Scheme UGC NET December 2010 Exam

UGC NET 2010 Dec Exam Scheme

7)  UGC NET Dec 2010 Scheme and Date of Test :

      i.        The Test will consist of three papers. All the three papers will be held on
26th December, 2010in two separate sessions as under :

Session	Paper	Marks	Duration
First	I	100	1 1/4 Hours (09.30 A.M. to 10.45 A.M.)
First	II	100	1 1/4 Hours (10.45 A.M. to 12.00 Noon)
Second	III	200	2 1/2 Hours (01.30 P.M. to 04.00 P.M.)

Paper-I shall be of 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.

UGC
has decided to provide choice to the candidates from the December 2009 UGC-NET onwards. Sixty (60) multiple choice questions of two marks each will be given, out of which the candidate would be required to answer any fifty (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 shall consist of 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 has been revised from June, 2010 UGC-NET and is available on the UGC website
www.ugc.ac.in.

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 in the following :

Category	Minimum Qualifying Marks
	Paper I	Paper II	Paper - I + Paper - II
General	40	40	100 (50 %)
OBC /PH / VH	35	35	90 (45 %)
SC / ST	35	35	80 (40 %)

The minimum qualifying criteria for award of JRF is as follows :

Category	Minimum Qualifying Marks
	Paper I	Paper II	Paper - I + Paper - II	Paper III
General	40	40	100 (50 %)	100 (50 %)
OBC / PH / VH	35	35	90 (45 %)	90 (45 %)
SC / ST	35	35	80 (40 %)	80 (40 %)

However, the final qualifying criteria for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship shall be decided by UGC before declaration of result.

ii) For Visually Handicapped (VH) candidates thirty minutes’ extra time shall be provided separately for paper-I and Paper-II. For paper-III, forty five minutes’ extra time shall 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 Co-ordinator of the test centre. Extra time and facility of scribe would not be provided to other Physically Handicapped candidates.