Guidelines to Prepare UGC-NET Exam
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has entrusted the responsibility of conducting UGC-NET to NTA. UGC-NET is a test to determine the eligibility of Indian nationals for “Assistant Professor” and “Junior Research Fellowship and Assistant Professor” in Indian universities and colleges.
UGC-NET Exam is conducted in different subjects. Subjects & its Code are mentioned below:
- Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non Formal Education. (46)
- Anthropology (07)
- Arab Culture and Islamic Studies (49)
- Arabic (29)
- Archaeology (67)
- Assamese (36)
- Bengali (19)
- Bodo (94)
- Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies (60)
- Chinese (32)
- Commerce (08)
- Comparative Literature (72)
- Comparative Study of Religions (62)
- Computer Science and Applications (87)
- Criminology (68)
- Defence and Strategic Studies (11)
- Dogri (33)
- Economics / Rural Economics /Co-operation / Demography /Development Planning/Development Studies /Econometrics/Applied Economics/Development Economics/Business Economics (01)
- Education (09)
- Electronic Science (88)
- English (30)
- Environmental Sciences (89)
- Folk Literature (71)
- Forensic Science (82)
- French (French Version) (39)
- Geography (80)
- German (44)
- Gujarati (37)
- Hindi (20)
- History (06)
- Home Science (12)
- Human Rights and Duties (92)
- Indian Culture (50)
- Japanese (45)
- Kannada (21)
- Kashmiri (84)
- Konkani (85)
- Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management (55)
- Law (58)
- Library and Information Science (59)
- Linguistics (31)
- Maithili (18)
- Malayalam (22)
- Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing/Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-operative Management) (17)
- Manipuri (35)
- Marathi (38)
- Mass Communication and Journalism (63)
- Museology & Conservation (66)
- Music (16)
- Nepali (34)
- Oriya (23)
- Pali (83)
- Performing Art – Dance/Drama/Theatre (65)
- Persian (42)
- Philosophy (03)
- Physical Education (47)
- Political Science (02)
- Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence/Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, American Studies. (90)
- Population Studies (15)
- Prakrit (91)
- Psychology (04)
- Public Administration (14)
- Punjabi (24)
- Rajasthani (43)
- Russian (41)
- Sanskrit (25)
- Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama). (73)
- Santali (95)
- Sindhi (101)
- Social Medicine & Community Health (81)
- Social Work (10)
- Sociology (05)
- Spanish (40)
- Tamil (26)
- Telugu (27)
- Tourism Administration and Management. (93)
- Tribal and Regional Language/Literature (70)
- Urdu (28)
- Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art) (79)
- Women Studies (74)
- Yoga (10)
Note:
Mode of Examination: The Examination shall be conducted as Computer Based Test (CBT) only.
Pattern: The Test will consist of two papers. Both the papers will consist of objective type, multiple choice questions. There will be no break between papers.
Paper I:
Number of Questions: 50
Marks: 100
MCQ Questions From Different Topics: The questions in Paper I intends to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability,reading comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.
Note: General Paper on Teaching and Research Aptitude (Paper-I) is compulsory for all.
Paper II:
Number of Questions: 100
Marks: 200
MCQ Questions From Different Topics of Selected Subject: This is based on the subject selected by the candidate and will assess domain knowledge.
Total Duration of Exam: (Composite Time for Paper I and Paper II) 03 hours (180 minutes) without any break. All the questions are compulsory.
- For each correct response the candidate will get 2 marks.
- There is no negative marking for incorrect response.
- No marks will be given for questions Unanswered/Marked for Review