Unit I: Teaching Aptitude
The topics for the Teaching Aptitude section as per the UGC NET 2023 syllabus are as follows.
- Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT based
- Evaluation systems: Elements and types of evaluation, evaluation in the Choice Based Credit System in higher education, computer-based testing, innovations in evaluation systems.
- Teaching: Concept, objectives, levels of teaching (memory, understanding, and reflection), characteristics, and basic requirements
- Factors affecting teaching related to Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment, and Institution.
- Teaching methods in higher learning institutions: Teacher-centred vs. learner-centered methods; offline vs. online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.).
Unit-II: Research Aptitude
The topics in the NET general paper on teaching and research aptitude teaching aptitude are as follows.
- Research ethics
- Steps of research
- Application of ICT in research
- Methods of research: Experimental, descriptive, historical, qualitative, and quantitative methods
- Research: Meaning, types, and characteristics, positivism and post-positivistic approach to research
- Research Ethics
Unit-III: Comprehension
The topics under the comprehension section of paper 1 as per the UGC NET syllabus 2023 are as follows.
- A passage of text is given. Questions will be asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit-IV: Communication
The topics under the communication section of paper 1 as per the UGC NET syllabus 2023 are as follows.
- Mass-media and society
- Effective communication: Verbal and non-verbal, inter-cultural and group communications, classroom communication
- Communication: Meaning, types, and characteristics of communication
Unit-V: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
The topics under the mathematical reasoning and aptitude section of paper 1 as per the UGC NET syllabus 2023 are as follows.
- Number series, letter series, codes, and relationships
- Mathematical aptitude (fraction, time & distance, ratio, proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest and discounting, averages, etc.)
- Types of reasoning
Unit-VI: Logical Reasoning
The topics under the logical reasoning section of paper 1 as per the UGC NET syllabus 2023 are as follows.
- Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)
- Venn diagram: Simple and multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments
- Indian Logic: Means of knowledge
- Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
- Analogies
- Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication), and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension)
Unit-VII: Data Interpretation
The topics under the data interpretation section of paper 1 of the NET exam 2023 syllabus is as follows.
- Data and governance
- Graphical representation (bar chart, histograms, pie chart, table chart, and line chart) and mapping of data
- Data interpretation
- Quantitative and qualitative data
- Sources, acquisition, and classification of data
Unit-VIII: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
The topics under the ICT section of paper 1 of the NET exam 2023 syllabus is as follows.
- ICT and Governance
- Basics of the Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio, and Video-conferencing
- Digital Initiatives in higher education
- ICT: General abbreviations and terminology
Unit-IX: People Development and Environment
The topics under the people development and environment section of paper 1 of the NET exam syllabus are as follows.
- Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on the environment.
- Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
- Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear, and Forests
- Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies
- 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
- Environmental issues: Local, regional, and global; air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), climate change, and its socioeconomic and political dimensions.
Unit-X: Higher Education System
The topics under the higher education system section of paper 1 of the NET exam syllabus are as follows.
- Policies, governance, and administration
- Oriental, conventional and non-conventional learning programs in India
- Value education and environmental education
- Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence India
- Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India
