DSSSB TGT/PGT English Literature

Reading Comprehension

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.

Grammar and Usage

Ability to apply the knowledge of syntax, language/grammatical items and to use them accurately in

context.

The following grammatical structures will be tested:

(1) Tenses

(2) Modals

(3) Voice

(4) Subject - verb concord

(5) Connectors

(6) Clauses

(7) Parts of speech

(8) Punctuation

(9) Sequencing to form a coherent sentence or a paragraph

Literature

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

Paper I 

General English: Articles, Modal Narration, Pronoun, Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Preposition, Tenses, Punctuation, Voice, Vocabulary, Idioms & phrases, Antonym & Synonyms

General Hindi: संज्ञा एवं संज्ञा के भेद।, सर्वनाम एवं सर्वनाम के भेद।, विशेषण एवं विशेषण के भेद।, क्रिया एवं क्रिया के भेद।, वचन, लिंग, उपसर्ग एवं प्रत्यय, वाक्य निर्माण (सरल, संयुक्त एवं मिश्रित वाक्य)।, पर्यायवाची, विपरीपार्थक, अनेकार्थक, समानार्थी शब्द।, मुहावरे एवं लोकोक्तियाँ।, अलंकार, सन्धि, तत्सम, तद्भव, देशज एवं विदेशी शब्द, समास

General Knowledge & Current Affairs: Awards, Books & their authors, Sports, History- Ancient, Medieval & Modern, Geography, Current Affairs, Polity, Economic, Constitution, Indian Art & Culture, Everyday Science, Scientific Research, National/ International Organizations/ Institutions

Reasoning Ability: Verbal and non-verbal types, analogies, similarities, Syllogism, space visualization, problem-solving, Blood Relation, arithmetical reasoning, figure classification, Logical Reasoning

Numerical Ability & Data Interpretation: Number Systems, Simplification, Decimals, Data Interpretation, Fractions, L.C.M., H.C.F., Ratio and proportion, Percentage, Average, Profit and Loss, Discount, Simple and Compound Interest, Mensuration, Time and Work, Time and Distance, Tables, and Graphs.

PGT English Syllabus

1. Reading comprehension
2. Writing ability
3. Grammar & uses: Determiners, Tenses, Cluses, Modals, Voice
4. Study of poetry and medieval poet Chaucer
5. Renaissance poets: Spencer
6. Metaphysical poets: Donne, Herbert, and Marvell, Milton
7. Neoclassical poets: Dryden & Pope
8. Romantic poets: Shelley & Keats
9. Modernist poets
10. British drama: Hamlet, Doctor Faustus, Pygmalion, Murder in Cathedral
11. British novel: Pride & Prejudice, Great Expectations, Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India
12. Aspects of English Language: Phonetics &Phonology, English Syntax, Stylistics, Language in use
13. Literary theory &criticism
14. American literature
15. Indian Writing in English
16. New literature in English
17. Australian Literature