RGUKT AP English Lecturer Syllabus 2026 Explained with Topic-wise Weightage & Preparation Strategy

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:02]So welcome to welcome back to Srimatha Education YouTube channel. So finally RGUKT AP English syllabus has officially been released and in this particular session we are going to do a detailed discussion on the syllabus along with the expected topic wise weightage like how many questions expected from each topic as well as the preparation strategy. How you can strategize the preparation, how you can plan better and uh to achieve good score. All these particular details we are going to discuss in this session. So if you haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel because we are going to provide coaching classes for coaching classes every day for RGUKT lecturer English uh starting starting June 4th.

[00:00:43]So let's start the session now. Let's discuss the detailed syllabus like let's discuss the detailed syllabus. At the same time let's discuss the detailed preparation strategy.

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[00:01:10]I'm just sharing my screen. So the exam pattern first I'll confirm the exam pattern. So the exam pattern is like 150 questions. So there will be 150 questions for 450 marks. So all questions will be on the subject only. So there is no general paper. There is no general paper. Only subject paper. All questions all questions are 150 and each question carries three marks and the entire paper is for 450 marks. So there is a negative marking of 1/3 also for each wrong attempt. So only subject questions. I'm again clarifying there is no general paper. It's only the subject paper basically. So now let's do an overview of the syllabus. So what exactly the syllabus contains like what exact details are there in the syllabus we are now going to discuss so in the syllabus we have three divisions like there are three parts in the syllabus the first part is about movements and concepts so where the questions will be asked on literary periods critical theories and intellectual frameworks from the Renaissance to postmodernism so from Renaissance to postmodernism everything you will be everything is covered under movements and concepts then you have writers and text so 22 authors were given 22 authors were added in the syllabus covering Britain American Indian literature African literature as well as post colonial literature so 22 authors were prescribed in the syllabus and then the third part is about English language teaching ELT history methods skills teaching testing phonetics everything everything about ELT is the third part so the syllabus can be divided into three parts movements and concepts writers and texts and English language teaching.

[00:02:58]Now let's uh get into the section one that is literary movements. So in literary movements what all are covered basically Renaissance is covered so where you have to prepare about rebirth of classical learning humanism and dramatic tradition major concepts from Renaissance and then metaphysical poetry and neoclassicism.

[00:03:18]So you have to prepare about wit conceit reason and order inverse. So these were these are important subtopics from the meta metaphysical poetry and neoclassicism and then romanticism and rise of novel where you have to study about imagination nature individualism and narrative prose and then modernism and postmodernism you have to read about fragmentation stream of consciousness and meta fication. So these are important subtopics in modernism and post postmodernism.

[00:03:52]Sai Sushma yes we'll provide for assistant professor also. We will provide for assistant professor. We will upload a video on it also very shortly.

[00:03:59]So, now this is section one.

[00:04:01]Now section two all is all about critical theories. In the section one critical theories are there like colonialism and post-colonialism. So, what you have to study in colonialism and post-colonialism? So, you have to study about power, empire, resistance and diaspora in literary text and then psychoanalytical criticism that includes Freudian and Lacanian readings, myth and archetype and then you have to study about feminism that discusses about gender, patriarchy and women's voices in literature. And then there is structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction where you have to study about language, signs, binary oppositions and Derrida's critique. So, these are important critical theories that you have to study if you are preparing for UGC NET English lecturer recruitment. So, these are very very important critical theories and these are prescribed in the syllabus and the subtopics also are visible on your screen. We will also explain topic wise latest from from which topic how many questions expected that also we will explain in the upcoming slides.

[00:05:03]So, now now British canonical writers. So, some written writers were prescribed in the syllabus.

[00:05:10]So, so they are like William Shakespeare and the prescribed playwright was Hamlet and the Tempest. So, both you have to study. So, for Hamlet and Tempest we have already uploaded the video under courses section. You can check that. And then John Milton Paradise Lost book one and nine. For John Milton Paradise Lost also we have uploaded a video under the courses section. You can check it.

[00:05:30]William Wordsworth Immortality Ode. It is also available on our channel and Tintern Abbey which we will discuss soon. And then John Keats Ode to Nightingale you have to prepare and To Autumn. These two texts you have to prepare and then Robert Browning you have to study My Last Duchess and The Last Ride Together. And you also have to study about Charles Dickens David Copperfield. So these are like written writers that that that that were prescribed in the syllabus and then we have another set of writers modernist 20th century writers where TS Eliot was prescribed.

[00:06:02]So from from TS Eliot's writings you have to study about the wasteland and the murder in the cathedral. So murder in the cathedral and the wasteland these both you have to study and then GB Shaw Saint Joan very very important and then Virginia Woolf a room of one's own. This is something that you have to study and then Samuel Beckett waiting for Godot.

[00:06:23]So these so these writings were prescribed for modernist and 20th century literature TS Eliot GB Shaw Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett and the text only so from TS Eliot the questions will be asked only on the wasteland and the murdering cathedral.

[00:06:38]You don't need to study all the writings of TS Eliot and from GB Shaw also questions will be asked only on Saint Joan. It will not be asked on any other it will not be asked on any other topic of say GB Shaw and then Virginia Woolf a room of one's own. This is also very important and then Samuel Beckett waiting for Godot. So this is 20th century writers prescribed in the syllabus and then American and post colonial writers you have to study about Robert Frost. So from Robert Frost home burial the road not taken these two texts were prescribed and then Eugene O'Neill. So from Eugene O'Neill the hairy ape is the one that you have to study and from Toni Morrison beloved you have to study beloved and then William Golding Lord of the Flies. So you have to study the text Lord of the Flies and then Chinua Achebe you have to study Things Fall Apart and then Margaret Atwood you have to study Edible Woman. So these are American and post colonial writers that are prescribed in the syllabus you have to cover everything everything that is mentioned here. Like whatever text I have mentioned here you have to cover all these.

[00:07:43]Then we have another set of writers, Indian writers, African and Commonwealth writers. So we have Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable. We have already covered a class on Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable. It is there under our courses section. And then A.K. Ramanujan, from A.K. Ramanujan you have to study love poem for a wife, small scale reflections on a great house. These two texts you have to study. And then from Girish Karnad, Hayavadana, myth, identity and Indian theoretical tradition. Hayavadana you have to study. And then Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Very important this one. Midnight's Children you have to study. And then Bessie Head, A Question of Power, Exile, Race and Psychological Struggle. This is this you have to study. And then A.D. Hope, Australia, Crossing the Frontier, Australian Identity in verse. So Australia from A.D. Hope's text Australia, Crossing the Frontier. These both texts you have to study from Indian, African and Commonwealth uh writers. And now from the section three, that is ELT, History and Methods. So you have to study about the status of English in India, that is ESL, foreign language and global language. And then methods and approaches. You have to study about grammar translation method, direct method, audiolingual method, structural approach and communicative language teaching. These are the topics that are prescribed from the ELT part that is given in the syllabus.

[00:09:07]And now from teaching language skills, listening and speaking skills, uh reading and writing skills, grammar and vocabulary, classroom techniques. All these topics are prescribed in the syllabus. Listening and speaking, reading and writing, grammar and vocabulary and classroom techniques from teaching and teaching language syllabus.

[00:09:26]Then we have testing, evaluation and phonetics. So from testing and evaluation, you have to study about the principles of testing and evaluation, types like formative assessment, summative assessment, diagnostic assessment, and proficiency assessment.

[00:09:40]All these you have to study. And then from objectives, measuring learning outcomes and guiding instructions, this is something that you have to study. And then from phonetics, phonology, and syntax, you have to study phonetics that includes articulation and classification of sounds. And then phonology, phonemes, stress, intonation, and connected speech. And from syntax and structure, you have to study sentence patterns and grammatical uh analysis.

[00:10:05]So, these are prescribed from testing, evaluation, and phonetics. And then um some key take key takeaways, very important for you. You have to master the literary history. You have to cover all movements from Renaissance to postmodernism and all the associated critical theories from literature, literary history, and then you have to study all the 22 prescribed writers.

[00:10:27]So, 22 writers have been 22 authors have been prescribed. So, whatever texts that are mentioned, everything you have to cover and you need and you need to enhance your knowledge on ELT. The more you study about ELT, the better it is.

[00:10:41]Because there will be more questions on ELT. And then uh you have to uh try yourself in applying critical frameworks. You have to analyze texts of feminist, psychoanalytical, post-colonial, and deconstructive lenses. So, all these are very important. Now, uh we have we will go with the topic-wise weightage. So, what is the exact topic-wise weightage? How many questions we can expect from each section? So, from literary movements and criticism, you can expect at least 25 to 30 questions. Out of 150 questions, you can expect maximum 30 questions, minimum 25 questions from literary movements and criticism. From writers and texts, like Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, so from all the writers and texts, you can expect minimum 70 questions, maximum 80 questions. So, very very high weightage.

[00:11:31]The section two writers and text high weighted high weighted section of the exam out of 150 questions minimum 70 maximum 80 questions you can expect from writers and text and from ELT you can expect 25 to 30 questions and from phonetics phonology syntax and structure you can expect 15 to 20 questions so total 150 questions top performing like top weighted writers and text 70 to 80 questions and then women's and ELT 25 to 30 questions and phonetics 15 to 20 questions and then detailed topic wise distribution so from which topic how many questions are expected so from Renaissance maximum three questions you can expect from metaphysical poetry minimum two questions you can expect from neoclassicism minimum two questions romanticism minimum three to four questions from rise of novel minimum two questions modernism minimum four three to four questions post-modernism three questions colonialism and diaspora three questions psychoanalytic criticism two questions you can expect myth and archetype archetype two questions and then feminism you can expect two questions structuralism and post-structuralism you can expect two questions deconstruction you can expect minimum two questions and then from ELT uh and from ELT you can expect four to five questions from ELT in India ESL EFL EGL you can expect three to four questions grammar translation method you can expect two to three questions direct method you can expect two to three questions audio-lingual method two to three questions can be expected structural approach two questions can be expected communicative language teaching four to five questions can be expected and teaching LSRW skills you can expect six to seven questions and testing and evaluation you can expect four to five questions and then from phonetics phonology syntax and structure you can expect at least two questions from speech organs, IPS symbols three to four questions, structural stress and intonation three questions, phonemes and allophones two questions, syntax and sentence structure four to five questions, translation transformational grammar you can expect at least two questions.

[00:13:48]So, this is the topic wise weightage.

[00:13:50]Now, high priority areas and strategy.

[00:13:52]Very very high priority topics from literature, Shakespeare, Hamlet and Tempest. You can expect at least eight to 10 questions from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tempest. Very important. And from Paradise Lost also you can expect good number of questions. Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, very important. You can expect at least four questions or five questions from T.S. Eliot. Then Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, also you can expect four to five questions. Waiting for Godot, Untouchable, Hayavadana, Midnight's Children, Things Fall Apart.

[00:14:24]All these are priorities. The first priorities are Hamlet and Tempest.

[00:14:28]Second priority Paradise Lost. Third priority Wordsworth, Keats and Browning.

[00:14:32]So, this is the priority order. And then from ELT and language priorities, the first priority you have to prepare is ELT methods and approaches. Second priority communicative language teaching. Third priority teaching LSRW skills. Fourth priority testing and evaluation. Fifth priority modernism, postmodernism, feminism and structuralism. Last priority phonetics and IPA. So, these are the high priority areas and then expected difficulty level. You can expect at least 40 to 45 easy questions in the paper. Moderate questions 75 to 80. Like average difficulty level questions you can expect 75 to 80. And the difficult questions, tough questions you can expect up to 25 to 30. So, out of 150 questions, a serious candidate, if you are preparing extensively, if you are doing aggressive preparation, you can easily answer 110 plus questions correctly. If you are preparing extensively and aggressively with proper plan, 110 questions can be easily doable in the paper. So, you can expect more than 330 marks with 110 items.

[00:15:36]So, so So, if you are If you want to get a job, if you are very serious about this notification, you need to aim You need to aim of You need to aim for answering more than 110 plus questions correctly. Only if you answer more than 110 plus questions properly and correctly, then there are chances for you to get a job depending on the number of the vacancies. So, this This is all about the topic-wise weightage and syllabus discussion. If you have further queries, you can ask in the comment section. We'll clarify all your queries, and we have also created English WhatsApp group. The link is given in the video description. You can join our English WhatsApp group where we'll be updating daily schedule of online classes and all. So, overall, this is the pure This is the syllabus. So, you can watch this recorded session also. Once this live ends, the recorded session is also available. You can watch the recording session also. So, do like, share, and subscribe for to our for our YouTube channel. So, somebody is asking now payment issue was told you can try in the night. You can try in the night, Deepak. I do get English course kept latest on the next set conference papers could I just say I'm going to problem over there. Any problem over there. Hard copy love it.

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