The National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on behalf of University Grants Commission (UGC) under the National Educational Testing Bureau will be held twice an year June & December (Last Sunday). The national-level NET qualifies candidates for the role of Assistant Professor and for Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) in Indian Universities and Colleges. The test consists of 3 Papers. As the exam approaches its time to study, after all soon you may be the one teaching! Here are some tips for the compulsory Paper I.
Paper Pattern:
The Paper I exam tests the Teaching/Research aptitude of the aspirant and consists of 60 objective type multiple choice questions out of which 50 questions are to be attempted. Each question is worth 2 marks and the maximum marks for the exam is 100. Minimum qualifying marks are 40 marks (40%) for General and 35 marks (35%) for SC/ST/OBC/PWD. The Paper is divided into 10 sections, with 5 questions being based on each section.
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Download UGC – NET Subjects & Syllabus
The subjects with their respective codes are given below :
| Subject | Subject | Download |
| Code | ||
| 0 | General Paper on Teaching & Research Aptitude (Paper -I) | Download |
| 1 | Economics | Download |
| 2 | Political Science | Download |
| 3 | Philosophy | Download |
| 4 | Psychology | Download |
| 5 | Sociology | Download |
| 6 | History | Download |
| 7 | Anthropology | Download |
| 8 | Commerce | Download |
| 9 | Education | Download |
| 10 | Social Work | Download |
| 11 | Defence and Strategic Studies | Download |
| 12 | Home Science | Download |
| 14 | Public Administration | Download |
| 15 | Population Studies | Download |
| 16 | Music | Download |
| 17 | Management | Download |
| 18 | Maithili | Download |
| 19 | Bengali | Download |
| 20 | Hindi | Download |
| 21 | Kannada | Download |
| 22 | Malayalam | Download |
| 23 | Oriya | Download |
| 24 | Punjabi | Download |
| 25 | Sanskrit | Download |
| 26 | Tamil | Download |
| 27 | Telugu | Download |
| 28 | Urdu | Download |
| 29 | Arabic | Download |
| 30 | English | Download |
| 31 | Linguistics | Download |
| 32 | Chinese | Download |
| 33 | Dogri | Download |
| 34 | Nepali | Download |
| 35 | Manipuri | Download |
| 36 | Assamese | Download |
| 37 | Gujarati | Download |
| 38 | Marathi | Download |
| 39 | French (French Version) | Download |
| French (English Version) | Download | |
| 40 | Spanish | Download |
| 41 | Russian | Download |
| 42 | Persian | Download |
| 43 | Rajasthani | Download |
| 44 | German | Download |
| 45 | Japanese | Download |
| 46 | Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non Formal Education. | Download |
| 47 | Physical Education | Download |
| 49 | Arab Culture and Islamic Studies | Download |
| 50 | Indian Culture | Download |
| 55 | Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management | Download |
| 58 | Law | Download |
| 59 | Library and Information Science | Download |
| 60 | Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies | Download |
| 62 | Comparative Study of Religions | Download |
| 63 | Mass Communication and Journalism | Download |
| 65 | Performing Art – Dance/Drama/Theatre | Download |
| 66 | Museology & Conservation | Download |
| 67 | Archaeology | Download |
| 68 | Criminology | Download |
| 70 | Tribal and Regional Language/Literature | Download |
| 71 | Folk Literature | Download |
| 72 | Comparative Literature | Download |
| 73 | 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). | Download |
| 74 | Women Studies | Download |
| 79 | Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art) | Download |
| 80 | Geography | Download |
| 81 | Social Medicine & Community Health | Download |
| 82 | Forensic Science | Download |
| 83 | Pali | Download |
| 84 | Kashmiri | Download |
| 85 | Konkani | Download |
| 87 | Computer Science and Applications | Download |
| 88 | Electronic Science | Download |
| 89 | Environmental Sciences | Download |
| 90 | 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. | Download |
| 91 | Prakrit | Download |
| 92 | Human Rights and Duties | Download |
| 93 | Tourism Administration and Management. | Download |
| 94 | BODO | Download |
| 96 | Karnatik Music (Vocal Instrument, Percussion) | Not Available |
| 97 | Rabindra Sangeet | Not Available |
| 98 | Percussion Instruments | Not Available |
| 99 | Drama | Not Available |
| 100 | Theatre | Not Available |
| 101 | Yoga | Download |
| Note: Please note that all syllabus are in Acrobat PDF format require Acrobat reader to open.If you don’t have Acrobat Reader installed on your desktop. | ||
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