UGC NET December 2024 Syllabus

Subjects

Topics

Unit 1:  Teaching Aptitude

• Instruction: The Principle, Goals, Teaching Levels, Qualities, and Needs.
• Learner’s characteristics: Adolescent and adult learners, Individual differences.
• A teacher, a student, instructional resources, a learning environment, a school, and various other factors all have an impact on teaching.
• The methods of instruction used in higher education institutions include offline and online methods and focused on teachers and student-centered methods.
• Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT-based.
• Evaluation Systems: Elements, Types, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System, Computer-based Testing, Innovations.

Unit 2:  Research Aptitude

• This means that Kinds, Qualities, Positive thinking, and Post-positivism Techniques of Study.
• The kinds of research include those that are qualitative, quantitative, descriptive in nature historical, and experimental in nature.
• Steps of Research.
• Thesis and Article writing: Format, referencing.
• Application of ICT in research.
• Research ethics.

Unit 3:  Comprehension 

• To read comprehension-based problems are going to be asked in this part of the course. This comprehension of literature unit includes five questions totaling ten points. Unseen passages related to history, technological advances, literature, or philosophy are typically included in the examination, even though there is not a set curriculum for this portion of the exam.

Unit 4: Communication

• Communication: Meaning, types, characteristics.
• The verbal portion of nonverbal in nature cross-cultural, group of people, and interpersonal relationships in schools are all examples of successful interaction.
• Barriers to effective communication.
• Mass-Media and Society.

Unit 5:Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude 

• Types of reasoning.
• These relationships, codes, alphabet and numeric patterns, and so forth
• The fraction, distance and time, proportion, ratio, percentage, profit and loss, interest, discounts, and average are all examples of skills in mathematics.

Unit 6: Logical Reasoning 

• Structure of arguments.
• The two deductive as well as inductive reasoning.
• Venn diagram.
• Indian Logic.

Unit 7:Data Interpretation

• Sources, acquisition, Classification of Data.
• Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
• Graphical representation.
• Data Interpretation.
• Data and Governance.

Unit 8:Information and Communication Technology 

• ICT: General abbreviations.
• on the internet, intranet, electronic mail, and audio and video conference basics.
• Digital initiatives in higher education.
• ICT and Governance.

Unit 9:People, Development and Environment

• Development and environment: Millennium development, Sustainable development goals.
• The connections between individuals and the natural world, particularly how human behavior affects the natural environment.
• The topic of environmental issues includes waste, changes in the climate, socioeconomic and political aspects, soil, water, air, and pollution from noise.
• pollution's effects on the health of people.
• A few examples of energy and natural resources include winds, soil, hydroelectric power, geothermal electricity, carbon dioxide, nuclear energy, and the forests.
• The methods for mitigating natural dangers and calamities.
• International agreements and initiatives, the Act on Environmental Protection, and the National Action Plan on Changes in the Climate.

Unit 10:Higher Education System 

• The ancient Indian educational and higher learning institutions.
• The development of higher education and research in India after independence.
• Oriental, Conventional, and Non-conventional learning programs.
• Professional, Technical, and Skill-Based education.
• Value education and environmental education.
• Policies, Governance, and Administration.