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.
Language ability test : Hindi, English
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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, 11
th
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. Prcis 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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