[LIS-Forum] Regarding UGC-NET

[Dhanyasree V K]

Dear professionals

                 This is to express my strong disagreement with Mr. Vimal's
observations regarding UGC-NET pattern. He says that earlier ugc-net was a
mere "handwriting competition". Mr. Vimal should remember that Ist and IInd
papers of NET were always objective type and the IInd paper is subject
based. A candidate should qualify a minimum mark in each paper and a
specific score in both the papers together for his 3rd paper to be
evaluated. This means that a person who does not have knowledge of his
subject cannot qualify NET. Moreover NET is a national level test for
finding out capable candidates with enough subject knowledge and teaching
aptitude. A person merely having good subject knowlede without adequate
presentation skills cannot become a good teacher. From this point of
view earlier pattern of 3rd paper was effective in testing the subject
knowledge as well as the presentation skills of the candidates. In
a descriptive paper, it is not important how much you write, it is rather
more important what you write and how you present it. It is very obvious
that a person with good subject knowledge and average presentation skills
can easily qualify UGC-NET regardless of the pattern.

                Regarding 2012 June pattern of NET, it can be said to be
more luck driven, as  there was no negative marking. UGC should have
executed the minimum responsibility to filter out those candidates who mark
answers through mere guessing without any sound knowledge in the subject
field. Negative marking could have solved this issue upto a limit.

               Moreover it is not good from the part of any professional to
underestimate the subject knowledge of other professionals out of his/her
own frustration.

regards

Dhanyasree
Research and Teaching Assistant
IGNOU headquarters
New Delhi.

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