Punjab Master Cadre Syllabus 2026 & Exam Pattern | Download PDF Guide

The Education Recruitment Board, operating under the Department of School Education, Punjab, defines the official Punjab Master Cadre Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2026. Prospective candidates planning to appear for the Punjab Master Cadre Written Exam 2026 should thoroughly review the core topics, structural exam pattern, and detailed marking criteria provided in the official notification.

Punjab Master Cadre Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2026

The Punjab Master Cadre selection process features a computer-based test (CBT) designed for aspirants aiming to teach Classes 6 through 10 in Punjab government schools. The assessment comprises 150 objective-type questions to be completed within a 150-minute timeframe. Candidates are evaluated exclusively on the specific subject they have chosen for their teaching stream.

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ERB Master Cadre Selection Process 2026

The selection process for the Punjab Master Cadre Recruitment 2026 is structured into two primary stages, as outlined below:

1. Written Examination: In this first stage of selection, candidates take an online exam of 150 MCQs. It evaluates a candidate’s subject knowledge, teaching methods, and core concepts.
2. Document Verification: Candidates who qualify for the written exam appear for document verification. In this, ERB verifies a candidate’s identity, educational certificates, and other necessary documents.

Final selection is determined by a candidate's performance in the written examination, followed by a mandatory eligibility and document verification round.

Punjab Master Cadre Exam Pattern 2026

Before diving into the Punjab Master Cadre syllabus topics, candidates should familiarize themselves with the standardized exam pattern. This structure remains consistent across all subjects. For your convenience, we have detailed the written examination format below:

• The ERB Cadre written exam has 150 questions
• Each question carries 1 mark.
• There is no negative marking in the written exam.
• There is no negative marking for the question left unanswered by candidates.
• Candidates get a total of 150 minutes to finish their exam.

Punjab Master Cadre Teacher Syllabus 2026

This section covers the comprehensive topics for each subject available in the Punjab Master Cadre exam. Candidates should prioritize studying the curriculum relevant to their specific subject. The syllabus is curated to align with graduation-level academic standards and essential secondary-level concepts. Key topics are listed below:

DPE Master Syllabus

1. Introduction and History of Physical Education
2. Definition, Meaning, Purpose, and Aims of Physical Education
3. Development of Physical Education in India before and after independence
4. Importance of Physical Education in the Modern Era
5. The Structure and Formation of the Human Body
   • Blood Circulatory System
   • Muscular System
   • Excretory System
   • Nervous System
   • Respiratory System
   • Digestive System
6. Definition of Psychology, Meaning and inspiration, Social aspect of Physical Education
7. Definition and Meaning of Sports Psychology, the objectives of Sports
8. Meaning of Health Science, Concept, field, Goals & objectives
9. Communicable disease: its Causes and prevention, Personal Health Science
10. Development and growth of the body. Effect of Intoxicants on Health
11. Balanced Diet
12. Physical Fitness, Method of Training, Warmup, and Cool Down.
13. Incapability, Prevention, and Re-generate, First Aid, Muscle Pull, Fracture, Dislocation, Sports Injury.
14. Family Life.
15. Asian Games, Olympic Games, Sports Award, Commonwealth, Punjab Sports Department, Punjab Olympic Association.
16. Kinesiology, Lever, Equilibrium, Motion.
17. Massage, Entertainment, Sports Arrangements, Fixtures.
18. Introduction of Computer, Windows, MS Office, Internet, Browsing, PPT.
19. Yoga, Pranayam, Asana.
20. Athletics, Measurement of all playgrounds and fundamentals of Sports.

Master Cadre English Language Syllabus

1. Indian English Writers: R.K. Narayan, Rajarao, Arundhati Roy, Khushwant Singh, Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, A.K.Ramanujan, Amitav Ghosh.
2. Elizabethan Age: Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser
3. Jacobean to Restoration: John Donne, John Milton, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Augustan Age: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding
4. Romantic Period: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Mathew Gregory Lewis, Leigh Hunt, Mary Wollstonecraft
5. Victorian Period: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mathew Arnold.
6. Modern Period: T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, E. M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, I.A Richards, F.R Leavis, William Empson.
7. Contemporary Period: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, George Orwell, William Golding, Doris Lessing, Graham Greene, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, and Stephen Leacock.
8. Literary Terms
9. Grammar and Linguistics: Phrase structure rule, Transformational generative grammar (with reference to Chomsky), Transformational rule, a brief introduction to Semitic languages, sociolinguistics, language variety, dialect, accent, and register, psycholinguistics, nature and application, behaviourist, cognitive, and mental views of language learning, individual differences.
10. Linguistics (sign, speech, and writing, anthropology, organ of speech, description and classification of sounds, morphology, and word formation.

Master Cadre Hindi Teacher Syllabus

आदिकाल व मध्यकाल

I. (i) हिन्दी साहित्य का इतिहास, काल-विभाजन, सीमा निर्धारण और नामकरण
(ii) आदिकाल की पृष्ठभूमि, सिद्ध और नाथ साहित्य, रासो काव्य, जैन साहित्य.
(iii) आदिकाल की प्रमुख परिस्थितियाँ और प्रवृत्तियाँ

II. (i) भक्तिकाल की परिस्थितियाँ, प्रवृत्तियाँ और विभिन्न काव्य धाराएँ
(ii) संत काव्य, सूफी काव्य, राम काव्य व कृष्ण काव्य: प्रमुख कवि और उनका योगदान
(iii) रीतिकाल-नामकरण, विभिन्न धाराएँ, परिस्थितियाँ और प्रवृत्तियाँ

III.- प्रमुख कवि : चन्दबरदाई, अमीर खुसरो, विद्यापति, कबीर, सूरदास, तुलसीदास रैदास, केशव, जायसी, बिहारी, रहीम, मीराबाई और रसखान

आधुनिक काल

(i) आधुनिक काल की प्रमुख परिस्थितियाँ और प्रवृत्तियाँ ।
(ii) भारतेन्दु युग, द्विवेदी युग, छायावाद, प्रगतिवाद, प्रयोगवाद, नई कविता – प्रमुख साहित्यकार, रचनाएँ और विशेषताएँ

हिन्दी गद्य का उ‌द्भव व विकास

• कहानी, उपन्यास, नाटक, निबन्ध, आत्मकथा, जीवनी, संस्मरण, रेखाचित्र यात्रा वृत्तांत, डायरी आदि ।
• प्रमुख कवि : भारतेन्दु हरिश्चन्द्र, महावीर प्रसाद ‌द्विवेदी, अयोध्यासिंह उपाध्याय ‘हरिऔध’, जयशंकर प्रसाद, महादेवी वर्मा, मैथिलीशरण गुप्त, सूर्यकान्त त्रिपाठी निराला, सुमित्रानन्दन पंत, सुभद्राकुमारी चौहान, हरिवंश राय बच्चन, रामधारी सिंह दिनकर
• प्रमुख कहानीकार : जयशंकर प्रसाद, मुंशी प्रेमचन्द, जैनेन्द्र कुमार, मन्नू भंडारी, कृष्णा सोबती, सुदर्शन, कमलेश्वर, यशपाल ।
• प्रमुख निबन्धकार : रामचन्द्र शुक्ल, रामवृक्ष बेनीपुरी, बाबू गुलाबराय हज़ारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी, महादेवी वर्मा, मुक्तिबोध, हरिशंकर परसाई
• प्रमुख नाटककार : भारतेन्दु हरिश्चन्द्र, जयशंकर प्रसाद, मोहन राकेश, जगदीशचन्द्र, विष्णु प्रभाकर, उपेन्द्रनाथ अश्क
• समीक्षा सिद्धांत
  (i) काव्य की परिभाषा तथा भेद, महाकाव्य, खंडकाव्य, गीतिकाव्य की परिभाषा तथा विशेषताएं।
  (ii) गद्य विधाएं : निबन्ध, संस्मरण, जीवनी तथा आत्मकथा के स्वरूप एवं तत्वों का सामान्य परिचय।
  (iii) उपन्यास की परिभाषा, तत्व और वर्गीकरण
  (iv) कहानी की परिभाषा, तत्व और वर्गीकरण
  (v) समीक्षा सिद्धांत : केवल नाटक और एकांकी परिभाषा, तत्व और वर्गीकरण
• व्याकरण
  (i) भाषा अरि लिपि, वर्ण विचार, शब्द विचार, पद विचार, वाक्य विचार
  (ii) व्यावहारिक व्याकरण : भाववाचक संज्ञा निर्माण, विशेषण निर्माण, विपरीतार्थक शब्द, समानार्थक शब्द, समरूपी भिन्नार्थक शब्द, वाक्यांशों के लिए एक शब्द अनेकार्थक शब्द ।
  (iii) देवनागरी लिपिःउद्भव और विकास, दोष का सुधार एवं दोष सुधार के लिए किए गए प्रयास। देवनागरी लिपि का मानक रूप तथा हिंदी वर्तनी का मानकीकरण
  (iv) मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियाँ
  (घ) तकनीकी शब्दावली- प्रमुख पारिभाषिक शब्द (अंग्रेज़ी से हिंदी)
  (ङ) अलंकार- अनुप्रास, यमक, वकोक्ति, उपमा, रूपक, अतिश्योक्ति, विरोधाभास, उत्प्रेक्षा
  (च) छंद- दोहा, सोरठा, चौपाई, सवैया, कवित्त, कुंडलियाँ

Master Cadre Punjab Language Syllabus

1. ਆਧੁਨਿਕ ਕਵੀ -ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ, ਧਨੀ ਰਾਮ ਚਾਤ੍ਰਿਕ, ਪ੍ਰੋ ਪੂਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ, ਡਾ.ਦੀਵਾਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਾਲੇਪਾਣੀ, ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, ਸਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ, ਸੁਰਜੀਤ ਪਾਤਰ, ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ ਨੂਰਪੁਰੀ, ਹੀਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਰਦ, ਬਾਵਾ ਬਲਵੰਤ, ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇਕੀ, ਜਗਤਾਰ, ਪਾਸ ਵਿਧਾਤਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਤੀਰ, ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਫੀਰ, ਸ.ਸ.ਚਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਹੀਦ
2. ਗੁਰਮਤਿ ਕਾਵਿ ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ, ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ ਜੀ, ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ, ਭਾਈ ਗੁਰਦਾਸ ਜੀ,
3. ਸੂਫੀ ਕਾਵਿ ਸੇਖ ਫਰੀਦ ਜੀ, ਸ਼ਾਹ ਹੁਸੈਨ, ਬੂਲੇ ਸ਼ਾਹ
4. ਕਿੱਤਾ ਕਾਵਿ ਵਾਰਿਸ ਸ਼ਾਹ, ਪੀਲੂ, ਹਾਸਮ ਸ਼ਾਹ, ਕਾਦਰ ਯਾਰ, ਦਮੋਦਰ, ਹਾਫਿਜ ਬਰਖੁਦਾਰ,
5. ਬੀਰ-ਕਾਵਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਜੀ, ਸ਼ਾਹ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਨਜਾਬਤ,
6. ਵਾਰਤਕ ਭਾਗ ਗਿਆਨੀ ਦਿੱਤ ਸਿੰਘ, ਪੰਡਤ ਸ਼ਰਧਾ ਰਾਮ ਫਿਲੌਰੀ, ਬਿਹਾਰੀ ਲਾਲ ਪੁਰੀ, ਲਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਮਲਾ ਅਕਾਲੀ, ਸੂਬਾ ਸਿੰਘ, ਬਲਰਾਜ ਸਾਹਨੀ, ਡਾ.ਟੀ.ਆਰ ਸਰਮਾ, ਡਾ.ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਘੁੰਮਣ, ਪ੍ਰਿੰਸੀਪਲ ਤੇਜਾ ਸਿੰਘ, ਸ੍ਰ.ਗੁਰਬਖਸ ਸਿੰਘ, ਡਾ.ਬਲਬੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ, ਸ.ਕਪੂਰ ਸਿੰਘ, ਪ੍ਰੋ.ਪਿਆਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਪਦਮ, ਗਿਆਨੀ ਗੁਰਦਿੱਤ ਸਿੰਘ, ਡਾ. ਨਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਪੂਰ।
7. ਕਹਾਣੀਆਂ- ਨਾਨਕ ਸਿੰਘ, ਨਵਤੇਜ ਸਿੰਘ, ਨੌਰੰਗ ਸਿੰਘ, ਸੰਤੋਖ ਸਿੰਘ ਧੀਰ, ਡਾ.ਦਲੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ, ਮੋਹਨ ਭੰਡਾਰੀ, ਸੁਜਾਨ ਸਿੰਘ, ਰਘੁਬੀਰ ਢੰਡ, ਵਰਿਆਮ ਸੰਧੂ, ਗੁਰਬਖਸ ਸਿੰਘ, ਗੁਰਮੁੱਖ ਸਿੰਘ ਮੁਸਾਫਿਰ, ਕੁਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਕ, ਅਜੀਤ ਕੌਰ,
8. ਇਕਾਂਗੀ-ਆਈ.ਸੀ.ਨੰਦਾ, ਬਲਵੰਤ ਗਾਰਗੀ, ਕਪੂਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਘੁੰਮਣ, ਸੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੇਖੋਂ, ਡਾ. ਹਰਚਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ
9. ਨਾਵਲਕਾਰ-ਨਾਨਕ ਸਿੰਘ, ਗੁਰਦਿਆਲ ਸਿੰਘ, ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਕੇਵਲ, ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, ਨਰੋਜਨ, ਤਸਲੀਮ।
10. ਨਾਟਕ- ਬਲਵੰਤ ਗਾਰਗੀ, ਚਰਨ ਦਾਸ ਸਿੱਧੂ, ਆਈ.ਸੀ.ਨੰਦਾ,
11. ਸ੍ਵੈ-ਜੀਵਨੀ- ਨਾਨਕ ਸਿੰਘ, ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, ਡਾ.ਦਲੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ, ਗੁਰਬਖਸ ਸਿੰਘ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਲੜੀ, ਡਾ. ਮਹਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਰੋਧਾਵਾ, ਸੋਹਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਣਜਾਰਾ ਬੇਦੀ, ਅਜੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਮੋਹਿੰਦਰ
12. ਸਾਹਿਤ ਦੇ ਭਿੰਨ-ਭਿੰਨ ਰੂਪਾਂ ਦੀ ਚਰਚਾ
13. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲੋਕ-ਸਾਹਿਤ ਦੇ ਭਿੰਨ ਭਿੰਨ ਰੂਪ :
14. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸੱਭਿਆਚਾਰ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ। ਪੰਜਾਬੀ-ਵਿਆਕਰਨ
    •  ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਜਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ, ਕਿਸਮਾਂ,
    •  ਵਿਆਕਰਨ ਦੇ ਭਾਗ (ਧੁਨੀ ਬੋਧ, ਸਬਦ- ਬੋਧ, ਅਰਥ-ਬੋਧ,ਵਾਕ-ਬੋਧ)
    •  ਵਿਸਰਾਮ ਚਿੰਨ੍ਹ
    •  ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸ਼ਬਦ-ਜੋੜ, ਮੁਹਾਵਰੇ, ਅਖਾਣ,,
    •  ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਉਪ-ਭਸਾਵਾਂ
    •  ਲਿੰਗ, ਵਚਨ, ਕਾਲ
    •  ਸੰਖੇਪ ਰਚਨਾ, ਪੈਰ੍ਹਾ ਰਚਨਾ, ਅਣਡਿੱਠਾ ਪਹਿਰਾ, ਸ਼ਬਦ-ਕੋਸ਼ ਵਾਚਣ ਵਿਧੀ
    •  ਲੇਖ, ਕਹਾਣੀ, ਚਿੱਠੀ/ਬਿਨੈਪੱਤਰ, ਸੱਦਾਪੱਤਰ. ਸਫਰ, ਘਟਨਾ/ਦ੍ਰਿਸ ਵਰਨਣ ਆਦਿ ਬਾਰੇ।
    •  ਲਿਪੀ, ਵਰਨ ਮਾਲਾ, ਸਵਰ-ਵਿਅੰਜਨ, ਦੁੱਤ ਅੱਖਰ, ਲਗਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਲਗਾਖਰ

Master Cadre SST Teacher Syllabus

Polity

1. Centre Govt
2. State Level Govt
3. Foreign Policy
4. Citizenship
5. Organs of Government
6. Fundamental Rights
7. Courts
8. UNO
9. Indian Federal System
10. Election Procedure
11. Constitution in Detail
12. Democracy at the Rural and Urban Level
13. Theories
14. Party System in India
15. Concepts.

Geography

1. Physical Geography
2. Geography of India
3. Resources and Environment

History

1. History of Punjab
2. History of India
3. World History

Economics

1. Consumer Equilibrium – Meaning & Attainment of Equilibrium
2. Demand, Market Demand, Determinant Curves, Price Elasticity of Demand
3. National Income and Related Aggregates.
4. Determination of Income and Employment AD, AS, and their components. MPS, APS, MPC, APC
5. Balance of Trade & B.O.P
6. Micro & Macro – Difference & Explain working
7. Producer behaviour – Production functions, supply, cost & revenue, supply curve, Producer Equilibrium.
8. Forms of Market – Perfect competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic competition, meaning, and features
9. Price Determination under perfect competition equilibrium Price
10. Money and Banking.
11. Govt Budget and Economy- Meaning, Objectives, Balance Budget
12. Determination of Income & Employment Concept of investment & Multiple & its working
13. National Income & related aggregate concepts of GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP.
14. A) Types of Economics B). Infrastructure of Economy.
15. Indian Economy, Punjab Economy
16. Economic Planning in India

Master Cadre Mathematics Teacher Syllabus

1. Matrices and Determinants
2. Elementary Set Theory
3. Sequences and Series
4. Binomial Theorum
5. Continuity and Differenciability
6. Applications and Derivatives
7. Integrals
8. Differential Equations
9. Vector Spaces
10. Linear Inequalities
11. Straight Lines
12. Conic Sections
13. Introduction to Three-dimensional Geometry
14. Three-dimensional Geometry
15. Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations
16. Trigonometric Functions
17. Limit and Continuity
18. Limits and Derivatives
19. Permutations and Combinations
20. Numerical Analysis
21. Number Theory
22. Mathematical Reasoning
23. Statistics
24. Probability

Master Cadre Science Teacher Syllabus

Physical Chemistry

1. Basic principles of chemistry
2. Atomic Structure
3. States of matter
4. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
5. Basic principles and application of spectroscopy
6. Thermodynamics
7. Equilibrium
8. Redox Reaction and Electrochemistry
9. Chemical Kinetics
10. Surface Chemistry
11. Solid States
12. Concepts of catalysis
13. Solutions

Inorganic Chemistry

1. Chemical periodicity
2. General principles & process of isolation of metals
3. Hydrogen
4. S-Block
5. P-Block
6. d-&f Block elements
7. Coordination compounds & Organometallic compounds
8. Environmental Chemistry
9. Nuclear chemistry
10. Analytical Chemistry
11. Bioinorganic Chemistry
12. Physical characterization of inorganic compounds

Organic Chemistry

1. Purification & Characterization of organic compounds
2. Some basic principles of organic chemistry
3. Chemistry of Hydrocarbon
4. Organic compounds – containing Halogens
5. Organic compounds – containing Oxygen
6. Organic compounds – containing Nitrogen
7. Polymers
8. Biomolecules
9. Chemistry in everyday life
10. Common reagents (organic, inorganic, and organometallic) in organic synthesis.
11. Selective organic transformations – chemoselectivity, regioselectivity, stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity. Protecting groups.
12. Physical characterization of organic compounds by IR, UV, MS, and NMR.
13. Principles related to Practical Chemistry

Zoology

1. Diversity in Living Worlds
2. Structural organizations in Animals
3. Animal Physiology
4. Reproduction
5. Cell biology, genetics, and Evolution
6. Biology and Human Welfare
7. Biotechnology and its Applications
8. Ecology and Environmental

Botany

1. Diversity in Living Worlds
2. Structural organizations in Plants
3. Plant Physiology
4. Reproduction
5. Cell biology, genetics, and Evolution
6. Biology and Human Welfare
7. Biotechnology and Its Applications
8. Ecology and Environmental

Physics

1. Mathematical Methods of Physics
2. Classical Mechanics
3. Electromagnetics Theory
4. Quantum Mechanics
5. Thermodynamic and Statistical Physics
6. Electronics and Experimental Methods
7. Experimental Techniques and Data Analysis
8. Atomic & Molecular Physics
9. Condensed Matter Physics
10. Nuclear and Particle Physics

Punjab Master Cadre Syllabus 2026 PDF Download

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