Archive for March, 2008

Educational Eligibility

• A minimum aggregate of 55% (50% for SC/ST candidates) in the Master’s Degree in the following or related subjects :

• A candidate who has appeared for the qualifying exam as in the first point above but is yet to receive the results can apply for the test and will be admitted provisionally. His / her eligibility will be subject to submission of marksheet satisfying the first condition mentioned above.

Age Limit:-

(a) For Junior Research Fellowship (JRF): The upper age limit is 28 years as on July 1 / January 1 for the December / June exams respectively of the year of examination. This limit is relaxed up to 5 years in the case of SC/ST/OBC/physically handicapped and female applicants.

(b) For Lectureship (LS): Even candidates above 28 years can attempt NET for Lectureship only, as there is no upper age limit.

Life Science Syllabus

Paper 1 – Section A

Paper 1 – Section B

Paper 2 Unit 1 To 10

Paper 2 Unit 11 To 20

Paper 2 Unit 21 To 30

Paper 2 Unit 31 To 41

Paper I :

An objective-type test of duration 2 hours and 15 minutes, in 2 sections, A and B. All the questions are compulsory with the cut-off mark in Paper I deciding whether Paper II is to be evaluated or not. Negative marks are assigned to wrong answers in this paper where a maximum of 200 marks can be scored.

Section A - In 30 general questions, the candidate’s knowledge on general information pertaining to Science, aptitude for Scientific Research, Quantitative Reasoning and Computer Science are tested.
Section B - Focusses on the candidate’s chosen subject. There are 70 objective-type questions, each carrying a maximum of 2 marks.

Paper II:

A paper of duration 2 hours and 30 minutes, it consists of descriptive-type questions for a maximum of 200 marks. Candidates are expected to answer 10 to 15 questions.

Use of calculators / logarithm tables (other than those provided in the answer books) is not permitted.

Inforamation

Study Materials

Syllabus

Eligibility Criteria

Examination Pattern

Examination Centers

Application Procedure

Selection Procedure

Introduction to CSIR

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) conducts a national-level joint CSIR-UGC Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and for the eligibility of Lectureship in Science subjects.

This test is generally held twice in a year (June and December).

State Level Eligibility Tests (SLET) are also conducted by the respective states as accredited by the UGC with almost the same syllabus.