NTA UGC NET PAPER 1 Syllabus
Unit-I Teaching Aptitude
⇛ 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.
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Unit-II Research Aptitude
⇛ Research:
Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-positivistic 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.
Unit-III Comprehension
Unit-IV Communication
⇛ 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.
Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
⇛ 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.).
Unit-VI Logical Reasoning
⇛ 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).
Unit-VII Data Interpretation
⇛ 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
Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
⇛ ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
⇛ Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.
⇛ Digital initiatives in higher education.
⇛ ICT and Governance.
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Unit-IX People, Development and Environment
⇛ 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.
Unit-X Higher Education System
⇛ 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
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