Teaching & Education

The National Educational Testing Bureau of the UGC conducts NET to determine eligibility for lectureship, Assistant professor, and for an award of JRF for Indian nationals in order to ensure minimum standards for entrants in the teaching profession and research.
Eligibility Criteria:
Students who have secured at least 55 percent marks in a Master's Degree or equivalent examination from universities or institutions recognized by UGC in Humanities and Social Science, Computer Science, Applications, Electronic Science, etc. are eligible for the NET exam. The OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PWD category students who have secured at least 50 percent marks in a Master's degree or equivalent examination are eligible for the NET exam. The Ph.D. degree holders whose Master's level examination had been completed by September 19th, 1991 shall be eligible for a relaxation of 5 percent in aggregate marks for appearing in UGC NET.
Age Limit: 31 years for JRF and No age limit for AP.
The validity of the UGC NET Certificate for AP or lectureship in 2021 is valid for life. Students can benefit from the award letter anytime. However, for the award of a JRF, the UGC NET e-Certificate remains valid for three years from the date of issue. However, according to the official website, the system was changed in 2022 so that the Certificate will be valid for 4 years from the date the UGC NET E-Certificate was issued. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the M.Phil and Ph.D. admissions processes in universities and higher education institutions have been postponed, commencing in March 2020. The validity of the UGC NET Certificate has been extended by up to four years for:
1- JRF Award Letter NFSC
2- Maulana Azad National Fellowship
3- Minority Students' National Fellowship (MANF).
Career opportunities after JRF and their promotions:
1- JRF: SRF
2- Project Fellow: SRF
3- Project Assistant/Associate: Senior Project Assistant/Associate
4- Author: Senior Author
5- Project Manager: Project Head
Career opportunities after AP and their promotions:
1- Junior AP: Assistant Professor
2- AP: Senior AP
3- Senior AP: AP
4- AP: Associate Professor
5- Associate Professor: Professor
6- Professor: General Head
PSUs Jobs after NET: IOCL, BHEL, NTPC, PGCIL, NMRL, ONGC, BEL, HPCL, OIL.
Academic jobs after NET: Program Executive, Transmission Executive, Center Manager, IP Lead, Lab Trainer, Guest Faculty, Consultant, Coaching Tutor Online or Offline.

A list of the best books for UGC NET commerce is listed below:
1- Corporate tax planning by Dr. J. C. & Nikhil Gupta
2- Graduation level textbook of Income Tax by Girish Ahuja/ Taxmann
3- Graduation level Text Book Company Law by M. C. Kuchhal /Sumant Chadha/Reena Chadha.
4- Graduation level Text Book Business and Industrial Law by L. C. Mittal / G. K. Kapoor /Reena Chadha
5- Post-Graduation Text Book Marketing Management by Philip T. Kotler Gary Armstrong and Prafulla Agnihotri.
6- Post-Graduation Textbook Human Resource Management by V. S. P. Rao
7- Graduation Textbook Business Management by C. B. Gupta/F. C. Sharma
8- Graduation level Textbook Research Methods by C. R. Kothari
9- Post-Graduation level Textbook Business Statistics by Dr. J. K. Thakur
10- Graduation level Textbook Financial Management by I. M. Pandey
11- Graduation Textbook Micro Economics by Dr. Deepshree
12- Graduation Textbook Cost and Management Accounting By Maheshwari and Mittal
13- 11th and 12th textbooks for Accounting and Auditing basic R. S. AGGARWAL and TS Grewal.

A list of the best books for the UGC NET Environmental Sciences course is listed below:
1- Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science by Gilbert Masters.
2- Environment Ecology by E. P ODUM.
3- Statistical Method by S. P Gupta.
4- Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology by Lutgens or Tarbuck.
5- Elements of Ecology by Smith.
6- Environmental Chemistry by Stanley E. Manahan.
7- Non-conventional Energy Sources by GD Rai.
8- For MCQ on previous year papers kindly follow Fundamentals of Environmental Sciences, Theory, and MCQ Practical Book, 5th edition by Rupendra Singh, Catalyst Singh, Publication. I hope this will help you.

UGC NET Exam Pattern:
Paper 1
Number of questions: 50 MCQs
Marks: 100
Paper 2
Number of questions: 100 MCQs
Marks: 200
Four Months Study Plan for UGC NET English Literature:
1st Week: Try to Cover the general topics
1- 3 days of Ancient/ Classical Drama
2- 3 days of History of English Literature and Language
3- 1 day devoted to Chaucer Shakespeare
2nd Week: Try to Cover Topics from Drama
1- 3 days to Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
2- 2 days to Jacobean Drama
3- Dedicate 2 days for revision.
3rd Week: Stick to Drama
3 Days of American and other Non- British Drama
4th Week: Unit 1 of Drama
1- 1 day of Jacobean Drama
2- 2 days of 17th and 18th Century Drama
3- 2 days of The theatre from 1901-45
4- 2 days of Modern drama
5th Week: Poetry
1- 2 days of Canterbury Tales
2- 3 days of Elizabethan Poetry
3- 2 days of Revise Poetry covered so far
6th Week: Unit II of poetry
1- 2 days for Jacobean, Restoration, and Augustan poetry (2 Days)
2- 3 days for Romantic poetry
3- Solve 2 sample papers also
7th Week: Go with the Unit II poetry
1- 3 days of Modern Poetry (3 Days)
2- American and other non-British poets (3)
8th Week: Unit II Poetry
1- 1 day of Romantic poetry
2- 4 days of Victorian Poetry
3- 2 days of Contemporary Poetry and War Poets
4- Revise unit II of poetry
Week 9, 10, and 11 to fictional stories: Unit III, IV, and V of fictional stores
Cover Units III, IV, and V of fictional stores
Week 12: Literary Criticism
1- 5 days of Unit VII
2- Attempt Mock Tests (2 Days)
Week 13: Unit- IX: Literary Theory post World War II
1- 4 days of Unit IX
2- 1 day to Search for major modern writers and their works all across the world on Google.
3- 2 days Revision of Units V, VI, and VII
Week 14: Revise all that done till now.