HTET TGT Hindi Syllabus 2026

HTET TGT Hindi Syllabus 2026

हिन्दी at Level-2 tests command of the language as a teaching subject - व्याकरण you can explain, साहित्य you can place in period and movement, and a grasp of भाषा शिक्षण that stands up to a classroom question. Native fluency helps, but it does not by itself carry the pedagogy section.

Below is the full official syllabus from the Board of School Education Haryana: sixty marks of core Hindi language, literature and teaching methodology, the ninety marks of common papers every Level-2 candidate sits, and the complete 2026 exam pattern.

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

Start with how the marks are split - it shapes everything that follows. 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 Hindi Syllabus 2026

Securing high scores in the common section is the secret to clearing the cut-off. All Level-2 candidates answer these same three sections, whatever their teaching subject.

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 – Hindi (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 and conceptual linkages can extend up to the senior secondary stage. The 60-mark Hindi paper is divided into three parts.

A) हिन्दी भाषा एवं साहित्य का इतिहास (History of Hindi Language and Literature)

• भाषा के विविध रूप एवं संवैधानिक स्थिति: The various forms of the Hindi language and its constitutional position.
• हिन्दी भाषा का इतिहास: The historical development of the Hindi language.
• देवनागरी लिपि का इतिहास: History of the Devanagari script, its scientific character (वैज्ञानिकता) and special features (विशेषताएँ).
• हिन्दी साहित्य का इतिहास: History of Hindi literature, its नामकरण (naming of periods) and विविध प्रवृत्तियाँ (the various literary trends of each age).

B) माध्यमिक स्तरीय एवं पाठ्यक्रम में संकलित रचनाओं की जानकारी (Prescribed Texts)

• बसंत भाग 1, 2 एवं 3: Questions based on the गद्य (prose) and पद्य (poetry) compositions collected in these textbooks.
• कविताओं का अध्ययन: Questions based on the भाव (theme), भाषा (language) and शैली पक्ष (stylistic aspect) of the poems in the syllabus.
• गद्य रचनाएँ: Questions based on knowledge of the prose compositions in the syllabus and their various aspects.
• शब्द भंडार: पर्यायवाची (synonyms), विलोम (antonyms) and अनेकार्थक शब्द (words with multiple meanings) appearing in the syllabus, along with वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द (one word substitution).

C) काव्यशास्त्र एवं व्याकरण (Poetics and Grammar)

• काव्य गुण एवं काव्य दोष: Questions based on the merits and defects of poetry.
• अलंकार: उपमा, रूपक, उत्प्रेक्षा, वक्रोक्ति, श्लेष, अतिशयोक्ति, असंगति एवं दृष्टान्त.
• छंद: दोहा, रोला, हरिगीतिका, मालिनी, कवित्त, सवैया एवं वंशस्थ.
• रस: रस एवं रस के अवयव (the components of rasa).
• वर्ण विचार: स्वर एवं व्यंजन के प्रकार, प्रयत्न एवं स्थान की दृष्टि से वर्गीकरण.
• शब्द विचार: तत्सम, तद्भव, देशज एवं विदेशज शब्द.
• शब्द रचना: संधि, समास, उपसर्ग एवं प्रत्यय.
• विकारी शब्द: संज्ञा, सर्वनाम, विशेषण एवं क्रिया.
• अविकारी शब्द: क्रियाविशेषण, संबंधसूचक, समुच्चयबोधक एवं विस्मयादिबोधक.
• वाक्य एवं पद विचार: Identification of शुद्ध वाक्य (grammatically correct sentences).
• मुहावरे एवं लोकोक्तियाँ: Idioms and proverbs.
• शुद्धाशुद्ध: शब्द एवं वर्तनी पर आधारित शुद्ध-अशुद्ध प्रश्न (spelling correction).

D) Subject-Related Pedagogy

• हिन्दी भाषा शिक्षण के उद्देश्य – aims and objectives of teaching Hindi at the upper primary and secondary level.
• भाषा शिक्षण की विधियाँ एवं प्रविधियाँ – methods and approaches of language teaching.
• शिक्षण सहायक सामग्री – teaching-learning material, language laboratory and the use of ICT.
• मूल्यांकन – evaluation and assessment in Hindi, error analysis and remedial teaching.

How to Prepare for the HTET TGT Hindi 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 Hindi and build your notes chapter-wise before touching any guidebook.
• Treat the common 90 marks seriously: child development, languages and general studies are predictable and therefore winnable.
• Revise Haryana G.K. and current affairs weekly; this is the section most candidates leave until it is too late.
• Sit full 150-question mocks under the clock; pacing is a separate skill from knowing the material.
• Solve previous year HTET Level-2 Hindi papers to understand the question style and the recurring topics.
• Subject pedagogy overlaps with child development, so preparing one strengthens the other.

Official Notification and Useful Links - HTET TGT Hindi 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 Hindi 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