 Hi people, welcome to my channel. I am Arupata Karwa and today is one of the most important days in my career because it was the day when UGC net exam was conducted and it's always a very special day for teachers like us who are preparing students for competitive exam. The day when the exam is conducted and the day when the result is released, both these days are very important to us. They are like the D days of our life because we put in so much effort and we deeply feel for our students that we are very eager to know how they have performed. So there are these anxiety bubbles which are there in our heart. We are nervous that how the paper would be and how our students would be performing and today I am really, really, really happy because students have reported that the paper was amazing. They were extremely happy to see the paper and number two, the paper was from what we have taught them. So these are the two big things which just happened and I'm really, really excited about the same. Last year in June 2019, 150 plus students qualified net from my batch and it was a big day, a big celebration at the office of ArpataKarwa.com and this time after knowing the paper from my students, I'm sure that the number is going to cross 200 because students said that ma'am you have done a fabulous job in teaching British literature. 80% paper was from British literature and you've given us 350 lectures where you've talked about each and everything and that is the reason why I keep on emphasizing whenever a student asks me that ma'am there are like 850 lectures in your course and 350 is just in one module that is British literature. Why? Why so? And I always tell them that English literature is more or less about British literature. Even if these syllabus changes, they are going to keep on focusing on British literature and that is the reason why all the minor writers as well as major writers, I cover them in detail because I know that writers like Christopher Esherwood have asked, they have asked writers like Thomas Quincy. These minor writers people are not even aware of in guidebooks, there is no mention of these writers and they are asking questions from that. So only students who have done the right preparation and done it rightly in the right path, they've done the smart work can do really nice in the paper and I'm really happy that the students have outperformed this time. Now before putting any more time in talking about how excited I am, I would just like to directly talk about the paper. I have asked questions from students and on the basis of that I have made an analysis of paper two which happened today and I'm going to share that with you and towards the end I'm going to share what according to me should be the expected cut of this time so that you can know whether you fall in that category or not. Also before that if you've not yet watched my video on how the paper one was according to me, how I think was the difficulty level of the questions, then you must go to my channel and watch it. Also there are a lot of important days coming up right next week. There would be the day when the question paper would be released, answer key would be released. So if you want to get updates about the same, if you want to know the official question paper date, answer key, revised answer key, when the result is releasing, please follow me on my Facebook as well as Instagram. The link is arpathakarwa, you just need to type arpathakarwa, you'll get my page. Follow me on those platforms because I keep on posting important updates there. If you've not done it right now, then make sure you pause the video, just go and follow me on those pages and come back right here and watch the video till the end. Okay, so the first important group I would like to talk about from where seven to eight questions were asked this time is literary groups and movements. Guys, if you've ever visited my website arpathakarwa.com, you must have seen there's a module, module number nine, literary groups and movement and to all my students I keep on saying that you cannot miss that module because it is important. Even if it's mentioned in the syllabus or not, they are going to ask questions from that and it's very easy module because you just need to remember the names of the writers who fall in any of that literary group. For example, lost generations, who are the writers, who are a part of lost generation, you just need to remember their names. It is that simple because nobody actually takes an effort to teach you this. That is why you never get it right on the day of the exam and you keep on wondering, okay, what is this jazz age? I've never heard it. So please make sure that if you've not yet gone through the movements I have mentioned in module number nine, you do it because that is where you get your marks. This time seven to eight questions were asked from literary groups. So they were asking questions on jazz age, lost generation, angry young man, university wits, kitchen sink drama, puritan age. So you can see they are asking questions from these minor, minor literary groups which you sometimes miss out. So make sure that you study from that list which I've given on my website and all my students they were saying that ma'am we actually mugged up those names and there were seven direct questions. We are so happy about it. So I really wish that the same thing happens with you to make sure that you go through these writers and prepare yourself well for the next exam. Coming on to the next topic which is questions from William Shakespeare. Now last year a lot of students said that there were questions from the quotations. They were asking quotes and they were asking okay who said to whom in which particular play of Shakespeare. This time there was a slight difference rather than focusing on quotations they were focusing more on the characters. So there was a match the following question where you had to match the characters with the play. So Goneril was asked and we all know that it was a character from King Lear and then another question was from Love Labour Lost. Then another question was about Ariel. That Ariel is not a character in which of the following works. So as you can see that important characters of Shakespeare must be remembered. In my course I give 18 lectures on Shakespeare. People sometimes say that ma'am it's been three days we've been only listening to your lectures and reading about Shakespeare and that is the reason why he's important because if you look at a writer like Shakespeare there are three four questions directly asked from that and if you just go through those audio lectures you are sorted. You will not be afraid that okay what am I going to do with the 38 plays he has written because we know that from which play what kind of questions can be asked. Coming on to the third topic but before that I would also like to mention that there were questions from early theatre. If you remember in module one British literature there's a special audio lecture which I give on early Elizabethan theatre where I talk about Miracle Morality plays and there I mentioned to write the Thomas Haywood from which they have never asked a question but this time there was a question and if you remember the names of the two works of Thomas Haywood you could have easily got those two marks. So that was important another important question that was asked was the important Elizabethan actors. So last year there were questions on the important plays as an important stage that were made. So these were play houses where plays were conducted so they were asking us names of Rose Van all those theatres. This time this shifted a bit and talked about the Elizabethan actors. So if you remember in my lecture I talked about Richard Burbage okay and I talked about other important Elizabethan actors so you can see how they are asking questions which are not difficult but you should know the right strategy to get to those questions. Coming on to the third important section which is chronological based questions. Oh my god I was surprised when the students were telling me that there were somewhere around 15 questions based on chronology and you'll be surprised to know that you know I have this habit of making my notes from which I teach students. So what I do is I always tell students that you don't need to mug up the dates publication dates of the works because it's not possible there are five six thousand works and you can't remember the dates of all of them. But a very simple strategy is when you actually put the plays or the works in the chronological order. So for example you are reading TSLU. So if you want to write all his plays you write in the chronological order and that is how you form your own notes and that is how I teach in my course. So if you look at the notes that I've just displayed on the screen you will see that I have displaying each and every work just one after the other. So if you have a photographic memory and you have my notes in front of you you'll understand that okay this was the first one this was the second one this was the third one. So even if you don't remember the publication dates you can get those questions right. So there were direct chronological questions from the works of Charles Dickens from D.H. Lawrence from TS Eliot from Arkinara and all the major ones see we all study so much about them we study all the works of TS Eliot we mug up the entire wasteland but we don't focus that they can even ask questions from this. So my students they said that you know ma'am you have this pattern of teaching because of which we had those things in our memory and we could just get it right we don't have to even see the options we were knowing that okay this is after this this is after this. Another interesting chronological based question was asked on these works so there were works like Paradise Lost, Danseard then there were works from Romantic Age. Now you must be wondering that okay these are from different writers how am I going to know how to fit them in chronology. Now it's very simple you know there is a work from Neoclassical there's a work from Romantic there's a work from Victorian so you automatically know in which order they are going to be so if you look at my module one that is British Literature you will see that I have this chronology in which I'm teaching even if the syllabus has changed now the syllabus is more into poetry drama fiction non-fiction I keep on telling my students that go by the chronology don't go by poetry reading some absurd poetry here and there study according to what I have given you so there are these 350 lectures in chronology so once you go through those lectures you know the exact chronology and those 15 questions you can never get wrong because it is there in your DNA and they are very simple like if you look at these chronological questions a person who has studied these writers in detail and in a systematic order will automatically get it right so make sure that next time when you're making your notes you go through the chronological orders so that you exactly know which work comes after which. Next question is the questions based on old and middle English now from old and middle English every time they asked like three four questions the same pattern was followed in this time one question was from John Gover who is a middle English writer one question was from old English so there was a character name given and there were four options Piers Ploman and then we had Beowulf and you have to figure out this character is in which work so whenever I teach old English I make sure that I give students those major names you don't need to read old English in detail but remember the important protagonist important antagonist two questions from Canterbury Tale one of them I think is wrong because a lot of students said that they've mentioned that in Canterbury Tales how many tales are there and how many pilgrims are there and pilgrims the options were either 22 or 23 now the correct answer would be 29 pilgrims but since they've not included that I think bonus marks would be given and they were asking about the tale in which a boy was murdered so there was a Jewish boy who was murdered in which tale that happened if you remember there's a YouTube video in which I've talked about this there's a video I posted long back on Canterbury Tale where I discuss this and even in my audio lecture on Canterbury Tale I talk about all these important tales wife of Bath, Priyarist, Nunpree's Tale so you should know it's not that you have to know each and every tale of paradise lost but the important ones you should know because that is how you get marks if you know them so if we now move a little bit towards the other important literatures like American, postcolonial, European and Indian I would say that this time the number of questions that were asked from these four units were less as we've seen the same trend in the last June exam as well there were very few questions asked from postcolonial I think there was negligible amount of questions in the European section but then there was an important question in Indian literature which a student has told me there was a question I think was about Nizim Ezekiel and some collection of his poetry collection so make sure that you don't neglect it altogether you have to do it though you just need to focus a lot more on British and less on these four units coming on to the next section which is criticism literary criticism now this time if you look at the paper you will figure out that they were not asking questions from the modern critics like Samuel Johnson or Matthew Arnold or T. S. Eliot just like they were asking earlier this time their focus was on classical ones so there were questions on Langeinus sublime there were questions on plateau Aris Total I think there were two or three questions on plateau so make sure that you don't skip that if you go to my website in module six I've listed the important classical writers which you have to study if you want to prepare yourself thoroughly for literary criticism there are like one one and half hours audio lecture which I'm giving on these writers some people just ignore classical literature classical criticism because they think that okay let's focus on modern post-modern from there most of the questions are asking so I keep on telling that whatever I'm giving in my course I'm giving because that is how the paper would be designed so make sure that you focus on those areas coming on to the next thing theory now literary theory I think that is the biggest blessing I can have in my life because most of the students are extremely depressed in literary criticism and literary theory they've given almost every hope we don't want to tell you anything just the thing is that literary theory and that is how we're going to clear net we are for sure because and this time they were asking literary theory and cultural studies similar to somewhere 15 20 questions so it is important and if you look at the list that I've given on my website literary theory make sure next time if you're preparing on your own make sure you go through all those writers they were asking questions from minor writers okay if you look at cultural habitat that is a very important term given by parry balduar they were asking questions from that they were asking questions from writers like julia christiva ellen showalter so these writers cannot be excluded you just need not focus on stewart hall william reyman williams or derrida or fuko there are minor ones which are important from net point of view because that is how they're going to create a difference in the percentage the students who've just done the surface study just referred to one book okay they are going to only know the major ones but those who have studied from various sources though those who know what are the other writers who can fall into this particular literary theory category are the ones who get the most marks so make sure you refer to my module number seven before you start preparing for your net exam coming on to the next section there were direct questions somewhere around 40 to 50 were direct questions that were asked from major or minor british writers so students told me that there was a question which was repeated from previous year muse urania muse was evoked in which of the books of paradise lost there was a question from wuthering heights from aero pegetica which is a very famous work by uh by john milton so epigraph was asked then w h orden and christopher isherwood combined they were asking the name of that work then there was a term which i have talked about when i was teaching graham green romanic clef because graham green has written a work which belongs to the genre of romanic clef and they asked what romanic clef means aparthly novels pick questions there which belongs to the modern and the post modern age so there was somewhere around 40 to 50 direct questions from british literature now direct i mean for those who know the minor and the major writers properly you must be knowing milton's paradise lost but if you don't know aero pegetica then you can't get good marks okay you must be knowing uh writers like w h orden w b e h but if you don't know christopher isherwood thomas quincey's a question on the murder the question was asked that who has written this particular book so make sure you keep all these things in mind the reason why i'm analyzing the paper is to give you a method a direct path through which you can get your next jrf next important topic quotations now last year that is in june 2019 we've observed that they've asked so many questions from quotations like there were somewhere around 10 to 15 questions from quotations itself this time the number was reduced four five questions was and they were also very simple questions for example vanity fair ka last line puja gaya tha then there were four important romantic writers unki four important lines puji gaiti for example we all know william wordsworth has written a poem the world is too much with us so these questions were so very direct quotation based questions were so you need not worry some students keep on uh telling and commenting on the youtube videos that ma'am quotations kaise gayaat kare see you don't need to remember all the minor quotations if important ones gayaat karo you'll be sorted minor wese bhi jo henna there are so many that you can never get enough of them so opening closing lines that is what i keep on doing in my pdf sabki opening closing line do important quotations i keep on giving i was surprised this time they were not asking questions from jane austin such an important writer then they were not asking any question from the important american playwrights important european playwrights so there was a complete shift towards the british literature which is even good for the students who know british literature thoroughly now coming on to the important other important modules like english and india now people create a lot of chaos english and india add who are here that's better questions i'm a there were students telling that her unit say 10 questions i'm a now you can see the paper yourself there was one question from english and india okay and that was about british administrator who introduced european literature then there was one question from essay as in the non-fiction category and what was that question about you have to match the following the important story with the writers so edgar elin pone house of usher likaya so they're a very simple one so dodo questions be are a unit because they're focusing so much on the other units so that is important linguistics now linguistics say langen perrol pay question tha then there was a question which was i think more important and paper one so there was a question kya apko language teaching ko chronology mein html kabaya facebook kabaya skype kabaya so you have to put it in chronology so it was a very simple question you always you must be knowing this thing kya html sabse pehle aaya hai and then facebook aaya ho ka so you can put it like through your common sense also so linguistics mein mujhe aisa kuch nahi laga jo thoda bhi tricky tha but yes a student reported that doh baare question repeat why there was a question that teaching methodology appropriate hoti in the age of globalization and this question was repeated twice i don't know whether that happened with every set or just with that student set so if that is happening then if you get it right you get four marks instead of two now another important and interesting thing that was added this time which they were asking 2016-17 mein saal se nahi puch ruthi and that was about popular magazines now if you remember in my last unit okay research i have given a miscellaneous category chapter where i have given a complete audio lecture on popular magazines and publications and there i talk about tatler rambler idler guardian magazine who are the major contributors and this time three questions were asked one question was asking that tatler kaun kaun se days mein week mein publish hoti aand kitne editions total hui thi then another was to put all these magazines in chronological order and another was matched the following there were four magazines and four contributors four magazines and contributors you have to match them together so you can see that a single audio can fetch you like six marks if you focus on what i'm teaching so the paper was pretty easy i can say that this time they have reduced the type of questions which were found nowhere ki a chanak se kise pucha jaisa a student reporter that there was a question on pamphlet ki pamphlet mein minimum or maximum kitte pages ho sakte hai now this was a question which was not there in my course because i never thought that it was important enough but this kind of questions can come 2 se 3 questions aise hote hai but then this time the number was very less kai ba 10 se 12 hote but doh baar se june mein bhi 95 percent questions was asked per what i have been teaching in my course and i proudly say that even this time the score remains the same so it's a very proud feeling for a teacher that what we are teaching is actually and directly helping students to get net and finally if we talk about reading comprehension so this time rather than one they were asking 3 reading comprehension ek se 3 question the ek se 2 the aur ek se 1 tha now one question was from some classical play i don't remember the student has not yet told me the name but they were asking a classical play ka extract deke that in mein kya bola gaya hain now another question was from reading comprehension where they have given some poetry on home and questions were asked on that and another one was very simple it was a very simple passage easy to read so reading comprehension mein darne ki koi baat nahi thi they have given you my variety classical bhi diya hai toh bohot simple bhi diya hai so they have given you variety but overall agar paper ki baat kare toh i am really happy with the kind of paper we have this time and if a student has worked really hard i can proudly tell that the student can get somewhere around 80 to 90 questions right out of 100 which is a big thing the cut off according to me looking at the paper and the questions have got till now is somewhere around 55 to 60 because we all know that students are not brilliant like we as teachers can know a few more questions which students might not know because we have gained experience in that but even if the paper and the difficulty level was not so good i think that it is very easy to score somewhere around 80 to 90 questions correct out of 100 which is a big thing so i congratulate all those who have given their 100 percent and achieved great results they are very happy with their paper and i'm really and eagerly waiting to see at least 200 students qualifying net from my batch this is my expectation last time it was 150 plus and i'm sure that this time looking at the paper and looking at kind of questions they've asked from British literature the number would go beyond 200 so i wish you all the best also the registrations for the next batch that is the next june 2020 batch is open and we've got limited seats so if you want to register for our online course make sure you ping us on the whatsapp the number is right there also follow us on all the social media platforms because if you want to get updates that's the only way we can reach you so that's it for this video lecture we'll meet very soon in the 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