UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I Topics

UGC NET Paper-I Units UGC NET Paper-I
Topics
 Teaching: Concept, objectives, levels of teaching (memory, understanding and reflective), characteristics and b
requirements
 Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (academic, social, emotional and cogniti
individual differences
 Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environm
and Institution
Unit-I: Teaching Aptitude
 Methods of teaching in institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. learner centred methods; offline vs. on
methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
 Teaching support system: Traditional, modern and ICT based
 Evaluation systems: Elements and types of evaluation, evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in higher educati
computer based testing, innovations in evaluation systems
 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
Unit-II: Research Aptitude
 Thesis and article writing: Format and styles of referencing
 Application of ICT in research
 Research ethics
Unit-III: Comprehension  A passage of text be given. Questions to be asked from the passage to be answered
 Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication
 Effective communication: Verbal and non-verbal, inter-cultural and group communications, classroom communicatio
Unit-IV: Communication
 Barriers to effective communication
 Mass-media and society
 Types of reasoning
Unit-V: Mathematical Reasoning  Number series, letter series, codes and relationships
and Aptitude
 Mathematical aptitude (fraction, time & distance, ratio, proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest
discounting, averages etc.)
 Understanding the structure of arguments: Argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, mood and fig
formal and informal fallacies, uses of language, connotations and denotations of terms, classical square of opposition
 Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
 Analogies
Unit-VI: Logical Reasoning  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 testimo
Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension)
 Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)
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
 ICT: General abbreviations and terminology
 Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing

Unit-VIII: Information and
Communication Technology (ICT)
 Digital initiatives in higher education
 ICT and Governance
 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, w
(solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), climate change and its socio-economic and political dimensions
Unit-IX: People, Development and  Impacts of pollutants on human health

Environment
 Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests
 Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies
 Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/eff
-Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International S
Alliance
 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

Unit-X: Higher Education System
 Professional, technical and skill-based education.
 Value education and environmental education
 Policies, governance, and administration

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 Teaching support system: Traditional, modern and ICT based

 Methods of research: Experimental, descriptive, historical, qualitative and quantitative methods

 Application of ICT in research

 Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication

 Mass-media and society

 Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning

 Indian Logic: Means of knowledge

Unit-VII: Data Interpretation  Sources, acquisition and classification of data

 Data and governance

 ICT: General abbreviations and terminology

 Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing

 ICT and Governance

 Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals

Unit-IX: People, Development and  Impacts of pollutants on human health

 Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies

 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

 Value education and environmental education

 Policies, governance, and administration

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