 Hi people, welcome to my channel Lava Arpita Karva and I am here again with another interesting video answering one of the most frequently asked questions from the students of English literature who are aspiring to become assistant professor in the universities and colleges across India. Okay, so what is the question? I am pretty sure you must have seen the thumbnail, you must have seen the title and you know what am I going to talk about but still let me tell you that I have received more than thousands of messages on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube comments which ask me the same question that what are the most important topics that we must study in UGC net paper to English literature and there are students who are smart enough to rephrase it and they ask me very simply that ma'am kindly tell us few topics which we can skip because the syllabus is huge and we have a time crunch, we are either doing job or some of them are involved in some thesis or maybe others who are in their masters and they don't get time so much after college. So they are stuck with this question that can you tell us few important topics which we can do so that we get a higher chance of clearing net this time. So let me tell you that yes I have a very good news for all of you, in this video I am going to talk about the most important sections, I am going to talk about the least important sections which you can skip and I am also going to give you a strategy on how to study and prepare in the next four months but before that let me tell you that the questions that you guys have been asking I appreciate that question and I would like to know if you have any other questions any other queries which I can answer in the upcoming videos in the comment section below. So don't hesitate put your questions be it the most irrelevant and the most stupid questions of the world I would not hesitate answering them in the next video. But I really want to know what is bothering you so that I can be a guide light who can give you a way and take you out of this chaos. So before I begin and talk about the most important sections let me tell you that a lot of students are worried about what to study and what to skip in paper two specifically because unlike paper one all the units that are mentioned in the syllabus don't have equal weightage. So they have mentioned some units like criticism theory that doesn't mean that poetry question which is unit one criticism in paper one it's very simple from each unit you get five questions in paper two it's very complicated because they might ask you 20 questions from one unit and only one question from some other unit. So I know that it is important for you to know which are the most important areas from which you get most of the questions and which are the least important area from which you only get two or three questions. So there was an addition in past one year when the syllabus got changed. So NTA took up the UGC net examination and it changed the syllabus. Now with the change in syllabus there were three new topics which were added. For example the topics were research methodology in paper two then there was a topic called linguistics and language pedagogy and the third topic was cultural studies. Also a topic was excluded for example the topics name was literary terms and devices. So a lot of students ask me this question that how much relevant are the new topics and do they even today ask questions from the topics which they have removed from the syllabus. Okay so I'll be answering those questions in this video. Stay tuned. Last year I read a very famous book which was known as Jugaad and it is a book about how to be a successful entrepreneur. Okay it's about how to know what the market wants and accordingly take steps. I love reading non-fiction and it was one of the finest book I've ever read. There was a very beautiful concept in that book which said that there are companies and each company should know that 5 to 10% of their products give them 80% of the profit. Similarly even in relationship there are 5 to 10% people of your life who impact you to the level of 80% who impact your happiness to the level of 80%. Let's take an example. For example there are 100 people in your life with whom you are connected to some or the other level but then there are top 5 people okay. Junkie hone nahi hone se dukhie hone se khush hone se sabse zada apki life impact hoti hai. There's a long lost cousin. Okay, unki exam mein ache marks nahi hai. That might not impact you but there's your brother who did not score well and he is in depression that would impact you so much. So in the similar manner in every competitive exam there is a portion, a relatively smaller portion of 20 to 25% of the syllabus which is going to give you 70 to 80% marks and this happens everywhere. If you look at your 11th or 12th mathematics or for example business studies books you will figure out that there were some chapters which had relatively higher weightage, there were other chapters which had relatively lower weightage. That happens everywhere and the same case is with English literature. So the 3 most important sections which you should never skip are British literature, literary theory and literary criticism. If you look at the past 2, 3 years you will figure out that they have somewhere designed the paper in a manner that if a person has strong command on all these 3 topics, 3 units they can somewhere around score 70 to 80% questions right which is a great thing. You only focus on 3 units, you get 70 to 80% marks to clear this exam. On the other hand this trend has shifted from past 2 years they are focusing more on these 3 areas but before that when I gave my net for the first time the most important areas at that time apart from British literature were post-colonial and European literature. They were asking abundance made questions from these areas and people were really terrified because writers were not aware, works were not aware and they were asked questions which made no sense to them but now the trend has changed and we are hoping that the same trend would continue because from past 2 years we are seeing that every time net happens they decrease the percentage of questions they are asking from post-colonial and from European. So if today you want to prepare for the upcoming net exam my suggestion to you would be very simple that focus on these 3 areas and you will be able to get a very good score. Now that we have looked at the most important topics it's important to also know what to skip. So we are going to look at the least important topics or the topics from which not a lot of questions are generally asked these days but let me tell you this varies every year sometimes there are some topics from which they are not asking questions other times there are various questions from that particular topic so the trend keeps on shifting. Also I would be discussing the 3 new topics that were added in the syllabus in this section because in spite of the fact that these topics were added recently in the syllabus we relatively have very less questions from these 3 topics but let me tell you very clearly that there is a fine line between cultural studies and literary theory. Literary theory and cultural studies are interlinked you will not be able to separate them so easily even in my online course I always considered both of them together and put them in one heading that was literary theory but then when the syllabus was revised and a lot of students ask me that where is cultural studies in your syllabus I had to put it under different heading but even today I believe that literary theory and cultural studies go hand in hand and you cannot separate them because literary theory ki jutte bhi writers hai there were some or the other way effecting and a part of cultural studies so you cannot like put them in separate headings so my suggestion to you would be that kindly keep cultural studies as a part of literary theory don't put them or classify it in a separate heading. Coming on to the least important areas the first one would be American literature as far as the trend is concerned I have seen it very clearly that from American literature not more than 3 to 4 questions are asked and there are more than 70 writers in American literature so if you are new you can skip these writers and you can focus rather on the important postcolonial and European writers. The second area which you can skip is literary terms and devices even today even though they have skipped it from the new syllabus they kind of ask 3 to 4 question every year from literary terms and devices yet it's a very significantly you know smaller portion from the entire syllabus so you can skip it because there are more than 150 literary terms and devices that you have to mug up if you want to attempt these 3 to 4 questions right and it's very confusing juxtaposition and paradox irony all of them look so similar that students get confused even though they have learned them by heart so my suggestion to you would be you can skip this portion because this might not give you so much benefit if you would have invested this time in knowing a few more British writers that would be of great importance and the third portion is linguistics and research so even though they are newly added in the syllabus they are not focusing too much on these areas 2 to 3 questions from both these areas you can expect on the day of the exam which is a relatively smaller portion so you can skip for now my suggestion would be if you skip these 3 portion you will save a lot of time and this time you can invest on the other aspects of British literature literary theory and criticism to summarize and to give you a full strategy I would just like to tell you that this bifurcation of important and non-important topics that I've given in front of you varies every year you might find me making another video after June 2020 net exam where I tell you that now the important topics are not these but these because it keeps on changing they tend to focus on some area in one exam and then surprise us by focusing all together on a very different area in the next exam my strategy to you would be that if you look at my syllabus the online course syllabus I gave importance from the first day to these three topics literary theory criticism in British literature there are more than 100 lectures on theory 350 plus lectures on British literature that is because I knew that even though the syllabus changes even though the department shifts but these topics are the backbone of English literature and they have to ask questions in order to test the knowledge of students in the field of literature so make sure that when you're preparing you first complete these three sections in a full-fledged manner make sure you know each and every writer who is associated and who is a part of these three categories so if you look at my online course module one six and seven are the three most important modules that you have to focus once you're done with these three modules it might take you two to three months to complete these three modules I've given you proper notes audio lectures pdf mock test you don't have to do anything else apart from these topics from my audio course from my online course and you will see that exactly in the paper you will find all the questions that I have been talking about in my lectures now after you've completed this portion then you have to see how much more time do you have for the exam if you just have one more month then you just have to start revising these three topics in detail if you have somewhere around two months then in that case one month you can devote to finish few smaller topics for example you can take up postcolonial literature or maybe you can take up literary groups in movement and complete that portion relatively smaller sections and relatively lesser important sections you can take up in the month which is there between your exam and revision and finally write one month before the exam stop reading listening doing anything new and start focusing on the notes that you have made from the audio lectures and start revising each and every page of your note very consistently make sure you go through these notes at least twice before you sit for the exam and you are very very you must be very very sure about what you are reading because you they will give you questions which will have options which might look similar they will ask you a question which may be four Victorian writers you know in your head that there was one Victorian writer who said this but then all of them are Victorian writers so you need to be very specific that is my personal suggestion to you so in this video I have tried to give you an idea about what is important what can be expected in the exam and how you should you know start your preparation I know that it's a very vague timetable that I have kind of given you because it totally depends upon how much you've studied so far if you have already sat for net exams and you've prepared thrice you might be very well versed with British literature now you don't want to take up studying British literature again so you might have to focus on other units but for a person who is new to this field I've tried to give them few guidelines which will help them to save their time and energy and which will also give them results that they desire so with that note I wish you all the best you can go to my website arpitakarwa.com and get a list of all these writers free of course also you can join our online course where I give you full material on all these topics we give you audio lectures pdfs and mock tests also there's a personal doubt solving platform that we have with arpitakarwa.com so wherever you get stuck you just need to call us just need to whatsapp us and we are going to reply to you with a voice note solving all your queries and doubts so it's a full-fledged platform self-sufficient platform which provides you all the material you need to ace UGC net paper to English literature so with that note I take your leave that's it for this video lecture we'll meet soon in the next video lecture till the time we meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com