TN TRB Polytechnic Lecturer Exam DateOUT
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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