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01	Six course completed candidates	FREE
02	Five course completed candidates	FREE
03	Four course completed candidates	3,000
04	Three course completed candidates	6,000
05	Two course completed candidates	9,000
06	One course completed candidates	12,000
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01	Six course completed candidates	FREE
02	Five course completed candidates	5,000
03	Four course completed candidates	8,000
04	Three course completed candidates	11,000
05	Two course completed candidates	14,000
06	One course completed candidates	17,000
07	Freshers	20,000
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Materials Overview

SET/NET – Paper – 1

Unit I – Teaching Aptitude

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Teaching	6
2.	Learner’s Characteristics	16
3.	Factors Affecting Teaching	31
4.	Methods of Teaching in Institutions of Higher Learning	37
5.	Teaching Support System	58
6.	Evaluation Systems	71

Unit II – Research Aptitude

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Research	84
2.	Methods of Research	95
3.	Steps of Research	109
4.	Thesis and Article Writing	136
5.	Application of ICT in Research	146
6.	Research Ethics	150

Unit III – Comprehension

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Strategies to Attempt Comprehension	158
2.	Exercises	159

Unit IV – Communication

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	Communication: Meaning, Types and Characteristics of Communication	165
02.	Effective Communication: Verbal and Non-Verbal, Inter-Cultural and Group Communications, Classroom Communication	182
03.	Barriers to Effective Communication	196
04.	Mass-Media and Society	204

Unit V – Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	Types of Reasoning	6
02.	Number Series	8
03.	Letter Series	10
04.	Analogy	12
05.	Coding and Decoding	16
06.	Blood Relationship	19
07.	Fraction	24
08.	Time and Distance	26
09.	Ratio, Proportion and Percentage	28
10.	Profit, Loss and Discounting	30
11.	Interest	33
12.	Average	36

Unit VI – Logical Reasoning

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Arguments, Propositions	38
2.	Inferences, Venn Diagram, Mood and Figure	49
3.	Fallacies, Uses of Language, Connotations and Denotations, Square of Opposition	62
4.	Indian Logic: Means of Knowledge	74
5.	Pramanas (Valid Knowledge)	79
6.	Vyapti (Invariable Relation), Hetvabhasas (Fallacies of Inference)	88

Unit VII – Data Interpretation

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Strategies to Attempt Data Interpretation	92
2.	Exercises	95

Unit VIII – Information and Communication Technology

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	ICT – Introduction	101
02.	Basics of Computer	103
03.	Networking	138
04.	Internet and Intranet	144
05.	E-mail	155
06.	Audio and Video Conferencing	159
07.	Digital Initiatives in Higher Education	161
08.	ICT and Governance	177
09.	Abbreviations and Acronyms	181
10.	Computer Terminology	190

Unit IX – People, Development and Environment

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Development and Environment: Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goal	4
2.	Human and Environment Interaction: Anthropogenic Activities and their Impacts on Environment	10
3.	Environmental Issues: Pollution, Waste, Climate Change	15
4.	Impacts of Pollutants on Human Health	46
5.	Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests	50
6.	Natural Hazards and Disasters: Mitigation Strategies	62
7.	Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International Agreements and Efforts – Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance	72

Unit X – Higher Education System

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	Institutions of Higher Learning and Education in Ancient India	78
02.	Evolution of Higher Learning and Research in Post-Independence India	93
03.	Oriental, Conventional and Non-Conventional Learning Programmes in India	116
04.	Professional, Technical and Skill Based Education	134
05.	Value Education and Environmental Education	153
06.	Policies, Governance, and Administration	161

SET/NET & Arts – Paper – 2

Unit I – BRITISH LITERATURE – I

S.No

Title

P. No

Poetry

The Age of Chaucer (1340 – 1400)

1.1 Geoffrey Chaucer

1.2 William Langland

The Age of Revival (1400 – 1550)

2.1 Thomas More

2.2 Thomas Wyatt

2.3 Henry Howard

Elizabethan Age (1558–1603)

Poets:

3.1 Edmund Spenser

3.2 Philip Sidney

3.3 Shakespeare

Dramatists:

3.4 Christopher Marlowe

3.5 Thomas Kyd

3.6 William Shakespeare

Essayist:

3.7 Francis Bacon

109

Jacobean & Caroline Age (1603–1625 & 1625–1649)

Poets:

4.1 John Donne

4.2 Henry Vaughan

4.3 George Herbert

4.4 Andrew Marvell

Dramatists:

4.5 Ben Jonson

4.6 John Webster

116

125

127

129

133

138

Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum (1649-1660)

5.1 John Milton

5.2 John Bunyan

145

155

Restoration Age (1660-1700)

6.1 John Dryden

6.2 William Congreve

6.3 William Wycherley

166

178

189

The Augustan Age (1700-1745)

Poets:

7.1 Alexander Pope

7.2 Jonathan Swift

7.3 Joseph Addison

7.4 Richard Steele

Novelist:

7.5 Daniel Defoe

194

206

217

221

230

The Age of Sensibility or Age of Johnson (1745–1785)

Poets:

8.1 Dr. Johnson

8.2 Thomas Gray

8.3 Oliver Goldsmith

8.4 William Blake

Novelists:

8.5 Samuel Richardson

8.6 Henry Fielding

241

249

255

266

280

285

Unit II – BRITISH LITERATURE – II

S. No	Title	P. No
	09. Romantic Age (1798 – 1832)	05
	Poets
1	9.1 William Wordsworth	09
2	9.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge	20
3	9.3 P.B. Shelley	32
4	9.4 John Keats	43
5	9.5 Lord Byron	51
	Prose Writers
6	9.6 William Hazlitt	56
7	9.7 Charles Lamb	61
	Novelists
8	9.8 Jane Austen	70
9	9.9 Sir Walter Scott	80
	10. The Victorian Age (1832 -1901) or (1837 – 1901)	86
	Poets
10	10.1 Lord Alfred Tennyson	93
11	10.2 Robert Browning	101
12	10.3 Matthew Arnold	109
13	10.4 D.G. Rossetti	118
14	10.5 G.M. Hopkins	122
	Novelists
15	10.6 Charles Dickens	127
16	10.7 Emily Bronte	135
17	10.8 George Eliot	141
18	10.9 Thomas Hardy	149
19	10.10 William Makepeace Thackeray	159
20	10.11 R.L. Stevenson	163
	Prose Writers
21	10.12 Thomas Carlyle	166
22	10.13 Lord Macaulay	169
23	10.14 John Ruskin	172
	Dramatists
24	10.15 Oscar Wilde	176
25	10.16 G.B. Shaw	181
	11. Modern Age (1914-1945)	190
	Poets
26	11.1 T.S. Eliot	193
27	11.2 W.B. Yeats	213
28	11.3 Ezra pound	221
29	11.4 W.H. Auden	225
30	11.5 Dylan Thomas	229
31	11.6 Rudyard Kipling	231
	Novelists
32	11.7 H.G. Wells	233
33	11.8 Joseph Conrad	236
34	11.9 E.M. Forster	239
35	11.10 D.H. Lawrence	243
36	11.11 Aldous Huxley	246
37	11.12 James Joyce	251
38	11.13 Virginia Woolf	254
39	11.14 Graham Greene	258
40	11.15 George Orwell	261
	Dramatists
41	11.16 Sean O’Casey	264
42	11.17 John Galsworthy	266
43	11.18 J.M. Synge	269
44	11.19 Henrik Ibsen	271
	Prose writers
45	11.20 Bertrand Russell	273
46	11.21 Robert Lynd	275
47	11.22 E.V. Lucas	277
	12. Post Modern Age (1945 – onwards)	279
	Poets
48	12.1 Seamus Heaney	282
49	12.2 Ted Hughes	284
50	12.3 Philip Larkin	285
	Novelists
51	12.4 William Golding	287
52	12.5 Kingsley Amis	291
53	12.6 J.K Rowling	293
54	12.7 J.R.R Tolkien	294
55	12.8 Bram Stoker	295
	Dramatists
56	12.9 Samuel Beckett	296
57	12.10 Harold Pinter	301
58	12.11 John Osborne	303

Unit III – AMERICAN LITERATURE (Part – 1)

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	Historical and Political Time-line of America	03
02.	Literary periods of American Literature	08
03.	Early Writers of American Literature – Part 1	14
04.	Early Writers of American Literature – Part 2	20
05.	Fredrick Douglass	25
06.	Herman Melville – Moby-Dick	27
07.	James Cooper – Leather Stockings Tales	32
08.	Edgar Allen Poe – Poems	35
09.	Edgar Allen Poe – Philosophy of Composition	50
10.	Mark Twain – Adventures of Tom Sawyer	53
11.	Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	61
12.	Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin	67
13.	Emerson – American Scholar	76
14.	Emerson – Self-Reliance	90
15.	Thoreau – Walden	99
16.	Walt Whitman – When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloomed	115
17.	Nathaniel Hawthorne – The House of the Seven Gables	128
18.	Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter	133

Unit III – AMERICAN LITERATURE (Part – 2)

S. No	Title	P. No
19.	Henry James – The Lesson of the Master	3
20.	Louisa May Alcott	13
21.	Charlotte Gilman Perkins – Yellow Wallpaper	20
22.	Hart Crane – To Brooklyn Bridge	24
23.	William Faulkner – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech	32
24.	William Faulkner – Sound and the Fury	37
25.	Hemingway – The Old man and the Sea	42
26.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	55
27.	Susan Glaspell – Trifles	61
28.	Tennessee Williams – Glass Menagerie	71
29.	Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman	82
30.	Gertrude Stein	93
31.	Eugene O Neill – The Great God Brown	96
32.	Eugene O Neill – The Hairy Ape	111
33.	Robert Frost – Poems	121
34.	Toni Morrison – Beloved	136
35.	Ezra Pound	140
36.	E. E. Cummings – The Cambridge Ladies	144
37.	John Steinbeck	149
38.	Edward Albee – Who’s Afride of Virginia Woolf	154
39.	Edward Albee – The American Dream	165
40.	Harper Lee – To Kill a Mocking Bird	179
41.	Saul Bellow	185
42.	Robert Lowell	188
43.	Theoder Draiser	191
44.	Sylvia Plath – Poems	195
45.	Emily Dickinson – Poems	203

Unit IV – Postcolonial Literature

S. No	Title	P. No
1	Outline History of Canadian Literature in English	3
2	Margaret Atwood	16
3	Margaret Laurence	25
4	P. K. Page	29
5	William Wilfred Campbell	32
6	A.J.M. Smith	35
7	E.J. Pratt	37
8	Michael Ondaatje	40
9	George Ryga	45
10	Outline History of Australian Literature in English	47
11	Judith Wright	66
12	A. D. Hope	73
13	Douglas Stewart	76
14	Outline History of New Zealand Literature in English	81
15	Katherine Mansfield	96
16	Frank Sargeson	97
17	Outline History of African Literature in English	98
18	Chinua Achebe	113
19	Wole Soyinka	126
20	Abioseh Nicol	138
21	Alan Paten	142
22	Outline History of Caribbean Literature in English	145
23	Major Caribbean Writers and their Works	153

Unit V – Language and Linguistics

S.No	Title	P.No
Language
01.	The Origin of Language	3
02.	The Place of English in the Indo-European family	9
03.	The Characteristics of the Germanic Language	18
04.	Old English	21
05.	Middle English	25
06.	Modern English	29
07.	Standard English	32
08.	The Growth of Vocabulary	34
09.	The Change of Meaning	41
Linguistics
10.	Introduction to Linguistics 10.1. Definition, Nature and Scope of Linguistics 10.2. Linguistic Terms 10.3. Glossary of Linguistic Terms	49
11.	Phonology 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Speech Organs 11.3. Sounds in English 11.4. Transcriptions 11.5. Syllable, Stress, Intonation	82
12.	Morphology 12.1. Morpheme 12.2. Affixes 12.3. Word Formation 12.4. Morphophonemics	106
13.	Syntax 13.1. Word, Phrase, Clause 13.2. Structural Linguistics 13.3. Immediate Constituent Analysis 13.4. Transformational Generative Grammar	122
14.	Semantics 14.1. Meaning 14.2. Terms and Concepts in Semantics 14.3. Theories of Semantics	141
15.	Pragmatics	158

Unit VI – English Language Teaching

S. No	Title	P. No
01.	Status of English Language in India	03
02.	English Language Teaching	12
03.	Listening Skill	19
04.	Speaking Skill	25
05.	Reading Skill	31
06.	Writing Skill	43
07.	Methods of Teaching English	53
08.	Approaches of Teaching English	57
09.	Teaching of English Poetry	63
10.	Teaching of English Prose	69
11.	Teaching of English Grammar	73
12.	Teaching of English Composition	79
13.	Technology in English Language Teaching	87
14.	Audio Visual Aids	97
15.	Language Testing and Evaluation	110

VII – LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

S. No	Title	P. No
I. Greek Critics
01	Plato	07
02	Aristotle	17
II. Roman Critics
03	Horace	32
04	Quintilian	39
05	Longinus	44
III. Latin Critics
06	Dante	50
07	Mimetic Theory	57
08	Pragmatic Theories	58
IV. Medieval Criticism
09	Philip Sidney	61
V. Neo-Classical Literary Criticism
10	John Dryden	65
11	Samuel Johnson	73
VI. Romanticism
12	William Wordsworth	79
13	S.T. Coleridge	91
14	P.B. Shelley	101
VII. Victorian Literary Criticism
15	Matthew Arnold	107
VIII. Literary Criticism in the Twentieth Century
16	T.S. Eliot	112
17	I.A. Richards	118
18	William Empson	136
19	Lionel Trilling	144
20	Wayne C. Booth	151
21	Cleanth Brooks	163
22	Allen Tate	170
IX. Literary Approaches
23	Moralistic Approach	177
24	Psychological Approach	178
25	Archetypal Approach	180
26	Sociological Approach	195
27	Formalistic Approach	196
X. Literary Theory and Criticism
28	Feminist Criticism	198
29	Marxist Criticism	210
30	New Criticism	214
31	Structuralism	218
32	Reader – Response Criticism	222
33	Deconstruction	227
34	New Historicism	231
35	Eco Criticism	233
36	Post-Colonial Criticism	235
37	Literary Terms	237
38	Notable Quotes	246
39	Key Texts in Literary Criticism and Theory	250
40	Literary Movements	258
41	Literary Forms	270

Unit VIII – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

S. No	Title	P. No
1	Outline History of Indian Writing in English	3
POETRY
2	Rabindranath Tagore	15
3	Sri Aurobindo	26
4	Toru Dutt	30
5	Sarojini Naidu	34
6	A.K. Ramanujan	40
7	R. Parthasarathy	47
8	Kamala Das	52
9	Nissim Ezekiel	59
10	Vikram Seth	66
PROSE
11	Ananda K. Coomaraswamy	68
PLAY
12	Girish Karnad	73
13	Vijay Tendulkar	80
14	Gurcharan Das	85
15	Mahesh Dattani	89
16	Badal Sircar	93
NOVEL
17	Mulk Raj Anand	100
18	Raja Rao	110
19	R.K.Narayan	115
20	Kamala Markandaya	124
21	Shashi Deshpande	128
22	Anita Desai	134
23	Arundhati Roy	142
24	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	147
25	Chetan Bhagat	152

Unit IX – Cultural Studies

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Cultural Studies – an Introduction	4
2.	The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS)	8
3.	Key Concepts in Cultural Studies	9
4.	Approaches to Cultural Studies	12
5.	Key Methodologies in Cultural Studies	15
6.	Most Influential Theories within Cultural Studies 6.1 Marxism 6.2 Culturalism 6.3 Structuralism 6.4 New Historicism 6.5 Cultural Materialism 6.6 Poststructuralism 6.7 Psychoanalysis and 6.8 The Politics of Difference: Feminism, Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial theory	17 19 19 20 22 22 24 25

Unit X – Research Methods and Materials in English

S. No	Title	P. No
1.	Research	Refer Paper 1, Unit 2, Research Aptitude material
2.	Methods of Research
3.	Steps of Research
4.	Thesis and Article Writing
5.	Application of ICT in Research
6.	Research Ethics
7.	Plagiarism	28
8.	MLA – Formatting Research Project	32
9.	MLA – In-text Citation	40
10.	MLA – Work Cited	43

Unit XI – General Knowledge

S.No	Title	P.No
01	History of Tamil Nadu	03
02	Indian History	20
03	Indian Constitution	72
04	Indian Economics	102
05	Geography	138
06	World Organizations	153
07	General Science	160
08	Personalities	179
09	Sports and Games	199
10	Currrent Affairs	211

ஆறாம் வகுப்பு – தமிழ்
வ. எண்		பாடத்தலைப்பு	ப. எண்
1.		இயல் – 1	4
2.		இயல் – 2	9
3.		இயல் – 3	12
4.		இயல் – 4	15
5.		இயல் – 5	18
6.		இயல் – 6	22
7.		இயல் – 7	25
8.		இயல் – 8	27
9.		இயல் – 9	31
ஏழாம் வகுப்பு – தமிழ்
1.		இயல் – 1	33
2.		இயல் – 2	37
3.		இயல் – 3	41
4.		இயல் – 4	46
5.		இயல் – 5	50
6.		இயல் – 6	53
7.		இயல் – 7	57
8.		இயல் – 8	62
9.		இயல் – 9	66
எட்டாம் வகுப்பு – தமிழ்
1.	இயல் – 1		69
2.	இயல் – 2		73
3.	இயல் – 3		77
4.	இயல் – 4		80
5.	இயல் – 5		85
6.	இயல் – 6		93
7.	இயல் – 7		98
8.	இயல் – 8		102
9.	இயல் – 9		107

ஒன்பதாம் வகுப்பு – தமிழ்
வ. எண்	பாடத்தலைப்பு	ப. எண்
1.	இயல் – 1	111
2.	இயல் – 2	119
3.	இயல் – 3	124
4.	இயல் – 4	130
5.	இயல் – 5	136
6.	இயல் – 6	143
7.	இயல் – 7	151
8.	இயல் – 8	156
9.	இயல் – 9	161
பத்தாம் வகுப்பு – தமிழ்
1.	இயல் – 1	167
2.	இயல் – 2	185
3.	இயல் – 3	199
4.	இயல் – 4	213
5.	இயல் – 5	224
6.	இயல் – 6	238
7.	இயல் – 7	256
8.	இயல் – 8	276
9.	இயல் – 9	288

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Admission will be confirmed only after the complete payment of the fee. (Payment Receipt / Screenshot should be enclosed)

Fees once paid will not be refundable or transferable under any circumstances in the future.

Candidates can attend classes until the Exam or the completion of syllabus.

Study materials will be sent through professional courier.

Candidates should not share, copy, or xerox any of our video lessons, material, documents, question papers; otherwise, their admission will be cancelled without any further enquiry, and legal action must be taken against them.

Candidates must watch all video lessons compulsorily.

Candidate must attend Slip Test, Unit Test, Revision Test, and Model Test compulsorily.

Admission will not be provided to those who are handling classes in another coaching centre or are planning to take coaching classes in the future.

FEE STRUCTURE

S.NO

SET / NET/ JRF

FEE

01

Six course completed candidates

FREE

02

Five course completed candidates

FREE

03

Four course completed candidates

3,000

04

Three course completed candidates

6,000

05

Two course completed candidates

9,000

06

One course completed candidates

12,000

07

Freshers

15,000

Additional Fee Concession for Previous Akshiraa Achievers

1) State First, Second, Third Rank Holders – FREE

2) Top Ten State Rank Holders – Rs. 5000

3) Already Appointed Candidates – Rs. 3000

S.NO

ARTS TRB

FEE

01

Six course completed candidates

FREE

02

Five course completed candidates

5,000

03

Four course completed candidates

8,000

04

Three course completed candidates

11,000

05

Two course completed candidates

14,000

06

One course completed candidates

17,000

07

Freshers

20,000

Additional Fee Concession for Previous Akshiraa Achievers

1) State First, Second, Third Rank Holders – FREE

2) Top Ten State Rank Holders – Rs. 5000

3) Already Appointed Candidates – Rs. 3000

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Materials Overview

SET/NET – Paper – 1

Unit I – Teaching Aptitude

Unit II – Research Aptitude

Unit III – Comprehension

Unit IV – Communication

Unit V – Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Unit VI – Logical Reasoning

Unit VII – Data Interpretation

Unit VIII – Information and Communication Technology

Unit IX – People, Development and Environment

Unit X – Higher Education System