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Civil Services Examination English Medium or Hindi Medium

What should I choose Civil Services Examination English Medium or Hindi Medium??? Please suggest me the right option.

Well, you should the medium in which you feel most comfortable. English Medium is being opted by most of the students in the Civil Services Examination, you may also choose this medium of you are good in it, other wise Hindi is also good option.

Some other details of Civil Services Examination:

Nationality:
A candidate must be a citizen of:
A citizen of India, or
A subject of Nepal, or
A subject of Bhutan, or
A Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Required qualification:
The candidate must hold a degree of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India

Age Limits
Candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August

Syllabus:

Paper-I

Answers must be written in English.

Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :

The Renaissance : Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neo-classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section-A

1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.

2. John Donne. The following poems :

- Canonization;

- Death be not proud;

- The Good Morrow;

- On his Mistress going to bed;

- The Relic;

3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX

4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock.

5. William Wordsworth. The following poems:

- Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

- Tintern Abbey.

- Three years she grew.

- She dwelt among untrodden ways.

- Michael.

- Resolution and Independence.

- The World is too much with us.

- Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

- Upon Westminster Bridge.

6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.

7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House.
Section-B

1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels.

2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.

4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.

6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Paper-II

Answers must be written in English.

Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :

Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post-Modernism.
Section-A

1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems:

- Easter 1916

- The Second Coming

- A Prayer for my daughter.

- Sailing to Byzantium.

- The Tower.

- Among School Children.

- Leda and the Swan.

- Meru

- Lapis Lazuli

- The Second Coming

- Byzantium.

2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems :

- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

- Journey of the Magi.

- Burnt Norton.

3. W.H. Auden. The following poems :

- Partition

- Musee des Beaux Arts

- in Memory of W.B. Yeats

- Lay your sleeping head, my love

- The Unknown Citizen

- Consider

- Mundus Et Infans

- The Shield of Achilles

- September 1, 1939

- Petition.

4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.

5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.

6. Philip Larkin. The following poems :

- Next

- Please

- Deceptions

- Afternoons

- Days

- Mr. Bleaney

7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems :

- Looking for a Causim on a Swing

- A River

- Of Mothers, among other Things

- Love Poem for a Wife 1

- Samll-Scale Reflections on a Great House

- Obituary

(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
Section-B

1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim

2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.

4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.

5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway.

6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura.

7. V.S. Naipal. A House for Mr. Biswas.

Last edited by Neelurk; March 27th, 2020 at 02:35 PM.
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