University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship and Junior Research Fellowship.

UGC-NET

Official 2025 syllabus extracted from https://www.ugcnetonline.in/syllabus-new.php

Paper-I: Teaching Aptitude

Teaching: concept, objectives, levels, characteristics and basic requirements

Learner characteristics

Factors affecting teaching related to teacher, learner, support material, instructional facilities, learning environment and institution

<table><tr><th>Teacher-centred</th><th>Learner-centred</th></tr><tr><td>Lecture, demonstration</td><td>Project, heuristic, problem-solving</td></tr><tr><td>Teacher transmits</td><td>Learner constructs</td></tr></table>

Methods of teaching in higher learning institutions: teacher-centred vs learner-centred methods; offline vs online methods

Teaching support systems: traditional, modern and ICT-based

Evaluation systems: elements and types, evaluation in choice based credit system, computer-based testing, innovations in evaluation systems

Teaching Aptitude

Paper-I: Research Aptitude

Research: meaning, types, characteristics, positivism and post-positivistic approach

Methods of research: experimental, descriptive, historical, qualitative and quantitative methods

Steps of research

Thesis and article writing: format and style of referencing

Application of ICT in research

Research ethics

Research Aptitude

Paper-I: Comprehension

A passage of text to be given; questions on comprehension, understanding, evaluation

Comprehension

Paper-I: Communication

Communication: meaning, types and characteristics

Effective communication: verbal and non-verbal, inter-cultural and group communications, classroom communication

Barriers to effective communication

Mass media and society

Communication

Paper-I: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Types of reasoning

Number series, letter series, codes and relationships

Mathematical aptitude: fractions, time and distance, ratio, proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest and discounting, averages

Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Paper-I: Logical Reasoning

Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure

Formal and informal fallacies

Uses of language

Connotations and denotations of terms

Classical square of opposition

Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning

Analogies

Venn diagram

Indian Logic: pramanas (perception, inference, comparison, verbal testimony, implication, non-apprehension)

Structure and kinds of anumana (inference)

Vyapti (invariable relation)

Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)

Logical Reasoning

Paper-I: 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

Data Interpretation

Paper-I: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

ICT: general abbreviations and terminology

Basics of internet, intranet, email, audio and video conferencing

Digital initiatives in higher education

ICT and governance

Paper-I: 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, water, soil pollution; solid waste; pollution remediation

Impacts of pollutants on human health

Natural and energy resources: solar, wind, soil, hydro, geothermal, biomass, nuclear and forests

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