JKPSC 10+2 Lecturer English Syllabus – Official
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| Unit | Topic Name | Details & Key Subtopics |
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| 1 | 🏛️ History of English Literature | - From Chaucer to T. S. Eliot - Important Literary Ages: - Middle English (Chaucer) - Renaissance (Shakespeare, Marlowe) - Metaphysical Poetry - Restoration (Dryden) - Augustan (Pope, Swift) - Romantic Age (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron) - Victorian Age (Tennyson, Browning, Arnold) - Modernism (Yeats, Eliot, Joyce) |
| 2 | 🧠 Literary Criticism & Theory | - Key Critics: - Aristotle – Poetics (Tragedy, Catharsis) - Coleridge – Imagination & Fancy - Matthew Arnold – Touchstone Method - T. S. Eliot – Objective Correlative, Tradition & Individual Talent |
| 3 | 🎭 English Poetry & Drama | - Major Poets: - Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Yeats, Eliot - Major Dramatists: - Shakespeare, G. B. Shaw, Marlowe |
| 4 | 📖 English Fiction | - Novelists: - Jane Austen – Social realism - Charles Dickens – Victorian society - Thomas Hardy – Fate and pessimism - James Joyce – Stream of consciousness - Graham Greene – Catholic themes, moral ambiguity |
| 5 | ✍️ English Essays | - Essayists: - Francis Bacon – Aphoristic prose - Joseph Addison – Satire and morality - Charles Lamb – Personal essays - William Hazlitt – Literary criticism |
| 6 | 🧾 Applied Grammar and Usage | - Grammar Concepts: - Articles, Prepositions, Auxiliaries - Tenses & Sequence of Tenses - Number & Gender - Transformation of Sentences - Same Word as Different Parts of Speech - Error Detection - One Word Substitution - Synonyms & Antonyms - Spellings |
🔍 Analysis of Syllabus Pattern:
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📘 Balanced Syllabus: Equal focus on literary history, genres (poetry, drama, fiction, essays), criticism, and language/grammar.
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📚 Classic to Modern: Covers canonical authors from Chaucer to modernists like Eliot and Joyce.
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🧪 Language & Teaching Oriented: Applied grammar section helps assess candidates' linguistic and pedagogical abilities.
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🧭 Exam Strategy:
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70% weight likely on Literature + Criticism
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30% on Grammar, Essays, and Analysis Skills
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✅ Ideal Study Flow:
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Begin with History of English Literature
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Add Literary Criticism & Theory
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Read Poetry & Drama by age
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Explore Novels & Essays
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Practice Grammar & Language Usage regularly