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UGC NET Paper 1: यूनिट-वाइज महत्वपूर्ण टॉपिक्स Both Shift topics

25 🗓 जून 2025 परीक्षा विश्लेषण पर आधारित – शिफ्ट 1 और 2 स्मृति आधारित)

✅ यूनिट 1: शिक्षण अभिवृत्ति (Teaching Aptitude)

• शिक्षण के प्रकार – टीचर-सेंटर्ड vs लर्नर-सेंटर्ड
• शिक्षण विधियाँ – व्याख्यान, संवाद, परियोजना, MOOCs
• ब्लूम की टैक्सोनॉमी – 1956 और 2001 (Revised)
• मूल्यांकन बनाम मापन
• एंड्रागॉजी (वयस्कों की शिक्षा)
• स्वयं प्रभा चैनल
• पाठ योजनाएँ और ऑनलाइन-ऑफलाइन मेथड्स

✅ यूनिट 2: अनुसंधान अभिवृत्ति (Research Aptitude)

• अनुसंधान के प्रकार – मौलिक, अनुप्रयुक्त, क्रिया अनुसंधान
• परिकल्पना – प्रकार, विशेषताएँ
• सैंपलिंग विधियाँ – संभाव्यता व गैर-सम्भाव्यता
• सांख्यिकीय माप – माध्य, माध्यिका, बहुलक, SD, Variance
• शोध प्रस्ताव के घटक
• अनुसंधान नैतिकता और साहित्यिक चोरी (Plagiarism) Professors Adda Institute

✅ यूनिट 3: बोधगम्यता (Reading Comprehension)

• स्तन कैंसर जागरूकता पर आधारित पैसेज
• शिक्षा और स्वतंत्रता पर आधारित सामाजिक संदर्भ वाले विषय
• प्रश्न प्रकार – निष्कर्ष, तथ्य, शब्दार्थ
• कठिनाई स्तर – आसान से मध्यम



✅ यूनिट 4: संचार (Communication)

• संचार के प्रकार – औपचारिक/अनौपचारिक, इंटर- और इन्ट्रा-पर्सनल
• प्रभावी संचार की विशेषताएँ – 5C मॉडल
• बाधाएँ – सिमेंटिक, मनोवैज्ञानिक, संगठनात्मक
• मॉडल – उत्तेजना-प्रतिक्रिया (Stimulus-Response)
• संचार का प्रवाह और क्रम
• संचार के उदाहरण – फिल्म निर्देशक आधारित प्रश्न

✅ यूनिट 5: गणितीय तर्क और अभिवृत्ति (Mathematical Reasoning & Aptitude)

• संख्या श्रंखला – गलत संख्या ज्ञात करना
• कोडिंग-डिकोडिंग
• समय-दूरी और कार्य से संबंधित प्रश्न
• लाभ-हानि, प्रतिशत, अनुपात
• साधारण ब्याज (SI) और चक्रवृद्धि ब्याज (CI)

✅ यूनिट 6: तार्किक तर्क (Logical Reasoning)

• विरोध का वर्ग (Square of Opposition)
• न्यायशास्त्र (Syllogism)
• तार्किक समतुल्यता (Logical Equivalence)
• तत्काल अनुमान (Immediate Inference)
• भारतीय तर्कशास्त्र – हेत्वाभास, तर्क भ्रांतियाँ

✅ यूनिट 7: डेटा इंटरप्रिटेशन (Data Interpretation)

• ग्राफ आधारित प्रश्न – मुख्यतः टेबल ग्राफ
• प्रतिशत और अनुपात आधारित गणनाएँ

✅ यूनिट 8: सूचना और संचार प्रौद्योगिकी (ICT)

• मैलवेयर – ट्रोजन हॉर्स, स्पाईवेयर
• मेमोरी – RAM, ROM, Cache
• ICT टूल्स – स्मार्ट बोर्ड, LMS
• नेटवर्क टोपोलॉजी – मेश टोपोलॉजी
• नंबर सिस्टम (प्रश्न नहीं थे, लेकिन संभावित टॉपिक)

✅ यूनिट 9: लोग, विकास और पर्यावरण (People, Development & Environment)

• जल उपचार – सक्रिय कार्बन, क्लोरीन
• वायु प्रदूषण – इलेक्ट्रोस्टैटिक प्रीसिपिटेटर, एरेशन
• ग्लोबल वार्मिंग – मुख्य रूप से CO₂
• ओजोन परत संरक्षण – मॉन्ट्रियल प्रोटोकॉल
• आपदाएँ – चेरनोबिल परमाणु दुर्घटना
• पर्यावरणीय अधिनियम – जल, वायु, जैव विविधता
• क्योटो और मॉन्ट्रियल प्रोटोकॉल
• धर्म और पर्यावरण – बौद्ध दृष्टिकोण

✅ यूनिट 10: उच्च शिक्षा प्रणाली (Higher Education System)

• शिक्षा आयोग – कोठारी (1964), यशपाल समिति, मैकाले मिनट
• प्रमुख निकाय – UGC (1956), AICTE, NCTE (1995), NCERT (1961), NTA
• NCF 2005 – “बिना बोझ के सीखना”
• राष्ट्रीय ज्ञान आयोग – GER लक्ष्य, सैम पित्रोदा
• नई शिक्षा नीति (NEP 2020) – 5+3+3+4 ढांचा, बहु-विषयी दृष्टिकोण

📌 नोट: कुछ प्रश्न समसामयिक विषयों, फिल्मों/निर्देशकों, और सामान्य जागरूकता से भी पूछे गए।
📈 कठिनाई स्तर: मध्यम

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Tips for students those are appearing in NET exam from 25 June.

*All the best 👍💯 Aspirants*

1. ✅ Attempt All Questions – No negative marking, so take calculated guesses.

Note --- Do not attempt questions in sequence. Start from easy one . It will boos confidence


2. ⌛ Don’t Waste Time – Skip tough ones, come back later. Use “Mark for Review.”


3. 🔍 Read Questions Carefully – Spot keywords like NOT, ONLY, ALWAYS.


4. ❌ Eliminate Wrong Options First – Increases your chance of hitting the right one.


5. Think Logically – Many Paper 1 questions are logic-based, not memory-based.


6. 📊 Use Rough Sheet Wisely – For calculations, Venn diagrams, flowcharts.


7. 🖱️ Practice CBT Interface – Know how to navigate between questions fast.


8. 🎯 Focus on High-Yield Units – Revise those with most repeated questions.


9. 📚 Revise Formulae & Facts – Especially for Data Interpretation, ICT, Teaching Aptitude.


10. 🧘‍♀️ Stay Calm, Stay Sharp – Panic = Silly mistakes. Confidence = More marks.


👉👉 📵 Don’t Carry Banned Items – Avoid mobile, smartwatches, notes.


🧍 Maintain Discipline in Exam Hall – Any misconduct may lead to disqualification.

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Most important questions

✍Shakespeare's play influenced by Marlowe's Jew of Malta is - Merchant of Venice.

✍Swift's A Tale of Tub is a -

Religious Allegory.

✍Whose tale involves a talking falcon who has been abandoned by her false lover? -

Squire.

✍Who is regarded as the first exponent to the sentimental comedy? -

Sir Richard Steele.

✍Lamb reveals in the essay Oxford in the Vacation that the name Elia is his own pseudonym.

✍Laugh where we must be candid where we can/ But vindicate the ways of God to man. -

The Essay on Man.

✍In Immortality Ode Wordsworth says that heaven lies about us in our infancy.

✍Which novel of D.H.Lawrence has autobiographieal overtones? -

Sons and Lovers.

✍The picaresque novel with a female picaroon is -

Moll Flanders.(1722)

✍Who wrote The Lady's Not for Burning -

Christopher Fry.

✍The expression ancestral voices prophesying war occurs in -

Kubla Khan.

✍D.H. Lawrence called one of his novels Thought Adventure -

Kangaroo.

✍Whom does Wordsworth call Mighty Prophet? -

A six year old boy.

✍Who is known as the highpriest of a rationalistic and social age? -

Pope.

✍The names of Lamb's dream children are

Alice and John.

✍Tony Lumpkin a famous character appears in -

She Stoops to Conquer.

✍What does the Prioress's name Eglentyne mean? -

Sweet briar.

✍Who said I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality? -

Joseph Addison.

✍What is the name of Vicar Wakefield's second daughter -

Sophia.

✍The epic novel The Name of the Rose is written by -

Umberto Eco.

✍Bottom is an important rustic character in -

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

✍The picaresque novel Roderick Random was written by -

Tobias Smollett.


✍Florizel and Perdita appear as a pair in the play -

The Winter's Tale.

✍In which work does Spenser describe Chaucer as the well of English undefiled?

The Faerie Queene.

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NET / JRF sure shots of English Literature: ..... ✍️✍️✍️

1. Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards
3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career 4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)
5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380 6. William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90
7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400
8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)
9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France
10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in - 1381
11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster
12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86
13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485) 14. Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485
15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)
16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550
17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall
18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561
19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton
20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in - 1557
21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558
22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599
23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602
24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe
25. Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays
27. Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra 28. Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609
29. The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is - King Arthur
30. Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth
31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney
32. John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender.
33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester
34. Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598
35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours
36. Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair
37. Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style
38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)
39. Authorised version of the Bible - 1611 40. The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan
41. The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson
42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau
43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798
44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti
45. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt
46. The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble
47. The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce
48. The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles
49. Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos
50. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines
51. The greatest Epic in English is written by – Milton
52. The next in command after Satan in Paradise Lost is – Beelzebub
53. The meaning of L’Allegro is – A cheerful man
54. A Pastoral Elegy written by Shelley on the death of Keats – Adonais
55. Everyman a famous play of 15th Century was a – Morality Play
56. The villain in Duchess of Malfi is – Bosola
57. Dryden’s plays in general are called – Heroic Plays
58. The last play written by Shakespeare is – The Tempest
59. Andrea Del Sarto in Browning’s Dramatic Monologue was – A renowned Painter
60. Rabbi Ben Ezra was a – real Jewish Scholar.

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A list of literary criticism terms with their coiners or notable proponents

1. *Aestheticism* - Walter Pater
2. *Ambiguity* - William Empson
3. *Archetype* - Carl Jung
4. *Carnivalesque* - Mikhail Bakhtin
5. *Cognitive Poetics* - Reuven Tsur
6. *Deconstruction* - Jacques Derrida
7. *Dialogism* - Mikhail Bakhtin
8. *Discourse Analysis* - Michel Foucault
9. *Ecocriticism* - William Rueckert
10. *Empiricism* - John Locke
11. *Episteme* - Michel Foucault
12. *Formalist Criticism* - Russian Formalists (Viktor Shklovsky, Roman Jakobson)
13. *Gaze* - Laura Mulvey
14. *Heteroglossia* - Mikhail Bakhtin
15. *Hyperreality* - Jean Baudrillard
16. *Imagism* - Ezra Pound
17. *Interpellation* - Louis Althusser
18. *Intertextuality* - Julia Kristeva
19. *Linguistic Relativity* - Benjamin Whorf
20. *Metafiction* - William Gass
21. *Mimesis* - Aristotle
22. *Modernism* - Ezra Pound
23. *Myth Criticism* - Northrop Frye
24. *Narratology* - Tzvetan Todorov
25. *New Criticism* - John Crowe Ransom
26. *Orality and Literacy* - Walter Ong
27. *Orientalism* - Edward Said
28. *Paratext* - Gérard Genette
29. *Phenomenology* - Edmund Husserl
30. *Postcolonial Criticism* - Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha
31. *Postmodernism* - Jean-François Lyotard
32. *Psychoanalytic Criticism* - Sigmund Freud
33. *Reader-Response Criticism* - Stanley Fish
34. *Reception Theory* - Hans Robert Jauss
35. *Semiotics* - Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce
36. *Structuralism* - Claude Lévi-Strauss
37. *Subaltern* - Antonio Gramsci
38. *Symbolic Interactionism* - George Herbert Mead
39. *Symptomatic Reading* - Louis Althusser
40. *Textual Criticism* - Karl Lachmann
41. *Transcendentalism* - Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. *Trope* - Kenneth Burke
43. *Uncanny* - Sigmund Freud
44. *Voice* - Mikhail Bakhtin
45. *Weltanschauung* - Wilhelm Dilthey
46. *Allegoresis* - J.A. Cuddon
47. *Biographical Criticism* - Samuel Johnson
48. *Cultural Materialism* - Raymond Williams
49. *Dramatic Monologue* - Robert Browning
50. *Ecriture Feminine* - Hélène Cixous
51. *Enjambment* - Alexander Pope
52. *Epic Theatre* - Bertolt Brecht
53. *Ethnopoetics* - Jerome Rothenberg
54. *Existentialism* - Jean-Paul Sartre
55. *Feminist Criticism* - Helen Cixous
56. Compiling a list of literary criticism terms with their coiners or notable proponents.
56. *Gender Studies* - Judith Butler
57. *Geocriticism* - Bertrand Westphal
58. *Hermeneutics* - Friedrich Schleiermacher
59. *Ideology Critique* - Karl Marx
60. *Imaginary* - Jacques Lacan
61. *Implied Author* - Wayne C. Booth
62. *Intentional Fallacy* - W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
63. *Magic Realism* - Franz Roh
64. *Marginalization* - Bell Hooks
65. *Materialism* - Karl Marx
66. *Metafiction* - William H. Gass
67. *Metanarrative* - Jean-François Lyotard
68. *Monomyth* - Joseph Campbell
69. *Narrative Theory* - Gérard Genette
70. *New Historicism* - Stephen Greenblatt
71. *Patriarchy* - Kate Millett
72. *Performativity* - Judith Butler
73. *Phenomenology* - Edmund Husserl
74. *Plot* - Aristotle
75. *Polyphony* - Mikhail Bakhtin
76. *Post-structuralism* - Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault
77. *Queer Theory* - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
78. *Reception Theory* - Hans Robert Jauss
79. *Remediation* - Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
80. *Rhetoric* - Aristotle
81. *Second Wave Feminism* - Betty Friedan
82. *Sexual Politics* - Kate Millett
83. *Signifier and Signified* - Ferdinand de Saussure
84. *Simulacrum* - Jean Baudrillard
85. *Social Constructionism* - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
86. *Speech Act Theory* - J.L. Austin
87. *Stream of Consciousness* - William James
88. *Structural Anthropology* - Claude Lévi-Strauss
89. *Sublime* - Edmund Burke
90. *Surrealism* - André Breton
91. *Symbolism* - Charles Baudelaire
92. *Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis* - Ferdinand de Saussure

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What is Antithesis?

Antithesis is a literary device where two opposite or contrasting ideas are placed close together in a sentence for emphasis. It creates a striking contrast to highlight differences and can be used to convey complexity or tension in a statement.

Examples of Antithesis:

1. Classic Literature:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

2. Philosophy:

"Give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry

3. Common Sayings:

"Speech is silver, but silence is gold."

"You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart."

4. Shakespeare:
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
Hamlet

Key Features:

Contrast: Presents opposing ideas clearly.

Balance: Often structured in a parallel or balanced sentence.

Emphasis: Highlights the difference between concepts for rhetorical effect.

Purpose:
To create emphasis on contrasting ideas.

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✍Which is traditionally regarded as the first epistolary novel in English? -

Samuel Richardson's Pamela or Virtue Rewarded.

✍The poem Ulysses ends with the determination -

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

✍In which sonnet does Wordsworth castigate the English people as stagnant and selfish and eulogize John Milton? -

London 1802.

✍Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. In which poem of Arnold's does this line occur? -

Sohrab and Rustum.

✍Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in -

Judith Wright.
👉Wright's poem Bora Ring is concerned with the impact of European settlement on Aboriginal culture. Wright uses nature's perspective to tell the story and mourn the loss of the Aboriginal people, 'the dancers', to European settlers, the 'alien'.

✍Chaucer begins his works by composing - Love Lyrics.

✍In which language did Dante write Divine Comedy? -
Latin.

✍The Ways of Perfect Religion was written by -

John Fisher.

✍Margaret Atwood's survival makes a case for -

The Future of Canadian literature.
👉Watch all the exam points on
Margaret Atwood-

✍Who was the editor of ananthology of verse entitled Georgian Poetry? -

Edward Marsh.

✍About whom does Wordsworth say England hath need thee? -

John Milton.

✍The companion poem of Ulysses is -

The Lotos-eaters

BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

Other companion poems-
👉L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by Milton (1632)
👉Sailing to Byzantium and Byzantium by WB Yeats.

✍Which novel is the biography of the famous thief and thief-taker who was hanged at Newgate? -

Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild.

✍In which poem does Spenser use the phrase merry London? -

Prothalamion.

✍Who said All our Knowledge is ourselves to know? -

Alexander Pope.

✍Who found Pope's An Essay on Man arbitrary and unmethodical -

Dr. Johnson.

✍Pope satirizes Addison as Atticus in the work -

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

✍In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo belongs to the family of Montague. To which family does Juliet belong?

Capulet.

✍Who was so enraged by Richardson's Pamela that he wrote an antipathetic satire on it the subsequent year called Shamela? -

Henry Fielding.

✍Who was Titus Andronicus? -
A Roman Noble.

✍The Duke of Vienna in Measure for Measure is -

Vincentio.

✍Who has been called a Founding by its author? -

Tom Jones.
👉The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones.
👉It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel.
👉Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned" alongside Oedipus Tyrannus and The Alchemist.

✍Henry Fielding's sister and the author of David Simple is -

Sarah.

✍The return of the sailor of a ship that had disappeared inspired Shakespeare to write -

The Tempest.

👉What is the name of the Villain in Othello? -

Iago.
👉His famous statement-
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

✍Peregrine Pickle and Humphrey Clinker are works by -

Tobias Smollett.

✍Whom did Swift Praise for sweetness and light? -

Ancients.
👉The term sweetness and light appeard in The Battle of the Books" short satire written by Jonathan Swift.
👉 Matthew Arnold picked it up as title of first section of his 1869 book Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism, where "sweetness and light" stands for beauty and intelligence, the two key components of an excellent culture.

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Bharati Mukherjee's novels:✨✨✨✨

1. The Tiger’s Daughter (1971)
2. Wife (1975)
3. Jasmine (1989)
4. The Holder of the World (1993)
5. Leave It to Me (1997)
6. Desirable Daughters (2002)
7. The Tree Bride (2004)

Short story collections:

1. Darkness (1985)
2. The Middleman and Other Stories (1988)

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"Adonis" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that reflects on themes of beauty, love, and mortality. The poem is a lament for the death of the beautiful youth Adonis, who is a figure from Greek mythology known for his tragic demise.

The poem begins with an invocation to the goddess Venus, who mourns Adonis after he is killed by a wild boar. Shelley uses vivid imagery to explore the deep bond between love and loss, illustrating how beauty is fleeting and often intertwined with suffering. Venus’s sorrow is profound, as she reminisces about their passionate love and the joy he brought into her life.

As the poem progresses, Shelley delves into the broader themes of nature and the cycles of life and death. He contemplates the inevitability of mortality and the transient nature of human experiences. Through rich symbolism, he compares Adonis’s beauty to the ephemeral qualities of spring and blossoms, emphasizing how such splendor is ultimately temporary.

In the latter sections, Shelley reflects on the significance of art and poetry as a means to immortalize beauty. He suggests that while physical forms may perish, the essence of beauty and love can endure through artistic expression.

Ultimately, "Adonis" serves as a meditation on the interplay between love, beauty, and death, underscoring the poignancy of existence and the legacy left by those who have experienced profound love. Shelley's lyrical style and emotional depth make this poem a powerful exploration of human sentiment and the natural world.

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