The Haryana PGT syllabus for written exam includes topics like, reading comprehension, writing ability, grammar and usage, and English Literature.
In the reading comprehension, you need the ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret unseen texts. In the writing ability, you need to describe factually an event or incident or a report or process or writing a formal letter highlighting a socio-cultural issue like education, environment, gender discrimination, and economic disparity, etc.
In grammar and usage, you need to apply the knowledge of syntax and grammatical items and use them accurately in the context provided. You should have proper knowledge about:
- Determiners
- Tenses
- Clauses
- Modals
- Voice
- Determiners
- Tenses
- Transformations:
- (i) Direct - Indirect
- (ii) Active - Passive
- (iii) Negatives, lnterrogatives
- (iv) Simple to compound and complex
- Auxiliaries
- Prepositions
- Phrasal verbs and Idioms
- Reading comprehension
- Precis writing
- Letter writing
- Report Writing
In English Literature, you need to cover topics related to Shakespeare, Romantic period (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge etc), 19th and 20th Century American and English Literature (eg Robert Frost, Hemmingway, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller etc.), Modern Indian Writing in English (e.g. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Nissin Ezekiel, K N. Daruwala, Ruskin Bond, R K Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Khushwant Singh etc.)