Friday, October 22, 2021

TRB Polytechnic Hallticket mentioning district of examination issued!

TRB Polytechnic Hall ticket mentioning district of examination issued!

 COMPUTER BASED EXAMINATION ADMIT CARD

    Candidates can download provisional hall ticket to know exam district details.

The main hall ticket will be available prior to three days from the exam. For candidates appearing for English exam on 31st October, timing 2pm-5pm, try downloading  hall ticket from 25th October onwards.

Source:

http://trb.tn.nic.in/

              Teachers Recruitment Board issued Notification for the Direct Recruitment of Lecturers in Government Polytechnic Colleges (Engineering/Non-Engineering) for the year 2017-2018, vide Notification No.14/2019, dated 27.11.2019. In this connection, Teachers Recruitment Board now releases the Provisional Admit Card for the eligible candidates who have applied for the said examination with City/Town and the district name for the examination centre in it. A new admit card will be issued indicating the examination centre in the District already informed, three days prior to the Scheduled date of examination. Further, it is instructed that candidates are expected to download their admit card once again and adhere to the instructions notified there on.

              Dates for Computer Based Examination: 28.10.2021, 29.10.2021,30.10.2021 and 31.10.2021. – Forenoon/Afternoon Sessions. Candidates are strictly instructed to reach the centre as per the timings mentioned in the Admit Card. Late comers will not be allowed inside the Centre for Examination.

              The candidates are requested to use their User ID and Password for downloading their Admit Card through the website http://www.trb.tn.nic.in from 22.10.2021 onwards in the following steps.

              To familiarize with Computer based examination Practice test / Mock test is also available.

              Step 1 – Click Login

              Step 2 – Enter User ID and password

              Step 3 – Click Dashboard

              Step 4 – Click Here to download Admit Card

All the best Folks!

Friday, September 10, 2021

TRB Polytechnic Lecturer's Exam Date, Time, Exam pattern and English Syllabus

 

TN TRB Polytechnic Lecturer Exam DateOUT – Latest Update and English syllabus!!!

Date of exam

  • The Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TN TRB) has recently released date for polytechnic lecturer in Tamil Nadu on its official website.  It will be conducted on 28/29/30 th of October 2021.The TNB conducts various exams to fill in the posts of TN TRB Lecturers in government polytechnic colleges and special institutions in the state.
  • Candidates are eligible for the post of lecturers in the field of engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, communication, instrumentation, computer, information, production; textile and printing technology; subjects like Physics, Chemistry, English, and Mathematics; and modern office practices.
  • The exam consists of an online computer-based examination of 180 minutes and after that, successful candidates reach the interview stage of the recruitment process.

Exam pattern

Subject

Number of Questions

Maximum Marks

Main Subject

1 mark questions: 100

2 marks questions: 40

100

80

General Knowledge

1 mark questions: 10

10

TOTAL

150

190

Time

  • The total time provided to complete the exam is 3 hours for every candidate. Visually/Orthopedically affected candidates will be allowed the assistance of scribes based on the Disability certificate provided by them. There is no negative marking in the TN TRB polytechnic exam.

UNIT I – CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE

  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Book of the Duchess
  • Edmund Spencer: Epithalamion
  • Shakespeare:Sonnet(8,15,24,30,37,40,46,76,82,91,112,116,126,140,144,147,154)
  • Francis Bacon: of Oxford
  • of Nobility
  • of Travel
  • of Friendship
  • of Love
  • Ben Jonson: Volpone or the Fox
  • Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
  • Sir Thomas More: Utopia
  • John Webster: The White Devil
  • William Langland: Piers the plowman
  • Shakespeare: The comedy of Errors
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Hamlet
  • Henry VIII
  • Love's Labour Lost

UNIT 2- JACOBEAN TO AUGUSTAN AGE

  • John Milton: Paradise Regained
  • John Dryden: All for Love
  • Alexander pope: The Rape of the Lock
  • Andrew Marwell: Garden
  • Thomas gray: Elegy written in a country churchyard
  • Jonathan swift: A Tale of a Tub
  • Addison and Steele: The spectators and the coverly papers. (Essays 1-10, Macmillan
  • Edn)
  • Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted village
  • Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
  • Samuel Daniel: Christ Victoric Triumph
  • Sir Thomas Brown: The Garden of Cyrus
  • William Blake: Songs of Experience
  • Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
  • Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
  • Henry Vaughan: Regeneration

UNIT 3 – ROMANTIC PERIOD

  • William Wordsworth: The Daffodils The Solitary Reaper
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads
  • Biographia Literaria
  • P. B. Shelly: Ode to the west wind
  • John keats: Ode to Autumn
  • Charles Lamb: The Essays of Elia
  • 1) Oxford in the vacation
  • 2) New year's Eve
  • 3) Dream children: A Reverie
  • 4) The price of chimney-sweeper
  • 5) My Relations
  • Byron: Prometheus
  • Jane Austen: Emma
  • Walter Scott: The Talisman
  • William Hazlit: Characters of Shakespeare's plays.
  • Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

UNIT 4 - VICTORIAN AGE

  • Tennyson: The princess: A Medley
  • Robert Browning: Men and Women
  • Andrea Del Sarto
  • Mathew Arnold: Rugby Chapel
  • Dover beach.
  • D.G.Rosetti : The Blessed Damozel
  • George Eliot: Romola
  • W.M Thackeray: Vanity Fair
  • R.L.Stevenson: Treasure Island
  • John Ruskein: Sesame and Lilies
  • Charles Dickens: A Tale of two cities.

UNIT 5 - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS

  • W.B.Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium
  • Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders.
  • Virginia Woolf: Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Brown
  • A.L. Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop
  • E.M.Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • T.S.Eliot: Murder in Cathedral
  • C.P.Snow: Corridors of Power
  • G.B. Shaw: The Devil's Disciple
  • Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos
  • Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

UNIT 6 - AMERICAN LITERATURE

  • Whitman: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
  • H.W.Long Fellow : The May Queen
  • Edgar Allam Poe: The Haunted Palace
  • To my Mother
  • The Lake
  • Emily Dickinson: A something in a Summer's Day
  • Bless God, he went as soldier's
  • How happy is the little Stone
  • This is my Letter to The World.
  • Robert Frost: Blue Berries
  • Wallace Stevens: The Snow man
  • Emerson: The American Scholar
  • Henry James: The lesson of the master
  • O'Neill: The Great God Brown
  • Hawthorne: A House of the Seven Gables
  • Edward Albe: The American Dream
  • Alice Walker: By the light of my Father's smile
  • Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea

UNIT 7 - INDIAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE

  • Nissin Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
  • A.K. Ramanujam: A River
  • R. Parthasarathy: Lines for a Photograph
  • Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree
  • Sarojini Naidu: The Soul's Prayer
  • Anita Desai: Where shal we go for this summer?
  • Badal Surcar: Evam Indrajit
  • Sri Aurobindo: Rose of God.
  • Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
  • Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
  • Deshpande: The Dark Holds No Terror
  • Kirish karnard: Tugulaq

UNIT 8 - LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS.

 

  • Family of Indo European Languages
  • Historical Linguistics
  •  LSRW
  • Theories of Language acquisition
  •  Dialects
  •  Phonology
  •  Affixes -Derivational and inflectional affixes Morpheme
  • s Acronyms
  •  Phrase and structures
  •  Phonetics and phonology
  • Minimal Pairs
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Semantics and Pragmatics
  •  Neurolinguistics
  • Dichotic listening
  •  Lingua franca
  • Jargon

UNIT 9 - CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORIES

  • Plato: Republic
  • Francis Bacon: The Advancement of learning
  • Samuel Johnson: On fiction Preface to Shakespeare
  •  S.T Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
  • Mathew Arnold: The function of criticism at the present time
  • I A Richards: Practical Criticism
  • Northrop Frye: The critical path
  • T.S.Eliot: Hamlet and his Problems
  • I A Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism
  • Rene Wellek: Concepts of Criticism
  •  Aristotle: Poetics
  •  Ezra Pound: The ABC of Reading
  • Wayne C. Booth: The Rhetoric of fiction
  • Empson: Seven types of Ambiguity

UNIT 10 - POST COLONIAL LITERATURE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

  • Atwood: Surfacing
  • Lawrence: The Fire Dwellers
  • P.K.Page : Adolescence
  • Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God
  •  Wole Soyinka: A Dance of the Forests
  • Wilfered Campbell: The Winter Lakes
  • AG.Smith: The White House
  • Ondaatje: There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
  • George Ryga: Portrait of Angelica In the shadow of the vulture
  • Ibsen: The lady from the sea
  • Moliere: The comic pastoral
  • Sir Thomas More: The Four Last Things

 

 

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Kerala PSC Collegiate exam for the post of Assistant Professor Syllabus for descriptive examination

 

Kerala PSC Collegiate exam for the post of Assistant Professor

Syllabus

for descriptive examination

For detailed study

1.   John Donne – Batter My Heart, Canonization

2.   Milton – Lycidas, Paradise Lost - Book 9

3.   John Dryden – Macflecknoe

4.   Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country churchyard

5.   William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Sonnets No 18, 30, 116

6.   Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock

7.   Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus

8.   Francis Bacon – Of Books, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth

9.   Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books

10.                 Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose

11.                 William Blake – The Tyger, The Lamb

12.                 William Wordsworth – Ode: Initimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

13.                 Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan

14.                 John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale

15.                 P B Shelley – Ode to the West Wind

16.                 Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon

17.                 Lord Tennyson – Ulysses, Lotos Eaters

18.                 Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach

19.                 Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto

20.                  G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty

21.                 Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

22.                 Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation, Dream Children

23.                 Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

24.                 W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium

25.                  T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland

26.                 W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats

27.                  Dylan Thomas – Poem in October

28.                 Sylvia Plath – Daddy

29.                  Philip Larking – Church Going

30.                  Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway

31.                  Ted Hughes – Thought Fox

32.                 Thom Gunn – On the Move

33.                  G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion

34.                 T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral

35.                 J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World

36.                 Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot

37.                 Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party

38.                 T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent

39.                 Virginia Woolf – Modern Fiction

40.                 Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali

41.                 Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting

42.                 Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers

43.                 Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House, Freaks

44.                 Nissim Ezeliek – Background, Casually

45.                 A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The Striders

46.                 Girish Karnad – Nagamandala

47.                 Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest

48.                 Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man

49.                 S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa

50.                 Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani

51.                 Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

52.                 Emily Dickinson – I felt a funeral

53.                  Robert Frost – Home Burial

54.                  Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning

55.                 Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven

56.                 Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman

57.                  Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones

58.                 Tennesee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

Non detailed portions

1.   Beowulf Ballads – Sir Patrick Spence, Chevy Chase

2.   Geoffrey Chaucer - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

3.   Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy

4.   Edmund Spencer - Epithalamion

5.   Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress

6.   Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal

7.   Sir Thomas More – Utopia

8.    Henry Fielding/ Samuel Richardson  – Pamela

9.    Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

10.                 William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

11.                 Olauda Equiano - The Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5) P.B. Shelley – The Cenci

12.                 Mary Shelley – Frankenstein

13.                 Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

14.                 Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist

15.                 Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles

16.                 Jane Austen – Mansfield Park

17.                 Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

18.                 F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition

19.                 Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness

20.                 Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway

21.                 James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

22.                 George Orwell – 1984

23.                 John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman

24.                 Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus

25.                 Caryll Churchill – Top Girls

26.                 Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session

27.                 Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable

28.                 Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope

29.                 Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day

30.                 R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days

31.                 Salman Rushdie – Midnighht’s Children

32.                 Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things

33.                 Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger

34.                 A.K. Ramanujan - Is there an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay

35.                 Emerson – Self Reliance

36.                  Thoreau – Civil Disobedience

37.                 Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman

38.                  E E Cummings – Buffallo Hills

39.                 Alln Ginsberg - America

40.                 Gertrude Stein – Daughter

41.                 Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter

42.                 Herman Melville – Moby Dick

43.                 Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea

44.                 Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye

Structure of English Language and Linguistics

       Indo European Family of Languages

       Old English, Middle English,

        Modern EnglishPhonetics

        Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic transcription

       Stress Intonation Morphology

        Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar

       Form class words-Function Class Words-

       Fallacies

       Saussure-Structuralism

       Syntax-PS Grammar-TG Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure

       Chomsky’s Trace Theory- Case Grammar, Systemic, Stratification and Tagmemics

       Semantics- Lexical semantics-

       Metaphor-

       Figures of speech

       Linguistics- Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics

English Language Teaching

       Key concepts in ELT- ESL- EFL-

       Mother tongue interference

        Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Visual Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language Learning Theories-

       Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism

       Learner Factors,

       Teaching Aids, ICT Types of tests-

        Tools for Evaluation-

        Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching

Literary Criticism

1.   Aristotle – Poetics

2.   Philip Sydney – An Apologie for Poetry

3.    Samuel Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14)

4.    Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.

5.   T. S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent

6.   Northrop Fry – Archetypes of Literature

7.   Cleanth Brookes- The Language of Paradox

8.   Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and Literature”.

9.   Elaine Showalter – “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.

10.                 Jacques Derrida- “Difference”.

11.                  Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof” Sigmund Freud – “The Conscious and the Unconscious”; “The Id and The Ego”; “The Ego and the Super Ego” Beyond the Pleasure Principles and Other Writings

12.                 Jurgen Habermas– “Modernity- An Incomplete Project”

13.                  Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution, Formations”

14.                 Stephen Greenblatt – “Shakespeare and the Exorcists”

15.                  Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language

16.                  Edward W. Said – “Introduction to Orientalism”.

17.                  Helen Cixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”

18.                  Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet

Culture Studies

1.   Theodor W. Adorno – “Culture Industry Reconsidered” (pp 98 -107) in Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

2.    Stuart Hall – “Encoding/Decoding” from Culture, Media, Language.

3.   Laura Mulvey – “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”

4.    Judith Butler – “Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire” from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Angela McRobbie – “Postmodernism and Popular Culture”.

       The candidates are expected to have a comprehensive knowledge of recent trends relating to

1.   Post Colonialism,

2.   Eco Criticism,

3.   New Historicism,

4.   Queer Theory,

5.   Trauma Studies,

6.   New Feminisms,

7.    Culture Studies,

8.    Diasporic Writing,

9.   Public Sphere,

10.                 Meta Narratives,

11.                 Hyper Reality and

Simulacra.

 

INSGHTS

       Total number of modules : 14

       For detailed study          :58

       For Non detailed study     : 44

       Short answers, paragraph questions, annotations and essays can be expected

       Linguistics

       Criticism = Classical+ Modern

       Cultural studies

 

 

 

TRB Polytechnic Hallticket mentioning district of examination issued!

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