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General and technical cadres · 235 pages
Compulsory subjects and post-related subjects for professional and technical cadres. Confirm the applicable subject code in the recruitment notice.
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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
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(POST RELATED)
Subject Code: 121
Total Marks-200
Part-I
Marks: 100
(Shakespeare to Romantic Period)
Group A - Marks 50
Shakespeare: ―Hamlet‖, ―King Lear‘, ―Macbeth‖, ―Othello‖, ‗The Tempest‖.
Group B - Marks 50
John Milton : ―Paradise Lost‖, Book IX and X
Jonathan Swift : ―Gulliver's Travels‖
William Wordsworth : " Tintern Abbey",‖ Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge :" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",―Kubla Khan", " Dejection: an Ode"
Percy Bysshe Shelley :―Ode to the West Wind", ―To a Skylark"
John Keats : Odes
Jane Austen : ―Pride and Prejudice‖
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Part-II
Marks: 100
(Victorian to Modern Period)
Group A - Marks 50
Alfred Tennyson : ―Ulysses", " The Lotos Eaters", ―Tithonus", " In Memoriam" (selections)
Robert Browning : ―Andrea del Sarto" " Fra Lippo Lippi" ―My Last Duchess", " Rabbi Ben
Ezra"
Matthew Arnold : ―Dover Beach", " The Scholar Gipsy", " Thyrsis"
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbarvilles
Group B - Marks 50
William Butler Yeats : Selections
T.S.Eliot : ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", ―The Waste Land"
D. H. Lawrence : "Sons and Lovers"
Joseph Conrad : "Heart of Darkness"
Arthur Miller : "Death of a Salesman"
Samuel Beckett : "Waiting for Godot"