Unit 1: Teaching Aptitude 

Teaching: Nature, objectives, characteristics, and basic requirements.

Learner's characteristics.
Factors affecting teaching.
Teaching methods.
Teaching aids.
Evaluation systems.

Unit 2: Research Aptitude
Research: Meaning, characteristics, and types.
Steps of research.
Methods of research.
Research ethics.
Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference, and symposium.
Thesis writing.

Unit 3: Reading Comprehension

Unit 4: Communication
Communication: Nature, characteristics, types, barriers, and effective classroom communication.
Communication and classroom communication.

Unit 5: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
Number series, letter series, codes, and relationships.
Mathematical reasoning and quantitative aptitude.

Unit 6: Logical Reasoning
Understanding the structure of arguments.
Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
Verbal analogies.
Verbal classification.

Unit 7: Data Interpretation
Sources, acquisition, and interpretation of data.
Quantitative and qualitative data.
Graphical representation and mapping of data.

Unit 8: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
Basics of the Internet, Intranet, E-mail, and Audio and Video-conferencing.
Digital initiatives in higher education.

Unit 9: People and Environment
People and environment interaction.
Sources of pollution.
Pollutants and their impact on human life, exploitation of natural and energy resources.

Unit 10: Higher Education System: Governance, Polity, and Administration
Structure of the institutions for higher learning and research in India.
Formal and distance education.
Professional and vocational education.
Value education.

A passage will be given, and questions will be based on the passage.