Know the Difference between NTA UGC NET and CSIR NET

Hi all,

Are you going to appear for the NET exam? Or interested in lectureship or research works?

If yes, then you should give a try to the NET Exam. UGC and CSIR are two exams which are conducted for the same purpose. There are many candidates who are confused between UG CNET and CSIR NET.

In this blog, we are going to talk about the complete analysis of differences between UGC NET and CSIR NET.

Basic Difference between UGC NET and CSIR NET

The main purpose of both exams is same. The UGC NET and CSIR NET exam are held to determine the eligibility for an assistant professor in universities and for JRF awards to candidates pursuing Ph.D. or research.

The UGC NET and CSIR NET exams are held for different stream candidates for above purpose. Keep reading the blog for more information of differences between UGC NET and CSIR NET.

Exam Conveyor body:

UGC NET and CSIR NET both are held by separate agencies.

The UGC NET exam was earlier conducted by CBSE on the behalf of UGC. The HRD minister had proposed that all the national level admission exam for higher studies should be held by a single agency.

Thus, the Nation Testing Agency was proposed which will conduct various exams including UGC NET Exam from December 2018.

On the other hand, the CSIR NET exam is held by the council of scientific and industrial research agency.

Syllabus:

The UGC NET exam is held for more than 85 subjects like arts, commerce, dance, history, Language, etc. and is common for all the subjects.

On the other hand, CSIR NET exam is held for science stream candidates for 5 subjects that are physical science, mathematical science, life science, earth science, and chemical science.

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Exam Pattern

Both UGC NET and CSIR NET exam are held two times a year in June/ July and December month. 

The UGC NET Exam consists of two papers than earlier 3 papers. The first paper has questions related to reasoning, teaching aptitude, mental ability, and higher education. Second paper consists of questions related to the subject or your post-graduation.

The first paper held for one hour for 50 questions of 100 marks while the second paper is held for 2 hours for 100 questions of 200 marks.

On the other hand, the CSIR NET exam is held for three papers. Paper A is common for all the subjects for 30 marks. Paper 2 consists subject related questions for max 70 marks while paper 3 is held for higher level questions of the post-graduation for 100 marks.

Eligibility Criteria:

There is no age limit for Net lectureship in UGC NET and CSIR NET while candidates applying for NET JRF must fulfill the age limit. The age of the candidates must be below 28 years for CSIR NET and below 30 years for UGC NET.

Qualifying Criteria:

The qualifying criteria are different for different subjects. The UGC NET and CSIR NET both release separate cutoff marks for each subject. Cutoff marks for NET JRF go high than NET lectureship.

Career scope:

The UGC NET and CSIR NET exam are held for the same purpose. After qualifying any of the exams the candidates will be eligible to apply for assistant professor posts in universities and junior research fellowship for research.

The science stream candidates can take advantage of CSIR NET career scope and similarly other stream candidates can opt UGC NET for various opportunities after post-graduation.

The candidates will be exempted from any admission tests and will be selected through a personal interview.

Here, I have discussed the major differences between UGC NET and CSIR NET. I hope it will help you to differentiate between both the exams. Find your interest and apply for the relevant subject and exam.

If you have more information about the exam or have any query, feel free to comment below.

All the best for the future ahead.

UGC NET Dec 2018 Hall Ticket to be Released – Check Download Procedure

The National Testing Agency has replaced CBSE as exam conducting agency for the NET exam and NTA has scheduled the UGC NET exam in December 2018.

As per the latest information, the UGC NET exam is scheduled from 18^th to 22^nd December 2018. The NTA is going to release the UGC NET Admit card for December exam on 19^th November 2018.

The NTA is a national level agency which came into effect in order to maintain the level of examination. NTA is going to organize different national level admission tests such as IIT JEE, NEET, UGC NET, GPAT, CMAT etc.

What’s New in UGC NET Dec 2018

The UGC NET December 2018 is going to be organized by NTA for the first time. The NTA has decided to conduct the exam in online mode only.

There will be only two paper held in UGC NET Dec exam. The first paper will be common having 50 questions of 100 marks. While paper 2 will have subject oriented 100 questions each of 2 marks for 2 hours.

The UGC NET exam is the going to be organized in different shifts for the first time from 18 to 22 December.

You must have knowledge of the latest updates and important things for UGC NET exam. Admit card is the most important thing you must take to the exam center. Without Admit card you will not be permitted to enter the exam hall.

Know UGC NET Admit Card Download Procedure

How to download my UGC NET call letter?

You can simply download your admit card following the given steps. Check the UGC NET Admit card download process here:

Step 1- Visit the UGC NET official website and click on UGC NET Admit Card Download Link.

Step 2- Fill application number and roll no. and submit.

Step 3- Your admit card will appear on the screen. You may print and download it for further use.

Important Tips for Exam

• The UGC NET December 2018 exam is held in online mode only so need not to worry about filling OMR sheet.
• Be confident and keep speed in solving questions in the exam. Speed and accuracy is the key factor to crack any exam.
• Read all the instructions carefully before start solving the questions. There is no need to unnecessarily solve questions if not asked.
• You should revise all the important notes and concepts before few days of the exam and solve previous year papers. Solving mock tests and sample papers will help you to know the difficulty level and type of questions asked in the exam.

In the blog above, I have discussed all the important information and dates regarding the UGC NET Exam and its admit card. If you have any query, you may share your feedback in the comment section.

All the best!!

Important Abbreviations for UGC NET- Popular Terminology for ICT in Paper 1

From December 2018 the NTA will be the exam conducting authority for the UGC NET. The UGC NET exam will be held twice a year in Online mode Only. The UGC NET consists of two papers.

Paper 1 is common for all the subject while paper 2 have the questions related to subject specific. Paper 1 of the UGC NET includes teaching aptitude, reasoning, general knowledge, and higher education. One of the important topics of paper 1 is Information Communication Technology (ICT).

IT consists brief knowledge of computer, technology, meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses, General abbreviations and terminology of basics of internet and email etc. There will be around 5 questions from ICT in UGC NET paper 1.

In this blog, I am going to list out the important abbreviations with its full form and meaning. The knowledge of abbreviation and technical terms will help you to solve the questions of ICT in UG CNET exam. Check out the list of important of abbreviations from information communication technology.

Abbreviations Based on Computer Technology

S. No.	Abbreviation	Full-Form
1	PC	Personal Computer
2	MAC	Media Acces Control
3	UNIVAC	Universal Automatic Computer
4	ENIAC	Electronic Number Integrator And Calculator
5	EDSAC	Electronic Dialog Storage Automatic Computer
6	PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
7	BIOS	Basic Input and Output System
8	GUI	Graphics User Interface
9	CPU	Central Processing Unit
10	OS	Operating System
11	DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
12	CD	Compact Disk
13	ROM	Read Only Memory
14	PROM	Programmable Read Only Memory
15	EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
16	EEPROM	Electrical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
17	EAPROM	Electrical Alterable Programmable Read Only Memory
18	RAM	Random Access Memory
19	ALU	Arithmetic and Logic Unit
20	HDD	Hard Disk Drive
21	ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
22	EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
23	CSS	Cascading Style Sheet
24	WWW	World Wide Web
25	URL	Universal Resource Locator
26	USSD	Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
27	DIR	Directory
28	DOC	Document
29	PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
30	SEO	Search Engine Optimization

Abbreviations Based On Programming or Computer language

S. No.	Abbreviations	Full- Form
1	BASIC	Beginner All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
2	PERL	Practical Extraction and Report Language
3	VBS	Visual Basic Script
4	SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
5	CEH	Certified Ethical Hacking
6	DBMS	Database Management System
7	SQL	Structured Query Language
8	PHP	PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
9	COBOL	Common Basic Oriented Language
10	XBL	XML Binding Language
11	HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
12	XML	Extensible Mark-up Language
13	FORTRAN	Formula Translator
14	QBASIC	Quick Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
15	Prolog	Programming in logic

Abbreviations Based On Networking

S. No.	Abbreviations	Full- Form
1	WAN	Wide Area Network
2	LAN	Local Area Network
3	MAN	Metropolitan Area Network
4	PAN	Personal Area Network
5	CAN	Campus Area Network
6	VPN	Virtual Private Network
7	USB	Universal Serial Bus
8	AGP	Accelerated Graphic Port
9	VGA	Visual Graphic Adaptor
10	MHZ	Megahertz
11	GHZ	Gigahertz
12	CMD	Command
13	IP	Internet Protocol
14	HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
15	TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
16	IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics
17	SIM	Subscriber Identification Module
18	ISP	Internet Service Provider
19	SIMMs	Single In-line Memory Module
20	DIMMs	Dual In-line Memory Module
21	CMOS	Complimentary Metaoxide Semi-Conductor
22	IC	Integrated Circuit
23	LSIC	Large Scale Integrated Circuit

Abbreviations Based on File Type or Extensions

S. No.	Abbreviations	Full- Form
1	PDF	Portable Document Format
2	DOC	Microsoft Word Document
3	DOCX	Microsoft Word Open XML Document
4	TXT	Text File
5	SUB	Subtitle File
6	RTF	Rich Text Format File
7	FDR	Final Draft Document
8	MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group
9	WMV	Windows Media Video
10	FLV	Flash Video
11	AVI	Audio Video Interleave
12	MP4	MPEG Layer 4
13	DivX	Digital Video Express (DivX-encoded Movie)
14	Mp3	MPEG Audio Layer 3
15	AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format
16	WAV	Waveform PCM Audio
17	WMA	Windows Media Audio
18	DAT	Digital Audio Tape
19	JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
20	GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
21	PNG	Portable Network Graphics
22	TIFF	Tag Image File Format
23	BMP	Windows Bitmap
24	AC97	Audio Codec 97
25	Codec	Coder-Decoder
26	DVI	Digital Video Interactive
27	JAR	Java ARchive

Here, I have discussed important abbreviations from Information Communication Technology (ICT) of UGC NET General Paper 1.


Hope it will help you in general paper 1 preparation.

If you find to add more abbreviations in the list, please do share in the comment section.

All the best!!