Note :-

1. Total Marks: 300
2. Duration: 3 Hours
3. Question Type: 150 Multiple Choice Questions
4. Negative Marking: 1/3rd of the marks for each wrong answer.

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Syllabus : English

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1. Part – I Senior Secondary Level

1. Articles and Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Transformations:
   1. Direct - Indirect
   2. Active - Passive
   3. Affirmatives, Negatives, Interrogatives
   4. Simple to Compound and Complex
4. Auxiliaries/Modals
5. Prepositions
6. Phrasal verbs and Idioms
7. Reading Comprehension
8. Précis writing
9. Letter writing
10. Report writing

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2. Part – II Graduation Level

(A) Poetry

1. Milton: On His Blindness
2. John Donne: Go and Catch a Falling Star
3. Wordsworth: Daffodils
4. Shelley - Ode to the West Wind
5. Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
6. Browning - My Last Duchess
7. Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion
8. Kamla Das - Dance of the Eunuchs

(B) Drama

1. Shakespeare: Macbeth
2. As You Like It

(C) Prose

1. Bacon: Of Studies
2. Lamb: In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

(D) Fiction

1. Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
2. R.K. Narayan: The Vendor of Sweets

(E) An Acquaintance with the following Literary Forms:

1. Ode, Elegy, Ballad, Sonnet, Epic, Gothic, Allegory.

(F) An Acquaintance with the following Figures of Speech:

1. Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Irony, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Synecdoche, Oxymoron.

(G) Phonetic Transcription, Word-Stress.

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3. Part – III Post Graduation Level

(A)

1. T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
2. Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
3. Anita Desai - Cry, the Peacock

(B) Varieties of Languages:

1. Creole, Pidgin, Code - Switching, Code - Mixing.

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4. Part – IV (Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning Material, Use of Computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning)

I. Educational Psychology

1. Concept, scope and functions of educational psychology.
2. Physical, cognitive, social, emotional and moral developmental characteristics of adolescent learner and its implication for teaching-learning.
3. Behavioural, cognitive and constructivist principles of learning and its implication for senior secondary students.
4. Concept of mental health & adjustment and adjustment mechanism.
5. Emotional intelligence and its implication in teaching learning.

II Pedagogy and Teaching Learning Material (Instructional Strategies for Adolescent Learner)

1. Communication skills and its use.
2. Teaching models- advance organizer, concept attainment, information processing, inquiry training.
3. Preparation and use of teaching-learning material during teaching.
4. Cooperative learning.

III Use of Computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning

1. Concept of ICT, hardware and software.
2. System approach.
3. Computer assisted learning, computer aided instruction.