Reading Comprehension
(Section – A)
Ability to comprehend, analyze and interpret an unseen text
Three/four unseen texts of varying lengths (150-250 words) with a variety of objective type, multiple choice questions (including questions to test vocabulary) testing factual and global comprehension.
Writing ability
(Section –B)
Testing ability to express facts views/opinions in a coherent and logical manner in a style suitable
to the task set.
B.1One short writing task such as: notice, message or a postcard.
B.2Writing a report of an event, process, or place.
B.3Writing an article / debate / speech based on visual / verbal input on a given concurrent topic
for e.g., environment, education, child labour, gender bias, drug-abuse etc. presenting own
views fluently.
B.4 Writing a letter (formal/informal) on the basis of verbal / visual input. Letter types include:
(a) letter to the editor; (b) letter of complaint; (c) letter of request; (d) descriptive, personal
letters.
Grammar and Usage
(Section – C)
Ability to apply the knowledge of syntax, language/grammatical items and to use them accurately in
context.
The following grammatical structures will be tested:
✓ Tenses, Modals, Voice, Subject – verb concord, Connectors, Clauses, Parts of speech,
Punctuation, Sequencing to form a coherent sentence or a paragraph
Literature
(Section – D)
To test the candidate’s familiarity with the works of writers of different genres and periods of English
Literature.
The candidate should have a thorough knowledge of: -
✓ Shakespeare’s works.
✓ Romantic Period (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Byron etc.)
✓ 19th & 20th Century American and English Literature (e.g. Robert Frost Hemingway, Ted
Hudges, Whitman, Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Bernard Shaw etc.)
✓ Modern Indian Writing in English (e.g. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Nissim Ezekiel, K.N. Daruwala,
Ruskin Bond, R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Khushwant Singh etc.)
✓ Modern Writings in English from different parts of the world.