Eligibility for UGC NET English Exam

I have completed MA in Linguistics and now want to give NET so please tell me the eligibility criteria for UGC NET English Exam?

UGC NET is conducted to recruit research assistants and professors in various streams of education. If you will secure good in NET then you will get best colleges and institutions in India for teaching jobs.

Here I am giving you Eligibility Criteria of UGC- NET English Exam.


Eligibility for UGC-NET:

Master degree or equivalent in related subjects and the candidate must have a minimum of 55% marks.

The candidates appearing or have appeared for final year exams are also eligible.

The candidates who have qualified the SET exam are also eligible to appear for this.


Age limit for UGC-NET:

Minimum: 28 years of age
Maximum: no upper age limit

Age relaxation of 5 years will be given to SC/ST/OBC or physically disabled or women or visually handicapped

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UGC NET is directed by CBSE twice in a year for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the:

Award of Junior Research Fellowships and/or

Eligibility for Lectureship in Indian universities and colleges.

Eligibility Criteria
Students should have obtained 55% marks in Masters Degree from a recognised Universities in Arts, Social Sciences, Computer Science & Applications, Electronic Science etc.

For Junior Research Fellowship:
Students should not be more than 28 years.

For Lectureship: No upper age limit is prescribed for taking up Lectureship.

UGC NET English Syllabus

UGC NET English Paper II

Chaucer to Shakespeare
Jacobean to Restoration Periods
Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Modern Period
Contemporary Period
American and other non – British Literature’s
Literary Theory and Criticism
Rhetoric and Prosody

UGC NET English Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group )
British Literature from Chaucer to the present day
Criticism and Literary Theory.

Unit – I : Literary Comprehension ( with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each ).

Unit – II : Up to the Renaissance.

Unit – III : Jacobean to Restoration Periods.

Unit – IV : Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature.

Unit – V : Romantic Period.

Unit – VI : Victorian and Pre – Raphaelites.

Unit – VII : Modem British Literature.

Unit – VIII : Contemporary British Literature.

Unit – IX : Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot.

Unit – X : Contemporary Theory.

UGC NET English Paper III ( B ) ( Elective / Optional )

Elective – I : History of English Language, English Language Teaching.

Elective – II : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.

Elective – III : Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation.

Elective – IV : American and other non – British English Literatures.

Elective – V : Literary Theory and Criticism.

UGC NET English Exam Books

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