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.
For World literature l just went through with each and every important writer and their important works those i found in past papers.I didn't give much time to indian literature but here also i went through those writers who asked in past papers and their important works.
So what i would suggest to you is just follow the basics.Read history of English literature even one book is enough but you have to clear each and every concept.know all the important literary terms and focus on literary theories and cultural studies.even if you focus well you can do it with Wikipedia and Google only.And use critical thinking to connect one thing to another because that's most important here.
And yes the cutoff is increased this time due to various reason.but one thing to know that scoring pattern in paper 2 is nearly the same as past but this time scoring pattern is very high in paper 1 due to the pattern of the exam(the extra time).So prepare paper 1 better because it has same value as paper 2.
So follow the basics and get it right yes syllabus is changed but basics remains same.you just have to be smart about your approach.revive your critical thinking.know what to read and what not to read and also know what is important and what is not.THE KARMA IS IN YOUR HAND NOT RESULTS so don't bother about the results, just focussed on the right process.
Keep motivated,revised everything again and again.Best of luck for your December 2019 exam.if you have any query you can contact me anytime and yes if i can crack this exam,everyone can crack it.
I want to thank the group admin for his good works and for giving the opportunity to express my views on exam.
Thank you.
So what i would suggest to you is just follow the basics.Read history of English literature even one book is enough but you have to clear each and every concept.know all the important literary terms and focus on literary theories and cultural studies.even if you focus well you can do it with Wikipedia and Google only.And use critical thinking to connect one thing to another because that's most important here.
And yes the cutoff is increased this time due to various reason.but one thing to know that scoring pattern in paper 2 is nearly the same as past but this time scoring pattern is very high in paper 1 due to the pattern of the exam(the extra time).So prepare paper 1 better because it has same value as paper 2.
So follow the basics and get it right yes syllabus is changed but basics remains same.you just have to be smart about your approach.revive your critical thinking.know what to read and what not to read and also know what is important and what is not.THE KARMA IS IN YOUR HAND NOT RESULTS so don't bother about the results, just focussed on the right process.
Keep motivated,revised everything again and again.Best of luck for your December 2019 exam.if you have any query you can contact me anytime and yes if i can crack this exam,everyone can crack it.
I want to thank the group admin for his good works and for giving the opportunity to express my views on exam.
Thank you.
We congratulate Sridipa on qualifying JRF 😀🥳. In the next message Sridipa tells us about NET and its journey.
Hello everyone!
I am Sridipa Dandapat and was a NET aspirant just like you till this 13th July. As you can see my marksheet, I have scored well in paper 1 and not so good in paper 2 and yet I qualified for JRF which is not satiating my will. I wish to work hard even more for one more time with a better score.
Now, to tell you the secret... I must say, PAPER 1 is really important for you to clear NET. Away from your market guide books, you should DOWNLOAD THE SYLLABUS of both the paper and read it carefully. You cannot skip a single thing. For great guidance, you can follow two or three YouTube channels on that particular topic. You can give MOCK TEST on GRADEUP. Because without testing your preparation you cannot dive. And it's better if you give mocktests from your laptop or desktop or even by availing it on cyber cafe. You should invest atleast 2 HOURS A DAY FOR PAPER 1.
Now, for Paper 2 I had read Carter's Routledge History of English literature. Though William J. Long is a better book to begin with. I had followed several YouTube channels to cover all the topics of paper 2. I had skipped world literature as a whole and googled for major and minor writers in specific literary genres. The more dynamic and digital you become to crack NET, the more it's better for you. You should also read summaries, characters, important dialogues or scenes of novels, dramas and short stories. This telegram group is really worthy to follow. I have learnt a lot from this group. Follow it regularly. All literary theories must be covered from a good book like Peter Barry or Louis Tyson. You shouldn't also dare to skip topics like research and English in India and others. Each of the topics hold value. So, my strategy is to STICK TO THE SYLLABUS.
Practice more than you read. And one must thing is when you practice you must google for the other three answers too.
Don't frustrate yourself.
Cracking NET is a journey of pilgrimage almost in the sense that it tests your virtue of PATIENCE. So, be brave and put your best efforts. All the best!
I am Sridipa Dandapat and was a NET aspirant just like you till this 13th July. As you can see my marksheet, I have scored well in paper 1 and not so good in paper 2 and yet I qualified for JRF which is not satiating my will. I wish to work hard even more for one more time with a better score.
Now, to tell you the secret... I must say, PAPER 1 is really important for you to clear NET. Away from your market guide books, you should DOWNLOAD THE SYLLABUS of both the paper and read it carefully. You cannot skip a single thing. For great guidance, you can follow two or three YouTube channels on that particular topic. You can give MOCK TEST on GRADEUP. Because without testing your preparation you cannot dive. And it's better if you give mocktests from your laptop or desktop or even by availing it on cyber cafe. You should invest atleast 2 HOURS A DAY FOR PAPER 1.
Now, for Paper 2 I had read Carter's Routledge History of English literature. Though William J. Long is a better book to begin with. I had followed several YouTube channels to cover all the topics of paper 2. I had skipped world literature as a whole and googled for major and minor writers in specific literary genres. The more dynamic and digital you become to crack NET, the more it's better for you. You should also read summaries, characters, important dialogues or scenes of novels, dramas and short stories. This telegram group is really worthy to follow. I have learnt a lot from this group. Follow it regularly. All literary theories must be covered from a good book like Peter Barry or Louis Tyson. You shouldn't also dare to skip topics like research and English in India and others. Each of the topics hold value. So, my strategy is to STICK TO THE SYLLABUS.
Practice more than you read. And one must thing is when you practice you must google for the other three answers too.
Don't frustrate yourself.
Cracking NET is a journey of pilgrimage almost in the sense that it tests your virtue of PATIENCE. So, be brave and put your best efforts. All the best!
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