Latest Syllabus Of Pearson NTA UGC NET/SET/JRF Teaching & Research Aptitude Paper 1 2025
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Subject: GENERAL PAPER ON TEACHING & RESEARCH APTITUDE Code No.: 00
PAPER-I
The main objective is to assess the teaching and research capabilities of the candidates. The test aims at assessing the teaching and research aptitude as well.
Candidates are expected to possess and exhibit cognitive abilities, which include comprehension, analysis, evaluation, understanding the structure of arguments,
deductive and inductive reasoning. The candidates are also expected to have a general awareness about teaching and learning processes in the higher education system. Further, they should be aware of the interaction between people, the environment, natural resources, and their impact on the quality of life. The details of the syllabi are as follows:
Unit I: Teaching Aptitude
- Teaching: Concept, objectives, levels of teaching (memory, understanding, and reflective), characteristics, and basic requirements.
- Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (academic, social, emotional, and cognitive) and individual differences.
- Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment, and Institution.
- Methods of teaching in institutions of higher learning: teacher-centered vs. learner-centered methods; offline vs. online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.).
- 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, and innovations in evaluation systems.
Unit II: Research Aptitude
- Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-positivistic Approach to Research.
- Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative, and Quantitative methods.
- Steps of Research.
- Thesis and article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
- Application of ICT in research.
- Research ethics.
Unit III Comprehension
- A passage of text be given. Questions are asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit IV: Communication
- Communication: Meaning, types, and characteristics of communication.
- Effective communication: verbal and nonverbal, intercultural and group communications, and classroom communication.
- Barriers to effective communication.
- Mass Media and Society.
Unit V: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
- Types of reasoning.
- Number series, letter series, codes, and relationships.
- Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages, etc.).
Unit VI: Logical Reasoning
- Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure, formal and informal fallacies, uses of language, connotations and denotations of terms, and the classical square of opposition.
- Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Analogies.
- Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.
- Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.
- Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication), and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).
- Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), and Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).
Unit VII: Data Interpretation
- Sources, acquisition, and classification of data.
- Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
- Graphical representation (bar chart, histogram, pie chart, table chart, and line chart) and mapping of data.
- Data Interpretation.
- Data and Governance.
Unit VIII: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
- Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio, and Video Conferencing.
- Digital initiatives in higher education.
- ICT and Governance.
Unit IX: People, Development, and Environment
- Development and environment: Millennium development and sustainable development goals.
- Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on the environment.
- Environmental issues: Local, regional, and global; air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, and electronic), climate change, and its socio-economic and political dimensions.
- Impacts of pollutants on human health.
- 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.
Unit-X Higher Education System
- Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.
- Evolution of higher learning and research in post-independence India.
- Oriental, conventional, and non-conventional learning programs in India.
- Professional, technical, and skill-based education.
- Value education and environmental education.
- Policies, Governance, and Administration.
NOTE: (i) Five questions, each carrying 2 marks, are to be set from each module.
(ii) Whenever graphical/pictorial question(s) are set for sighted candidates, a passage followed by an equal number of questions and weightage should be set for visually impaired candidates.
