UGC NET Exam is quite familiar with the youth of our country. Whatever it may be their stream or field of education, students who want to set their career as a professor or researcher can appear for UGC NET Exam.
If you have a UGC NET Qualification, and you also want to be a teacher or professor, you can easily attain your required goal.
With UGC NET certificate, you can easily get a job in reputed institutions and organization of our country.
Many of the you who are reading this post might not actually aware to this exam, but this exam will lead your career to the destination if you want to become a professor. Here you will be able to know all about UGC NET Exam, its eligibility, applying procedure, scope after qualifying etc.
What is UGC NET? What is the full form of UGC NET?
UGC NET Exam is National Eligibility Test (NET) that is conducted on the behalf of University Grants Commission (UGC) by the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education).
The exam is conducted to select the interested candidate who is eligible for the post of Assistant professor of Junior Research Fellow (JRF).
What is the Eligibility Criteria to appear for the exam?
If you want to set your future in the teaching field or get into research career after your postgraduation, you can appear for UGC NET Examination.
The qualified candidate can be awarded by lectureship or Junior Research Fellowship or Both.
If you want to get qualified for JRF, your age must be below 28 years. And, you must have passed your post-graduation with minimum 55% marks from any recognized university.
If you are considering becoming an Assistant Professor, there is no upper limit for your age.
The UGC NET exam is conducted in more than 80 subjects at approximately 90 exam centres.
What is the Procedure for Conducting UGC NET Exam?
The procedure of becoming a part of UGC NET Exam, you have to register for applying online. After you get assured by the eligibility criteria, you have to submit UGC NET Online Application and make the payment through an e-challan.
Then few days before the exam, the official will release UGC NET Admit Cards which you have to carry on exam day as an entry pass.
Next, you have to appear the online mode of UGC NET Exam. This year the exam is going to be held on 8th July 2018.
After appearing for the exam, based on your marks, top 15% candidates are selected for merit list.
As per the merit list, you will get awarded like lectureship or JRF.
What are the Career Options after Clearing UGC NET Exam?
After getting qualified for UGC NET Exam, you will not be getting a direct recruitment as a professor.
You have to explore your research various career options. The most important option can be as follows
1. After clearing the exam, you will be able to find reputed teaching jobs in your postgraduation subject or any other related subjects. You can get positions like lectured or assistant professor.
2. You can also apply for professor post in various reputed govt institutions.
3. You can get jobs in various Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).
4. You can also continue your career as Researcher in reputed organizations like CSR and IITs.
5. For five years you will get paid, first 2 years as JRF and the last 3 years as SRF.
All the best!
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