English Syllabus for WBSSC Assistant Teachers | West Bengal School Service Commission [ WBCSSC]
| Category | Honours/PG/XI-XII |
| Subject | English |
Poetry
| Poet | Poems |
| Philip Sidney | Loving in truth |
| Edmund Spenser | One Day I Wrote Her Name |
| William Shakespeare | Shall I Compare Thee To a Sumner’s Day? |
| John Donne | The Good Morrow |
| George Herbert | Virtue |
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock |
| William Blake | The Tyger, The Lamb |
| William Wordsworth | Tintern Abbey |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel, Kubla Khan |
| P. B. Shelley | Ode To The West Wind, To A Skylark |
| John Keats | Ode To A Nightingale, To Autumn |
| Alfred Tennyson | Ulysses |
| Robert Browning | My Last Duchess |
| W.B. Yeats | The Wild Swans at Coole |
| Wilfred Owen | Strange Meeting |
| T.S. Eliot | Hollow Men |
Drama
| Playwright | Play |
| Shakespeare | Macbeth |
| William Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer |
| George Bernard Shaw | Arms and the Man |
| J.M. Synge | Riders to the Sea |
Novel
| Novelist | Novel |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
Short Story
| Author | Story |
| Joseph Conrad | The Lagoon |
| James Joyce | Araby |
| Somerset Maugham | The Lotos Eater |
| Katherine Mansfield | The Fly |
Essay
| Writer | Essay |
| Charles Lamb | Dream Children: A Reverie, The Superannuated Man |
| G. B. Shaw | Freedom |
| Francis Bacon | Of Studies |
Grammar and Usage
- Common Errors
- Subject Verb Agreement
- Tenses
- Active and Passive Voice
- Articles and Prepositions
- Adverbs, Adjective
- Sentence Forms
- Simple Compound, Complex
- Relative Clauses
- Joining and Splitting of Sentences
- Narration
- Direct and Indirect
- Composition
- Rhetoric and Prosody
