Name of the Organisation : Gujarat SET Examination (gujaratset.ac.in)
Type of Announcement : Syllabus & Question Paper
Designation : Gujarat SET State Eligibility Test GSET 2014
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GUJARAT STATE LEVEL ELIGIBILITY TEST
Code No. : 12
Subject : ENGLISH
SYLLABUS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Note :
There will be two question papers, Paper—II and Paper—III. Paper—II will cover 50 Objective Type Questions carrying 100 marks. Paper—III will be of 200 marks and will consist of four sections, in all containing 26 questions (short and essay type) to attempt. For detail structure of Paper-III please visit our website msubaroda.ac.in
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)
[Core Group]
1. British Literature from Chaucer to the present day
2. Criticism and Literary Theory
Unit—I : Literary Comprehension (with internal choice of poetry stanza andprose 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
SAMPLE QUESTIONS :
Paper—II
1. Sissy Jupes is a character in
(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—an Ode
Paper—III (A)
1. Write an illustrative note on Elizabethan Lyric.
Or
Write a note on the Romantic poets’ use of symbols.
2. Describe the sources of Eliot’s allusions in The Wasteland.
Or
Examine Aristotle’s concept of truth in literature.
Paper—III (B)
Describe and discuss the elements of anxiety and nostalgia in the poetry of the ‘Great Moderns’.
Or
‘Post-modernism celebrates the fragmentation of master narratives.’ Discuss. H H H
SUBJECT CODE : 1
SUBJECT :MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
PAPER II AND PAPER III
UNIT – 1
Analysis: Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, Real number system as a complete ordered field, Archimedean property, supremum, infimum.
Sequences and series, convergence, limsup, liminf.
Bolzano Weierstrass theorem, Heine Borel theorem.
Continuity, uniform continuity, differentiability, mean value theorem.
Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence.
Riemann sums and Riemann integral, Improper Integrals.
Monotonic functions, types of discontinuity, functions of bounded variation, Lebesgue measure, Lebesgue integral.
Functions of several variables, directional derivative, partial derivative, derivative as a linear transformation, inverse and implicit function theorems.
Metric spaces, compactness, connectedness. Normed linear Spaces. Spaces of continuous functions as examples.
Linear Algebra: Vector spaces, subspaces, linear dependence, basis, dimension, algebra of linear transformations.
Algebra of matrices, rank and determinant of matrices, linear equations.
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem.
Matrix representation of linear transformations. Change of basis, canonical forms, diagonal forms, triangular forms, Jordan forms.
Inner product spaces, orthonormal basis.
Quadratic forms, reduction and classification of quadratic forms
UNIT – 2
Complex Analysis: Algebra of complex numbers, the complex plane, polynomials, power series, transcendental functions such as exponential, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations.
Contour integral, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, Liouville’s theorem, Maximum modulus principle, Schwarz lemma, Open mapping theorem.
Taylor series, Laurent series, calculus of residues. Conformal mappings, Mobius transformations.
Algebra: Permutations, combinations, pigeon-hole principle, inclusion-exclusion principle, derangements.
Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, divisibility in Z, congruences, Chinese Remainder Theorem, Euler’s Ø- function, primitive roots.
Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms, cyclic groups, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem, class equations, Sylow theorems.
Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique factorization domain, principal ideal domain, Euclidean domain.
Polynomial rings and irreducibility criteria.
Fields, finite fields, field extensions, Galois Theory.
Topology: basis, dense sets, subspace and product topology, separation axioms, connectedness and compactness.
UNIT – 3
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs):
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of initial value problems for first order ordinary differential equations, singular solutions of first order ODEs, system of first order ODEs. General theory of homogenous and non-homogeneous linear ODEs, variation of parameters, Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem, Green’s function.
Partial Differential Equations (PDEs):
Lagrange and Charpit methods for solving first order PDEs, Cauchy problem for first order PDEs. Classification of second order PDEs, General solution of higher order PDEs with constant coefficients, Method of separation of variables for Laplace, Heat and Wave equations.
Numerical Analysis :
Numerical solutions of algebraic equations, Method of iteration and Newton-Raphson method, Rate of convergence, Solution of systems of linear algebraic equations using Gauss elimination and Gauss-Seidel methods, Finite differences, Lagrange, Hermite and spline interpolation, Numerical differentiation and integration, Numerical solutions of ODEs using Picard, Euler, modified Euler and Runge-Kutta methods.
Calculus of Variations:
Variation of a functional, Euler-Lagrange equation, Necessary and sufficient conditions for extrema. Variational methods for boundary value problems in ordinary and partial differential equations.
Linear Integral Equations:
Linear integral equation of the first and second kind of Fredholm and Volterra type, Solutions with separable kernels. Characteristic numbers and eigenfunctions, resolvent kernel.
Classical Mechanics:
Generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, Hamilton’s canonical equations, Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action, Two-dimensional motion of rigid bodies, Euler’s dynamical equations for the motion of a rigid body about an axis, theory of small oscillations.
UNIT – 4
Descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis Sample space, discrete probability, independent events, Bayes theorem. Random variables and distribution functions (univariate and multivariate); expectation and moments. Independent random variables, marginal and conditional distributions. Characteristic functions. Probability inequalities (Tchebyshef, Markov, Jensen). Modes of convergence, weak and strong laws of large numbers, Central Limit theorems (i.i.d. case).
Markov chains with finite and countable state space, classification of states, limiting behaviour of n-step transition probabilities, stationary distribution, Poisson and birth-and-death processes.
Standard discrete and continuous univariate distributions. sampling distributions, standard errors and asymptotic distributions, distribution of order statistics and range.
Methods of estimation, properties of estimators, confidence intervals. Tests of hypotheses : most powerful and uniformly most powerful tests, likelihood ratio tests. Analysis of discrete data and chi-square test of goodness of fit. Large sample tests.
Simple nonparametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation and test for independence. Elementary Bayesian inference.
Gauss-Markov models, estimability of parameters, best linear unbiased estimators, confidence intervals, tests for linear hypotheses. Analysis of variance and covariance. Fixed, random and mixed effects models. Simple and multiple linear regression. Elementary regression diagnostics. Logistic regression.
Multivariate normal distribution, Wishart distribution and their properties. Distribution of quadratic forms. Inference for parameters, partial and multiple correlation coefficients and related tests. Data reduction techniques : Principle component analysis, Discriminant analysis, Cluster analysis, Canonical correlation.
Simple random sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling. Probability proportional to size sampling. Ratio and regression methods.
Completely randomized designs, randomized block designs and Latin-square designs. Connectedness and orthogonality of block designs, BIBD. 2K factorial experiments : confounding and construction. Hazard function and failure rates, censoring and life testing, series and parallel systems.
Linear programming problem, simplex methods, duality. Elementary queuing and inventory models.
Steady-state solutions of Markovian queuing models : M/M/1, M/M/1 with limited waiting space, M/M/C, M/M/C with limited waiting space, M/G/1.