Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus, Exam, Online Coaching

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HSA English Syllabus

HSA English Exam.

HSA English Syllabus Detailed

Kerala PSC HSA English Online Coaching.

HSA English Previous Question Paper

Overview

HSA English PSC is an exclusive exam conducted to find the best candidates eligible to teach in High School classes. The notification is expected towards the end of December 2024. Though the HSA English exam is expected in 2025, candidates should engage in a diligent year-long preparation. Candidates aiming to crack the exam in 2025 has a grand opportunity to engage in effective online HSA English coaching at Competitive Cracker.

HSA English Syllabus

Kerala PSC HSA Syllabus is structured as a tool to test the knowledge of the candidates in respective subject, profession and general knowledge. The syllabus is divided into two parts. Part A aims to test the knowledge in various subjects related to the profession, teaching, and other general subjects. These subjects come under 3 modules.

• Module I: Renaissance and Freedom Movement
• Module II: General Knowledge and Current Affairs
• Module III: Methodology of Teaching the Subject.

Module I and II are similar to that of the Kerala PSC Clerk exam. Module III of HSA syllabus common to all HSA exam. The Part B of HSA syllabus includes subject-specific topics.

HSA English Exam.

English in High School classes are one of the most demanded subjects in government teaching posts. HSA English is being notified after 3 years. The number of eligible candidates is expected to be at a record high this time. Candidates should have acquired all eligibilities mentioned in the notification before the commencement of the official notification.

All eligible candidates can apply for HSA English PSC exam through their candidate profile in the website Kerala Public Service Commission Thulasi. PSC do not charge candidate any amount for registration or exam application. Create the candidate profile as per the official instructions from Kerala PSC. Add all the details regarding educational and technical qualifications.

Once the HSA English notification is officially released the application window will be available in the notification tab in your candidate profile.

Click on Notifications tab and Choose District-wise – Direct – General page.

Select High School Teacher (English). Fill the required fields and choose the district of selection. Candidates should be careful while choosing district of selection. Below the category number and post name will show the option to choose district. Choose the district only after careful study of the previous HSA English cut off mark and status of advice. The list will only show the name of districts which are participating in the respective recruitment process.

Candidate should be mindful about applying for the examination before the last date to apply.

HSA English Syllabus Detailed

Take a detailed view of the Part B of HSA English Syllabus.

Part B

Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus Part B, Module 1
#	Title		#	Title
1	Shakespeare	Sonnet 121	11	Tagore	Where the Mind Is Without Fear
2	Donne	A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	12	Nissim Ezekiel	Night of The Scorpion
3	Milton	On His Blindness	13	Kamala Das	An Introduction
4	Gray	Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard	14	A.K.Ramanujan	Obituary
5	Wordsworth	Tintern Abbey	15	Robert Frost	Home Burial
6	Shelley	To A Skylark	16	Emily Dickinson	Because I Could Not Stop for Death
7	Keats	Ode on A Grecian Urn	17	Wole Soyinka	A Telephone Conversation
8	Tennyson	Ulysses	18	Meena Alexander	House of A Thousand Doors
9	Browning	My Last Duchess	19	Margaret Atwood	This Is A Photograph Of Me
10	Arnold	Dover Beach	20	David Diop	Africa
11	W.B.Yeats	A Prayer For My Daughter	21	Jack Davis	Aboriginal Australia
12	Sylvia Plath	Daddy

Module 2. Drama

1. Shakespeare : Macbeth
2. Sheridan : School for Scandal
3. Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest
4. Ibsen : A Doll's House
5. Shaw : Pygmalion
6. J.M. Synge : Riders to The Sea
7. Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
8. Arthur Miller : Death of A Salesman
9. Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie
10. Girish Karnad : Nagamandala

Module 3. Drama

1. Francis Bacon : Of Studies
2. Steele : The Trumpet Club
3. A.G. Gardiner : On the Rule of The Road
4. E.M. Forster : On Tolerance
5. Bertrand Russel : Functions of A Teacher
6. Dr.Radhakrishnan : Humanities vs Science
7. Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
8. George Orwell : Animal Farm
9. Hemingway : The Old Man and The Sea
10. Shashi Deshpande : Roots and Shadows
11. Arundati Roy : The God of Small Things
12. Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye

Module 4: Literary Criticism/ Terms

1. Rasa
2. Dhwani
3. Aristotle: Poetics
4. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
5. Coleridge: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14
6. Arnold: Study of Poetry
7. Eliot: Tradition and The Individual Talent
8. Saussure: Nature of The Linguistic Sign
9. Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics

Terms and Movements (Based on the latest edition of M.H. Abrams - A Glossary of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post Colonialism, Modernism and Post Modernism

Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language

1. Phonology
2. Morphology
3. Syntax
4. Semantics
5. Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance
6. Organs of Speech
7. Classification of Speech Sounds
8. Stress, Rhythm, Intonation
9. Transcription
10. Indo-European Family of languages
11. Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian
12. Englishes - American, Australian, Indian, and African

Module 6: Modern English Usage

1. Sentence Correction
2. Vocabulary
3. Synonyms and Antonyms
4. Give one word
5. Commonly confused words
6. Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc.
7. Appropriate word order
8. Appropriate sentence order
9. Idioms
10. Passage for comprehension

Module 7: Basic Grammar

1. Article
2. Prepositions
3. Clauses
4. Tenses
5. Phrasal Verbs
6. Conjunctions
7. Reported Speech
8. Voice
9. Question Tag
10. Transformation of sentences

Module 8: Teaching of English

1. Schools - Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
2. Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
3. Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen
4. Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingual; Direct Method; Structural - Oral Situational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilingual Method; Humanistic Approaches
5. Use of AV aids and ICT
6. Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar
7. Testing and Evaluation
8. Learner Types
9. Teaching learners with disability
10. NCF, KCF on teaching of English

Kerala PSC HSA English Online Coaching.

HSA English is the most important exam for the thousands of aspirants seeking a government teaching job. The High School Teacher post offer decent salary and safe career in your favourite job profile. The most important part of the whole teacher recruitment process is the exam conducted wither online or OMR method. In order to clear this examination candidates need meticulous preparation. The candidates who secure the top ranks will have high probability to get the job sooner. To clear the exam in flying colours engage in intense and long-term preparation. Since almost one year is left for the examination, candidates should take a focused preparation. You can rely on the online platforms such as Competitive Cracker, one of the best HSA English coaching centre with best results in previous HSA and other PSC exams. To give the best of the best coaching Competitive Cracker is rolling out the one-year coaching package for HSA English students. The successfully implemented Spark batches introduces for PSC LP/UP exam preparation, is being re-introduced for HSA preparing students. Engage in this intense, focused coaching, with dedicated sessions for revision, model exams and question paper discussion. Join now to excel in the upcoming PSC HSA English exam.

HSA English Previous Question Paper

1. Which of the following historic novels are not written by Sardar K.M. Panicker ?
   1. Keralasimham, Kalyanamal
   2. Punarkottuswarupam, Parankipadayali
   3. Kalyanamal, Punarkottuswarupam
   4. Ramaraja Bahadur, Marthandavarma
2. Which of the skills can be called as productive skills?
   1. Listening and Speaking
   2. Speaking and Writing
   3. Reading and Writing
   4. Listening and Reading
3. Higgins claims that English is the language of:
   1. The Queen
   2. The noblest race
   3. Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible
   4. The elite class
4. Who is Santiago’s hero?
   1. Fidel Castro
   2. Dick Sisler
   3. Harry Truman
   4. Joe DiMaggio
5. Some of the idioms of the poem “Telephone Conversation” point out the general geography of ____.
   1. Mosco
   2. Washington
   3. London
   4. Paris
6. According to Bertrand Russel, ____ is essential to the proper fulfilment of the teacher’s functions.
   1. Advance education
   2. Knowledge
   3. Intellectual independence
   4. Critical acumen
7. Choose the exact meaning of the idiom ‘to make stock of’______.
   1. to feel one’s courage revive
   2. to be scrupulous about
   3. to prevent
   4. to draw profit from
8. Choose the most appropriate phrasal verb: Rose is always busy, she is always ______.
   1. by the run
   2. on the run
   3. running over
   4. running down
9. The final sounds of ‘laugh’ and ‘cough’ and the initial sound of ‘photo’ are examples of __________ .
   1. Dentals
   2. Alveo- palatals
   3. Velars
   4. Labiodentals
10. Which among the following is a Trisyllabic word?
    1. available
    2. economy
    3. impatient
    4. measure

Answer Key
1	d
2	b
3	c
4	d
5	c
6	c
7	d
8	b
9	d
10	c