CSIR UGC NET Dec Exam 2024: Check Top 10 Commonly Asked Questions

The CSIR NET 2024 December session exam will be conducted by the NTA on February 28, March 1, and March 2, 2025. Candidates who are appearing for the exam can check the top 10 question types that are often asked in the CSIR NET exam below, which will help in further preparation. Scroll down for more details.

CSIR NET 2024 Dec Exam

The NTA will conduct the CSIR NET 2024 December session exam from February 28 to March 2, 2025. Less time is left for preparation and revision for the candidates who are appearing in the exam. Here we are providing top 10 question types that are commmonly asked in the CSIR NET exam which will help in the preparation. If any type of question is left untouched by the student, it can be practiced or revised. It will also help to understand the trends of the questions asked, build confidence among students, etc. Take a look at top 10 commonly asked questions or topics in the CSIR NET exam to ease and revise in the final time of preparation journey.

CSIR NET 2024 Dec Exam: Top 10 Commonly Asked Question Types

As we know, Part A is common to all the subjects, and Parts B and C consist of questions on relevant subjects. Scroll down to know the topics from which mostly questions are asked in the CSIR NET exam.

Part A 

Topics from which questions can be asked: 

• Logical reasoning
• Graphical analysis
• Analytical and numerical ability
• Quantitative comparisons
• Series formation
• Puzzles, etc.

Part B & C (Life Science)

Candidates can check below the top 10 question types that are mostly asked in the CSIR NET Life Science exam.

CSIR NET Question Type 1: Match the Following Questions

Under this category, questions can be asked from

• Gene, protein, enzyme, their function, composition, and cofactor.
• Disease and causative agents
• Antibiotics and their effect
• Hormones or growth factors and effects
• Organisms, properties, phylogeny, etc.

CSIR NET Question Type 2: Mutational Analysis, phenotype or transplantation based question

CSIR NET Model Question. When two mutants having the same phenotype were crossed, the progeny obtained showed a wild-type phenotype. Thus the mutations are
1. non-allelic.
2. allelic.
3. segregating from each other.
4. independently assorting.

CSIR NET 2020 Question: Homeobox transcription factors (hox proteins), play important roles in specifying whether a particular mesenchymal cell will become stylopod, zeugopod or autopod. Based on the expression patterns of these genes, a model was proposed wherein these Hox genes specify the identity of a limb region. What would be the observed phenotype for human homozygous for a HOXDI3 mutation?

1. No Zeugopod formation
2. Abnormalities of the hands and feet wherein the digits fuse.
3. Deformities in stylopods
4. No femur or patella formation

CSIR NET Question Type 3: Numerical Type questions

CSIR NET Model Question: In a human cell, the concentration of ATP, ADP and Pi are 2.25, 0.50 and 0.825mM respectively. The free energy of hydrolysis of ATP at pH 7.0 and 25°C is
1. –30.5kJ/mol.
2. –61kJ/mol.
3. –15.25 kJ/mol.
4. –52 kJ/mol

CSIR NET Question Type 4: Experiment based questions, result, technique or application based

CSIR NET Question Type 5: Graph Interpretation

CSIR NET Question Type 6: Conceptual Questions

CSIR NET 2019 Question: Which one of the following agents cause relaxation of mesangial cells?

1. Histamine

2. Thrombaxane As

3.Norepinephrine

4. Dopamine 

CSIR NET 2019 Question: During replication, RNaseH removes all of the RNA primer except the ribonucleotide directly linked to the DNA end. This is because

1. it can degrade RNA and DNA ftom their Send. .

2. it can only cleave bonds between two ribonucleotides.

3. it can degrade RNA and DNA from their Pend.

4 activity of RNaseH is inhibited by: the presence of duplex containing both strands as DNA. 

CSIR NET Question Type 7: Arranging or Ordering Questions

CSIR NET Question Type 8: Formula based Questions

CSIR NET Question Type 9: Pathway analysis questions

Questions can be based on Krebs cycle, transduction pathway, blood pathway, etc. 

CSIR NET Model Question: Two protein kinases, K1 and K2 function sequentially in regulating intracellular pathway in response to extracellular signal. The following observations are made:
(i) Response is observed even in the absence of extracellular signal when a mutation permanently activates K1.
(ii) Response is observed even in the absence of extracellular signal when K1 contains an activating mutation and K2 with inactivating mutation.
(iii) No response in the cells is detected even in the presence of extracellular signal when both kinases are inactivated by mutation.
Which one of the following is correct?
1. K1 activates K2
2. K2 activates K1
3. K1 inhibits K2
4. K2 inhibits K1

CSIR NET Question Type 10: Correct or incorrect statements

CSIR NET 2019 Question: Which one of the following statement on protein conformation, provided below is incorrect?

1. L-amino acids can occur in Type 1° B- ~ tums where , y are both positive.

2. A peptide rich in profine is unlikely to adopt achelical structure.

3. Proline residues have high propensity to occur in turns,

4. The-dihedral angles 4, y of amino acids in unfolded proteins are exclusively
positive. 

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