BPSC Teacher Syllabus 2026 : Overview
| Organization Name |
Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) |
| Exam Name |
Bihar Teacher Recruitment Exam (TRE 4.0) |
| Post Name |
Higher Secondary School Teacher English |
| Total Vacancies |
1,321 |
| Mode of Apply |
Online |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Job Location |
Bihar |
| Official Website |
https://bpsc.bih.nic.in. |
Bihar Higher Secondary School Teacher English Syllabus 2026
Part I :
English :
1. Vocabulary
2. Grammar
3. Noun
4. Pronoun
5. Verb
6. Adverb
7. Reading Comprehension
8. Idioms and Phrases, etc
Hindi language :
1. त्रुटि पहचान
2. बुनियादी समझ और लेखन क्षमता, आदि।
3. वर्तनी
4. रिक्त स्थानों की पूर्ति करें (क्रिया, पूर्वसर्ग, लेख आदि का प्रयोग करके)
5. शब्दावली
6. वाक्य की बनावट
7. व्याकरण
8. विलोम शब्द
9. वाक्य पूरा करना
10. समानार्थी शब्द
11. वाक्यांशों और शब्दों का मुहावरेदार उपयोग, आदि
Part II: General Studies :-
Elementary Mathematics :
1. Percentage
2. Profit and Loss
3. Interest
4. Time and Work
5. Ratio and Proportion
6. Problems Based on Ages
7. Number System
8. Partnership
9. Speed Time and Distance
10. Mixture and Alligations
11. Average
12. Algebra
13. Mensuration
14. Geometry
Mental ability test :
1. Analogies
2. Letter and Symbol series
3. Classification
4. Blood Relation
5. Number Series
6. Ranking and Order
7. Verbal Classification
8. Coding and Decoding
9. Direction Sense
10. Statement and Conclusion
11. Sitting Arrangement
12. Syllogism
13. Statement and Assumption, etc.
General Awareness :
1. India and its Neighboring Countries
2. Current Affairs
3. Sports
4. History
5. Culture
6. Geography
7. Economic Science
8. Policy
9. Indian Constitution
General Science :-
Physics :
1. Work, Energy, and Power
2. Force and Laws of Motions
3. Electromagnetic Waves
4. Heat
5. Optics
6. Gravitation
7. Physical World & Measurement
8. Atoms & Nuclei
9. Currents
10. Heat & Thermodynamics
11. Electrostatics
Chemistry :
1. Structure of Atom
2. Periodic Classification of Elements
3. Acids, Bases, and Salts
4. Metal and Non-Metals
5. States of Matter
Biology :
1. Plants
2. Animals
3. Skeleton System
4. Nervous System
5. Digestive System
6. Vitamins and Minerals
Social Science :
1. India and the Contemporary World
2. Contemporary India
3. Democratic Politics
4. Understanding Economic Development, etc.
Indian National Movements :
1. India on the Eve of British Conquest
2. British Conquest of Bengal
3. Mysore’s Resistance to the Company
4. Expansion and Consolidation of British Power in India
5. Causes of British Success in India
6. Era of Militant Nationalism (1905-1909)
7. Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Supremacy
8. Extension of British Paramountcy through Administrative Policy
9. Relations of British India with Neighboring Countries
10. British India and the North-West Frontier
11. Resistance against the British Before 1857
12. The Revolt of 1857: Causes, Events, Spread, Leaders
13. First World War and Nationalist Response
14. Beginning of Modern Nationalism in India
15.Foundation of Indian National Congress
16. Conquest of Sindh
17. Conquest of Punjab
18. First Phase of Revolutionary Activities (1907-1917)
19. Emergence of Gandhi
20. Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Andolan
Geography and Environment :
1. Solar System
2. Planets
3. Earth
4. Continent
5. Volcano
6. Indian Geography
7. Mountains and Plateau
8. Environment
9. Human Geography – People, Human Activities, etc
Part III: Concerned Subject :- (Expected)
English :
1. English Language & Applied Grammar
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
Sentence Structure & Syntax: Types of sentences, Subject-Verb Agreement / Concord, Clause analysis (Noun, Adjective, and Adverbial clauses)
Tenses & Modals: Sequence of Tenses, Time and Tense, Functions and usage of Modal Auxiliaries
Voice & Narration: Active and Passive Voice conversions; Direct and Indirect Speech (Statements, Imperatives, Interrogatives, and Exclamatory)
Transformation of Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex conversions; Degrees of Comparison; Affirmative to Negative; Removal of "too"
Syntactic Mechanics: Question Tags, Punctuation, Parallelism, and Common Sentence Errors / Error Detection
2. Vocabulary & Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary Acquisition: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Homophones, and Words Often Confused
Idiomatic Usage: Idioms and Phrases, Phrasal Verbs, and Common Proverbs
Word Formation: Affixation (Prefixes and Suffixes), Compounding, Conversion, and Root Words
Comprehension Skills: Unseen prose passages and poetic excerpts; inferential questioning, theme identification, tone analysis, and contextual meaning determination
3. Linguistics, Phonetics & History of the English Language
Nature of Language: Definition, characteristics, and language varieties (Dialect, Register, Idiolect, Standard Language)
History of English: Old English, Middle English, Modern English periods; Great Vowel Shift; major linguistic borrowings
Phonetics & Phonology:
Organs of speech and articulation mechanisms
Classification of English Vowel and Consonant sounds (IPA symbols)
Phonemes, Allophones, Syllabic structure, Stress patterns, and Intonation contours
Morphology: Morphemes, Free vs. Bound morphemes, Allomorphs, and Morphological analysis
4. British Literature
British Poetry:
Major periods: Renaissance, Metaphysical, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern
Key Figures & Forms: Spenserian sonnets, Shakespearean sonnets, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney
British Drama:
Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration, and 20th-century drama
Key Playwrights: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare (Tragedies, Comedies, and Historical plays), William Congreve, Oscar Wilde, G.B. Shaw, John Galsworthy, T.S. Eliot, John Osborne, and Samuel Beckett
British Prose & Fiction:
Rise of the English Novel: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence
Non-Fictional Prose & Essays: Francis Bacon, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, E.M. Forster, and A.G. Gardiner
5. Indian Writing in English & World Literatures
Indian English Poetry & Drama: Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Girish Karnad, and Mahesh Dattani
Indian English Fiction: Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy
American & Post-Colonial Literature:
American voices: Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Miller, and Ernest Hemingway
Commonwealth / Post-Colonial writing: Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Pablo Neruda, and Margaret Atwood
6. Literary Criticism, Theory & Literary Devices
Classical & Traditional Criticism: Aristotle (Poetics), Philip Sidney, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads), Matthew Arnold, and T.S. Eliot (Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Function of Criticism)
Modern Critical Theories: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Feminism, New Historicism, and Postcolonial Theory
Figures of Speech & Rhetoric: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Onomatopoeia, Apostrophe, Irony, Alliteration, Antithesis, Synecdoche, Metonymy, Litotes, and Chiasmus
Literary Concepts: Intentional Fallacy, Affective Fallacy, Objective Correlative, Negative Capability, Hamartia, Catharsis, Soliloquy, and Dramatic Monologue
7. Pedagogy & Methodology of Teaching English
Methods and Approaches: Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method, Bilingual Method, Structural-Oral-Situational (S-O-S) Approach, and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Core Skills (LSRW): Techniques for developing Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing competencies
Classroom Resources & Assessment: Teaching-Learning Materials (TLMs), Language Laboratory drills, Remedial Teaching, Diagnostic Testing, and Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) for senior secondary classrooms
Syllabus Linkage: Critical familiarity with Bihar State SCERT (Rainbow) and NCERT (Hornbill, Snapshots, Flamingo, Vistas)
Bihar Higher Secondary School Teacher English Exam Pattern 2026
