CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for
Junior Research Fellowship and Lectureship

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION LIFE SCIENCES

The Joint CSIR-UGC JRF/LS (NET) Examination shall comprise 3 papers:

HOW TO PREPARE:
JRF-NET is considered one of the toughest and prestigious exams in the country due to two reasons. First is the very low ratio of selection to the number of appearing candidates and secondly because of its vast syllabus. Hence, most of the students find it difficult to qualify the exam, even after having a good understanding of the subject.

The competition for the CSIR-UGC JRF-NET exam is increasing manifolds and more since the syllabus was updated & revised. The exam does not merely test the knowledge but equally important is to have analytical approach as recently added part C is nothing but to test candidate's analytical skills while having a command over theoretical aspects. Our constant vigilance in the past few years on JRF-NET examinations had made us master the technique and art of yielding tremendous results and popularity. It is therefore not a surprise to us and our students that the institute succeeds in securing excellent results.

To qualify this exam one requires a bit of good management of time and effort along with proper guidance. As mentioned above, our team is keeping track of the previous year's paper (NET-JRF and GATE, both) and based on it we select the important topics for the preparation. We provide a different approach to solve the problem quickly and correctly.

This paper shall be of 2 hours and 30 minutes duration and shall have a maximum of 200 marks.

Part ‘A’ of Paper I shall contain 40 General Science questions. These questions shall be common to all subject areas of NET Examination. A candidate shall be required to answer a maximum of 25 questions from Part ‘A’. In case, a candidate answers more than 25 questions, only the first 25 answered questions will be taken up for evaluation.

Part ‘B’ of Paper I shall have 100 questions. A candidate shall be required to answer a maximum of 75 questions. In case a candidate answers more than 75 questions, only the first 75 answered questions shall be evaluated.

PART - 'C' : This part shall contain 75 questions that are designed to test a candidate's knowledge of scientific concepts and/or application of the scientific concepts. The questions shall be of analytical nature where a candidate is expected to apply the scientific knowledge to arrive at the solution to the given scientific problem. A candidate shall be required to answer any 25 questions. Each question shall be of four marks. The total marks allocated to this section shall be 100 out of 200. There will be negative marking @ 0.25% for each wrong answer.