UGC NET Exam 2024: Notification, Syllabus, Eligibility & Key Details

UR (General category)

INR 1100

OBC/EWS

INR 550

SC/ ST/ PWD and Third Gender

INR 275

Paper I

50 

100

3 Hours

Paper II (Subject Specialisation)

100

200

Total

150 

300

3 Hours

• Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.  
• Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.  
• Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.  
• Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
• Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.  
• Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.

• Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Postpositivistic approach to research.  
• Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.  
• Steps of Research.  
• Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.  
• Application of ICT in research.  
• Research ethics.

• A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

• Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.  
• Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.  
• Barriers to effective communication.  
• Mass-Media and Society. 

• Types of reasoning.  
• Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.  
• Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).

• Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.  
• Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.  
• Analogies.  
• Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.  
• Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.  Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).  
• Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).

• Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.  
• Quantitative and Qualitative Data.  
• Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.  
• Data Interpretation.  
• Data and Governance. 

• ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.  
• Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.  
• Digital initiatives in higher education.  
• ICT and Governance

• Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
• Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment. 
• Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.  
• Impacts of pollutants on human health. 
• Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.  
• Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies. 
• Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.

• Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India. 
• Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India. 
• Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India. 
• Professional, Technical and Skill Based education. 
• Value education and environmental education.  
• Policies, Governance, and Administration.

• Nature and sources of law
• Schools of jurisprudence
• Law and morality
• Concept of rights and duties
• Legal personality
• Concepts of property, ownership and possession
• Concept of liability
• Law, poverty and development
• Global justice
• Modernism and post-modernism

• Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy.
• Union and State executives and their interrelationship
• Union and State legislature and distribution of legislative powers
• Judiciary
• Emergency provisions
• Temporary, transitional and special provisions in respect of certain states
• Election Commission of India
• Nature, scope and importance of administrative law
• Principle of natural justice 10. Judicial review of administrative actions – Grounds.

• International law – Definition, nature and basis
• Sources of International law
• Recognition of states and governments
• Nationality, immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)
• Extradition and asylum
• United Nations and its organs
• Settlement of international disputes
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• International humanitarian law (IHL) – Conventions and protocols
• Implementation of IHL – Challenges

• General principles of criminal liability – Actus reus and mens rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability
• Stages of crime and inchoate crimes – Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt
• General exceptions
• Offences against the human body
• Offences against state and terrorism
• Offences against property
• Offences against women and children
• Drug trafficking and counterfeiting
• Offences against public tranquillity
• Theories and kinds of punishments, compensation to the victims of crime

• Nature and definition of tort
• General principles of tortious liability
• General defences
• Specific torts – Negligence, nuisance, trespass and defamation
• Remoteness of damages
• Strict and absolute liability
• Tortious liability of the State
• The Consumer Protection Act 1986 – Definitions, consumer rights and redressal mechanism
• The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – No-fault liability, third party insurance and claims tribunal
• The Competition Act, 2002 – Prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position and regulation of combinations

• Essential elements of contract and e-contract
• Breach of contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements
• The standard form of contract and quasi-contract
• Specific contracts – Bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee and agency
• Sale of Goods Act, 1930
• Partnership and limited liability partnership
• Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
• Company law – Incorporation of a company, prospectus, shares and debentures
• Company law – Directors and meetings
• Corporate social responsibility

• Sources and schools
• Marriage and dissolution of marriage
• Matrimonial remedies – Divorce and theories of divorce
• Changing dimensions of institution of marriage – Live-in relationship
• Recognition of foreign decrees in India on marriage and divorce
• Maintenance, dower and stridhan
• Adoption, guardianship and acknowledgement
• Succession and inheritance
• Will, gift and wakf
• Uniform Civil Code

• Meaning and concept of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental pollution
• International environmental law and UN Conferences
• Constitutional and legal framework for protection of environment in India
• Environmental Impact Assessment and control of hazardous waste in India
• National Green Tribunal
• Concept and development of human rights
• Universalism and cultural relativism
• International Bill of Rights
• Group rights – Women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker sections
• Protection and enforcement of human rights in India – National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Commission for Women, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Schedule Tribes and National Commission for Backward Classes

• Concept and meaning of intellectual property
• Theories of intellectual property
• International conventions pertaining to intellectual properties
• Copyright and neighbouring rights – Subject matters, limitations and exceptions, infringement and remedies
• Law of patent – Patentability, the procedure for grant of patent, limitations and exceptions, infringement and remedies
• Law of trademark – Registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing off, remedies
• Protection of Geographical Indications
• Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
• Information technology law- digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance, electronic records and duties of subscribers
• Cybercrimes, penalties and adjudication

• Comparative Law – Relevance, methodology, problems and concerns in Comparison
• Forms of governments – Presidential and parliamentary, unitary and federal
• Models of federalism – USA, Canada and India
• Rule of Law – ‘Formal’ and ‘substantive’ versions
• Separation of powers – India, UK, USA and France
• Independence of judiciary, judicial activism and accountability – India, UK and USA
• Systems of constitutional review – India, USA, Switzerland and France
• Amendment of the Constitution – India, USA and South Africa
• Ombudsman –Sweden, UK and India
• Open Government and Right to Information – USA, UK and India.

• The candidates must have passed the Master’s course in a certain specific subject or stream.
• Paper two must be of the same origin as the post-graduation subject.
• The LLM holders are also eligible for the exam.
• For the Junior Research Fellowship and the Net Assistant professor, candidates must have secured 55% in the Post-graduation.
• The marks for SC/ST/Obc are 50% of the Qualification.

JRF

 Candiate should not be above the age of 30 years (as of 01.12.2022)

Assistant Professor

 No upper age limit.

SC/ST/OBC/PwD/Transgender

5 years

Females of all categories

5 years

Candidates having research experience

Limited to the period spent on research

(Maximum of 5 years)

Candidates holding LLM degree

3 years

Candidates in the armed forces (subject to the length of service in the armed forces)

5 years

Other Backward Classes (OBC) Non-Creamy Layer (NCL) 

27%

Scheduled Caste 

15%

General - Economically Weaker Sections 

10%

Scheduled Tribe

7.5%

Persons with Disability (PwD) ( 40% or more)

4%