प्रवक्ता योग्यता परीक्षा / जूनियर रिसर्च फेलोशिप
NTA/UGC – NET / JRF Coaching Classes
On behalf of University Grants Commission (UGC), the National Eligibility Test (NET) is conducted for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the Eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship & Assistant Professor Both, in Indian Universities and Colleges.
Till June 2018, the CBSE conducted the NET in 84 subjects at 91 selected Cities of spread across the country. Since Dec 2018 onwards, the UGC- NET is being conducted by the NTA.
The award of JRF and or Eligibility for Assistant Professor depends on the aggregrate performance of the candidate in Paper-I and paper-II of UGC-NET. The candidates qualifying only for Assistant Professor are not to be considered for the award of JRF. Candidates who qualify the test for eligibility for Assistant Professor are governed by the rules and regulations for recruitment of Assistant Professor of the concerned universities/colleges/state governments, as the case may be. UGC-NET is conducted twice a year.
NTA- Introduction
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (GOI), has established NationalTesting Agency (NTA) as an independent, autonomous and self- sustained premier organization under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, registered as a self-reliant and self-sustained premier testing organization.
Some of the objectives, inter alia, include:
(i) To conduct efficient, transparent and international standard tests in order to assess the competency of candidates for admission.
(ii) To undertake research on educational, professional and testing system to identify gaps in the knowledge systems and take steps for bridging them.
(iii) To produce and disseminate information and research on education and professional development standards.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has entrusted the responsibility of conducting UGC-NET to NTA. UGC-NET is a test to determine the eligibility for ‘Assistant Professor’ and ‘Junior Research Fellowship and Assistant Professor’ in Indian universities and colleges.
UGC-NET December 2019 shall be conducted in subjects given at Annexure III, at selected cities spread across the country (Annexure I).
Eligibility Criteria
- Qualifying Examination
(i) General/Unreserved/General-EWS candidates who have secured at least 55% marks (without rounding off) in Master’s Degree or equivalent examination from universities/institutions recognized by UGC (available on the website: www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/consolidated%20list%20of%20All%20universities.pdf in Humanities and Social Science(including languages), Computer Science and Applications, Electronic Science etc. are eligible for this Test. List of subjects at Post Graduation level is attached as Annexure-IV. The Other Backward Classes (OBC) belonging to Non-Creamy Layer/Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Persons with Disability (PwD)/Transgender category candidates who have secured at least 50% marks (without rounding off) in Master’s degree or equivalent examination are eligible for this Test.
(ii) Candidates who are pursuing their Master’s degree or equivalent course or candidates who have appeared for their qualifying Master’s degree (final year) examination and whose result is still awaited or candidates whose qualifying examinations have been delayed may also apply for this test. However, such candidates will be admitted provisionally and shall be considered eligible for award of JRF/eligibility for Assistant Professor only after they have passed their Master’s Degree or equivalent examination with at least 55% marks (50% marks in case of OBC-NCL /SC/ST/PwD/Transgender category candidates). Such candidates must complete their Master degree or equivalent examination within two years from the date of NET result with required percentage of marks, failing which they shall be treated as disqualified.
(iii) General/Unreserved/General-EWS candidates belonging to the transgender category would be eligible to draw the same relaxation in fee, age and qualifying criteria for NET (i.e. JRF and Assistant Professor) as are available to SC/ST/PwD categories. The subject wise cut-offs for this category should be the lowest among those for SC/ST/PwD/OBC–NCL categories in the corresponding subject.
(iv) The Ph.D. degree holders whose Master’s level examination have been completed by 19 September 1991 (irrespective of date of declaration of result) shall be eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e. from 55% to 50%) for appearing in NET. The list of Post-Graduation courses and their codes is given at Annexure-V.
(v) Candidates are advised to appear in the subject of their Post Graduation only. The candidates, whose Post Graduation subject is not covered in the list of NET subjects attached as Annexure- IV, may appear in a related subject.
(vi) Candidates are neither required to send any certificates/documents in support of their eligibility nor printout of their Application Form or Confirmation Page to NTA. However, the candidates, in their own interest, must ensure themselves about their eligibility for the test. In the event of any ineligibility being detected by the UGC/NTA at any stage, their candidature will be cancelled and they shall be liable for legal action. NTA does not verify the information provided by the candidates during online registration and hence candidature will be purely provisional subject to the fulfillment of eligibility criteria.
(vii) Candidates with post-graduate diploma/certificate awarded by Indian University/ Institute or foreign degree/diploma/certificate awarded by the foreign University/ institute should in their own interest, ascertain the equivalence of their diploma/degree/ certificate with Master’s degree of recognized Indian universities from Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi (www.aiu.ac.in).
Age Limit and Relaxation
(i) JRF: Not more than 30 years as on 01.12.2019.
A relaxation of upto 5 years is provided to the candidates belonging to OBC-NCL (as per the Central list of OBC available on website: www.ncbc.nic.in) /SC/ST/PwD/Transgender categories and to women applicants. Relaxation will also be provided to the candidates with research experience, limited to the period spent on research in the relevant/related subject of post- graduation degree, subject to a maximum of 5 years, on production of a certificate from
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a p p r o p r i a t e authority. Three years relaxation in age will be permissible to the candidates with L.L.M. degree. A relaxation of upto 5 years is provided to the candidates who have served in the armed forces subject to the length of service in the armed forces upto the first day of the month in which the concerned UGC-NET is to be held. Total age relaxation on the above ground(s) shall not exceed five years under any circumstances.
(ii) Assistant Professor:
There is no upper age limit in applying for UGC-NET for Assistant Professor.
Subject List
List of NET Subjects and their Codes
Note: Syllabi for all NET Subjects can be downloaded from the UGC website:
National Testing Agency will not send the syllabus to individual candidates.
S. No. | Subject | Subject Code |
1 | Adult Education/ Continuing Education/Non Formal Education. | 46 |
2 | Anthropology | 07 |
3 | Arab Culture and Islamic Studies | 49 |
4 | Arabic | 29 |
5 | Archaeology | 67 |
6 | Assamese | 36 |
7 | Bengali | 19 |
8 | Bodo | 94 |
9 | Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies | 60 |
10 | Chinese | 32 |
11 | Commerce | 08 |
12 | Comparative Literature | 72 |
13 | Comparative Study of Religions | 62 |
14 | Computer Science and Applications | 87 |
15 | Criminology | 68 |
16 | Defence and Strategic Studies | 11 |
17 | Dogri | 33 |
18 |
Economics / Rural Economics /Co-operation / Demography / Development Planning/ Development Studies / Econometrics/ Applied Economics/Development
Economics/Business Economics |
01 |
19 | Education | 09 |
20 | Electronic Science | 88 |
21 | English | 30 |
22 | Environmental Sciences | 89 |
23 | Folk Literature | 71 |
24 | Forensic Science | 82 |
25 | French (French Version) | 39 |
26 | Geography | 80 |
27 | German | 44 |
28 | Gujarati | 37 |
29 | Hindi | 20 |
30 | History | 06 |
31 | Home Science | 12 |
32 | Human Rights and Duties | 92 |
33 | Indian Culture | 50 |
34 | Japanese | 45 |
35 | Kannada | 21 |
36 | Kashmiri | 84 |
37 | Konkani | 85 |
38 | Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social
Welfare/Human Resource Management |
55 |
39 | Law | 58 |
40 | Library and Information Science | 59 |
41 | Linguistics | 31 |
42 | Maithili | 18 |
43 | Malayalam | 22 |
44 |
Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing/ Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./ Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-
operative Management) |
17 |
45 | Manipuri | 35 |
46 | Marathi | 38 |
47 | Mass Communication and Journalism | 63 |
48 | Museology & Conservation | 66 |
49 | Music | 16 |
50 | Nepali | 34 |
51 | Oriya | 23 |
52 | Pali | 83 |
53 | Performing Art – Dance/Drama/Theatre | 65 |
54 | Persian | 42 |
55 | Philosophy | 03 |
56 | Physical Education | 47 |
57 | Political Science | 02 |
58 |
Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence/Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, African
Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, American Studies. |
90 |
59 | Population Studies | 15 |
60 | Prakrit | 91 |
61 | Psychology | 04 |
62 | Public Administration | 14 |
63 | Punjabi | 24 |
64 | Rajasthani | 43 |
65 | Russian | 41 |
66 | Sanskrit | 25 |
67 |
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). |
73 |
68 | Santali | 95 |
69 | Sindhi | 101 |
70 | Social Medicine & Community Health | 81 |
71 | Social Work | 10 |
72 | Sociology | 05 |
73 | Spanish | 40 |
74 | Tamil | 26 |
75 | Telugu | 27 |
76 | Tourism Administration and Management. | 93 |
77 | Tribal and Regional Language/Literature | 70 |
78 | Urdu | 28 |
79 | Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History
of Art) |
79 |
80 | Women Studies | 74 |
81 | Yoga | 100 |