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📘 UGC NET Paper 1 Syllabus

📊 Exam Pattern Overview:
UGC NET Paper 1 is a 100 marks paper designed to test your general teaching and research aptitude. It consists of 50 objective-type questions (each carrying 2 marks), with no negative marking.

✅ Total Questions: 50
🧾 Total Marks: 100
📍 Type: MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

1. Teaching Aptitude

Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirements of teaching
Factors affecting teaching, methods of teaching
Teaching aids, Evaluation systems

2. Research Aptitude

Meaning, characteristics and types of research
Steps of research, methods of research
Thesis and article writing, Application of ICT in research

3. Comprehension

A passage of text is provided. Questions are asked from the passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, and inference

4. Communication

Nature and characteristics of communication
Types, barriers and effective classroom communication

5. Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Number series, letter series, codes
Arithmetic reasoning, Venn diagram, set theory
Percentage, Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Averages

6. Logical Reasoning

Understanding the structure of arguments
Evaluating arguments, analogies, Venn diagram
Indian Logic, Anumana, Pramana

7. Data Interpretation

Sources, acquisition and classification of data
Graphical representation and interpretation
Quantitative and qualitative data analysis

8. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

General abbreviations and terminology
Basics of internet, intranet, e-mail, digital initiatives in education
ICT tools: LMS, MOOCs, SWAYAM, SWAYAM PRABHA

9. People, Development and Environment

Development and environment, sustainable development
Environmental issues, impacts of pollutants
Natural and energy resources

10. Higher Education System

Structure of the institutions, governance, polity
Evolution, policies, accreditation, professional councils
Recent developments in higher education

💡 Note: Paper I is designed to test general awareness, comprehension, reasoning ability, and divergent thinking — not subject-specific knowledge.