NVS English Literature

Part I: General Awareness

Part II: Reasoning Ability

Part III: Knowledge of ICT

Part IV: Teaching Aptitude

Part V: English Literature

Part VI: Language Competency Test

English

Reading Comprehension (Section – A)

• Ability to Comprehend, Analyse 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.
• One short writing task such as: notice, message or a postcard.
• Writing a report of an event, process, or place.
• Writing 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.
• 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.

Part I: General Awareness

Part II: Reasoning Ability

Part III: Knowledge of ICT

Part IV: Teaching Aptitude

Part V: English Literature

Part VI: Language Competency Test

English

Section-A: READING COMPREHENSION

Ability to comprehend, analyze and interpret unseen texts. Three/four unseen reading passages may be set.

Section-B: WRITING ABILITY

Ability to express views/opinions in a coherent & logical manner.

• One out of two tasks such as factual description of any event or incident, a report or a process.
• Writing one formal letter. Letter types include:
  • Business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies).
  • Letter to the editors (giving facts/figures suggestions/opinions on an issue of public interest) on contemporary/current issues.
  • Application for a job with CV.
• Writing personal opinion/views/stand in an article/debate/speech etc. on a given socio-cultural issue–in a style/register suitable to the task set. Issues could relate to:
  • Environment
  • Education
  • Gender discrimination
  • Economic disparity etc.

Section-C: GRAMMAR AND USAGE

Ability to apply the knowledge of syntax and grammatical items & use them accurately in the context provided.

The following grammatical structures will be tested through error correction/editing/gap filling/sentence completion/multiple choice questions:

• Determiners
• Tenses
• Clauses
• Modals
• Voice

Section-D: LITERATURE

• Shakespeare’s works
• Romantic period (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge etc.)
• 19th and 20th Century American and English Literature (e.g. Robert Frost, Hemmingway, Whitman, Hawthorne, 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.)
• Modern writing in English from other parts of the world e.g. Latin America/Africa/Australia/South Asia