UGC NET December 2023: 6th December Shift 1 & Shift 2 Analysis

Feature

Details

Number of Papers

Two (Paper 1 and Paper 2)

Duration of Each Paper

Three hours (180 minutes)

Session

Single (both papers conducted in one sitting)

Question Type

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Number of Questions

150 (50 in Paper 1 and 100 in Paper 2)

Total Marks

300 (100 for Paper 1 and 200 for Paper 2)

Marking Scheme

2 marks for each correct answer

Negative Marking

No negative marking

Switching Between Papers

Allowed during the exam

Category

Number of Questions asked

Difficulty Level /Good Attempts)

Teaching Aptitude

10 to 12

Moderate to Difficult

Research Aptitude

6 to 8

Moderate to Difficult

Reading Comprehension

5 (1 set)

Easy to Moderate

Communication

2 to 4

Moderate

Higher Education System: Governance, Polity & Administration & Current Affairs

3 to 4

Moderate to Difficult

Maths

4-5

Easy to Moderate

Logical Reasoning

6 to 8

Easy to Moderate

Data Interpretation

5 (1 set)

Easy to Moderate

Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

2 to 3

Moderate to Difficult

People & Environment

3 to 4

Moderate to Difficult

Total Questions

50 Questions of 2 Marks each

Easy to Moderate/ 30 to 35 Questions

UGC NET Paper-1

Memory Based Important Topics

Teaching Aptitude

Teaching Methods, Pedagogy and Child Development Techniques, Match the following: Teacher center methods with Learner-centered method, Learning Game ( SEE SAW learning)

Data Interpretation

Table Chart Percentage Based (5 Questions), Income and Expenditure Based (5 Questions)

Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

HTTP & Internet, Conversion (Binary to Decimal), Octal Based Numerical in ICT, ROM RAM

Full Forms, Feature of Twitter, SSD (assertion and reason based), Super Follow, Blog Malware virus

People & Environment

Ozone Layer, Carbon Monoxide, Air Quality Index, Water Pollution, SDG 5 & 6, Biomes, Ecosystem, Energy, Kyoto Protocol, Disaster, COP 25, Montreal Protocol, Paris Agreement, Global Warming, ISA Participation Country, Tropic of Cancer, Square Opposition, Biomagnification

Higher Education System: Governance, Polity & Administration & Current Affairs

National Education Policy 2020, University Established in the 1900s, Commission 1948, Hunter and Kothari Commission, NITI Ayog, Establishment of IIT, Swayam Prabha, Swayam MOOC

Research Aptitude

Steps of research, Research Ethics, Methods of research, Types of Research, Experimental Research, Hypothesis

Reading Comprehension

Short Passage on ‘Education System in India’

Communication

Communication Types, Negative Communication,

Analogue Communication, Effective Classroom Communication, Barriers to Communication

Maths

Time, Speed & Distance (Train Question), Successive Discount, Average, Percentage, Profit and Loss, and Ratio and Proportion

Logical Reasoning

Number Series (Missing Number), Coding Decoding

Letter Series, Formal and Informal, Fallacies (Strawman Fallacy), Inductive - Deductive

Total Questions

50 Questions of 2 Marks each

Subjects

Difficulty Level

Number of good attempts

UGC NET Paper-2: December 6, 2023 (Shift-1)

English

Moderate to Difficult

55 to 60

Comparative Study of Religion

Moderate to Difficult

45 to 50

Hindu Studies

Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 50

Dogri

 Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 55

Spanish

 Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 55

Russian

 Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 55

Persian

 Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 55

Konkani

 Moderate to Difficult

 45 to 55

UGC NET Paper-2: December 6, 2023 (Shift-2)

History

Moderate to Difficult

50 to 55

Manipuri

Moderate to Difficult

45 to 55

German

Moderate to Difficult

45 to 55

Prakrit

Moderate to Difficult

45 to 55

Sindhi

Moderate to Difficult

45 to 55