About Course
Tamil Nadu PG TRB 2025
Admission Admissions open. Class starts from 1 December 2024 Duration 5 Months Thrice a week Classes 8.00 PM -9.30 PM (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) Engagement mode
- Online Classes
- Self-paced videos
- PDF Notes
- WhatsApp & Telegram groups for discussions
Highlights
- Live Lectures by Dr Kalyani Vallath & Team
- Live Revision Classes by Team
- Recorded Video with Lifetime Access
- Complete PDF
- Quizzes and Polls
- Model Tests
Course Content
Syllabus
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Syllabus for Tamil Nadu PG TRB 2025
BACKGROUND STUDIES OF AGES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Greco Roman Period 1
01:19:24 -
Greco Roman Period 2
55:48 -
Early History of Britain & Old English Literature
01:12:41 -
Middle English Period
01:07:04 -
Chaucer & His Contemporaries
01:40:36 -
Chaucer & Contemporaries 2
01:01:07 -
Early Tudor Period
01:17:07 -
William Shakespeare 1
41:24 -
William Shakespeare 2
01:24:15 -
William Shakespeare 3
01:06:55 -
William Shakespeare 4
01:44:50 -
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 1
01:38:29 -
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 2
01:18:12 -
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 3
49:46 -
Shakespeare’s Sonnets(07/04/25)
01:37:43
Unit I English Literature from 1400-1600
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Overview (04/12/2024)
36:44 -
Periods of Literature (05/12/2024)
56:20 -
Prologue to Canterbury Tales (06/12/2024)
01:31:12 -
Prologue to Canterbury Tales 2 (09/12/2024)
01:31:38 -
Book of Duchess (17/01/2025)
01:37:38 -
Epithalamion & Prothalamion (11/12/2024)
01:31:12 -
Epithalamion & Prothalamion 2 (13/12/2024)
01:37:16 -
Prothalamion & Remembrance (16/12/2024)
01:20:52 -
Bacon’s Essays (18/12/2024)
01:34:57 -
Bacon’s Essays & An Apologie for Poetrie (20/12/2024)
01:27:47 -
Apologie for Poetrie (23/12/2024)
01:32:46 -
The Book of Job (31/01/2025)
02:07:16 -
Dr Faustus (28/12/2024)
01:32:15 -
Spanish Tragedy (30/12/2024)
01:28:57 -
Everyman in his Humour & Canonization (06/01/2025)
01:25:06 -
Revision Unit 1 (22/02/2025)
01:38:16
Unit II English Literature from 1601-1798
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Paradise Lost Book IX Part 1/2
01:26:26 -
Paradise Lost Part 2/2 (03/01/2025)
01:36:51 -
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (08/01/2025)
01:05:17 -
Rape of the Lock Part 1/2 (10/01/2025)
01:23:47 -
Rape of the Lock Part 2/2 (13/01/2025)
01:32:33 -
Absalom and Achitophel Part 1/4 (15/01/2025)
01:33:13 -
Absalom and Achitophel Part 2/4 (20/01/2025)
01:31:57 -
Absalom and Achitophel Part 3/4 (22/01/2025)
01:23:56 -
Absalom & Achitophel Part 4/4 + Revision (24/01/2025)
01:31:17 -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (27/01/2025)
01:27:54 -
Life of Milton (Samuel Johnson) (14/02/2025)
01:50:18 -
Gullivers Travels Part 1/3 (10/02/2025)
01:46:42 -
Gullivers Travels Part 2/3 (12/02/2025)
01:29:43 -
Gullivers Travels Part 3/3 (17/02/2025)
01:34:02 -
Pilgrims Progress (21/02/2025)
02:31:02 -
Robinson Crusoe Part 1/4 (29/01/2025)
01:32:16 -
Robinson Crusoe Part 2/4 (03/02/2025)
01:24:46 -
Robinson Crusoe Part 3/4 (06/02/2025)
01:32:11 -
Robinson Crusoe Part 4/4 (07/02/2025)
01:31:53 -
All for Love Pdf note
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The School for Scandal Part 1 (RECORDING by KV)
56:14 -
The School for Scandal Part II (RECORDING by KV)
01:05:30 -
The Way of the World (RECORDING by KV)
11:38 -
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer Part 1/3 (03/03/2025)
01:34:06 -
She Stoops to Conquer Part 2/3 by Oliver Goldsmith (10/03/2025)
01:35:33 -
She Stoops to Conquer Part 3/3 (19/03/2025)
01:32:01
Unit III English Literature from 1798 to 1850
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Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (RECORDING by KV)
01:40:18 -
Prelude and Tintern Abbey
01:36:43 -
Ode on Dejection by Coleridge 1 (16/04/25)
01:28:34 -
Ode on Dejection – Session 2 (23/04/25)
01:42:04 -
Kubla Khan (28/04/25)
01:29:51 -
Ode to the Nightingale (19/02/2025)
01:18:38 -
Ozymandias (Only PDF)
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Adonais – Shelley (RECORDING by KV)
27:18 -
Essays of Charles Lamb (04/06/25)
01:08:36 -
Charles Lamb – Dream Children
15:40 -
Charles Lamb – South Sea House and Christ’s Hospital
15:45 -
William Hazlitt- My First Acquaintance with Poets
01:19:30 -
Preface to Lyrical Ballads Part 1/3 (05/03/2025)
01:35:39 -
Preface to Lyrical Ballads Part 2/3 (26/03/2025)
01:30:54 -
Preface to Lyrical Ballads Part 3/3 (02/04/2025)
01:28:19 -
Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility (23/08/25)
01:01:27 -
Wuthering Heights Detailed Overview (PDF to be uploaded)
01:02:42 -
Prometheus Unbound (23/05/25)
01:20:55
Unit IV Literature from 1851 to Present Day
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Dover Beach (RECORDING by KV)
58:54 -
The Scholar Gipsy (RECORDING by KV)
01:50:50 -
Robert Browning – Andrea Del Sarto (25/06/25)
01:39:32 -
Alfred Lord Tennyson- Ulysses (24/07/25)
01:37:26 -
W B Yeats – Byzantium (17/07/25)
01:19:31 -
The Waste Land Part 1 (DETAILED by Dr TK Rajendran)
02:19:40 -
The Waste Land Part 2 (DETAILED by Dr TK Rajendran)
02:37:46 -
The Unknown Citizen (RECORDING by KV)
18:51 -
The Thought Fox (RECORDING by KV)
32:21 -
Thomas Carlyle – On Heroes, Hero Worship & The Heroic in History (1841) (29/07/25)
01:38:10 -
The Study of Poetry by Arnold (PDF, NET VIDEO by KV)
01:44:01 -
You and the Atomic Bomb by Orwell
31:09 -
Hard Times by Dickens (RECORDING by KV)
41:47 -
George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss (RECORDING by KV)
59:20 -
Mrs Dalloway Part 1/4 (RECORDING by KV)
01:12:27 -
Mrs Dalloway Part 2/4 (RECORDING by KV)
01:29:13 -
Mrs Dalloway Part 3/4 (RECORDING by KV)
33:56 -
Mrs Dalloway Characters 4/4 (RECORDING by KV)
14:14 -
Look Back in Anger (11/04/2025)
01:39:11 -
Bertolt Brecht – Mother Courage and Her Children (09/06/25)
01:36:45 -
J.M Synge – Riders to the Sea (13/06/25)
01:41:587 -
Riders to the Sea – Synge
22:06 -
Top Girls Part 1/2 (RECORDING by KV)
01:18:22 -
Top Girls Part 2/2 (RECORDING by KV)
01:12:19 -
Caryl Churchill – Top Girls (16/06/25)
01:45:18 -
Thomas Hardy – Mayor of Casterbridge (08/08/25)
01:05:30 -
G.M. Hopkins – God’s Grandeur (03/10/25)
30:33
Unit V Plays and Sonnets by Shakespeare
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Othello LIVE (14/03/2025)
01:27:32 -
King Lear LIVE (17/03/2025)
01:33:07 -
The Tempest LIVE (28/03/2025)
01:32:55 -
The Tempest RECORDING Part 1/3
01:01:20 -
The Tempest RECORDING Part 2/3
37:35 -
The Tempest RECORDING Part 3/3 Analysis
14:05 -
Measure for Measure LIVE (24/03/2025)
02:18:42 -
Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (RECORDING by KV)
17:50 -
Shakespeare Sonnet 29 (RECORDING by KV)
11:59 -
Shakespeare Sonnet 116 (RECORDING by KV)
24:19 -
Shakespeare Sonnet 129 (RECORDING by KV)
08:50
Unit VI American Literature Poetry
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Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Whitman(21/04/25)
01:25:58 -
Prologue by Anne Bradstreet (21/05/25)
01:05:56 -
Brahma by R W Emerson (30/05/25)
01:21:19 -
Birches and Mending Wall by Robert Frost (06/06/25)
01:19:33 -
Frost – Birches and Mending Wall
14:44 -
The Sparrow & The Cambridge Ladies (30/06/25)
01:23:21 -
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Anti- Suffragists (25/04/25)
01:08:25 -
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (14/08/25)
01:00:46
Unit VI American Prose & Fiction
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H D Thoreau – Where I Lived and What I Lived For (26/07/25)
55:52 -
R.W Emerson : The American Scholar (19/07/25)
57:42 -
William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
01:33:25 -
Toni Morrison : Beloved (14/05/25)
01:53:03 -
Jhumpa Lahiri : The Namesake (12/05/25)
01:10:35
Unit VI American Literature Drama
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Death of a Salesman (RECORDING by KV)
01:33:58 -
Death of a Salesman (Live class by Dr Mansi Grover 19/04/2025))
01:39:21 -
Emperor Jones Part 1/2 (RECORDING by KV)
56:35 -
Emperor Jones Part 2/2
54:44 -
Revision on Emperor Jones(5/5/25)
01:00:42 -
Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire (07/05/2025)
01:40:28 -
Nissim Ezeikel – Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T S (10/07/25)
01:31:19
Unit VII (A) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
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R.N Tagore-Gitanjali (RECORDING by KV)
01:03:01 -
Poems of Nizzim Ezekiel (01/06/25)
01:45:50 -
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T S
01:31:20 -
Toru Dutt – Our Casuarina Tree (21/07/25)
01:28:52 -
Intoduction by Kamala Das (17/05/25)
28:16 -
Sujata Bhatt – A Different History
14:29 -
B R Ambekar’s Annihilation of Caste (16/05/25)
01:40:25 -
Mulk Raj Anand- Coolie (18/06/2025)
01:31:17 -
Kamala Markandeya – A Handful of Rice (30/07/25)
01:26:11 -
The God of Small Things Characters, Themes, Symbols (1/4)
01:05:54 -
The God of Small Things Analysis 1 (2/4)
02:02:10 -
The God of Small Things Plot Analysis 2 (3/4)
01:01:43 -
The God of Small Things Plot Analysis 3 (4/4)
01:17:17 -
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Live Class on 19/04/2025))
01:52:23 -
Girish Karnad – Hayavadana (14/07/265)
01:44:40 -
Silence! the Court is in Session by Vijay Tendulkar (Only PDF)
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Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali (20/05/25)
01:27:19 -
Dance Like a Man Part 1/2 (RECORDING by KV)
54:36 -
Dance Like a Man Part 2/2 (RECORDING by KV)
28:54 -
Jawaharlal Nehru – An Autobiography – ONLY PDF
Unit VII (B) COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
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A Song of Hope by Kath Walker
16:25 -
Wole Soyinka – The Telephone Conversation (20/06/25)
01:09:16 -
The Dying Eagle by EJ Pratt
21:12 -
At Cooloolah by Judith Wright
18:44 -
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (RECORDING by KV)
01:08:02 -
Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country (2/05/25)
01:30:51 -
Patrick White – Voss (09/05/2025)
01:35:43 -
Wole Soyinka – The Lion and the Jewel (28/07/25)
01:34:35 -
Jane Harrison – Stolen ( 27/06/25)
01:40:04 -
George Ryga – The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (22/09/25)
01:38:03 -
Banjo Patterson – Waltzing Mathilda – ONLY PDF
UNIT VIII LITERARY CRITICISM OVERVIEW
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Literary Criticism 1 (19/03/2025)
23:23 -
Literary Criticism 2 (19/03/2025)
47:22 -
Literary Criticism – S T Coleridge (01/04/2025)
01:05:42 -
Literary Criticism – Arnold & Eliot
58:27 -
Literary Criticism TS Eliot, F R Leavis
01:39:17 -
Literary Criticism Aristotle, Horace, Longinus LIVE by KV (01/05/25)
01:50:54 -
Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge Criticism LIVE by KV (3/5/25)
02:23:57 -
T S Eliot
01:06:20 -
Aristotle, Dryden, Coleridge, Richards, Empson (16/07/25)
01:41:06
UNIT VIII LITERARY CRITICISM TEXTS ACC TO SYLLABUS
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Aristotle – Poetics (LIVE NET CLASS by KV)
01:28:25 -
Dryden – Of Dramatic Poesy (LIVE NET CLASS by KV)
01:30:31 -
Northrop Frye & Cleanth Brooks (26/08/25)
01:58:07 -
Archetypes of Literature & Cleanth Brooks Irony (02/09/25)
01:43:43 -
Allen Tate & Elaine Showalter (09/09/25)
01:46:41 -
Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex (23/09/25)
01:04:08
Unit IX LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS & PEDAGOGY
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History of Language Special Lecture
02:10:11 -
Linguistics 1 (24/02/2025)
01:41:59 -
Linguistics 2 (28/02/2025)
01:42:27 -
Linguistics 3 (07/03/2025)
01:45:24 -
Linguistics 4 (12/03/2025)
00:00 -
Linguistics 5 (04/04/2025)
01:36:03
Linguistics Special Session
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Linguistics 1 (15/04/2025)
02:04:06 -
Linguistics 2
02:07:50 -
Linguistics 3 (22/04/25)
02:00:53 -
PDF NOTES
Unit IX English Language Teaching in India
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History of English Language Teaching 1/2 (12/06/25)
01:24:27 -
History of English Language Teaching 2/2 (19/06/25)
01:31:09 -
Alternative Methods & Second Language Acquisition (15/07/25)
01:29:23 -
Second Language Acquisition, Syllabus Design (22/07/25)
01:42:28
English Language Teaching in India Special Session (RECORDING)
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ELT IN INDIA 1 (10/05/25)
01:47:06 -
ELT IN INDIA 2 (12/05/25)
02:00:26 -
ELT IN INDIA 3 (16/05/2025)
02:23:43
Unit X APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS
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Application of Language Skills 1 (09/04/25)
01:17:20 -
Application of Language Skills 2
01:17:28
REVISIONS BASED ON TEXTS
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Revision on wuthering Heights, To His Coymistress (26/05/25)
01:06:27 -
T S Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ (02/06/25)
01:44:27 -
The Mill on the Floss & Hard Times (11/06/25)
55:37 -
Shakespeare (23/06/25)
01:10:13 -
Promethus Unbound & Coolie (02/07/25)
01:06:16 -
Bacon’s Essays & Poems by Robert Frost (04/07/2025)
59:42 -
Ode to the Nightingale & Rape of The Lock (07/07/25)
59:33 -
Every man in his Humour & Spanish Tragedy (09/07/25)
01:00:33 -
Top Girls (23/07/25)
01:04:21 -
Literary Theory & Criticism (27/07/25)
02:53:13 -
English Language Teaching (01/08/25)
01:02:49
EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGY
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Learning Theories (04/08/25)
01:03:40 -
ZPD and Scaffolding, Learning Theory (06/08/25)
01:08:09 -
Teaching Methods (11/08/25)
01:15:09
Unit-Wise Quizzes
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Unit I Quiz 1
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Unit II Quiz 1
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Unit II Quiz 2
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Unit II Quiz 3
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Uniit III Quiz 1
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Unit III Quiz 2
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Unit IV Quiz 1
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Unit IV Quiz 2
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Unit IV Quiz 3
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Unit V Quiz 1
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Unit V Quiz 2
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Unit VI Quiz 1
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Unit VI Quiz 2
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Unit VI Quiz 3
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Unit VII Quiz 1
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Unit VII Quiz 2
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Unit VII Quiz 3
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Unit VII Quiz 4
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Unit VII Quiz 5
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Unit VII Quiz 6
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Unit VIII, Quiz I
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Unit IX, Quiz I
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Unit IX, Quiz II
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Unit IX, Quiz III
MIXED TEST
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Mixed Test 1
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Mixed Test 2
RECAP SESSION
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Unit 1 Revision (18/08/25)
57:49 -
Unit II, Poetry (20/08/25)
01:03:25 -
Unit II Poetry (22/08/25)
01:02:36 -
Unit I Poetry Session 2 (25/08/25)
52:35 -
Unit II Drama (29/08/25)
01:01:42 -
Unit III Poetry (01/09/25)
01:36:56 -
Lyrical Ballads & Sense and Sensibility (04/09/25)
01:03:46 -
Unit IV Poetry (05/09/25)
01:20:17 -
Emily Bronte,Yeats, WH Auden, Ted Hughes (08/09/25)
59:44 -
Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, P B Shelly (10/09/25)
01:33:44 -
Carlyle, Arnold, Orwell, Dickens (12/09/25)
01:05:44 -
George Eliot, Hardy, Woolf & Osborne (15/09/25)
01:30:30 -
J M Synge, Caryl Churchill & Brecht (16/09/25)
01:07:29 -
Whitman, Bradstreet, Emerson, Frost (17/09/25)
01:19:31 -
Lawrence, Maya Angelou, E.E Cummings, Perkins (18/09/25)
01:01:08 -
Shakespeare’s Works (19/09/25)
01:18:14 -
Shakespeare’s Works 2 (20/09/25)
01:26:55 -
Linguistics (23/09/25)
01:04:01 -
Thoreau, Emerson, Faulkner (25/09/25)
01:10:19 -
Toni Morrison, Jhumpa Lahiri (26/09/25)
52:40 -
Arthur Miller, O’ Neill, Tennessee Williams (27/09/25)
01:17:44 -
English Language Teaching (29/09/25)
01:11:53 -
Ambedkar, Mulkraj, Markandeya, Arundhati Roy (03/10/25)
54:59 -
Education Commissions + Teaching Competencies (04/10/25)
01:09:47 -
Literary Criticism (05/10/25)
01:13:51 -
Karnad, Tendulkar, Dattani & Mahaswetha (06/10/25)
01:30:09 -
Walker, Soyinka, EJ Pratt, Wright (07/10/25)
01:01:20 -
Soyinka, EJ Pratt, Achebe, Paton (08/10/25)
01:31:14 -
Education Methodology (09/10/25)
57:50 -
Revision + PYQ Discussion (10/10/25)
02:04:34 -
PYQ Discussion (11/10/25)
01:18:19 -
Question Paper Discussion (13/10/25)
59:00
MEGA TEST
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Literary Criticism and Theory Mega Test
MODEL TEST
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Model Test 1
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Model Test 2
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Model Test 3
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Model Test 4
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Model Test 5
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