UGC NET Paper 1: The main objective is to assess the teaching and research capabilities of the

candidates. Therefore, the test is aimed at assessing the teaching and general/research aptitude as
Well as their awareness. They are expected to possess and exhibit cognitive abilities. Cognitive
abilities include comprehension, analysis, evaluation, understanding the structure of arguments and
deductive and inductive reasoning. The candidates are also expected to have a general awareness
and knowledge of sources of information. They should be aware of interaction between people,
environment and natural resources and their impact on quality of life.
Question Pattern: Paper 1 is General Paper on Teaching and Research Aptitude and is compulsory
for all subjects with the subject code 00. The UGC NET Examination Paper I contains Sixty (60)
multiple choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Candidate is expected to answer any
Fifty (50) questions. In case more than Fifty (50) questions are attempted, only the first Fifty (50)
questions will be evaluated. Paper I will have 100 marks in total. The objective type questions will
include multiple choices, matching type, true / false and assertion-reasoning type.
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Each section of the syllabus will gets equal weightage: five questions and 10 mark each
section. Whenever pictorial questions are set for the sighted candidates a passage followed by equal
number of questions should be set for the visually handicapped candidates.
I. Teaching Aptitude
Teaching : Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirements; Learners characteristics;
Factors affecting teaching; Methods of teaching; Teaching aids; Evaluation systems.
II. Research Aptitude
Research : Meaning, characteristics and types; Steps of research; Methods of research; Research
Ethics; Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference and symposium; Thesis writing: its
characteristics and format.
.
III. Reading Comprehension
A passage to be set with questions to be answered.
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IV. Communication
Communication : Nature, characteristics, types, barriers and effective classroom communication.
V. Reasoning (Including Mathematical)
Number series; letter series; codes; > Relationships; classification.
VI. Logical Reasoning
Understanding the structure of arguments; Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive
reasoning; Verbal analogies : Word analogy Applied analogy; Verbal classification.
Reasoning Logical Diagrams : Simple diagrammatic relationship, multidiagrammatic relationship;
Venn diagram; Analytical Reasoning.
VII. Data Interpretation
Sources, acquisition and interpretation of datag. P Quantitative and qualitative data; > Graphical
representation and mapping of data.
VIII. Information and Communicating Technology (ICT)
ICT : meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses; > General abbreviations and terminology; >
Basics of internet and e-mailing.
IX. People and Environment
People and environment interaction;
Sources of pollution;
Pollutants and their impact on human life, exploitation of natural and energy

resources;
Natural hazards and mitigation
.
X. Higher Education System : Governance Polity And Administration;
Structure of the institutions for higher learning and research in India; formal and distance education;
professional/technical and general education; value education: governance, polity and administration;
concept, institutions and their interactions.

1. Which of the following comprise teaching skill?

(A) Black Board writing
(B) Questioning
(C) Explaining
(D) All the above
Answer: (D)

2. Which of the following statements is most appropriate?

(A) Teachers can teach.
(B) Teachers help can create in a student a desire to learn.
(C) Lecture Method can be used for developing thinking.
(D) Teachers are born.
Answer: (B)

3. The first Indian chronicler of Indian history was:

(A) Megasthanese
(B) Fahiyan
(C) Huan Tsang
(D) Kalhan

Answer: (D)

4. Which of the following statements is correct?

(A) Syllabus is a part of curriculum.
(B) Syllabus is an annexure to curriculum.
(C) Curriculum is the same in all educational institutions affiliated to a particular university.
(D) Syllabus is not the same in all educational institutions affiliated to a particular university.
Answer: (A)

5. Which of the two given options is of the level of understanding?

(I) Define noun.
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(II) Define noun in your own words.

(A) Only I
(B) Only II
(C) Both I and II
(D) Neither I nor II
Answer: (B)

6. Which of the following options are the main tasks of research in modern society?
(I) to keep pace with the advancement in knowledge.
(II) to discover new things.
(III) to write a critique on the earlier writings.
(IV) to systematically examine and critically analyse the investigations/sources with
objectivity.
(A) IV, II and I
(B) I, II and III

(C) I and III

(D) II, III and IV
Answer: (A)

7. Match List-I (Interviews) with List-II (Meaning) and select the correct answer from the
code given below:
List - I (Interviews)

List - II (Meaning)

(a) structured interviews

(i) greater flexibility approach

(b) Unstructured interviews

(ii) attention on the questions to be answered

(c) Focused interviews

(iii) individual life experience

(d) Clinical interviews

(iv) Pre determined question

(v) non-directive

Code:
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(A)

(iv)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(B)

(ii)

(iv)

(i)

(iii)

(C)

(v)

(ii)

(iv)

(i)

(D)

(i)

(iii)

(v)

(iv)

Answer: (A)
University Grant Commission (UGC) will be conducting National Eligibility Test (NET) on 30
December 2012 to determine the eligibility of the candidates for Lectureship and Junior
Research Fellowship. The exam will be held in objective mode with Multiple Choice
Questions (MCQs) in two sessions comprising of three papers. Amongst them will be a
General Paper intended for testing the teaching skills, general awareness, communication,
reasoning process and research aptitude of the candidates aspiring to be a lecturer or
willing to pursue research.
There will be 60 questions in the General Paper of which the examinee are required to mark
the answers for 50 questions and the questions will be asked from the below mentioned
topics:

 Teaching Aptitude
Research Aptitude
Reading Comprehension
Communication
Reasoning (including Numerical aptitude)
Logical Reasoning
Data Interpretation
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
People and Environment
Higher Education System: Governance, Polity and Administration
jagranjosh.com has scribbled some suggestions on the ways to prepare for questions
based on Teaching & Research Aptitude that will be asked in General Paper of UGC NET
2012. Candidates will have to thoroughly study the following topics to attain high score or
minimum qualifying marks in the examination.
Teaching- Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirements:
Candidates who wish to be a lecturer must be aware of the facts like nature of
teaching, aim, characteristics and teaching aids and needs. For example: the
primary objective of teaching is to develop thinking power of the students.
Learners Characteristics: Aspiring candidates must understand the learners
characteristics. Every student is different from others in terms of grasping power
or comprehension level and therefore their needs with respect to that are
different. So, a teacher should make out that what kinds of students are present in
his/ her class, how to deal with them, and what kind of aid is to be provided to the
students who are less responsive.
Factors Affecting Teaching: Aspirants should have the adequate knowledge of the
factors that affects the teaching. For example, how a teacher should behave while
taking a class or what should be done by the teachers if a student constantly asks
questions in the class or what measures should be taken by the teacher to
discipline the students.

 Methods of Teaching: There are various methods and techniques which a teacher
uses in the class to help students to understand the subject. Candidate willing to
be in this noble profession should be well versed with all these tactics. To develop
the thinking and working capabilities of students, teacher uses methods like
Lectures, Seminars, Dictation, Projects, work shops etc.
Teaching Aids: Candidates who wish to be a lecturer must be acquainted with all the
teaching aids that are used to make teaching more effective and within the
understanding level of students. Charts, flash cards, projector, presentations are a
few examples of teaching aids.
Evaluation Systems: Aspirants are required to have a sufficient awareness of the
evaluation systems that are used by universities/ colleges. For example, in some
colleges, CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) is preferred and in others
percentage or total marks are preferred.
Candidates can easily grasp the above mentioned topics from the books available online
and in the market. To complete the paper in time, students can practice sample papers or
mock test papers based on General Paper (Paper-I).
Q222) If a teacher had to establish his credibility in evaluating answer sheets he must
be
Options:
A) strict
B) lenient
C) objective
D) prompt
Answer: Option C) objective
Mainstreaming is a term associated with
Options:
A) career education
B) education for handicapped
C) inter-age class groupings
D) environmental education
Answer: Option B) education for handicapped

A teacher exploits students in your school. In this situation, what you will do?
Options:
A) Report the matter to the principal.
B) Not interfere in this matter.
C) Guide the teacher please stop this activity.
D) Go on Satyagraha against the teacher.
Answer: Option C) Guide the teacher please stop this activity.
Of the following learning theories, the one that embodies the idea that the learning
takes place through insight is known as
Options:
A) Gestalt
B) Stimulus-Response
C) Connectionist
D) Pragmatic
Answer: Option A) Gestalt
The teacher ought to know the problems prevalent in the field of education. The
reason is that
Options:
A) only a teacher can do something about solving them.
B) he can tell about the same to another teacher.
C) Teachers can tell the government about it.
D) With this knowledge, the teacher can have information about education.
Answer: Option A) only a teacher can do something about solving them.
The male students in your class are annoyed with you on the pretext you that have
a favor to the female students. In such an embarrassing situation how would you like
to control them in class?
Options:
A) You will tell the male students that girls have no option except to depend on school
teacher for their academic assistance.
B) You will justify that most of the female students are more sincere towards their studies

than male students.

C) You will justify to the male students that it is difficult for you refuse the request made by
female students
D) None of these
Answer: Option B) You will justify that most of the female students are more sincere
towards their studies than male students.
With respect to the development of skills, all of the following are correct except that
Options:
A) Pupil of same mental age should learn at the same rate.
B) Group interaction increases the skills
C) group instruction facilitates the learning process
D) workbooks can be invaluable learning aid.
Answer: Option A) Pupil of same mental age should learn at the same rate.
When you make a mistake while teaching in the class and your students point it out
angrily then what will you does?
Options:
A) You will break all limits of anger
B) You will feel sorry for committing the blunder
C) You will scold him/her and resist them
D) You will leave the class for few days
Answer: Option B) You will feel sorry for committing the blunder
The project method of teaching is best associated with the philosophy of
Options:
A) John Dewey
B) Max rafferty
C) Robert Hatchins
D) B.F. Skinner
Answer: Option A) John Dewey

In our present society where values are deteriorating, the excellent education will be
which
Options:
A) enables one to earn in an easy manner.
B) Exaggerates the competition in the society.
C) Works for establishment of human and cultural value.
D) Decelerates the social change in society.
Answer: Option C) works for establishment of human and cultural value.
Emotional development is as much affected by maturation and learning as sensory
processes, muscular growth and intellectual functions. Parlous experiment showed
emotional responses could be learned through
Options:
A) conditioning
B) imitation
C) knowledge and skills.
D) None of these
Answer: Option A) conditioning
Before starting instruction a teacher should
Options:
A) know the existing knowledge of his students and their background knowledge.
B) Be aware of the environmental variables acting on the mind of the pupil.
C) Be competent enough to arouse the curiosity of pupil.
D) All of these
Answer: Option D) All of these
Professors need to study educational philosophy mainly because
Options:
A) most professors know nothing about educational philosophy
B) most professors follow a wrong philosophy
C) they may improve their work by classifying their philosophy.
D) All of the above

Answer: Option C) they may improve their work by classifying their philosophy.
On which of the following statements there is consensus among educators?
Options:
A) Disciplinary cases should be sent to the principal only when other means have failed.
B) Disciplinary cases should never be sent to principals office.
C) Disciplinary cases should be totally neglected in the class.
D) None of these
Answer: Option A) Disciplinary cases should be sent to the principal only when other means
have failed.
A competent teacher must have a sound knowledge about:
Options:
A) Practice, Concept, Theory and Research
B) theory, Research, Practice and concepts
C) Concept, Theory, Practice and Research
D) Research, Practice, Concept and Theory
Answer: Option C) Concept, Theory, Practice and Research
Below are given some probable characteristics of an ineffective teacher, which of the
following is most likely to be characterised the ineffective teacher?
Options:
A) Emphasis upon standards
B) Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the clarification of groups goals
C) emphasis upon the control of immediate situation
D) None of these
Answer: Option C) emphasis upon the control of immediate situation
Maximum participation of students is possible in teaching through
Options:
A) Lecture method
B) Discussion method

C) Textbook method
D) Audi-visual aids
Answer: Option B) Discussion method
which of the following is/are the qualities of teacher?
Options:
A) Teacher should be able to arrange subject matter in a logical way
B) Teacher should inspire his pupil
C) Teacher should have sweet, polite and clear voice.
D) All of these
Answer: Option D) All of these
The students who keep asking questions in the class
Options:
A) Performs the role of an active member of the political party in power.
B) Should be encouraged to participate in classroom discussion
C) Should be encouraged to find answer independently
D) Should be encouraged to continue questioning.
Answer: Option D) should be encouraged to continue questioning.
which of the following one is most effective for a teacher?
Options:
A) Knowledge
B) Feedback
C) Management
D) Teaching skills
Answer: Option D) teaching skills
Many experienced teachers go into a classroom and embark straight away upon a
lesson. As a beginner to the teaching profession will you
Options:
A) Adopt the same procedure

B) Make a written note of your preparation

C) As the students a like
D) None of these
Answer: Option B) makes a written note of your preparation
which can be described as an ideal teaching technique?
Options:
A) Repetitive drill and rote memorization
B) Using props and manipulative to help students understand abstract concept.
C) Encouraging in group discussion for logical thinking.
D) Both (b) and (c)
Answer: Option D) both (b) and (c)
Quality of education in a school/college can be measured through
Options:
A) Infrastructural facilities available
B) Manpower teachers and principal available
C) Students achievements
D) All of the above
Answer: Option D) All of the above
A mentally retarded student attends your lecture and sits in a deaf and dumb
manner. What will you do?
Options:
A) Make your lecture very simple and spare some extra time for him.
B) You do not like to spoil majority for the individual.
C) You pressurised the student to leave the class.
D) You do not support him at all.
Answer: Option A) Make your lecture very simple and spare some extra time for him.
Teaching in higher education implies

Options:
A) Presenting the information given in the text book
B) Asking questions in the class and conducting examinations
C) helping students prepare for and pass the examination
D) Helping students how to learn
Answer: Option D) helping students how to learn
for providing evaluative feedback to students, the teacher should
Options:
A) Use correction, not criticism, in respect to inappropriate responses
B) Provide immediate feedback
C) Do not provide nonconstructive comments for evaluating activities
D) All of these
Answer: Option D) All of these
which of the following is a good method of teaching?
Options:
A) Lecture and dictation
B) Seminar and project
C) Seminar and dictation
D) Dictation and Assignment
Answer: Option B) Seminar and project
which of the following is the most important signal factor in underlying the success of
beginning a teacher?
Options:
A) Scholarship
B) Communicative ability
C) Personality and its ability to relate to the class and to the pupils
D) Organisational ability
Answer: Option C) Personality and its ability to relate to the class and to the pupils
which one of the following is least required during the preparation of lecture?

Options:
A) Clear introduction and summary.
B) Time and control unit
C) Examples for better explanation and understanding.
D) Factual materials in indirect way.
Answer: Option D) Factual materials in indirect way.
Failure of the teacher to communicate its ideas well to the students may result in
Options:
A) Classroom indiscipline.
B) Loss of students interest in hot topic being taught.
C) Increase in number of absentees in the class.
D) All of these
Answer: Option D) All of these
if a group of students enter your room and abuse you and behave violently with you,
at that time how would you control your emotions?
Options:
A) You will react in a similar fashion and try to assault them physically.
B) First, you will try to pacify their emotions and then ask politely about their behaviour.
C) You will feel ashamed among your teachers community.
D) You will report the case to the principal with recommendation of punitive measures.
Answer: Option B) First, you will try to pacify their emotions and then ask politely about their
behaviour.
what is the reason behind the adoption of GRADE system instead of our old MARKS
system?
Options:
A) It will improve the quality of assessment.
B) It will improve teacher student relationship.
C) It will eliminate the differentiation between students on marks basis.
D) Grading system is easier than marks system.
Answer: Option C) it will eliminate the differentiation between students on marks basis.

which of the following are true about teaching?

Options:
A) Teaching is dynamic in nature.
B) Teaching is a process.
C) It changes its concept with time and place.
D) All of these
Answer: Option D) All of these
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Teaching Aptitude Teaching is indeed a very complex process which calls for all the
socially desirable behavioral change and attitude in a person. Teaching is a part of
teaching-learning process. It is required to bring certain changes in a person
according to the need of his society and environment in which he is living. Teaching
is not an act as it is dynamic in nature so it is coined as process. It is also not a
basic concept as it is greatly influenced by social and human factors. Teaching is
both art and science. It is-an activity involving teacher and student with a view to
the development of student. The main aim of teaching is to bring about socially
desirable behavioural changes in the students and can be achieved only if teaching is
efficient and based on certain values or principles. Teaching is one of the main parts
of the teaching-learning system. So efficient teaching depends on the teacher. It is a

common fact that a good teacher is born and not made. Training and research can
make a good teacher better and a better teacher best. Teacher should follow various
methods of teaching devised from time to time. A teacher motivates the practice of
thinking among students. Teacher should give to the students the freedom and
opportunity to express their ideas. Teaching is very crucial in nourishing education to
the students. Education may be defined as the process of drawing out least in an
individual. We can elaborate education as the aggregate of all processes by means
of which a person develops attributes, attitudes and other forms of behaviour of
positive value in the society in which he lives We can also define it as the social
process by which people are subjected to the impact of a selected and controlled
environment, so that they may attain social competence and optimum individual
development The complete process of education must involve four common factors
which are stated below- Educator (teacher). Educand (Student). Subject matter.
Context (setting). The process of developing skills and abilities in an individual is
known as education. Though abilities are in born quality, it is also a fact that these
can be nurtured and developed in an educand through various means by a n
educator. Education must also be desirable and useful to the society in which
educand has to live. Since every individual is unique in their own way, the educator
has to adopt strategies and methods suitable to individual needs. Education is also
productive. The educational productivity or rate of efficiency of work can be
categorised as qualitative and quantitative. For better education both qualitative and
quantitative productivity is needed. Quality means here the excellence in the part of
textbook, teachers students aids, facilities and other teaching help where as quantity
refers the number of teachers, institutions, professionals, etc. Education and
teaching are interrelated. Education is a complex social cultural and ethical process
designed in a social or cultural content. It is related with social structures, cultural
environments, values and ideas of people, society and government. All these factors
are very dynamic in nature, And they keeps on changing with time. So teaching is
also a dynamic process. According to Morrison it as a disciplined social process in
which teacher influences the behaviours of the less experienced pupil and helps him
develop according to the needs and ideas of the society. Smith coined it as an
organised system of worker. He/she must have proper guts to lead specific activities
aimed to help the learner learn by an example at a superior level as he is the
something. Leader of his pupil. He/she has to exercise An analytical approach makes
it clear that impact for bringing the desired neither of the definition fulfills the
purpose modification in behaviour.
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