UPDATED Scheme of Exams. & Syllabi for B.Sc.

B.Sc. SEMESTER-I

      ENGLISH

              SCHEME OF EXAM 

SEMESTER-I						        Max. Marks: 45
							                    Internal Assessment:5
								        Time:  3 Hours

Paper-A:	Text							    24

The following text is prescribed for intensive study:		
			
1.	Following poems from The Chronicles of Time edited by Asha Kadyan (Oxford University Press)

a)	William Shakespeare
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
b)	John Donne
Death Be Not Proud
c)	John Milton
On His Blindness
d)	Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
e)	John Dryden
Shadwell
f)	Alexander Pope
Know Then Thyself
g)	William Blake
The Little Black Boy
h)	William Wordsworth
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower…
i)	Percy Bysshe Shelley
England in 1819
j)	Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Bar

Part-B:		General English					          21

1.	Translation from Hindi to English						5
2.	Paragraph Writing								6
3.	Common phrasal verbs, prepositions and Common Errors in English	10

Scheme of Question Paper

The paper will have seven questions as per details given below

Q. 1.	The Candidate will be asked to answer comprehension questions based on an extract from the text book. There will be internal choice.		      1 X 5 =5

Q.2.	The candidate will be asked to explain with reference to the context an extract from the text book. There will be internal choice.			                      5

Q.3.	There will be five short answer type questions based on the text book. The candidate will be asked to give answers in about 30 words each. There will be internal choice.							     2 X 4 =8

Q.4. 	There will be one essay type question based on the text book with internal choice.									          		6
										           
Q.5.	Translation of a passage of about 10 sentences from Hindi to English          5	

Q.6.	Paragraph (The candidate will be required to write about 250 words on any one of the five given topics).							        	6

Q.7.	There will be question with parts on the following items: common phrasal verbs, prepositions, common errors in English.					10

B.Sc. SEMESTER-II

ENGLISH

SCHEME OF EXAM

SEMESTER-II						        Max. Marks: 45
								        Internal Assessment: 5
								        Time:  3 Hours

Paper-A:	Text							    29

The following text is prescribed for intensive study:

1.	Following essays from Ideas Aglow edited by Dinesh Kumar and V.B. Abrol (Publication Bureau, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)

a)	C.E.M.  Joad
Our Civilization

b)	Jayant V. Narlikar
It’s  Question Time

c)	N.Ram
An Interview with Christiaan Barnard

d)	B.R. Ambedkar
Untouchability and the Caste System

e)	Huck Gutman
Inhumanisation of  War

f)	Amartya Sen
Seven Types of Gender Inequality

Part-B:		General English					           16

1.	Translation from English to Hindi						5
2.	Precis										5
3.	Official Correspondence: Letter Writing					6

Scheme of question paper

The paper will have seven questions as per details given below

Q.1.	The candidate will be asked to answer comprehension questions based on an extract from the text book. There will be internal choice.		   1 X 6=6

Q.2.	The candidate will be asked to explain with reference to the context an extract from the text book. There will be internal choice.				         5

Q.3.	There will be five short answer type questions based on the text book. The candidates will be asked to give answers in about 30 words each. There will be internal choice.							2 X 5 =10
	
Q.4.	There will be two essay type questions based on the text book with internal choice.										8
										
Q.5.	Translation of a passage of about 10 sentences from English to Hindi.         5

Q.6.	Précis:	The candidates will be required to summarize a given passage in contemporary English of about 250 words to one-third of its length and also give it a suitable heading.								5 

Q.7.	The candidate will be asked to write an official letter. There will be internal choice.									           6