Syllabus school Lecturer - ENGLISH

RAJASTHAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, AJMER
SYLLABUS FOR EXAMINATION FOR THE POST OF
LECTURER - ENGLISH,
(SCHOOL EDUCATION)
PAPER - I
General Awareness and General Studies
1. History of Rajasthan and Indian History with special emphasis on Indian National Movement
‐ Development of Art, Science and Literature during Mouryan and Gupta Periods.
‐ Ancient Indian education system and educational institutions of learning, Indian cultural expansion abroad.
‐ Growth of education during British period, Freedom Struggle of 1857. Rise of Nationalist movement, Prominent leaders of national movement, V.D. Savarkar, Bankim Chandra, Lal, Bal, Pal, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Ras Behari Bose, Subhash Chandra Bose., social and religious renaissance- Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekanand.
‐ Mahatma Gandhi and National movement.
‐ Freedom Struggle of 1857 and Rajasthan. Peasant and labour movement. Vijay Singh Pathik, Arjun Lal Sethi, Kesari Singh and Joravar Singh Bareth.
‐ Shivaji and the Maratha Swaraj, Rajput polity, society and culture during 7 th to 12 th centuries.
‐ Bhakti movement and cultural synthesis, development of education, language, literature, Art and Architecture during Mugal Period.
‐ Maharana Pratap, struggle with the Mugals.
2. Mental Ability Test
Analogy, series completion, coding-decoding, blood relations, logical venn diagrams, alphabetical test, number ranking and time sequence test, mathematical operations, arithmetical reasoning, data interpretation, data sufficiency, cubes and dice, construction of sequences and triangles.
Statistics (Secondary Level)
Collection of data, presentation of data, graphical representation of data, measures of central tendency, mean, mode, median of ungrouped and grouped data.
Mathematics (Secondary Level)
Natural, rational and irrational numbers, real numbers and their decimal expansions, operations on real numbers, laws of exponents for real numbers, rational numbers and their decimal expansions. Zeroes of a polynomial. Relationship between zeroes and coefficients of a polynomial. Division algorithm for polynomials. Algebraic methods of solution of pair of linear equations in two variables.
Mensuration :
Surface area of a cuboid and a cube, right circular cylinder, right circular cone, sphere. Volume of a cuboid, cylinder, right circular cone and sphere, Surface area and volume of a combination of solids conversion of solid from shape to another.
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GENERAL ENGLISH :
• Tenses/Sequence of Tenses.
• Voice : Active and Passive.
• Narration : Direct and Indirect.
• Use of Articles and Determiners.
• Use of Prepositions.
• Correction of sentences including subject, Verb, Agreement, Degrees of Adjectives, Connectives and words wrongly used.
• Glossary of official, Technical Terms (with their Hindi Versions).
• Antonyms.
• Forming new words by using prefixes and suffixes.
• Confusable words.
3. Current Affairs
Economic Planning in India, 11th five year plan, Census of India 2011, Various development programme of India and Rajasthan, Poverty eradication programme, Youth employment programme, Health and Hygiene Schemes of Rajasthan, Space programmes of India, Atomic Energy programmes, India and the world events of importance, Persons and places of India in News, Contemporary events in Science and Technology in India, National and International Awards and Prizes, Latest Books and Authors of India, Sports and games.
4. General Science
Atoms and molecules, Chemical reactions and equations, Carbon and its compounds, Force and laws of motion, Work and energy, Tissues, Control and coordination, Heredity and evolution, Management of natural resources, Protection of environment, Biodiversity and sustainable development.
Indian Polity:
- Salient feature of the constitution of India, Indian Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary - Organization, Theory and practice, Elections in India. The president of India, Election and emergency powers of the president.
- Cabinet, Prime Minister and his powers.
- Parliament, speaker and his functions.
- Beurocratic set up of India.
- Political parties and their role – Theory and practice.
- Supreme court – Organization and powers, Commissions and Boards at -national level.
Geography of Rajasthan
Location, extent, shape, size, physical features climate, demographic characterstics, agriculture, mineral resources, energy resources. Tourism and transport. Industries and trade.
5. Educational Management, Educational scenario in Rajasthan, Right to Education Act 2009
Concept and functions of educational management, Educational management in Rajasthan, School as a unit of decentralized planning, Educational management information System(EMIS), Institutional planning, School mapping, Block Resource Centre(BRC), School Management Committee(SMC), District Information System for Education(DISE), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA), Rashtriya Madhyanik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA).
Organisation of educational set up at primary and secondary in Rajasthan , Functions of RIE, SIERT, BSER, IASE, CTE, DIET, Rajasthan Educational Intiative, Balika Shiksha Foundation, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidalaya, Rajasthan text book board, Bharat Scouts and Guides. Rasthriya Military school, Sainik school, Public school, Model school, E-Mitra, E-Governance, Rajshiksha, Edusat, Gyandarshan, Gyanvani.
Provisions of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
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Scheme of Examination
S. No.
Subject
No. of Questions
Total Marks
1
History of Rajasthan and Indian History with special emphasis on Indian National Movement
15
30
2
Mental Ability Test, Statistics (Secondary Level), Mathematics (Secondary Level), Language Ability Test : Hindi, English
20
40
3
Current affairs
10
20
4
General Science, Indian Polity, Geography of Rajasthan
15
30
5
Educational Management, Educational Scenario in Rajasthan, Right to Education Act, 2009
15
30
Total
75
150
Note : 1 All the question in the Paper shall be Multiple Choice Type Question.
2 Negative marking shall be applicable in the evaluation of answers. For every wrong answer one-third of the marks
prescribed for that particular question shall be deducted.
Explanation : Wrong answer shall mean an incorrect answer or multiple answer.
3 Duration of the paper shall be 1 Hour 30 Minutes.
Paper - II
Part – I (Senior Secondary Level)
1. Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Transformations :
(i) Direct – Indirect
(ii) Active - Passive
(iii) Negatives, Interrogatives
(iv) Simple to compound and complex
4. Auxiliaries
5. Prepositions
6. Phrasal verbs and Idioms
7. Reading comprehension
8. Précis writing
9. Letter writing
10. Report Writing
Part – II (Graduation Level)
(A) Poetry
1. Milton: On His Blindness
2. John Donne : Go and Catch a Falling Star
3. Wordsworth : Daffodils
4. Shelley - Ode to the West Wind
5. Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
6. Browning - My Last Duchess
7. Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion
8. Kamla Das - Dance of the Eunuchs
(B) Drama
Shakespeare: Macbeth
As You Like It
(C) Prose
Bacon: Of Studies
Lamb: In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
(D) Fiction
Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
R.K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets
(E) An Acquaintance with Literary Forms and Figures of Speech
(F) Phonetic Transcription, Word-Stress
Part – III (Post-Graduation Level)
(A) T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
Anita Desai - Cry, the Peacock
(B) Varieties of Languages: Creole, Pidgin,
Code - Switching,
Code - Mixing,
Part – IV (Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning Material, Use of computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning)
1. Importance of Psychology in Teaching-Learning :
• Learner,
• Teacher,
• Teaching-learning process,
• School effectiveness.
2. Development of Learner :
• Cognitive, Physical, Social, Emotional and Moral development patterns and characteristics among adolescent learner.
3. Teaching – Learning :
• Concept, Behavioural, Cognitive and constructivist principles of learning and its implication for senior secondary students.
• Learning characteristics of adolescent and its implication for teaching.
4. Managing Adolescent Learner :
• Concept of mental health and adjustment problems.
• Emotional Intelligence and its implication for mental health of adolescent.
• Use of guidance techniques for nurturing mental health of adolescent.
5. Instructional Strategies for Adolescent Learner :
• Communication skills and its use.
• Preparation and use of teaching-learning material during teaching.
• Different teaching approaches:
Teaching models- Advance organizer, Scientific enquiry, Information, processing, cooperative learning.
• Constructivist principles based Teaching.
6. ICT Pedagogy Integration :
• Concept of ICT.
• Concept of hardware and software.
• System approach to instruction.
• Computer assisted learning.
• Computer aided instruction.
• Factors facilitating ICT pedagogy integration.
Scheme of Examination
Subject Concerned
S. No.
Subject
No. of Questions
Total Marks
1
Knowledge of Subject Concerned : Senior Secondary Level
55
110
2
Knowledge of Subject Concerned : Graduation Level
55
110
3
Knowledge of Subject Concerned : Post Graduation Level
10
20
4
Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning Material, Use of Computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning
30
60
Total
150
300
Note : 1 All the question in the Paper shall be Multiple Choice Type Question.
2 Negative marking shall be applicable in the evaluation of answers. For every wrong answer one-third of the marks
prescribed for that particular question shall be deducted.
Explanation : Wrong answer shall mean an incorrect answer or multiple answer.
3 Duration of the paper shall be 3 Hours.
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