Maximum Age Limit for National Eligibility Test

Hello, I am looking for the details regarding the National Eligibility Test. So can you please provide me the details regarding the Exam including the Age Limit for the exam so that it may be helpful for me??

[Kiran Chandar]

National Eligibility Test is the Exam which is being conducted by the UGC on the Behalf of Central Board of Secondary Education.

You are looking for the details regarding the exam. So I am providing it to you:

Eligibility:

Age:

Age of the Candidate must be less than 28 years.

Education Qualification:

The candidate must have Master’s Degree OR equivalent with at least 55% marks (without rounding off).

Subjects:

UGC conducts NET in following subjects

1. Economics 2. Political Science

3. Philosophy 4. Psychology

5. Sociology 6. History

7. Anthropology 8. Commerce

9. Education 10 Social Work

11. Defence and Strategic Studies 12 Home Science

14. Public Administration 15. Population Studies

16. Music 17. Management

18. Maithili 19. Bangali

20. Hindi 21. Kannada

22. Malayalam 23. Odia

24. Punjabi 25. Sanskrit

26. Tamil 27. Telugu

28. Urdu 29. Arabic

30. English 31. Linguistics

32. Chinese 33. Dogri

34. Nepali 35. Manipuri

36. Assamese

37. Gujarati 38. Marathi

39. French 40. Spanish

41. Russian 42. Persian

43. Rajasthani 44. German


45. Japanese 46. Adult Education / Continuing Education / Andragogy / Non Formal Education


47. Physical Education 49. Arab Culture and Isalmic Studies

50. Indian Culture

55. Labour Walfare or Personnel Man agement or Industrial Relations or Labour and Social Walfare or Human Resource Management

58. Law 59. Library and Information Science

60. Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies 62. Comparative Study of Religions

63. Mass Communication and Journalism 65. Performing Art - Dance / Drama / Theatra

66. Muselogy and Conservation 67. Archaeology

68. Criminology 70. Tribal and Regional Language / Literature

71. Folk Literature 72. Comparative Literature

73. Sanskrit Traditional Subjects (including Jyotisha / Sidhanta Jyotisha / Navya Vyakarna / Vyakarnai

/ Mimamsa / Navya Nyaya / Sankhya Yoga / Tulanatmaka Darsana /Shukla yajurveda / Medhva Vedanta / Dharma Sastra / Sahitya / Purana-itihasa / Agama /Advaita Vedanta)

74. Women Studies**

79. Visual Arts (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture/ Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art)

80 Geography 81 Social Medicine & Community Health

82 Forensic Science 83 Pali 84 Kashmiri

85 Konkani 87 Computer Science and Applications

88 Electronic Science 89 Environmental Sciences

90 International and Area Studies 91 Prakrit

92 Human Rights and Duties

93 Tourism Administration and Management 94. Bodo

95 Santali

Paper Pattern:

Session Paper Marks Number of Question Duration
First I 100 60 out of which 50 question to be attempted 1¼ Hours (09.30 A.M. to 10.45 A.M.)
First II 100 50 questions all are compulsory 1¼ Hours (10.45 A.M. to 12.00 NOON)
Second III 150 75 questions all are compulsory 2 1/2 Hours (01.30 P.M. to 4.00 P.M.)


Paper-I is of general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research
aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability,
comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.

The paper will cover following areas

I. Teaching Aptitude
II Research Aptitude
III Reading Comprehension
IV Communication
V Reasoning (Including Mathematical)
VI Logical Reasoning
VII Data Interpretation
VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
IX People and Environment
X Higher Education System : Governance, Polity and Administration

Sixty (60) multiple choice questions of two marks each will be given, out of which the candidate would be required to answer any fifty (50). In the event of the candidate attempting more than fifty questions, the first fifty questions attempted by the candidate would be evaluated.
There are no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Paper-II consists of short questions based on the subject selected by the
candidate. The paper will consist of a Test Booklet containing 50 objective type questions. There are in total 50 MCQ’s (such as Multiple choice with single correct answer, Matching Type, assertion Reason Type) each of 2 marks. The total is 100 marks for this section The candidate will have to mark the response for each. question on the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) sheet provided alongwith the Test Booklet. The detailed instructions for filling up the OMR Sheet will be sent to the candidate along with the Admit Card.

There are no negative marks for incorrect answers.

Paper-III will consist of 75 objective type compulsory questions from the subject selected by the candidate. Each question will carry 2 marks.


All questions of Paper-II and Paper-III will be compulsory, covering entire syllabus (including all electives, without options).


The candidates are required to obtain following minimum marks separately in Paper-I, Paper-II and Paper-III as given below: CATEGORY Minimum Marks (%) to be obtained
PAPER – I PAPER – II PAPER– III
GENERAL 40 (40%) 40 (40%) 75 (50 %)
OBC (Non-creamy layer)/ PWD/ SC/ ST 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 60 (40 %)