• Use of appropriate Preposition and Article
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Comprehension
• Ordering of Words in a Sentence
• Sporting of Errors etc.

• General Knowledge with special reference to Tripura & North Eastern Region
• Current Affairs of Local
• National and International
• Importance Simple Arithmetic, Mental Ability, etc.

• An exercise in composition to test a candidate’s ability to write in simple and correct English. It may be an essay or drafting a report or a letter of about 400 words from points or materials supplied.
• To write a précis of a series of correspondence or a summary of a given passage to test the candidate’s capacity for comprehension and expression.
• Translation from Bengali, Kokborok, Hindi as the case may be, to English.
• Correction of sentences.
• Punctuation.
• Correct use of words and common phrases.

• An essay or a letter of about 400 words to test a candidate’s ability to write in elegant Bengali.
• To condense a prose passage of about 1000 words.
• Translation from English to Bengali.

• The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde).
• A daily Drama (Jerome K. Jerome).
• Narayan Hemchandra (M.K. Gandhi)

Poetry

• We are seven (William Wordsworth)
• Breathes there the Man (Walter Scott).
• To one who has been long in city pent (John Keats)
• Where the Mind is without Fear (Rabindranath Tagore)
• Time, You Old Gipsy Man (Relph Hodgson).
• The song of the Palanquin Bearers (Sarojini Naidu).

The pattern of questions will be:

• Objective Type (on Text) (Filling up of blanks, Antonyms, Synonyms).
• Short (informative) questions. (Who is the speaker, to whom said, place of occurrence, etc.)
• Broad questions. (Within one paragraph, or description central idea).
• Textual Grammar

(a) Punctuation.
(b) Transformation :-

(i) Change of voice
(ii) Change of Narration
(iii) Change of kind of sentences
(iv) Change of Degrees of comparison

(c) Substitution of Idioms for words