CTET Paper I - 1 March 2026: Set K
CTET Paper I · 146 questions · 150 minutes · 146 marks · no negative marking · pass at 60%
The CTET Paper I sitting of 1 March 2026 (Set K), in the order the Board set it: Child Development and Pedagogy, Mathematics, Environmental Studies, then both languages. It holds 146 of the paper's 150 questions; the 4 we could not source cleanly from the booklet are left out rather than replaced with substitutes, and the paper is marked out of 146. Every question is the Board's own, with its original number.
Before you start
- The clock runs on the server. Closing the tab does not pause it, and the test submits itself when the time is up.
- Answers are saved as you go. If your connection drops, what reached the server is kept.
- You can mark a question for review and come back to it while time remains.
- Answers and explanations appear only after you submit.
One mark per question and no negative marking, so answer every one — a guess costs nothing. The clock is kept on the server, so closing the tab does not stop it. This is a real paper that has already been sat; treat it as a rehearsal of the day rather than a source of new questions, because you will have met some of them in practice.
What this paper is made of
Counted from the 146 questions in this paper rather than from the syllabus in general, so what is described is this set and not the subject as a whole. 146 of them were set by the Board in a previous year and are recorded with the paper and question number they came from.
Child Development and Pedagogy
30 questions
Child Development
21
Development and learning (15) · Assessment (3) · Intelligence, language and difference (3)
Inclusive education and children with special needs
4
Addressing diverse learners (4)
Learning and Pedagogy
5
How children learn (5)
Mathematics
27 questions
Content
17
Numbers and operations (7) · Geometry (5) · Data, patterns and money (4) · Measurement (1)
Pedagogical issues
10
Teaching mathematics (10)
Environmental Studies
30 questions
Content
15
Themes (12) · Family and Friends (3)
Pedagogical Issues
15
Teaching environmental studies (15)
Language I
29 questions
Language Comprehension
14
Unseen passages (14)
Pedagogy of Language Development
15
Language pedagogy (15)
Language II
30 questions
Comprehension
15
Unseen passages (15)
Pedagogy of Language Development
15
Language pedagogy (15)
How this one is marked
- Questions
- 146, one mark each
- Time
- 150 minutes, on the server clock
- Wrong answers
- Cost nothing
- Qualifying
- 60% of 146
Every question carries the answer and the reason for it, shown after you submit rather than while you are working. A mock test you can check as you go measures your reading, not your preparation.
Where these questions come from
Every question in this paper is published on this site and sits on a heading of the official syllabus. Some were set by the Board in a previous year and are recorded with the paper and question number they came from; the rest were written for this site against the same syllabus heading, and are labelled as ours rather than presented as the Board's.
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