ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / VICE PRINCIPAL (English)

Max Marks: 200 Qualifying Standard: 50%

(Note: Negative marking of 0.25/ wrong answer)

Part-I (For all Categories): 100 Marks (MCQ)

I. English (50 Marks)

 Comprehension

 Grammar Usage

 Vocabulary

 Sentence Structuring

 Sentence Correction

 Grouping of Words

 Pairs of Words

 Idiomatic Phrases

 Synonyms/ Antonyms

 Translation

II. Teaching Methodology (50 Marks)

 Teaching Methodology

 Elements of Curriculum.

 Curriculum Development Process:

 Classroom Communication

 Classroom Assessment and Evaluation

 Types of Test and characteristics of a Good Test

 Research Instruments

Part-II: 100 Marks (MCQ) (For English)

I. Essays:

 Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness)

 George Orwell (Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature)

II. Short Stories:

 Somerset Maugham (The Lotus-eater)

 G.K. Chesterton (A Somewhat Improbable Story)

 O’Henry (The Gift of the Magi)

III. Poetry:

 William Wordsworth (Resolution Independence; Tintern Abbey)

 John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Autumn)

 Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses; The Lady of Shalott)

 Yeats (A Dialogue of Self and Soul; The Second Coming)

 Eliot (The Wasteland; Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

 Philip Larkin (Maturity; Continuing to Live; The Trees)

 Wallace Stevens (A postcard from the volcano; Continual conversation with a silent

man; Dry loaf) OR Walt Whitman (As I ponder’d in silence; Are you the new person

drawn toward me?; This moment yearning and thoughtful)

IV. Drama:

 Shakespeare (Hamlet; King Lear, As you like it and Twelfth Night)

 William Congreve (The Way of the World)

 Shaw (Pygmalion; Heartbreak House )

Harold Pinter (The Caretaker)

 Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

 Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

V. Novels:

 Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd)

 D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)

 George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four)

 Iris Murdoch (Under the Net)

 Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) or William Faulkner (The Sound and the

Fury)

VI. Literacy Theory & Criticism

 Structuralism

 Marxism

 Deconstructionism

 Psychoanalytic criticism

 Feminist criticism

 Postcolonial Criticism