NET - Guidance for the Preparation

1. Guidance for preparation of
NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST
(NET)

2. Presented by
NAGARATHINAM A
M.Com, M.Phil, M.B.A, M.A (Eco),DCP,
SET,NET, (P.hd)
Asst. Professor,
Dept Of Commerce
KG College of Arts And Science
Coimbatore
India

3. SELF MOTIVATION IS THE WAY TO
SUCCESS

4. 6 B’s to SUCCESS
• Believe in yourself
• Build confidence and enthusiasm
• Bring out the motivating factors
• Be in touch with your peer group
• Begin the preparation immediately.
• Be positive

5. Believe in Yourself

6. Build confidence and enthusiasm

7. Bring Out the Motivating factor
• Benefit
• Comparisons
• Defeat
• Dream
• Experience
• Fear
• Family member
• Inspiration
• Pain
• Shame
• Third Person

8. Be in touch with your Peer Group
• Friends
• Motivators
• Colleagues

9. Begin the preparation immediately

10. Guidance for Preparation
1. Take a copy of Syllabus.
2. Have a glance of the subject syllabus everyday.
3. Identify the subject books particularly for each unit.
4. Pick out the topics
• You are familiar with
• You are not even aware of
• 50% known & 50% unknown
5. Plan the reading hours to be spent for each unit accordingly.
6. Find space were you may not get distracted.
7. Make notes of everything you read in note pad. (This is to be used
for revising)

11. Selection of Books
• Buy the book for Paper I
– If not possible, refer online text. ( Search for each
unit separately)
• For Paper II, reading of particular subject
books is advisable.

12. Pattern of Examination

13. Guidelines during Examination
• Skip to both the papers simultaneously and choose the
known answers to reduce time consumption.
• Keep the answers pending for further confirmation.
(Doubtful)
• Don’t waste time thinking over the answers of
questions which you do not understand.
• After answering the known questions, go back to the
answers marked for confirmation.
• Spend the time left out for thinking the unknown
answers.

14. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-I: Teaching Aptitude
 Teaching: Concept, objectives, levels of teaching (memory,
understanding and reflective), characteristics and basic
requirements
 Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult
learners (academic, social, emotional and cognitive), individual
differences
 Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support
material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and
Institution
 Methods of teaching in institutions of higher learning: Teacher
centred vs. learner centred methods; offline vs. online methods
(Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.). (1)
 Teaching support system: Traditional, modern and ICT based (1)
 Evaluation systems: Elements and types of evaluation, evaluation in
Choice Based Credit System in higher education, computer based
testing, innovations in evaluation systems
Important Topics in Each Unit

15. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-II: Research Aptitude
 Research: Meaning, types, and characteristics, positivism and
post-positivistic approach to research
 Methods of research: Experimental, descriptive, historical,
qualitative and quantitative methods
 Steps of research (hypothesis), Types of errors (1)
 Thesis and article writing: Format and styles of referencing
 Application of ICT in research
 Research ethics (Reg plagiarism and ethics in article
publication) (1)
Unit-III: Comprehension
 A passage of text is given. Questions are asked from the
passage (5)
Unit-IV: Communication
 Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of
communication
 Effective communication: Verbal and non-verbal, inter-cultural
and group communications, classroom communication (1)
 Barriers to effective communication (1)
 Mass-media and society

16. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-V: Mathematical
Reasoning and Aptitude
 Types of reasoning
 Number series, letter series, codes and relationships (1)
 Mathematical aptitude (fraction, time & distance (1), ratio,
proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest and
discounting, averages etc.)
Unit-VI: Logical Reasoning
 Understanding the structure of arguments: Argument forms,
structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure, formal
and informal fallacies, uses of language, (2)connotations and
denotations of terms, classical square of opposition
 Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive
reasoning (1)
 Analogies
 Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity
of arguments
 Indian Logic: Means of knowledge
 Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference),
Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti
(Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension)
 Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable
relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference) (1)

17. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-VII: Data Interpretation
 Sources, acquisition and classification of data
 Quantitative and qualitative data
 Graphical representation (bar-chart, histograms, pie-chart,
table-chart and line-chart) and mapping of data
 Data interpretation
 Data and governance
Unit-VIII: Information and
Communication Technology
(ICT)
 ICT: General abbreviations and terminology
 Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-
conferencing
 Digital initiatives in higher education
 ICT and Governance

18. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-IX: People, Development and
Environment
 Development and environment: Millennium development and
Sustainable development goals
 Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities
and their impacts on environment
 Environmental issues: Local, regional and global; air pollution,
water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, waste (solid,
liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), climate change and
its socio-economic and political dimensions
 Impacts of pollutants on human health
 Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro,
Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests (2)
 Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies
 Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on
Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal
Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto
Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance (1)

19. UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics
Unit-X: Higher Education System
 Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India
 Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence
India
 Oriental, conventional and non-conventional learning programmes
in India
 Professional, technical and skill-based education.
 Value education and environmental education
 Policies, governance, and administration

20. UGC NET Paper-I Book Author
Trueman's UGC NET/SET General Paper I M Gagan and Sajit Kumar
NTA UGC NET/SET/JRF Paper I: Teaching and
Research Aptitude by Pearson
KVS Madaan
General Paper-1 UGC NET/JRF/SLET – Teaching
& Research Aptitude
Arihant Experts
Upkar’s UGC-NET/JRF/SET Teaching And
Research Aptitude (General Paper - I)
Dr Lal Jain and Dr KC Vashistha
Best UGC NET Books for Paper-I Preparation

22. Factors contributed to my success in
particular
• I experienced Pain in my profession
• Wrote exams consecutively with perseverance
• Started preparations right from the date of
registration.
• Spent atleast one hour daily for preparations
• Handled different papers in each semester
• Motivation from my family members especially
from my spouse.

23. MY HEARTY WISHES
FOR YOUR SUCCESS