HP-SET 2026

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Eligibility

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

 Candidates having a score of 55% marks in Master's Degree from universities/institutions recognized by UGC in Humanities (including languages) and Social Sciences, Computer Science & Applications are eligible for this Test.

Syllabus

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

Teaching Aptitude:

Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.

Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.

Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.

Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).

Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.

Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.

Research Aptitude:

Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post positivistic approach to research.

Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.

Steps of Research.

Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.

Application of ICT in research.

Research ethics.

Comprehension:

A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

Communication:

Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.

Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.

Barriers to effective communication.

Mass-Media and Society.

Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude:

Types of reasoning.

Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.

Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.)

Logical Reasoning:

Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.

Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.

Analogies.

Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.

Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.

Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).

Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).

Data Interpretation:

Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.

Quantitative and Qualitative Data.

Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.

Data Interpretation.

Data and Governance.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT):

ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.

Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.

Digital initiatives in higher education.

ICT and Governance.

People, Development and Environment:

Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.

Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.

Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.

Impacts of pollutants on human health.

Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.

Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.

Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.

Higher Education System:

Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.

Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.

Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.

Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.

Value education and environmental education.

Policies, Governance, and Administration.

Exam Date

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

Events Dates

Application form Opening date

21 October 2023

Application form last date to apply

17 November 2023

Last date to Pay the fee

17 November 2023

Admit Card 2024

To be announced

Exam date 2024

17 March 2024

Official site­-http://kset.uni-mysore.ac.in

Eligibility

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

  To be eligible for the HP SET exam, candidates must have secured at least 55% marks (without rounding off) in their Master's degree in Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Science & Applications from UGC-recognized universities/institutions.

Syllabus

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

Syllabus for Teaching Aptitude

Teaching.

Learning Characteristics.

Factor Affecting Teaching.

Teaching Aids

Evaluation System

Syllabus For Research Aptitude

Research: meaning, characteristics, and types

Steps of research

Methods of research

Research ethics

Paper, articles, workshops, seminar, and conference,

Thesis writing.

Syllabus Reading Comprehension

A passage or a story will be set along with questions that need to be answered from within the paragraph.

Syllabus for Communication

Nature of Communication

Types of Communication

Characteristics of Communication

Barriers of Communication

Effective Classroom Communication.

Syllabus for Reasoning

Number, letter series, codes

Relationship

Classification.

Syllabus for Logical Reasoning

Understanding the structure of the argument

Distinguishing and evaluating deductive and inductive reasoning

Verbal analogy

Verbal classification

Reasoning logical diagrams

Relationship: Vein Diagram.

Syllabus for Data Interpretation

Sources, acquisition, and interpretation of data

Quantitative and qualitative data

Graphical representation and mapping of data

Exam Date

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

Events Dates

HP SET Application form Opening date to apply

21 October 2023

HP SET Application form last date to apply

17 November 2023

HP SET last date to Pay the fee

17 November 2023

HP SET Admit Card 2024

To be announced

HP SET Exam date 2024

28 April 2024

 

Official site - http://www.hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc/

Eligibility

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

  Candidates having a score of 55% marks in Master's Degree from universities/institutions recognized by UGC in Humanities (including languages) and Social Sciences, Computer Science & Applications are eligible for this Test.

Syllabus

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

Syllabus Teaching Aptitude

Teaching.

Learning Characteristics.

Factor Affecting Teaching.

Teaching Aids

Evaluation

Syllabus Research Aptitude

Research: meaning, characteristics, and types

Steps of research

Methods of research

Research ethics

Paper, articles, workshops, seminar, and conference,

 

Syllabus Reading Comprehension

A passage or a story will be set along with questions that need to be answered from within the paragraph

 

Himachal Pradesh SET Syllabus Communication

Nature of Communication

Types of Communication

Characteristics of Communication

Barriers of Communication

Effective Classroom Communication

Syllabus Reasoning

Number, letter series, codes

Relationship

Classification

 

Himachal Pradesh SET Syllabus Logical Reasoning

Understanding the structure of the argument

Distinguishing and evaluating deductive and inductive reasoning

Verbal analogy

Verbal classification

Reasoning logical diagrams

 

Relationship: Himachal Pradesh SET Syllabus Logical Reasoning

Understanding the structure of the argument

Distinguishing and evaluating deductive and inductive reasoning

Verbal analogy

Verbal classification

Reasoning logical diagrams

Relationship: Vein diagram

 

Syllabus Data Interpretation

Sources, acquisition, and interpretation of data

Quantitative and qualitative data

Graphical representation and mapping of data...

 

Syllabus Information & Communication Technology

ICT Meaning

General Abbreviations & Terminology

Basic of Internet

Syllabus People & Environment

People and Environment Interaction

Sources of Pollution

Pollutants and Impact on human life

Natural Hazards and mitigations

Exploitations of Nature and Energy Resources...

 

Syllabus Policy, Governance & Administration

Structure of the institution of research and higher learning in India

Professional or technical and general education

Administration, institutions and their interactions.

Exam Date

HP-SET : The purpose of the HP SET is to evaluate applicants for Assistant Professor jobs in colleges and institutions across Himachal Pradesh. This examination helps to determine qualified candidates for specific roles throughout the HP state.

30 Apr '24 SET 2024 admit card availability (Test 02)

05 May '24

SET Exam 2024 (Test 01)

11 May '24

SET Exam 2024 (Test 02)

22 May '24

SET result 2024

official site- hppsc.hp.gov.in

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