Note :-

1. Duration of Paper: 3 Hours
2. All Questions carry equal marks.
3. Medium of Competitive Exam: Bilingual in English & Hindi
4. There will be Negative Marking.
5. Objective type paper .

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Syllabus : English-I

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Part A: English Language and Grammar

1. Critical Appreciation

   1. Analysis of a given poem
   2. Analysis of a given piece of prose

2. English Language Usage and Grammar

   1. Spotting Errors
      1. Determiners & Articles
      2. Modal Auxiliaries
      3. Prepositions & Phrasal verbs
      4. Tenses and Sequence of Tenses
      5. Idiomatic Expressions
   2. Basic Sentence Patterns and Transformations
      1. Basic sentence patterns
      2. Complex Compound sentences
      3. Active/Passive
      4. Direct/Indirect
      5. Negative/Interrogative

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Part B: Literary Criticism

1. Classical
   1. Western Classical Criticism
   2. Indian Classical Criticism
2. Renaissance
3. Elizabethan and Jacobean
4. Neo Classical
5. Pre-Romantic and Romantic
6. Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite
7. Early Moderns till T.S. Eliot

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Part C: Critical Theory

1. New Criticism
2. Structuralism and Post Structuralism
3. Modernism and Post Modernism
4. Post Colonialism
5. Feminist Criticism
6. Psychoanalytical Criticism
7. New Historicism