 My friends, welcome to my channel. A lot of students keep on asking me about the new syllabus of Paper One. They are really worried to see the new paper pattern and they don't know what is the new syllabus, how is it different from the old syllabus, how they should prepare for this particular exam, what are the books and resources they can use in order to prepare for Paper One. So I thought that why not make a video in which I can talk about all these questions and clear all the confusion that is going inside your head. So let's dive right into the topic and let me address all these questions one by one. So in order to answer all these questions, I've divided this video in three sections. In the first section, I'm going to talk about some important information in regards to Paper One, which every net aspirant should know. In the second section, I'm going to compare the old and the new syllabus and highlight all the key differences as well as similarities in both these syllabus. And in the third section, I'm going to give you a book list as well as a list of other resources, which you can use to qualify Paper One in just 10 days. The first important thing that you should know about Paper One is that it's a common paper. That means it's a general paper which everyone will give irrespective of their subject. There are 84 subjects in total for UGC net and all students appearing for any of these subjects has to give Paper One. Paper Two is subject specific, Paper One is general paper. The next important thing is the time limit. So you are given one hour in order to solve paper in which you will be getting total of 50 objective questions. The next important thing is that when you solve these questions, you will figure out that there are 10 units which form the syllabus and 5 questions are asked per unit. So total of 50 questions are asked. And the most important and fun fact about Paper One is that there is no negative marking. So the students have the liberty of answering and guessing answers because they don't have to worry whether they are going to lose any marks or not. Now let's look at the new syllabus and see how is it different from the old syllabus and why are students so much worried about this new change in pattern. Now if you look at the new syllabus, you will figure out that there are 10 units that they have listed. The same 10 units were listed even in the old syllabus. So if you look at the overall syllabus then nothing has changed. Earlier also there were 10 units and the same 10 units are there this time as well. Now if you look at these sub topics which are being given under each of these units, you will find out that some topics have been added in units like research, in units like logical reasoning and mathematical reasoning. Some units like teaching aptitude and reading comprehension has remained same whereas in some units you will find some additional topics have been added. And why this addition has taken place because now UGC net exam would be conducted in around 7 days and in every day you will have 2 shifts. So in total of 14 Paper One they have to design. Now earlier the syllabus was limited so they had to only make one paper because the exam of net used to conduct on one day in one shift throughout the India. But now they have decided to conduct this exam in a span of 7 days and in 2 shifts. So because they have to design 14 papers they have to actually include certain other things so that they can get some other area, some other concepts from which they can design questions. Another interesting fact is that nothing as such has been deleted from any of the old syllabus topics. Old syllabus topics and sub topics remains the same in the new syllabus and additional of 10-15% things have been added. So you don't need to worry at all. If you have done previous preparation you can prepare in the same line and just make some other notes on the new topics that have just been added. As far as the time duration is concerned earlier paper one used to happen for 1 hour 15 minutes. They have reduced the time to 1 hour. Also there was a point when paper one was a qualifying paper. You just need to get 40 marks so out of 100 so that your paper 2 will be checked and your net percentage was determined on the basis of how you score in paper 2 and paper 3. Now paper 3 has been excluded we just have 2 papers and your net score is calculated by combining marks of paper 1 and 2 both. So now paper 1 and 2 both becomes important. Another important thing that you need to know here is that earlier there were 60 questions in paper 1 in which the student was given a choice to attempt only 50. Now all the questions have become compulsory. So these are some new changes which has happened. You don't need to worry at all almost the paper pattern and the new syllabus remains the same and you can prepare the way you were preparing earlier just you need to keep in touch with the new syllabus topics. You need to include that in your preparation in your notes and you are all sorted. Now I would like to talk about the most important books and resources which can help you to qualify paper one. Firstly I would like to look at the most important resource that is previous year papers. Yes guys previous year papers are the most important thing for qualifying paper one. When I started my preparation for paper one I went through a few books and I found that they are giving me so much irrelevant information which is never asked in net exam. So what I did was that I went through the previous year papers and I charted out the list of topics that they are asking repeatedly and I only studied those topics from a particular book or from internet or from any YouTube video. So I would suggest you to follow the same strategy. You can go through the previous year papers and the topics which you find unfamiliar or the questions which you are not able to answer correctly be it from logical reasoning, mathematical reasoning or research you can just make a list of those topics and then you can try to find out some important information some important details about that topic from any good book. I would suggest you a book by Oxford Publication. They have recently released a book which I went through and I found it really really nice because what they have done is that they have smartly divided the entire book in 10 units and they have given a theory of that unit plus after theory they have charted out all the previous year questions from that particular unit in a sequence. So you just need to go through those previous year questions and see which are the questions where you are facing problem. Most of the questions in paper one you are going to find that they are very easy and they are based on common sense you can easily answer them. So you don't need to work anything on them whereas you need to work on the areas where you are lagging behind. So how would you work on those areas? You just need to get a list and then you can gradually start preparing notes. Now when it comes to note making which resources can you use for making notes? There are three important ways one is any good guide book. I would suggest you Oxford Publication book is very good. Second most important book that you can use in order to prepare for paper one is Amarujala Publication solved previous year papers. Now they have given you solutions as well as questions. So you don't need to go anywhere else you can just read the question answer it if you don't answer it correctly then you can read the solution written next to it. So it helps you to save time. Another important resource that you can use is YouTube. Now YouTube where you will find videos on almost every topic of paper one. There was a topic where I was not able to understand a particular method to solve it. That was choir of opposition. Now in order to solve this logical reasoning question I refer to lot of books but no book could give me a particular way in which I can solve the question. Then I went through a few YouTube videos. I just wrote square of opposition. A few videos came and I just watched those video one by one. And then after 30 minutes I was so clear with this concept. So YouTube videos will be of great help. They are free, they are cheap and they can actually help you in a way books cannot. And the final and the most important way you can get resource is through Wikipedia and Google. So Google can help you get definitions, can help you get examples very easily. You don't need to invest a lot of money buying notes for paper one or subscribing to some paper one video series or paper one online course. Paper one is a very general paper. If you use your common sense, if you use your brain, if you are willing to work in a smart way you can nail it. So what are the books you can use? You can use Amarujala, Publication Solve, previous year paper and Oxford Publications, UGC net paper one guidebook. When it comes to YouTube videos you can use any YouTube video. You can subscribe to any channel which can help you in your paper one series. And if that's the case why don't you subscribe to our channel because we provide you some really really interesting and amazing videos on paper one and we try to teach you paper one topics in a very simple and lucid manner. You can find crash courses on almost all units of paper one in my channel. So if you've not yet subscribed I think you should give it a thought. And when it comes to the online websites which can help you. So I think that depends upon people to people. A student might understand the definition better from Wikipedia. Another student might understand the definition better from Britannica's Encyclopedia. So that depends upon which language excites you, which language you can understand and what kind of pattern and what kind of example excites you. So these are some good books and resources which you can use for paper one preparation. That's it for this video lecture. We'll meet very soon with another exciting video. Till then keep watching arpitakarwa.com.