Syllabus of Uttarakhand Special Subordinate Education (Lecturer’s Cader) (General and Female Branch)
Second Stage (Objective Type) Syllabus
| Subject | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time Allowed |
| English | 200 | 200 | 03 Hours |
Note : – There will be adopted Negative marking in examination
Exam Syllabus (English)
Unit I – Poetry:
William Wordsworth, John Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Stephen Spender, Robert Frost, Sarojini Naidu, A.K. Ramanujan and Kamla Das.
Unit II – Essay:
Francis Bacon, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Bertrand Russel, A.G.Gardiner, M.K. Gandhi, Khushwant Singh and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Unit III – Novel:
Henry Fielding, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Amitav Ghosh and Arvind Adiga.
Unit IV – Drama:
William Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Harold Pinter, Girish Karnad, R.N.Tagore, Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani.
Unit V – Short Story:
O’ Henry, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond and Arundhati Roy.
Unit VI – Comprehension of the Text:
1. Prose Passage
2. Poetry Passage (Questions shall be based on the interpretation of theme and style of the two passages)
Unit VII – An Acquaintance with Literary Forms, Terms and Movements
1. Renaissance, Metaphyicals, Gothic Novel, Pre-Raphaelites, Post- Modernism,Existentialism, Deconstruction and Intertexuality.
2. Ballad, Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Metre, Heroic Couplet, Katharsis, Hamartia, Aside, Chronicle Play and Travelogue.
Unit VIII – Test of Vocabulary :
1. One Word Substitution
2. Antonyms, Synonyms and Homonyms
3. Phrasal verbs and Idioms and Phrases.
4. Spellings.
Unit IX – Application of the Rules of English Grammar:
1. Uses of Tenses and Conditional Sentences.
2. Subject-verb Agreement.
3. Transformation of Sentences.
4. Direct-Indirect Narration.
Unit X – Test of Writing Skills :
1. Parts of Speech and Figures of Speech with their usage in sentences.
2. Technical Aspects of Letter and Report Writing.
