West Bengal SSC English Syllabus

West Bengal SSC English Syllabus

 Eligibility Criteria for West Bengal SSC (SLST – Assistant Teacher):

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West Bengal SSC SLST – Eligibility Criteria

1. Nationality

• The candidate must be a citizen of India.

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2. Age Limit (as of January 1 of the recruitment year)

• Minimum Age: 21 years
• Maximum Age: 40 years

Age Relaxation (as per Govt. norms):

• SC/ST: 5 years
• OBC-A/OBC-B: 3 years
• PH (Physically Handicapped): 10 years

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3. Educational Qualification

A. For Classes IX – X (Secondary Level):

• Graduation in the relevant subject (e.g., Computer Application, English, etc.) with at least 50% marks (45% for reserved categories).
• B.Ed. from a recognized institution (NCTE-approved).

B. For Classes XI – XII (Higher Secondary Level):

• Post-Graduation in the relevant subject with at least 50% marks (45% for reserved categories).
• B.Ed. from an NCTE-recognized institution.

Note: Candidates must have studied the teaching subject in Graduation/Post-Graduation.

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4. Medium of Instruction Requirement

• The candidate should have studied the medium of instruction (e.g., Bengali, English, Hindi, etc.) as a language (First/Second/Third) at any academic level (Madhyamik, HS, UG, or PG).

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5. TET (Teacher Eligibility Test)

• For some categories, candidates may need to qualify for the WB TET (check specific notification for applicability).

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Below is the details of English Syllabus.

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ENGLISH (HONS./PG) [Code – 11] – Syllabus Overview

1. Poetry

• Sir Philip Sidney – Loving in Truth
• Edmund Spenser – One Day I Wrote Her Name
• William Shakespeare – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
• John Donne – The Good-Morrow
• George Herbert – Virtue
• Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
• William Blake – The Tyger, The Lamb
• William Wordsworth – Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Christabel, Kubla Khan
• P. B. Shelley – Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
• John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn
• Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
• Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
• W. B. Yeats – The Wild Swans at Coole
• Wilfred Owen – Strange Meeting
• T. S. Eliot – The Hollow Men

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2. Drama

• William Shakespeare – Macbeth
• Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
• George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man
• J. M. Synge – Riders to the Sea

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3. Novel

• Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
• Charles Dickens – David Copperfield

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4. Short Story & Essay

A. Short Stories

• Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
• James Joyce – Araby
• Somerset Maugham – The Lotus Eater
• Katherine Mansfield – The Fly

B. Essays

• Charles Lamb – Dream Children: A Reverie, The Superannuated Man
• G. B. Shaw – Freedom
• Francis Bacon – Of Studies

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5. Grammar and Usage

• Common Errors
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Tenses
• Voice: Active and Passive
• Articles, Prepositions, Adverbs, Adjectives

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6. Sentence Structure

• Types: Simple, Compound, Complex
• Relative Clauses
• Joining and Splitting of Sentences

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7. Narration

• Direct and Indirect Speech

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8. Composition

• Paragraph Writing: A single paragraph of 50–60 words on a given topic

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9. Literary Devices

• Rhetoric
• Prosody

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