UGC NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST FOR JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR LECTURESHIP, DECEMBER 2011
UGC- NET on 24th December 2011
The National Eligibility Test (NET) for determining the eligibility of Indian Nationals for the Award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship in Indian Universities and Colleges will be held by the UGC on 24th December 2011 (Saturday), in 78 subjects in Humanities (including languages), Social Sciences, Forensic Science, Environmental Sciences, Computer Science and Applications and Electronic Science (The full list of subjects is available at
http://ugcnetonline.in/subjects.php ) and will be conducted at 74 selected University Centres spread across the country (see
http://ugcnetonline.in/Test_centre.php for the list of Centres)
Those who qualify for the award of Junior Research Fellowship are eligible to pursue research in the subject of their Post-graduation or in a related subject and are also eligible for Lectureship. The Universities, institutions, IITs and other National organizations may select the JRF awardees for whole time research work in accordance with the procedure prescribed by them. The award of JRF will depend on the performance of the candidate in all three papers of NET. However, the candidates qualifying exclusively for lectureship will not be considered for award of JRF. Candidates appearing in NET should clearly specify in the prescribed Application Form whether they are applying for both JRF & eligibility for Lectureship OR only for eligibility for Lectureship. Candidates who qualify the Test for eligibility for Lectureship will be governed by the rules and regulations for recruitment of lecturers of the concerned universities/colleges/state governments, as the case may be.
SC/ST/Visually Handicapped (VH)/Physically Handicapped (PH) /OBC (Non-creamy layer), as per the central list of Other Backward Classes available at
www.ncbc.nic.in , candidates will be given such special concessions as may be decided by the Commission.
Junior Research Fellowship: Candidates qualifying for the award of Junior Research Fellowship will be eligible to receive fellowship of UGC under various schemes, subject to their finding placement in Universities/IITs/ Institutions. The validity period of the offer is two years from the date of issue of JRF Award Letter.
However, in case the candidates who have already joined M.Phil/Ph.D., the date of commencement of Fellowship shall be from the date of declaration of NET result or date of their joining, whichever is later.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant should have secured at least 55% marks (without rounding off) in Master’s Degree OR equivalent examination from Universities/Institutions recognized by UGC in Humanities (including languages) and Social Sciences, Computer Science & Applications, Electronic Science etc. Those belonging to SC/ST/Physically Handicapped (PH)/Visually Handicapped (VH) category need only 50% marks (without rounding off) in Master’s Degree or equivalent examination.
Those who have appeared OR will be appearing at the qualifying Master’s Degree (final year) examination and whose result is still awaited OR those whose qualifying examinations have been delayed may also apply subject tot the condition that they will be admitted provisionally and will be considered eligible for award of JRF/Lectureship eligibility only after they have passed their Master’s Degree examination or equivalent with at least 55% marks (50% marks in case of SC/ST/PH/VH category candidates). Such candidates must complete their P.G Degree examination within two years from the date of NET result with required percentage of marks, failing which they will be treated as disqualified.
Ph.D. Degree holders whose Master’s level examination had been completed by 19th September, 1991 (irrespective of date of declaration of result) shall be eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (from 55% to 50%) for appearing in NET.
Applicants should appear in the subject of their Post-Graduation only. Those applicants, whose Post-Graduation subject is not covered in the list of subjects, may appear in a related subject.
Exemption (Eligibility for Lectureship): NET/SLET/SET shall remain the minimum eligibility condition for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professors in Universities/ Colleges/Institutions. Those who are or have been awarded a Ph. D. Degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2009, are exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET/SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities/ Colleges/ Institutions.
Those who have passed the UGC/CSIR JRF examination prior to 1989 are also exempted from appearing in NET.
SET Candidates: Those who have cleared the State Eligibility Test (SET) accredited by UGC for eligibility for Lectureship held prior to 1st June 2002, are exempted from appearing in NET, being eligible to apply for Lectureship anywhere in India. For SET held from 1st June 2002 onwards, the qualified candidates are eligible to apply for the post of Lecturer only in the Universities/Colleges belonging to the state from where they have cleared their SET.
Age Limit & Relaxation:
Junior Research Fellowship: Applicant should not be more than 28 years of age as on 01.12.2011. SC/ST/OBC/PH/VH categories and women will get a relaxation up to 5 years. Relaxation will also be provided to the candidates having 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 appropriate authority. Three years’ relaxation in age will be permissible to the candidates possessing L.L.M. Degree. Total age relaxation on the above ground(s) shall not exceed five years under any circumstances.
Lectureship: There is no upper age limit for applying for lectureship eligibility.
Fees: Examination Fee is Rs.450/- for General Candidates, Rs.225/- for Other Backward Classes (Non-creamy layer, as per the Central list of OBC available at www.ncbc.nic.in ) and Rs.110/- for SC/ST/PH/VH candidates.
Those seeking concession in fee have to submit attested copy of their OBC(Non-creamy layer)/SC/ST/PH/VH certificate along with online printout of their Application Forms (obtained while applying on-line). Other candidates are not required to submit any certificates/documents in support of their eligibility along with printout of their Application Form.
Fee has to be paid by using the challan form that can be downloaded from
http://ugcnetonline.in/bank_challan.pdf or using the photocopy available in the UGC-NET Notification published in the Employment News.
Bank Challan Form has to be filled in triplicate (Bank Copy, UGC Copy & Candidate’s Copy) as given in the Notification.
All the three copies of the Challan Form have to be submitted in any branch of State Bank of India along with the fees to be remitted and bank charges (commission) of Rs.20/-. The bank will retain one copy and return two copies of the challan to the applicant. The applicant has to attach the UGC copy of the challan with the printout of online Application Form which he/she has to submit to the Registrar of UGC-NET Centre opted by the candidate.
Applications: Applications have to be submitted online at
www.ugcnetonline.in OR through a link available on
www.ugc.ac.in.
Before applying Online, the candidates must possess Scanned passport (pp) size photograph in JPEG format of less than 300 kb and Copy of Bank Challan (fee receipt).
After successful submission, the candidate should take printout of online Application Form (two copies), Attendance Slip (one copy) and Admission Card (one copy) on separate A-4 size papers.
SC/ST/PH/VH candidates and candidates belonging to OBC (non-creamy layer) (as per the Central list of OBC available on website:
www.ncbc.nic.in ) must enclose the attested copy of certificate for the same.
Those seeking age relaxation must enclose the certificate of educational qualification/research experience entitling age relaxation.
Applicants must affix their recent identical passport size photographs, at the places indicated, on the printout of Online Application Form and must sign across the photograph after it is affixed so that a part of the signature spreads over the Application Form beyond the photograph. Besides, it should be duly attested by the Head of the University Department/Principal of the College/Class-I Gazetted Officer.
Printout of Online Application Form should be addressed to the Registrar of the respective University Test Centres. However, candidates desirous of appearing at the Centre Code No. 65 should address their Application Forms to the Principal of the College.
The Application (consisting of two copies of printout of online application form, one copy of Attendance Slip and one copy of Admission Card along with required documents) must reach the Registrar of the University (UGC Test Centre)
on or before 31.10.2011, in an envelope super-scribed
“UGC NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST FOR JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR LECTURESHIP, DECEMBER 2011”.Scheme of the Test: The Test will consist of three papers in two sessions. Session I will have two papers each of 1 ¼ hours duration, and each carrying 100 marks.
Paper I will be held from 9.30 a.m to 10.45 a.m and Paper II from 10.45 am to 12 noon.
The Second Session of 2 ½ hours duration and carrying 200 marks will be from 1.30 pm to 4 p.m.
Paper-I will be of a general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate. The paper will have 60 multiple choice questions of two marks each, of which the candidate would be required to answer any 50. In the event of the candidate attempting more than fifty questions, the first fifty questions attempted by the candidate would be evaluated.
Paper-II will have questions based on the subject selected by the candidate. Each of these papers will consist of a Test Booklet containing 50 compulsory objective type questions of two marks each.
The candidate will have to mark the responses for questions of Paper-I and Paper-II on the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) sheet provided along with the Test Booklet. The detailed instructions for filling up the OMR Sheet will be sent to the candidate along with the Admit Card.
Paper-III will consist of only descriptive questions from the subject selected by the candidate. The candidate will be required to attempt questions in the space provided in the Test Booklet.
The structure of Paper-III is available at
www.ugc.ac.in.
Old Question papers are available at the appropriate link at
http://ugcnetonline.in/Test_centre.php Paper-III will be evaluated only for those candidates who are able to secure the minimum qualifying marks in Paper-I and Paper-II, as per the table given at
http://ugcnetonline.in/sch_o_test.php The minimum qualifying criteria for award of JRF is also available at this link. However, the final qualifying criteria for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship shall be decided by UGC before declaration of result.
For Visually Handicapped (VH) candidates thirty minutes’ extra time will be provided separately for Paper-I and Paper-II. For Paper-III, forty five minutes’ extra time will be provided. They will also be provided the services of a scribe who would be a Graduate in a subject other than that of the candidate. Those Physically Handicapped (PH) candidates who are not in a position to write in their own hand-writing can also avail these services by making prior request (at least one week before the date of UGC-NET) in writing to the Coordinator of the test centre. Extra time and facility of scribe would not be provided to other Physically Handicapped candidates.
Syllabus of Test: Syllabi for all NET subjects can be downloaded from
www.ugc.ac.in and are also available in the libraries of all Indian universities.
In Paper III, candidate has the option to answer either in Hindi or in English in all subjects except the languages where the candidate is required to write in the concerned language only. In case of Computer Science & Applications, Electronic Science and Environmental Sciences, the question papers have to be answered in English only.
Result: The result will be made available at
www.ugc.ac.in and
www.ugcnetonline.in as and when it is declared. The candidates will not be individually intimated about their result.
For more details, see the link
http://ugcnetonline.in/index.php
