UGC NET Dec 2024 Exam Analysis; Check Jan 9, 2025 Question Papers Analysis for all Shifts

University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test 2025 ( UGC NET )

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Updated on Jan 10, 2025 11:58 IST

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 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.

Table of content
  • 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
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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).

105

Ayurveda Biology

104

Disaster Management

UGC NET 2024 Paper 1 Detailed Analysis (Shift 1, Jan 9)

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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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The Commission is expected to soon release the UGC NET notification for the December session in the form of PDF. It will be released at ugcnet.nta.ac.in.

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There are several books available in the market that consist of the UGC NET practice sets. Also, some standard guidebooks include model test papers for the practicing of the UGC NET exam. Online test series are also available for the candidates who are aspiring to prepare for the UGC NET exam.

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Candidates can check below the important books that can be used for the preparation for UGC NET paper 2 Commerce and English.

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After BA, you need to pursue an MA in Urdu (or a related subject).

Once you complete or are in the final year of your MA, you can apply for UGC NET in Urdu.

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BA alone cannot fulfill the eligibility for UGC NET.

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No, PhD students aren't exempt from UGC-NET or CSIR-NET. To get admission in a PhD course, UGC is requesting institutions to integrate NET scores.

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