Dear Friends, The new pattern of NET is a welcome change. The main allegation of previous pattern was the valuation of the descriptive paper III. In human valuation one can not ensure that merit is always protected. Those who have good hand writing and writing skills can create an instant impression on the invisible examiners while those who have not developed these skills would suffer however they provide outstanding ideas. Nobody can ensure that your all answers are read by the examiners. Further all the evaluaters appointed by UGC, based on the qualification or experience need not be equally meritorious. Valuation of answer papers is a humanly boring work and most of the human evaluaters try to complete it soon and enjoy the remaining days with TA and DA. It should be noted that there is no re-evaluation in NET exams. To my query under RTI ACT, UGC informed that the examiners are provided with no value points. That is the valuation is highly arbitrary and subjective and no revaluation is allowed!!! No examiner can be held for irresponsibility also. Computer can not have discrimination in valuation. It can not reduce marks, even if, the answer is correct, as done by human evaluaters. Every body gets equal treatment and 100% objective evaluation. we get the copies of the answers. 100% transparency. Is it good? The main allegation about the multiple choice exam is that it doesn't check the analytical skills and creative thinking of candidates which can only be tested through written exams. But most of the questions asked during all these years were purely memory questions or testing merly factual knowledge, not creativity or higher order thinking skills. While for answering most of the objective questions warrants analytical thinking along with factual knowledge. for eg. one of the questions asked in the 2012 exam, Assertion : Library Science education is more than hundred years old in India. Here on should know in which period library science education started in India. It can be certificate education or degree level education or formal training. Here thinking warrants along with facts or application information in different contexts. Descriptive exams are outdated because of evaluation problems and world over the trend is for objective exams. The system is likely to continue due to the revenue aspect also which is three times higher than that of the previous exam. Sunny Joseph, Knowledge Manager & Information Officer, Govt.Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Thrissur, Kerala. Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:34:55 +0530 From: silent listener <librarian1983@gmail.com> To: lis-forum <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Response from NET aspirants 24th June. Message-ID: <CA+HV+Dt3O47VvvbHdnkU5XrE3_Ud2VXXKJ9k7_q-WcWsVihqvA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear fellow professionals, NET conducted by UGC on 24th June 2012 is over which appeared in new pattern . Post your feedback about the exam. Paper 3 is always considered to be a tough game in all the test. But I was n't felt any difference between paper 2 and Paper 3. Our subject is vast inwhich there are lots of topic relevant which can be asked.. This time there was many questions with Assertion and Reasoning which can be justified when it appears in Paper 1 , but what if it repeat in Paper 2 and Paper 3 ?... Does it means there are not any topic in LIS. If anybody have any reverse opinion or anything to add, Kindly post. Regards JOSEPH ZACHARIA +91 9947997767 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.