in learning; cognition & emotions; motivation; personal and environmental factors contributing to learning.

2. Language Proficiency (30 Marks)

Split evenly between Hindi and English, this part tests your foundational linguistic control and language pedagogy.

• Language I – Hindi (15 Marks): One unseen passage from prose, drama or poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability. Practise the Hindi Grammar question bank here.
• Language II – English (15 Marks): One unseen prose passage (discursive, literary, narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability. Practise the English Grammar question bank here.
• Pedagogy of Language Development (both languages): Learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking and how children use language as a tool; critical perspective on the role of grammar; challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders; language skills.
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, multi-media materials and multilingual resources of the classroom.

3. General Studies (30 Marks)

A composite section designed to test your mental aptitude and awareness of Haryana.

• Haryana G.K. and Awareness (10 Marks): Haryana related history, current affairs, literature, geography, civics, environment, culture, art, traditions and welfare schemes of the Haryana Government. Attempt the Haryana GK practice set.
• General Intelligence & Reasoning (10 Marks): Semantic, symbolic/number and figural analogy; classification; series; problem solving; word building; coding & decoding; numerical and symbolic operations; trends; space orientation and visualization; Venn diagrams; drawing inferences; punched hole and pattern folding/unfolding; figural pattern folding and completion; indexing; address matching; date & city matching; embedded figures; critical thinking; emotional and social intelligence. Solve the Reasoning practice set.
• Quantitative Aptitude (10 Marks): Whole numbers, decimals, fractions and relationships between numbers; percentage; ratio & proportion; square roots; averages; interest; profit and loss; discount; partnership business; mixture and allegation; time and distance; time & work; basic algebraic identities and elementary surds; graphs of linear equations; triangle and its various kinds of centres; congruence and similarity of triangles; circle and its chords and tangents; quadrilaterals; regular polygons; right prism, right circular cone and cylinder, sphere, hemispheres, rectangular parallelepiped and regular right pyramid; trigonometric ratios; degree and radian measures; standard identities; complementary angles; heights and distances; histogram, frequency polygon, bar diagram & pie chart. Practise the Mathematics question bank.

Part II: Core Subject – English (60 Marks)

Questions are based on the topics of the syllabus prescribed by the Board of School Education Haryana for classes VI to X, but their difficulty level can be raised up to the under-graduate stage. The 60-mark English paper is divided into three parts.

A) Reading Comprehension and Pedagogy of English

• Reading Comprehension: One or two unseen passages (prose or poem) to assess the candidate’s ability to comprehend, analyse and interpret the text.
• Aims and Objectives: Aims and objectives of teaching English at the secondary level.
• Methods and Approaches: Methods and approaches of teaching the English language, including the structural, communicative and direct approaches.
• Teaching Aids: Teaching aids and the use of ICT in the classroom.

B) Grammar and Usage

• Verbs and Tenses: Verb patterns and the complete system of tenses.
• Sentences: Analysis of sentences and transformation of sentences.
• Voice and Narration: Active and passive voice, direct and indirect narration.
• Determiners: Articles, determiners and auxiliaries – both primary and modal.
• Vocabulary in Use: Idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs.
• Parts of Speech in Detail: Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection and preposition.
• Basic Phonetics: Word formation, vowel and consonant sounds and simple transcription.

C) Literature

• Text-based questions selected from the prescribed syllabus of the Board of School Education Haryana for classes VI to X.
• Prose, poetry and supplementary reader texts – themes, characters, central ideas and literary devices.
• The difficulty level of the questions may be raised to the under-graduate level, so read the prescribed texts closely rather than relying on summaries.

D) Subject-Related Pedagogy

• Nature of language and language acquisition, principles of language teaching at the secondary stage.
• Development of the four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• Teaching-learning material, language laboratory, remedial teaching and error analysis.
• Evaluation and assessment in English, designing comprehension and grammar test items.

How to Prepare for the HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

Questions in Level-2 are set on the topics prescribed by the Board of School Education Haryana for classes VI to X, but their difficulty and conceptual linkages can extend up to the senior secondary stage. Plan accordingly.

• Start with the BSEH/NCERT textbooks of classes VI–X for English and build your notes chapter-wise before touching any guidebook.
• Do not treat the common block as secondary - it is the most predictable part of the paper.
• Revise Haryana G.K. and current affairs weekly; this is the section most candidates leave until it is too late.
• Full-length timed practice is what builds exam pace.
• Solve previous year HTET Level-2 English papers to understand the question style and the recurring topics.
• Pedagogy is easy to postpone and easy to score on; prepare it early.

Official Notification and Useful Links - HTET TGT English Syllabus 2026

Always cross-check the syllabus with the official bulletin before you begin. The Board of School Education Haryana publishes the HTET notification, syllabus and sample papers on its official portal.

• Official BSEH website: bseh.org.in
• HTET previous year question papers (Level-II): Download the English sample paper

Other Important Links:

• Psychology Practice Set
• Haryana GK Practice Set
• Hindi Grammar Practice Set
• English Grammar Practice Set
• Reasoning Practice Set
• Mathematics Practice Set