SET exam Eligibility & syllabus

Will you please provide me details about SET exam??? And please give me syllabus.

[Kiran Chandar]

Here I am providing you details about SET exam. The State Governments to conduct the State Eligibility Test (SET) for lectureship, provided, the SET is duly accredited by the University Grants Commission (U.G.C.).

Eligibility Criteria:

Candidates must have Master's Degree or P.G. Diploma from an institution recognized by U.G.C.

Candidates can appear for SET in the subject of their Post Graduation only

No upper age limits

Candidates other than ST /SC category, who have secured at least 55% marks (without gracing or rounding off) in Master's or equivalent examination, are eligible for this test.

OBC
SBC
DT (A)/NT (B)/NT(C)/NT (D) (Non Creamy Layer)
Candidates must enclose attested copy of the caste certificate and the latest valid non creamy layer certificate (For current financial year.) The certificate must be in candidate's own name only.

SET Exam Dates
Online Submission Starts from : 10th September, 2013

Last Date of Online Submission : 30th September, 2013

Last date of hardcopy submission : 7th October, 2013

30th SET Examination on : 1st December, 2013

SET syllabus:
There will be three papers for SET exam. Syllabus for the Paper I is given below:-
Teaching Aptitude
Research Aptitude
Reading Comprehensions
Communication, Reasoning (including Mathematical)
Logical Reasoning
Data Interpretation, Information
Communication Technology
People Environment
Higher Education System: Governance
Polity and Administration.

Paper II and Paper III will be the subjects selected by the candidates.

ENGLISH
Syllabus and Sample Questions
PAPER—II
1. Chaucer to Shakespeare.
2. Jacobean to Restoration Periods.
3. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature.
4. Romantic Period.
5. Victorian Period.
6. Modern Period.
7. Contemporary Period.
8. American and other non-British Literatures.
9. Literary Theory and Criticism.
10. Rhetoric and Prosody.


PAPER—III (A)
1. British Literature from Chaucer to the present day.
2. Criticism and Literary Theory.

Unit—I : Literary Comprehension (with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose
passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each).

Unit—II : Up to the Renaissance.
Unit—III: Jacobean to Restoration Periods.
Unit—IV : Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature.
Unit—V : Romantic Period.
Unit—VI : Victorian and Pre-Raphaelites.
Unit—VII : Modern British Literature.
Unit—VIII : Contemporary British Literature.
Unit—IX : Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot.
Unit—X : Contemporary Theory.


PAPER—III (B)
(ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL)
Elective—I : History of English Language, English Language Teaching.
Elective—II : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.
Elective—III : Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation.
Elective—IV : American and other non-British English Literatures.
Elective—V : Literary Theory and Criticism.


SAMPLE QUESTIONS
PAPER—II
1. Sissy Jupes is a characters is
(A) Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(B) Dickens’ Hard Times
(C) Dicken’s Christmas Carols
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch

2. Which of the following arrangements of English poems is in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Lapis Lazuli-L’Allegro-Lamia-Thyrsis
(B) Lamia-Lapis Lazuli-Thyrsis-L’Allegro
(C) L’Allegro-Lamia-Thyrsis-Lapis Lazuli
(D) Thyrsis-Lamia-L’Allegro-Lapis Lazuli

3. The words. “beaded bubbles winking at the brim” occur in
(A) Ozymandias
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) Hero and Leander
(D) Dejection-on Ode