UGC NET Dec 2024 Exam Analysis; Check Jan 9, 2025 Question Papers Analysis for all Shifts
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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has successfully conducted the UGC NET 2024 exam on January 9, 2025, for the December session. Candidates can check below the UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 exam analysis for both shifts, including the students' reaction, difficulty level, good attempts, topics asked, memory-based questions, expected cutoff, and more.
UGC NET 2024 Dec Exam Analysis Jan 9, 2025
UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Analysis: The authority conducted Shift 1 & 2 on January 9, 2025, for the UGC NET 2024 December session. Candidates can check below the exam analysis for both shifts (1 & 2) based on the students' reactions. You will also come to know whether the questions are repeated in paper 1 or not for both shifts. Previous year questions are asked or not. Scroll down for the UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 exam analysis, including the students' reactions, difficulty level, good attempts, topics asked, memory-based questions, expected cutoff, and more.
- UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 2): Student Reactions & Memory Based Questions and Answers
- UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Analysis (Shift 2, Jan 9)
- UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 2) Subject-Wise
- UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 1): Student Reactions & Memory Based Questions and Answers
- UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
- UGC NET 2024 Paper 2 (Geography) Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
- Check UGC NET 2024 January 9 Exam Schedule
- UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Detailed Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
- UGC NET 2024 Paper 2 Detailed Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9): Geography
- UGC NET Exam Pattern 2024
UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 2): Student Reactions & Memory Based Questions and Answers
Paper 1 overall difficulty level was Moderate. Good attempts 41 to 45.
UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Analysis (Shift 2, Jan 9)
Candidates can check below in detail about the Paper 1 analysis, questions, topics asked, weightage, etc. as per the students' review:
| Section | Topics asked (Shift 2) | Difficulty Level (Shift 2) |
|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | Data Sources, Acquisition, Classification, Graphical Representation |
Moderate |
| Communication | Types, Characteristics, Verbal & Non-verbal, Barriers, Mass-media, etc. | Easy |
| Logical Reasoning | Argument Forms, Categorical Propositions, Venn Diagrams, Analogies, etc. | Easy to Moderate |
| ICT | Abbreviations, Internet, E-mail, Digital Initiatives in Higher Ed, etc. | Easy |
| People and Environment | Development, Environmental Issues, Sustainable Development Goals, Impact of Pollutants | Moderate |
| Mathematics | Number Series, Letter Series, Codes, Time & Distance, Ratio, etc. | Moderate |
| Reading Comprehension | Easy and direct questions were asked | Easy |
| Higher Education System | Evolution of Higher Learning, Institutions, Professional Education, Technical and Skill-based Education
|
Moderate |
| Teaching Aptitude | Teaching Concept, Objectives, Levels, Methods, Evaluation, CBCS in Higher Education | Easy to Moderate |
| Research Aptitude | Research Types, Characteristics, Positivism, ICT in Research |
Easy to Moderate |
UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 2) Subject-Wise
Candidates can check below the subject-wise analysis.
| Subjects and Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | Good Attempts | Topics asked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic (100 Questions) | Easy | 75 to 80 | Modern Arabic Literature, Phonology, Arabic Rhetoric and Criticism, Arabic Culture, Islamic Civilization |
| Maithili (100 Questions) | Moderate | 70 to 75 | Research and Teaching Methodology, Literary Criticism, Maithili Grammar, Modern Maithili Literature |
| Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing / Marketing Mgt. / Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt. / Personnel Mgt. / Financial Mgt. /Co-operative Management)(100 Questions) | Easy to Moderate | 75 to 80 | Human Resource Management (HRM), Management Theory and Practice, Marketing Management, Cooperative Management, Operations Management |
| Gujarati (100 Questions) |
Moderate | 75 to 80 | Importance and Role of Physical Education in Modern Society, Sports Psychology, Sports Training and Methodology, Sports Management and Administration |
| Telugu (100 Questions) | Easy to Moderate | 70 to 75 | Poetry (Kavya), Prose and Drama, Modern Literature, Research Methodology |
| Physical Education (100 Questions) | Easy to Moderate | 70 to 76 | Buddhist Studies, Peace Studies, Research Methodology, Jaina Studies, Gandhian Studies, |
| Ayurveda Biology (100 Questions) | Easy to Moderate | 75 to 80 | Ayurvedic Principles of Health and Disease, Herbal Medicine and Pharmacology, Ayurvedic Diagnosis and Treatment Methods |
| Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama) (100 Questions) | Moderate | 71 to 76 | Jyotisha (Astronomy & Astrology), Sidhanta Jyotish, Navya Vyakarna (Modern Grammar), Dharmasastra, Agama |
| Disaster Management (100 Questions) | Easy to Moderate | 70 to 75 | Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Community-based Disaster Management, Climate Change and Disaster Management |
UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 Exam Analysis (Shift 1): Student Reactions & Memory Based Questions and Answers
As per students' Reactions:
Paper 1 was easy to moderate. New questions were asked more. Good attempts: 39 to 42
Paper 2 (Geography) exam was moderate as per the students'. Some of the students' felt moderate to difficult. Conceptual clarity questions were asked.
Topics asked in Shift 1 paper 1 are mentioned below based on students' feedback:
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- DI: percentage based employee- unemployed graduate (normal)
- RC: Easy (direct questions)
- Teaching Aptitude: SWAYAM, NCERT, NEP 2020, memory level
- RA: Triangular, Positive Research Paradigm
- Environment: Pollution, gases, ecology, Soil
- ICT: HTML language, Machine language, On-head theory
- Communication: Internet communication, who coined AI term
- Maths: Coding Decoding, Upstream/downstream
- LR: Formal Fallacy, square of opposition, etc.
UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
Candidates can check below in detail about the Paper 1 analysis, questions, topics asked, weightage, etc. as per the students' review:
| Section | Topics asked (Shift 1) | Difficulty Level (Shift 1) |
|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | Percentage based questions, Table Based on Income and Expenditure |
Easy |
| Communication | Type of Communication- Match the following, Mass Communication, Internet communication, who coined AI term | Easy |
| Logical Reasoning | Formal Fallacy, Moods and Figure, Indian Logic, In Jain epistemology, in which order does Mati Jnana arise?- Perception (Avagraha), Inquiry (Iha), Judgment (Apaya), Retention (Dharana), square of opposition | Moderate |
| ICT | Memory, ping ka full form, Head Theory, MS Excel, FTP , HTTP , HTML match, HTML language, Machine language, On-head theory |
Easy to Moderate |
| People and Environment | Pollution, gases, ecology, Soil | Moderate |
| Mathematics | Coding Decoding, Upstream/downstream, Number Series :1,7,25,61 | Moderate |
| Reading Comprehension | Easy and direct questions were asked | Easy |
| Higher Education System | When was the NICNET program started in India?- a) 1987, b) 1980, c) 1990, d) 1991, Ancient University Chronology, Commission Chronology, Nalanda, NAAC, JNV In 1884, which university was granted permission to confer honorary LLD degrees?- a) Kolkata, b) Mumbai, c) Madras, d) Allahabad Which education is related to higher education: technical education or vocational education?,
|
Easy to Moderate |
| Teaching Aptitude | Swayam, Level of Teaching, memory level teaching ,NEP 2020, Maslow Hierarchy NCERT, memory level | Easy |
| Research Aptitude | Triangulation, Postitivism, Reserach Paradigm, Square of opposition, Triangular Research, Probability, Post Postitivism Research |
Easy |
UGC NET 2024 Paper 2 (Geography) Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
Scroll down to know the topics asked and good attempts in UGC NET 2024 Jan 9 exam paper 2 Geography.
- Chronology of River by length
- Coastline length of states
- Aryan Nardik Species living place
- Who discovered ecology word?
- Who discovered ecosystem word?
- Statement- Hartland Theory
- In which layer Noctilucent cloud lies?
- Birth Rate question
- Does meander makes ox bow lake and it makes erosion in flood plain
- Disciple of Anaximender
- Who defined climatic change as per Aristotle
- Nature of Geography author
- Effect of ENSO
- Mistral, Bora, and Sant’Ana – cold winds
- Heights in descending order: Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, Annapurna
- Shipbuilding: construction of ships, vital in maritime history and trade
- Pluto a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt
- A Sacred Geography: Written by Diana L. Eck
- Tide dynamic theory
- Canyon Theory
- Slope displacement daly, etc.
Check UGC NET 2024 January 9 Exam Schedule
| Date of Exam |
SHIFT – 1 (09:00 AM to 12:00 PM) |
SHIFT – 2 (03:00 PM to 06:00 PM) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
|
|
09 January 2025 |
024 |
Punjabi |
018 |
Maithili |
| 026 |
Tamil |
029 |
Arabic |
|
| 080 |
Geography |
037 |
Gujarati |
|
|
038 |
Marathi |
017 |
Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing / Marketing Mgt. / Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt. / Personnel Mgt. / Financial Mgt. /Co-operative Management) |
|
| 023 |
Oriya |
027 |
Telugu |
|
|
|
|
047 |
Physical Education |
|
|
073 |
Sanskrit traditional subjects (including Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama). |
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| 105 |
Ayurveda Biology |
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| 104 |
Disaster Management |
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UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Detailed Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)
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UGC NET 2024 Paper 2 Detailed Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9): Geography
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UGC NET Exam Pattern 2024
Check below the detailed UGC NET exam pattern 2024 below.
| UGC NET Paper |
Number of Questions |
Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 |
50 |
100 |
| Paper 2 |
100 |
200 |
| Total |
150 |
300 |
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No. The authority has not released the UGC NET certificate for the December session 2025. The exam is scheduled to be conducted from December 31 to January 7, 2026.
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- Visit at ugcnet.nta.nic.in
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The UGC NET answer key challenge fee per question is INR 200. It is non refundable whether the challenge is accepted or rejected. It can be paid online via debit card, credit card, net banking or UPI. Challenges made by the candidates will be verified by the panel of subject experts.
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It is released by the National Testing Agency NTA a few days after the exam is conducted. The answer key helps candidates in calculating their probable scores and checking the accuracy of their responsesThe details provided on the UGC NET answer key are mentioned below:
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