English syllabus

General knowledge (detailed breakdown not specified in notification — indicative)

• Indian history and freedom movement
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Indian constitution and polity
• Basic Indian economy
• General science and everyday science
• Environment and ecology
• Uttar Pradesh special — geography history culture and administration
• Current national and international events
• Current affairs of the education sector
• Sports awards and books-authors

Language and grammar

• Unseen passage comprehension
• Parts of speech
• Tenses
• Spellings
• Punctuation
• Narration
• Voice
• Prepositions
• Transformation of sentences
• Subject-verb agreement
• Vocabulary
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Homonyms
• Idioms and phrases
• One-word substitution
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Sentence correction
• Sentence rearrangement

Stanza forms figures and periods

• Renaissance and Reformation
• Restoration period
• Neo-classical period
• Romantic period
• Victorian period
• Modern period
• Sonnet
• Ballad
• Elegy
• Ode
• Epic
• Mock epic
• Figures of speech
• Rhetoric and prosody
• Types of novel
• Forms of drama
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Pun
• Synecdoche
• Metonymy
• Euphemism
• Apostrophe
• Antithesis
• Transferred epithet

Literary criticism

• Aristotle as critic
• Dr Johnson as critic
• Wordsworth as critic
• Coleridge as critic
• Matthew Arnold as critic
• T.S. Eliot as critic
• Longinus as critic

Authors and works

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• William Shakespeare
• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• P.B. Shelley
• Charles Lamb
• Charles Dickens
• Matthew Arnold
• Alfred Tennyson
• Thomas Hardy
• T.S. Eliot
• Kamala Das
• Mulk Raj Anand
• Nissim Ezekiel
• Robert Frost
• Walt Whitman
• Ernest Hemingway
• William Faulkner
• George Eliot
• Arthur Miller
• Toni Morrison