UGC NET 2024 : Paper 1 - Teaching and Research Aptitude- Syllabus

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UGC NET - Paper 1 

Teaching and Research Aptitude 

(शिक्षण और शोध अभिवृति) 

Syllabus Content -Unit Wise

Basic Syllabus:

Unit 1: Teaching Aptitude 

Unit 2: Research Aptitude 

Unit 3: Comprehension

Unit 4: Communication 

Unit 5: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Unit 6: Logical Reasoning

Unit 7: Data Interpretation

Unit 8: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 

Unit 9: People, Development, and Environment

Unit 10: Higher Education System

Detailed Syllabus: 

UNIT 1: Teaching Aptitude

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

Unit-II: Research Aptitude

1. Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-Positive Approaches to Research.
2. Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative, and Quantitative Methods.
3. Steps of Research.
4. Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
5. Application of ICT in research.
6. Research ethics.

Unit-III: Comprehension

• A passage of text is given. Questions are asked from the passage which needs to be answered.

Unit-IV: Communication

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

Unit-V: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

1. Types of reasoning
2. Number series, letter series, codes, and relationships
3. Mathematical aptitude (fraction, time & distance, ratio, proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest and discounting, averages etc.)

Unit-VI: Logical Reasoning

1. Understanding the structure of arguments: Argument forms, the structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure, formal and informal fallacies, uses of language, connotations, and denotations of terms, the classical square of opposition
2. Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
3. Analogies
4. Venn diagram: Simple and multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments
5. Indian Logic: Means of knowledge
6. Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension)
7. Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)

Unit-VII: Data Interpretation

1. Sources, acquisition and classification of data
2. Quantitative and qualitative data
3. Graphical representation (bar-chart, histograms, pie-chart, table-chart and line-chart) and mapping of data
4. Data interpretation
5. Data and governance

Unit-VIII: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

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

Unit-IX: People, Development and Environment

1. Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals
2. Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on the environment
3. 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
4. Impacts of pollutants on human health
5. Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests
6. Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies
7. 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

1. Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India
2. Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence India
3. Oriental, conventional and non-conventional learning programmes in India
4. Professional, technical and skill-based education.
5. Value education and environmental education
6. Policies, governance, and administration