TA} f&{ testbook.com WBCS English Syllabus: Download Syllabus Here! Getting a government job in any cadre has become a tough task for the candidates as the competition is at its peak. But you need not to worry and be sure of your preparation. The West Bengal Commission Services, the authority incharge for conducting the most important WB PCS Exam. The official notification of West Bengal state is out for the state PCS Exam. Candidates can check out the WBCS website to see the dates and information. Unlike other PCS Exam, the WBCS Exam has three tiers: Prelims, Mains & personality test, this article is focused on the Optional Subject chosen by Candidates for the Mains. The detailed WBCS English Optional syllabus & its preparation for the Mains exam. Candidates must begin preparing today for the exam with a precise approach. Candidates must go through the detailed WBCS English syllabus and exam pattern. WBCS English Syllabus English is a great subject to be chosen as an optional paper. It is scoring in its own way. Those who have chosen English Paper as the Optional, refer to the table below for the syllabus. Check out the table below for the reference. Paper I- English **In Section A, candidates will have to write an essay. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below.** SECTION-A An essay on a literary topic SECTION-B William Shakespeare-- Macbeth -As You Like ItChristopher Marlowe ~ Edward II John Donne- ‘Canonization’; - Death be not proud’; -‘The Good. Morrow’ Andrew Marvell-‘To His Coy Mistress’; -‘The Garden’ John Milton-Lycidas’; - Paradise Lost, Book I Alexander Pope ~ The Rape of the Lock William Wordsworth--‘Ode on Intimations of Immortality’; “Tintern Abbey’ samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan’; “ejection: an Ode’ Percy Bysshe Shelley-- ‘Ode to the Westwind’ ; - Ozymandias’ John Keats-~‘Ode toa Nightingale’ “Ode ona Grecian Urn’ Alfred Tennyson-Ulysses’; ~The Lotus Eaters’; “Tithonus’ Robert Browning-The Last Ride Together’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning-‘ How do I love thee!’SECTION-C Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens-Great Expectations Thomas Hardy-The Mayor of Caster bridge Mark Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Emily Bronte-Wuthering Heights Mary Shelley-Frankenstein Paper II: English “*In Section A, candidates will have to respond critically to an Unseen Passage. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below** SECTION-A Critical analysis/response to an unseen passage in prose/verse SECTION-B W.B. Yeats “Easter 1916’; ~Sailing to Byzantium’; ~“Leda and the Swan’Kamala Das -‘ An Introduction’ T.S. Eliot - ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’; ~The Journey of the Magi’; ~Burnt Norton’ WH. Auden- “In Memory of W.B.Yeats’; “Lay your sleeping head, my love’; ~The Shield of Achilles’ John Osborne-Look Back in Anger samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot sylvia Plath - ~Mirror’; ~‘Nick and the Candlestick’ Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-"To India My Native Land’; “My Country’SECTION-C D.H. Lawrence-The Rainbow Raja Rao-Kanthapura Amitava Ghosh-The Shadow Lines Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart James Joyce -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rabindranath Tagore - ‘Crisis in Civilization’ Virginia Woolf -‘A Room of One’s Own’ ** all answers are to be studied for the English language ** Download the syllabus PDF below from the Direct link. Download the WB PDF Here! WBCS English Exam Pattern Understand the exam pattern below to have an Idea how to begin your preparation for the exam. inglish Syllabus as . First candidates need to qualify the Preliminary exam. It is an objective type and the marks are not added. For the Main Examination, Candidates have a total of 6 compulsory subjects and one optional subject consisting of two papers. All papers are important for the final merit. Four of them will be MCQ The two Optional papers will be descriptive papers. Each paper will be of 200 marks and for a duration of 3 hours. Candidates must go through the complete WBCS Civil Services English syllabus beforehand. Go check out the WBCS Civil Services exam pattern! Previous Years Question Papers for WBCS English Optional Subject For candidates reference we have provided direct links to all the previous year papers PDF for you to practice. Download WBCS English Optional for free!WBCS English PYPs Year Paper I Paper II 2014 WEBCS English Paper ~I WBCS English Paper — II 2015 WBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper ~ II 2016 WBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper — II 2017 WBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper — II 2018 WEBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper ~ II 2019 WECS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper - II 2020 WBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper — II 2021 WBCS English Paper -I WBCS English Paper — II Download our mobile application estbook App and get all the guidance and study support: Notes PDE, Mock tests and topic wise explanation, PYPs, and more! Why to Prepare for WBCS English Optional Subject? Candidates can choose any preferred subject and an optional subject from a list provided by the Commission. Many aspirants prefer to choose the English subject as their optional. English is not a compulsory subject in the WBCS Mains exam. Optional subjects here prove to be decisive in nature, as it varies from candidate to candidate and it affects the final rankings. It is suggested to download the English syllabus and all the previous papers for getting the pattern, question trend of the exam and practice answer writing Prepare a proper plan and stick to it. Revise the subject regularly, make short notes for quick go through, Solve the WBCS English Optional Question Paper and keep a track of your performance . Analyze your weaknesses 2 Prioritize your learning Focus on your weak topic and make sure that you don’t repeat the same mistakes. Your success is our goal. Topper’s tips for WBCS preparation! Follow these simple pro tips followed by the toppers and achieve your goals: , Divide topics in an order of toughness. Focus more on the weak ones. . Regularly track your preparation by analyzing your performance through tests. Practice answer writing. Make it a daily practice. . Go through the prose and poem on repeat, to understand the core and practice to use good vocabulary while writing your answers.. Frepare your Uptionai subject as per the need oi the group you are preparing for. solve previous year’s questions papers. Pad The Complete Exam Preparation alt) Bey =