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Hi,
Yes, you can surely pursue a course in English literature after class 12th not being from the arts stream. English Literature degree helps an individual to develop thinking skills and makes them more sensitive towards the world and society. A typical English Literature course comprises of literature from various era and countries and spans novels, plays, poems and essays. In the language part a student is required to learn comprehension, acquire basic knowledge of Rhetoric and Prosody, and nuances of writing.
Duration of Bachelor's Degree in English Literature:
The ideal duration for completion of BA in English Literature is minimum 3 years. Nowadays a lot of universities have adopted the semester system. In the semester system of the program, students have to appear in six semesters, wherein, two semesters comprise one year.
Eligibility for the program:
10+2 examination with English as a core subject
Duration of the program:
3 years

Hi,
Absolutely yes, you can surely pursue a course in Economics after class 12th depending on the college you wish to get into.
Eligibility-
The minimum criterion of eligibility needed to be met for admission to the course is a 10+2 or equivalent qualification from a recognized institute/ university with a minimum aggregate score of 50 (mathematics being a must). Candidates awaiting their final examinations results are also eligible to apply on provisional basis.
The general procedure for admission to the course is merit- based, I.e. on the basis of the merit obtained by the candidate at the 10+2 level. A few institutes also conduct entrance exams for admission to the course. Thereafter, rounds of personal interview may follow.

Banaras Hindu University is a good university for BA course. Its entrance is BHU UET. Actually it is quite a simple exam to clear but sometimes students commit some mistakes. There are 150 questions in the entrance examination, which contains 100 for different types (basics from all the subjects) and 50 questions are optional English or Hindi.
Mistakes are common in maths section. Although it is just elementary maths but since students do mistakes because either they don't have interest or they have not studied it seriously. For giving your 100% in exam, you must have an effective plan with yourself. You can refer any below mentioned book to be prepared. Grab a Preparation Book published by Arihant. It'll help you a lot especially with the topics which are asked frequently. You'll also find solved question papers. Or you can take up a Lucent GS book and old questions papers of BHU BA UET available on the website and learn them completely, you will top.

Some philosophy graduates go on to further study in philosophy. This could be with the intention of pursuing a career as a lecturer or simply due to their love of the subject, or both. Other related areas of interest include politics, ethics, international development and sociology.
For careers in law, lecturing and teaching, you'll need further qualifications. In areas such as journalism and advertising, you may find a postgraduate qualification useful, but relevant work experience is essential. Research the careers that interest you to find out if you'll need to take further study.
For more information on further study and to find a course that interests you, see Masters degrees and postgraduate courses.

Hello,
Undergraduate course in International Relations: Maintaining International Relations with all the countries is the avowed aim of almost every country on the planet. The issue is how to achieve this? Answers to this query are sought in this new course. India with its new found status of high GDP growth rate is suddenly finding itself in the midst of the scenario wherein we want to have best of relations with every nation. The undergraduate course covers many related topics viz., social structure, military, political climate, economics, history, geography, language and many more relevant subjects that are keys to understand the Dynamics that straddles the success of a country's relations with other countries. A student can undertake any of the certificate courses covering or touching the topics above that are available in the market. I am sure, this will surely help in the original undergraduate course as well as aid in improving career prospects.

Delhi University is one of the most favorite colleges among students for higher studies. Delhi University takes admission through entrance exam for some courses at UG and PG level. To be eligible for this exam the student has to score more than 75% marks in his/her best four subjects and 85%+ marks in English for general and 60% marks for other category students. So to get admission in this college students have to first think about their qualifying exam and try to score maximum marks in these exams to be eligible for admission. There is no age limit for admission into these courses.
This is an offline exam of 150 questions with 2:30 hour's duration and there is negative marking for wrong answers and four marks are awarded for a single correct answer.

TISS BAT is an exam organized by Tata Institute for giving admission in three campuses for social science course. So scoring good marks in the exam is really important.
Here are few important mistakes students do during preparation of TISS BAT exam:
1. This exam contains two parts and scoring marks more than cutoff in the exam is important so students have to focus on the both parts equally.
2. Part A contains question from general awareness, current affairs in which students fail because they are not practicing well. For current affairs try to study newspaper on daily basis so that you can stay updated with what is happening around the world and try to read some good books as it will increase your confidence and general awareness as well.
3. Part B contains question from the selected courses and students have to write answers of 2 questions in 30 minutes.

Sociology is the subject in which students study about society and its diversity, culture, religious belief, language and many more related to society issues. This is not so much tough subject which requires background of arts stream. One can go for Undergraduate course after 12th from any stream. There is no specific need of stream and if students from other stream goes into this then no big problem is faced by them in their course time and if students take this subject sincerely then he or she can score good marks in civil services exams also.
Admission in this course is quite easy. The student who has scored more than 50% marks overall in class 12th are eligible for taking admission in this course. There is no age limit. Some colleges take their own exam for selecting students, such as BHU, JNU, Tezpur University, Allahabad University, Patna University and according to the rank and marks in their exams these education body gives admission.