 Hi friends, welcome to my channel. I am Arpita Karwan and in this video I am going to be talking about everything that you want to know about gate examination. We will cover what is gate, what is the paper pattern, what is the syllabus for gate English literature, and how to cover the syllabus in the easiest possible way. Don't go anywhere because towards the end of the video we will cover what kind of books should you be referring to in order to prepare for gate exam and clear it in first attempt. So this video is extremely crucial and I would recommend you to watch it till the end because this video contains each and everything that any aspirants looking forward to clear gate exam wants to know. So let us begin and first talk about the gate exam. So the gate exam stands for Graduate aptitude test for engineering. It is an entrance exam that was primarily conducted for PG Engineering Science and Management courses at IITs in India. Gate is usually linked with the science and engineering field. I hope you can recall that some of your friends back in class 11 and 12 were aiming to clear JEE exam in order to pursue engineering or BTEC from IITs. However, if one feels to pursue engineering from IIT but still wants to complete a post-graduation from IIT, he or she has to clear the gate exam. In simplest terms, JEE is for admission into bachelors and gate is for admission into masters. Now you might ask that this is for engineering, right? How is gate important when it comes to humanity's subject, especially English literature? So let me inform you recently IITs have taken a very significant decision. They have started courses for many subjects from humanities such as economy, English literature, psychology. In order to get admission in such courses, they also have started conducting gate exam for these subjects as well. Last year IIT Bombay conducted this exam whereas this year IIT Kanpur is conducting it. Slowly you will see that many other IITs will also associate themselves in this process. Friends, now we move on to the next section of the video. Here we will be talking about the paper pattern. The first thing you need to know is that the paper will have 65 questions and the total number of marks is 100. The paper is in the form of MCQ that is multiple choice questions. There are no subjective questions asked anywhere in gate exam. It's a computer-based test just like UGC net. The paper is off 3 hours and there is negative marking. So the difference between UGC net and gate is that gate main negative marking here UGC net main negative marking nahi hai. Now let's talk about the qualification required to clear this exam. So anyone in the third year of undergraduate degree or anyone was completed their undergraduate course is eligible for grade. Let us look at the age limit now. Friends, there is no age limit for this exam. I could have done my undergraduate at the age of 21 and I can still appear for gate exam at the age of 45. There is absolutely no age limit. The only criteria is either you should have completed your undergraduate degree or you should be in the third year of your undergraduate degree. Now let's talk about the validity of the marks. Your certificate, your gate certificate will be valid for three years. Males, you will have to get enrolled for the master's program within three years of clearing gate. Friends, there is no limit on the number of attempts you can give for gate. You can give the exam as many times as you want. Coming on to the last and final topic that is cutoff. Cutoff is usually around 55%. It means that you have to score 55% to clear this exam that means 55 marks out of 100. If you look at the cutoff of gate 2021, the cutoff was 40% which means you need to get 40 marks out of 100. And for gate 2022, the cutoff shot up to 55% and all of this I'm talking about English literature. So friends, if you notice, the cutoff is increasing every year and because negative marking is also at the play, it becomes increasingly difficult to score well. But I want to tell you that if you have command over the basics, you're good to go. So friends, let's now talk about the participating institutes in the exam. As of now, there are eight participating institutes. These are IT Kharagpur, IT Bombay, IT Delhi, IT Guwahati, IT Kanpur, IT Chennai, IT Roorkee and ISC Bangalore which is Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. So there are eight institutes out of which seven are IITs and one is ISC. From the general section which includes general aptitude, reasoning, comprehension, there are 25 questions. The syllabus is not very strict. It's pretty similar to what has been asked in any other competitive exam. There are questions like clock, percentage, sitting arrangement, missing numbers, patterns etc. You can pick any guidebook in the market to prepare for this section. One important tip here is that please go through the previous year papers, solve them to understand what kind of questions are asked, what is the difficulty level. Also, if you have any questions or queries, you can put them in the comments section below and I'll be happy to answer them. Now, if you are looking for past year papers of GATE exam, GATE English particularly, then we invite you to visit our website right now. We have provided all past year papers of GATE exam along with Ansakhi, free of cost on our website. You can simply go download the papers and start your preparation right away. Now that we know a little bit about the general aptitude reasoning section, it is time to look at the soul of the paper which is English literature Friends, English literature carries 60% weightage. That means out of 100 marks, English literature carries 60 marks. And this is the section where mostly students float. Because general aptitude is very easy. If you have ever appeared for school olympias or any competitive exam, you will be able to clear the general section. However, The syllabus of English literature is so vast that students are not able to raise this section. So, now let us understand the syllabus of English literature of GATE exam. So, the brochure of GATE exam uses a very different language. I would say a complicated kind of language to explain the units that are there in the syllabus. Students often get scared looking at it. Let me break down the syllabus so that you can understand it in a much more better way. So, if you look at C 2.1, that is multi-general literature in English. To simplify it, it basically says you should read all the poets, novelists, essays, short story writers of English literature. In short, it basically covers the entire British literature and a lot of other things which I am going to soon talk about. Friends, then we have C 2.2 which is comparative context, anglophone and English translation literature from India. Another very complicated way of talking about the syllabus. Basically, this unit is all about Indian literature. It includes Indian literature, Indian aesthetics, contemporary Indian writing. Moving on to C 2.3 which is literary criticism and theory. In this, you have to cover two whole units, literary criticism as well as theory. Which books will we talk about after a while? C 2.4 is history of English literature which is similar to what we have discussed in C 2.1. But basically, you have to know chronological history. So, you should know the history of English literature plus all the writers including the dramatists, novelists and poets of each particular age. Now, the last one is C 2.5 which is research approaches and methodology along with literary forms, devices, concepts and genre. Now, this is nothing but dev club two units. One is research methodology and one is rhetorics and prosody. So, now that we know the syllabus, let us put it in a simple way. And I am going to present it in front of you of very simplified syllabus which I have divided in 10 units. One thing to note here is that there are certain things which they are not mentioned in their syllabus but are asked in the exam. This difficulty we also face in net exam. Hence, I am presenting a simplified syllabus based on the brochure as well as based on the past year papers and the questions that are asked in that particular exam. Okay, so first of all you should have a in-depth knowledge of British literature, unit one. You should know all the ages, you should know every age's major and minor writer, you should know every major writer's works and you should know all the novels, plays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, summaries and detail. Next, we have Indian literature. Now, this is very important to cover. In Indian literature, we are not going to cover the Indian literature but contemporary Indian literature and Indian aesthetics. Next, we have American literature, post-colonial literature, European literature. Okay, so American literature, post-colonial and European literature are not mentioned in the brochure but questions are there. So, you have to study all the prominent writers of all the three literature. Post-colonial literature, you have to divide it further over country-wise. You have to read Canadian, Caribbean, Australian and all the other post-colonial literatures, right? Now, after these five units that is British, American, post-colonial, European and Indian, next in line is literary criticism and literary theory. These are two separate units, remember and you have to study them separately. Another topic that they are not mentioned in the syllabus is literary terms and devices. This topic includes literary movements also like metaphysical poets, transcendental literature. So, you have to not only study literary terms and devices but also study literary movements. Now, these are again two different units and finally, we have research methodology. So, now that you see, you have 10 units that you have to cover currently for gain. So, let's quickly look at the 10 units. We have British literature and American literature, post-colonial, European, Indian. We have literary criticism, literary theory. We have literary terms and devices, literary movements and research methodology. And all of these units are very important for gain because some say questions are there. If you compare this syllabus with UGC-NET, you will see that the syllabus of both these exams are 99% same. Friends, now that you have looked at the syllabus, let's look at the important books from which you can prepare. Problem is that there is no one book that covers all these units. So, you have to refer to different books for different units. Luckily for the Unit 1 British literature, you have many books available in the market. You can refer to Routeless History of English Literature or English History by William J. Long. But the problem with these books is that they are brilliant for history to understand the chronology, but they don't tell the works of each writer. So, it becomes very difficult to refer to these books and make notes from these books for the works. For example, this book will talk about John and Nazariter and also mention some of his important works, but they'll just take the name of the poem. They will not give you summary and analysis of the poem. So, for all this, you have to go to different source to get the summary and then you have to take the help of internet and create proper notes. Now, the challenge is that you just don't have to study British literature. But American literature, European, post-colonial, Indian literature Another important thing is that you might find that there are a few books available in the market for these topics, but the challenge is that either they are extremely detailed consisting of like 900 pages or they are very concise. So, for world literature, I would recommend you that rather than going to books, you should use internet sites like lit charts, grade saver, cliff notes, e-notes. So, basically make a list of all the important writers of world literature that are asked in the exam and study them separately from Wikipedia and then make a list of all the important works of these writer and study them from these sites, literature, grade saver, cliff notes. I know it's a little difficult thing to do and that is the reason why we are here with an online course. We cover all important topics, writers and works in our online course. The detailed list of all these writers that are covered in our online course is available free of cost on our website arpidakarba.com. So, you can download this list free of cost and start preparing for the exam by your own. Now friends, after completing the entire literature, British, American, post-colonial, European and Indian, let's talk about literary theory and literary criticism. Let's first talk about literary theory. So, there are two books for literary theory. One is Peter Berry's literary theory and the other book is Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Pramod Kinayar. Friends, these two books are very simple. However, if you have not studied literary theory in your bachelors, then I don't think these books will make any sense. In that case, you have to check out a few videos posted by either me or other YouTubers on literary theory. That will give you a basic understanding of literary theory and then you can start reading from these books. Now let's talk about literary criticism. There's a very good book called History of Literary Criticism by Rama Vandirvedi and Vikramaditya Rai. This book includes Criticism by Aristotle, Plato, Matthew Arnold and T.S. in it, basically all the major literary critics. Again, if you have not studied literary criticism in bachelors, please don't jump to this book. Rather, watch some YouTube videos, gain basic understanding and then start with the book. Another important topic that you must cover for this particular exam is Literary Terms and Devices, for which you can refer to a glossary of literary terms by image This book will give you information about literary terms, rhetorics, prosody as well as literary movement. So, if you have read this book, you will cover two units. Last unit is Research Methodology. Again, there is no good book in the market available for research methodology, but you can find some content online. Also, look at the past year papers, what questions you are asking accordingly, you can make your own notes. But I will tell you, not a lot of questions are asked from this unit, so even if you want to leave this unit, you can. Now, after talking about the syllabus and the books, I would quickly talk about the number of questions that are asked from each of these units. So, friends, the three main units from which most questions come are British Literature, Indian Literature and Literary 10. Criticism se bhi aate, but thode sikam. From British literature, 14 to 15 questions are asked every year. From Indian Literature, 10 to 11 questions are asked and 5 to 6 questions are asked from Literary Theory. So, from all the other units like American, postcolonial, European, literary terms, and devices, movements, research methodology, Milaq ki aat hiya no question aate. But, it's not that you can't leave this unit because you can't cross the cut-off line from each mark. If you are looking for past year papers of Gate English, then I invite you to visit our website right now. Only after looking at the past year papers, aapku pata chalega ki kya padna hai aur kya chorna hai. We've provided all the past year papers of Gate exam, along with the Ansuki, free of cost on our website. You can simply go and download the paper and start your preparation. 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