This is the new "syllabus". They could have just said anything and everything.
NTA UGC NET - English
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Ladies and gents, about to send you something special straight from the horse's mouth. Here's Snigdha, telling you about the 'enigma' that is NTA UGC NET English and how to conquer it.
snigdha subhrasmita:
Hi everyone,
I do not know how helpful this brief write up is going to be, but since many had asked, and I have benefitted from similar write ups of seniors, here it goes.
My name is Snigdha subhrasmita. I secured 100 percentile in NET December, 2018. This was my second attempt. I did not go for any coaching class. It was just self study, a lot of smart as well as hard work and blessings which worked for me.
Since I was in the 3rd semester of my postgraduation, I had to manage the time accordingly between lectures and the preparation. So prepare a time table which is suitable for you. The preparation should be focused and all the hard work should be channelized in the right direction. You need not venture out to big cities and big coaching institutions. If I could do it, you can also do it. With right approach, it is possible to clear net in first attempt. But don't get disheartened if you fail. Introspect and rectify your mistakes. Consistency and discipline are key to success. Read all the basic books, revise it multiple times and understand the concepts. If you go through the pictures shared by this channel, you will find an easy way to remember things - flowcharts(Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice). Pictures and diagrams help you to remember easily. You can look at the pictures posted here whenever you are free. It's going to help you recollect things easily. Simplify the syllabus, Revise your strengths, Focus on your weak areas, Attempt everything and practice as much as you can. "Do not let other's opinions drown out your own inner voice" I'm attaching a video with this write up.
All the best for your exams and future. Thank you :-)
Hi everyone,
I do not know how helpful this brief write up is going to be, but since many had asked, and I have benefitted from similar write ups of seniors, here it goes.
My name is Snigdha subhrasmita. I secured 100 percentile in NET December, 2018. This was my second attempt. I did not go for any coaching class. It was just self study, a lot of smart as well as hard work and blessings which worked for me.
Since I was in the 3rd semester of my postgraduation, I had to manage the time accordingly between lectures and the preparation. So prepare a time table which is suitable for you. The preparation should be focused and all the hard work should be channelized in the right direction. You need not venture out to big cities and big coaching institutions. If I could do it, you can also do it. With right approach, it is possible to clear net in first attempt. But don't get disheartened if you fail. Introspect and rectify your mistakes. Consistency and discipline are key to success. Read all the basic books, revise it multiple times and understand the concepts. If you go through the pictures shared by this channel, you will find an easy way to remember things - flowcharts(Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice). Pictures and diagrams help you to remember easily. You can look at the pictures posted here whenever you are free. It's going to help you recollect things easily. Simplify the syllabus, Revise your strengths, Focus on your weak areas, Attempt everything and practice as much as you can. "Do not let other's opinions drown out your own inner voice" I'm attaching a video with this write up.
All the best for your exams and future. Thank you :-)
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The odd life of Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/jd-salinger-life-catcher-in-rye-books-anniversary-franny-zooey-raise-high-roof-beam-john-lennon-a8699026.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/jd-salinger-life-catcher-in-rye-books-anniversary-franny-zooey-raise-high-roof-beam-john-lennon-a8699026.html
The Independent
100 years of JD Salinger: The world's most famous literary hermit
As the centenary of celebrated author JD Salinger rolls around, Martin Chilton explains why the literary hermit behind 'Catcher in the Rye' would reject such a celebration
Congratulations to Abhijeet for clearing NET. He'll be sharing his experience with us shortly. 🙂
NTA UGC NET - English
Congratulations to Poulomi on clearing NET. We wish her all the very best for her bright future. 😊
Message from Poulomi for future aspirants.
Hi dear friends, My name is Poulomi Bhattacharya, and I am from West Bengal, very much an ordinary student like most of us. When I began appearing for NET, I wasn't sure about the vast areas, strategies, methods etc but I just knew I wanted this from my heart. The syllabus of our subject English Literature does not have sub points, like most other subjects in NET;so in order to analyse what exactly it covers, all we can fall back on are the previous papers. Having said that, the new syllabus that was introduced on Jan 1st this year has some new areas, again for which we don't have past papers.. so it was bit challenging this time to analyse what topics it covers and what it doesn't. But now you have the June 2019 paper with you and you must analyse every question asked from new areas, and study topics related to it.
The old syllabus had divisions like British, American, Postcolonial, European etc, whereas the new syllabus talks about the same but divides them in genres, for eg, drama, novel, poetry, short story, non fiction etc. Now this means you should also know about the beginning and important terms of each genre. Also it includes ALL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH as written in the syllabus. Questions now are also often based on comprehension, they'd give u few lines from a famous text and ask questions. Remember there were 5 questions from Shakespeare this time.
I would suggest you to not run behind coaching/ too many books/ too many pdfs... read from 2/3 good books and use the internet well... Summaries can mostly be found on wikipedia, E notes, Cliff notes, Spark Notes etc... Study chronologically for British history.
The old syllabus had one unit for theory and criticism, the new syllabus has two, one for theory, one for criticism, and the latest addition is Cultural Studies.. so that makes it 3 units almost realted to literary theory and thats why there were so many questions from theory this time.
Introduction to Cultural Studies by P K Nayar is a good book, though the questions this time were mainly from Cultural Materialism, but they can go deeper into the topic in the coming exams.
Now coming to language, though we used to get questions from ELT before also, the new syllabus has two units specially dedicated to language. History of English language (Old, Middle, Modern English), other varities of English (American, Indian, Standard, Basic English) needs to be covered, English in use (pidgins, creoles) , there was a qs from cardinal vowels too this time so only time will tell whether the phrase "English in use" includes a bit from grammar as well. Pedagogy, basics of morphology is there. A totally new unit is English in India: history, evolution & futures. I would recommend the book The Story Of English in India by N krishnaswamy...
Research methods and materials is again a new area. Though we know the basics from paper 1, here one needs to study approaches of research towards English, or may be just simple things structures of a book, as was asked this time.
One tip: now a lot of questions now are comprehension based, so dont get nervous if you haven't studied that author/critic the qs talks about... may be you can read it couple of times and solve it based on your ideas only.
A lot of questions are asked as match the following, so make sure you know study all major and minor characters of all important writers, and important terms of theorists. Like you will always find a question on characters of Dickens, or Samuel Beckett.
And lastly now matter you much resources you have, you can clear this exam only when you are determined. No matter what may come, IPL,world cup, any festival, any web series, any wedding, you should know what to prioritize and half the battle is won.
Make your own notes and revise them well. Paper 1 is very important and also has some additions in the syllabus though the topics/ chapter headings are same. Mark the newly added areas in your syllabus, and use YouTube well for paper 1.
I wish you all the best. We all can...
The old syllabus had divisions like British, American, Postcolonial, European etc, whereas the new syllabus talks about the same but divides them in genres, for eg, drama, novel, poetry, short story, non fiction etc. Now this means you should also know about the beginning and important terms of each genre. Also it includes ALL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH as written in the syllabus. Questions now are also often based on comprehension, they'd give u few lines from a famous text and ask questions. Remember there were 5 questions from Shakespeare this time.
I would suggest you to not run behind coaching/ too many books/ too many pdfs... read from 2/3 good books and use the internet well... Summaries can mostly be found on wikipedia, E notes, Cliff notes, Spark Notes etc... Study chronologically for British history.
The old syllabus had one unit for theory and criticism, the new syllabus has two, one for theory, one for criticism, and the latest addition is Cultural Studies.. so that makes it 3 units almost realted to literary theory and thats why there were so many questions from theory this time.
Introduction to Cultural Studies by P K Nayar is a good book, though the questions this time were mainly from Cultural Materialism, but they can go deeper into the topic in the coming exams.
Now coming to language, though we used to get questions from ELT before also, the new syllabus has two units specially dedicated to language. History of English language (Old, Middle, Modern English), other varities of English (American, Indian, Standard, Basic English) needs to be covered, English in use (pidgins, creoles) , there was a qs from cardinal vowels too this time so only time will tell whether the phrase "English in use" includes a bit from grammar as well. Pedagogy, basics of morphology is there. A totally new unit is English in India: history, evolution & futures. I would recommend the book The Story Of English in India by N krishnaswamy...
Research methods and materials is again a new area. Though we know the basics from paper 1, here one needs to study approaches of research towards English, or may be just simple things structures of a book, as was asked this time.
One tip: now a lot of questions now are comprehension based, so dont get nervous if you haven't studied that author/critic the qs talks about... may be you can read it couple of times and solve it based on your ideas only.
A lot of questions are asked as match the following, so make sure you know study all major and minor characters of all important writers, and important terms of theorists. Like you will always find a question on characters of Dickens, or Samuel Beckett.
And lastly now matter you much resources you have, you can clear this exam only when you are determined. No matter what may come, IPL,world cup, any festival, any web series, any wedding, you should know what to prioritize and half the battle is won.
Make your own notes and revise them well. Paper 1 is very important and also has some additions in the syllabus though the topics/ chapter headings are same. Mark the newly added areas in your syllabus, and use YouTube well for paper 1.
I wish you all the best. We all can...
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Hello Friends, I'm Abhijeet Daharwal from Madhya Pradesh, i cleared June 2019 Net exam in my first attempt without any coaching or coaching notes.I am in last year of my post graduation.
I want to share my strategy,what i did to crack this exam.firstly when i started the preparation i didn't know much about the exam.after some information from Google and YouTube i started my preparation and just followed the basics.fortunately i found this telegram group and here i found lot of books pdf and audios of admin about the exam strategy and books.that gave me the clear path.Actually this telegram group helped me a lot to clear this exam.
So what books i read, i read 3 history books william j long , r d trivedi and pdf of Routledge history ,for literary terms i read m h Abrams glossary of literary terms, for literary theories i read peter barry in beginning but ultimately Google Wikipedia helped me a lot better. For summaries i preferred Wikipedia,sparknotes,gradesaver etc they helped me a lot.I made notes only for important summaries and characters.
And the past question papers was the most important and lethal weapon in my preparation.I went to each and every question papers from 2008-2018. I revised them lot of times.In my opinion critical thinking is the most demanding thing in the new pattern of exam and past question papers will help you in many ways to revive your critical thinking.
Yes there is a lot of talk about the new syllabus.yes something is changed and it's a change for better.now they test your comprehension skills, English skills, critical thinking rather than your memory test. this time there was lot of weightage of cultural studies and literary theories.you can find the important theories from past papers and just clear each and every concept about them,just go through with each and every important writer regarding the theories like Michael Foucault,Roland Barthes etc.friends, Wikipedia is the most important weapon with no cost price so use it well that would be the game changer.
I want to share my strategy,what i did to crack this exam.firstly when i started the preparation i didn't know much about the exam.after some information from Google and YouTube i started my preparation and just followed the basics.fortunately i found this telegram group and here i found lot of books pdf and audios of admin about the exam strategy and books.that gave me the clear path.Actually this telegram group helped me a lot to clear this exam.
So what books i read, i read 3 history books william j long , r d trivedi and pdf of Routledge history ,for literary terms i read m h Abrams glossary of literary terms, for literary theories i read peter barry in beginning but ultimately Google Wikipedia helped me a lot better. For summaries i preferred Wikipedia,sparknotes,gradesaver etc they helped me a lot.I made notes only for important summaries and characters.
And the past question papers was the most important and lethal weapon in my preparation.I went to each and every question papers from 2008-2018. I revised them lot of times.In my opinion critical thinking is the most demanding thing in the new pattern of exam and past question papers will help you in many ways to revive your critical thinking.
Yes there is a lot of talk about the new syllabus.yes something is changed and it's a change for better.now they test your comprehension skills, English skills, critical thinking rather than your memory test. this time there was lot of weightage of cultural studies and literary theories.you can find the important theories from past papers and just clear each and every concept about them,just go through with each and every important writer regarding the theories like Michael Foucault,Roland Barthes etc.friends, Wikipedia is the most important weapon with no cost price so use it well that would be the game changer.