With just two months left for CTET 2024 exam, candidates must speed up their preparations for the exam. Prepare a CTET study routine and follow it religiously. Read this article below to know how to prepare for CTET in two months.
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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be conducting the CTET 2024 exam on July 7, 2024. With just two months left for the CTET exam, it is important to utilise every day effectively to secure success in CTET 2024. A concrete study plan and preparation strategy are required to prepare for the CTET in 2 months. The CTET preparation in the last days before the exam will certainly have a major impact on candidates’ performance in the exam. To help candidates in their preparation phase, here are some of the best tips on how to prepare for CTET in two months.
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CTET Study Plan for First Month
You have just two months left for the CTET exam 2024. Focus on these below-mentioned tips and strategies in the initial first month.
Go through the exam pattern & syllabus: Get familiar with the latest CTET exam pattern and syllabus. By going through the CTET exam pattern 2024, candidates get to know the format of paper, marking process and time duration. The next step is to cover the entire CTET syllabus 2024. Candidates should prepare every topic of all the sections of the CTET exam. Going through the syllabus will enable candidates to know the topic-wise weightage of all sections.
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Prepare a revision checklist: While covering the entire syllabus, candidates should make a list of important topics or units against each subject - Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II Mathematics, Environmental Studies, Science and Social Studies. While revising for the exam, tick off the important topics as and when you are done. This will ease your CTET exam preparations.
Clear your basics: It is essential to have clarity of concepts while preparing for the CTET exam. Before practicing the mock tests or previous years papers, candidates should clear their basics. If there is any confusion or doubt regarding any topic, get it cleared.
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Attempt question papers & Solve mock tests: Attempting the CTET previous years papers is the best way to practice for the exam. Besides the free CTET mock tests curated by Shiksha.com, candidates can also solve the official mock test released by the CBSE. Moreover, candidates can also register themselves at the nearest Test Practice Centre (TPC) established by the board to practice the mock test. On the other hand, solving the CTET question papers will help candidates in working on their time management and accuracy.
Strengthen your weak areas: Evaluate the solved paper thoroughly and identify the weak areas. This will help students in strengthening the weak areas or subjects and ultimately help gain good marks in the exam.
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Commonly asked questions
The CTET exam is easy to crack. The difficulty level of the question paper is generally easy to moderate. Candidates should be well prepared in order for the exam.
CTET Study Plan for Second Month
With just one month left for the CTET 2024, focus on revision, examination, analysis and summarisation. Have a look at the CTET preparation tips for one month before the exam:
Revise reasonably: With the revision checklist in hand, it becomes easy to revise well before the exam. Candidates can also make a plan for the everyday revision of each subject separately. By this time, you will have a clear idea about the topics covered and left for revision. It will help you to divide time accurately for the remaining topics.
Summarise each topic: Make notes of each topic while revising for the exam. You can easily summarise the topics with the pointer notes in hand. These notes come in handy while revising before the exam as the last few days before the exam are not meant for in-depth revision.
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Analyse the solved mock tests and question papers: This is the best time to analyse the already solved mock tests and question papers. By examining the papers, you will get to know your weak and strong areas. This will also help you in deciding which section to attempt first and which to attempt last while taking the CTET 2024 exam.
Time management: In recent years, it has been observed that the CTET exam is a little time-consuming. While sharing the CTET exam analysis with the Shiksha.com team, candidates often stated that they found the paper lengthy. So, candidates should manage their time well while solving the paper. The focus should be on solving all the questions in the exam. There is no negative marking in the CTET examination, so candidates should try not to leave any questions unanswered.
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Student Forum
Answered 2 weeks ago
As a teacher trainer, you may want to check these institutions.
For CTET, you have:
- Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad, its constituent colleges in Bhopal and Bihar. They are College of Teacher Education, Darbhanga (Bihar), and College of Teacher Education, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh). These
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
The most important topics for the CTET exam in Environmental studies are family and friends, food, shelter, water, travel, environmental studies and its integration with other subjects, methods of teaching EVS, scope and importance of EVS in primary education, evaluation and assessment techniques in
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
It has been said that for the CTET exam preparation around three to four months is required with dedicated study and practice of question papers. It also depends upon the candidate to candidate and their conceptual clarity of the topics.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
Yes, the CTET eligibility can be changed based on the NCTE regulations. The CBSE opened the online application form correction window for the CTET Feb 2026 examination on December 23, 2025. The CTET form correction 2026 link allows candidates to change the already submitted applications, in case of
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
The CTET exam generally held twice a year. The February session exam was conducted on February 7 and 8, 2026 at several centres across the country. The another session may be conducted later this year.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
The CTET exam is a eligibility test and does not have a centralized counselling process.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
According to the NCTE notification, candidates require 60% or more to pass the CTET examination. The minimum marks required by a candidate being a General category to qualify the CTET exam is 90 out of 150 and for SC, ST, OBC and PwD is 82 out of 150.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
Candidates can visit the official website at ctet.nic.in for the syllabus of the CTET. The entire syllabus is provided and candidates can download it for every topic together. The syllabus PDF is also provided on our Shiksha page.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
Yes, it is possible for a candidate to clear CTET exam in three months. All is required a dedicated and disciplined approach. Clear understanding of the syllabus and pattern of an exam. Frequent revision, practice and strategize the preparation.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered a month ago
Candidates need to visit the official website to download the PDF of the CTET Syllabus at ctet.nic.in and check the information bulletin. The CTET syllabus is available in English as well as Hindi medium that covers both Paper 1 and 2 topics in detail. The CTET syllabus PDF is also available on our
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With MA in English, Rupali has more than 15 years of editorial experience. At Shiksha.com, a subsidiary of Info Edge (India) Limited, she creates content and make prep guides for students preparing for competitive e
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