A guide to clear DU MA English entrance

Master of arts degree in English literature or M.A in English Literature in Delhi University is a post-graduation program. Once you complete your bachelor’s degree with a minimum aggregate of 45%. The admission procedure starts from April, may when the forms releases.

Though it takes a lot of hard work to practice for the entrance exam a few tricks at hand will definitely make the work easy and get your desired results. Here are few of the best tried and tested method that will guide you towards the preparations that will at last leads to a successful attempt of yours.

1. Creating a study plan:

Creating a study plan not only gives you a direction to accelerate your study but also helps you to boost your preparation. Knowing your study plan previously gets you an upper hand in time management. This gives you a sense of target to complete the assigned task in the assigned time period.

2. Get the syllabus in hand:

After planning your time schedule it’s important to quantify how much time should be given to which topic. From Delhi University’s point of view, firstly command on the history of English literature is necessary. Then, comes an array of topics like writers and their works, literary terms, literary criticism, figure of speech, literary movements and to be precise knowledge of the works of writers you have read in bachelors.

3. Practice previous years question papers:

Practice is the key which will guarantee you success. Practicing previous years question papers will not only help you get to crack the exam pattern but will also give you a sense of judgment and a right idea about the previous knowledge. Previous years paper will give you an estimate of your preparations and t times direct you towards the right pattern.

4. Study topics according to weightage in question paper:

it is important to determine the weightage each topic carries in the question paper so that you can practice better and restraint to invest your time on topics that are not asked in the question paper from long. At the same time whenever appearing in any entrance exam never leave any topic without having basic details about it. So to ensure that you aren’t got blank in any question.

5. Reasoning and analytical skills:

If we talk about this year’s question paper analytical skills are a must-have. In 2017 paper writers and their work is the prominent portion but in 2018’s paper analytical question and question-related to literary terms coming.

• The key is to keep practicing on the pattern and gather information in an organized form so that retaining and retrieving it becomes easy. Prepare notes and constantly solving MCQ’s on pattern better your chances to make your attempt successful in the entrance exam.