 Hi, everyone, welcome to the channel and to this YouTube life in which we are going to be talking about a lot of things related to the UGC-NEC 14th June 2023 exam for specifically for English literature, but we would be also touching on topics related to UGC-NEC paper one. I would want to know if my voice is clearly audible to each one of you out there so that I can go ahead and start today's discussion. So I'll just be waiting for people to reply whether I'm audible to each one of you. Hi, Parush, I can see your comments. Namaste, Mohseni. Good evening. Yes, she says yes. Prachi says yes, ma'am, your voice is clear. Thank you so much. So now that everything is set, we can start with today's life. Now I have decided a format for today's life because there is so much that I want to talk about. I have been receiving a lot of messages and calls from students talking about the paper asking a lot of questions about the paper, about the cutoff. We'll be talking about all of that. So I would just want to begin the session by giving you a small blueprint on what all topics we are going to touch. And I am also going to take up your questions one by one. So the first thing that we are going to talk about is the UGC-NEC paper one that happened on 14th of June. What I think about it, what kind of questions were there? What was the difficulty level of the paper? After that, we'll be talking about UGC-NEC paper two. This is, you know, that we are going to answer a lot of questions related to elephants in the room. We'll be talking about kinkin topics, the questions I will be talking about the difficulty level of the paper. We will also talk about what was the change in the paper pattern. OK, so first thing, UGC-NEC paper one, we'll discuss, then we'll discuss UGC-NEC paper two, then overall analysis, we are going to discuss. The third thing that I'm going to touch upon is the overall analysis. How was the overall paper? What I think about it? Was it hard? Was it OK? Is what what I would rather not say that what was the impression of students about the paper? I would rather say that if I want to share my views on how the paper went for different kinds of students, who had less preparation, according to them, how was the paper, who prepared it very well, what they thought about the paper, those who studied from different books, whose second or third attempt, how did they feel about the paper? Who have seen the past year papers of UGC-NEC, how did they feel? So I have talked to all the students and I am going to share that with all the students of different categories and based on all these reviews, what I want to say about the paper, I'm going to share that. So the third thing is we are going to talk about the overall analysis of the paper, then we are going to talk about the most important question, which is the cutoff, that according to me, what will be the cutoff this time and we are also going to talk about how do you know right now if you have qualified or not? Okay, so I'm going to also give you some tips and tricks on how you can find out whether you have qualified the cutoff or you have not qualified the cutoff and finally we will be talking about what should be the strategy for the upcoming net exam that is December 2023 and finally I'm also going to end the live YouTube live by talking about the timetable that you should be following for the upcoming month. So these are the seven topics that we are going to cover. I'll repeat very quickly so that you can just write it down. This webinar is going to be around 30 to 40 minutes. I'm also going to take up a few questions by as by you people in the comment section. So up to any question or any question, please put that in the comment section below even though I am explaining something else, I will read these comments later and I'm going to definitely address them in my next YouTube live or if possible in today's YouTube live. So don't shy away from asking your queries. These queries are very, very helpful for each one of you because some one's question answers many people's questions. Okay, I'll keep the language of this YouTube live English. Sometimes I would be switching towards Hindi, but majority of the time I would be sticking to English as I know that a lot of South Indian students are there. So quickly, what are the seven topics that we are going to cover today? We are going to talk about UGC net paper one that happened on 14th of June. We'll talk about UGC net paper to English or 14th of June, both the shifts shift one and shift two. We'll talk about the overall analysis. We'll talk about the expected cutoff. We'll talk about how to know whether you've qualified the exam. We'll talk about what should be the strategy for December 2023 and what should be the ideal time table for the December 2003 attempt considering that somebody of you have already covered certain portion of syllabus in this exam. So what should be your strategy for December 2023? Okay, so without any further delay, let's jump right into the topic. Let me just see a few comments till the time more people join us live. So we have Sandeep says hi. Hi, Sandeep Prachi says hello. Then we have Subhi saying good evening. I'm good evening. We have Khushbi Lahort. Hello ma'am for Haryana. Hi, Khushbu. Mosme says how are you ma'am? I'm good. Very, very happy with the paper and how all my students have performed. So feeling very contented. Rishikesh says lots of love from Kolkata. Rishikesh, very, very beautiful name. I really love this name. Lots of love from Jaipur. Then we have Garima saying good evening ma'am. Then I have missed a few comments. Yes, it is from West Bengal ma'am following you all the time ma'am, such a crispy video and love your voice and your teaching style. Clear as concepts. Very amazing. Thank you so much, Adi. I am very, very glad that my videos are helping you. Then we have Dave says people are saying that cheating has taken place. So what is the use of expecting a cut off? This is so saddening. Dave, number one, I would want you to stay away from the rumors and a lot of, you know, comments that are coming across your way. I know that many people are saying a few things. But for now, it is important to see how the paper was with the type of questions. What will be the take of UGC about all these topics? Let us leave it to UGC. We are nobody to comment on this. We are nobody to, you know, influence their decision. They are a bunch of really educated people who know what is best for the entire country. So they would consider all the factors and then they are going to, you know, release their verdict. So let's not talk about all the all the comments and news that is spreading around all of us. Then we have a literary first by Mayank. Ma'am, both look at a shift. One paper too simple. But I'm going to talk about that, Ma'am, very shortly. Sangeeta says, hello, ma'am. Suraj says, good evening. Ting Tong says, hello, good evening, ma'am. Hello, Ting Tong. Mukesh says, good evening, ma'am. Anu says, hello, ma'am from Kurukshetra. Hi, Raju says, my name is Raju Kumar. I'm preparing for UGC Net with the help of your content provided on website and chronology. Thank you so much, ma'am. You're the best teacher. Thank you so much, Raju. I'm very, very glad. Thank you, ma'am, for appreciating the name and lots of happiness for your marriage. Thank you. Thank you so much. OK, so now that we have so many people with us, let's just talk about the first topic that is UGC Net paper one. Now, one thing that I have understood after interacting with students, with the students who are enrolled with me and who were the part of the webinar, the Zoom webinar that I conducted on 15th of June, is that there was a surprising change in paper one this time. So every time what happens is that out of the 10 units that we have in paper one, five questions per unit comes. OK, so out of 10 unit, five questions are coming. So total 50 questions are coming in paper one. This time there was a shift. So what was that shift that many students have reported that there were no questions from higher education. They have excluded a full unit where five questions were coming. They have just asked one or two questions. At times they're not even asked a question. Shift two has been said that there were no questions from math. They say I also interacted with students giving commerce paper, which happened on 13th of June because I wanted to know what is the change so that I can brief my students who were sitting for 14th June paper. So when I interacted with students on 13th of June shift one, they said that math and logical reasonings were not questions, which was very surprising because what happens is every time from past so many years, UGC have adhered to the fact that from every unit five questions are coming. So what students do is that out of 10 units if they are not very comfortable with practical portion, so they leave two or three units. And they focus on seven units. But the problem was that the two or three units they left had a lot of questions. And the units who went there without any questions, so they were in a very messed up state. So whatever happened, we cannot change that. What can happen in the future, definitely. Because my assumption is that what is happening is that earlier, before 2018, when UGC was conducting the pen and paper test of the net. So that time what was happening was that all the 84 subject students were sitting on the same day. And all over India, there was a net paper in one day. So they had to set literally one paper for UGC net paper one. 50 questions you would have to make. Then there was a shift. Now what happened is that paper started conducting in 10 or 12 days, started conducting in two shifts. In all, 20 sets of paper one, they have to make. Now when they have to make 20 sets of paper one, they have to play with the pattern. They cannot stick with the same questions. They have to give different questions in each shift. They have to twist the pattern in each shift. So that no one felt that my exam was done on the 18th. So I answered some questions by looking at the 14th paper. So now I'm at a safer place. So to avoid that kind of cheating, what they have to do, they have to play with the pattern. So from their side, it's very logical. Those of you who are watching this video and are preparing for UGC net English, they know that UGC net English may, though they have to prescribe 10 units, but out of all the 10 units, every time, her units the same questions may happen. This is a proven fact that British literature, literary theory, criticism, 70% paper are there. And the rest of the units say, two, two, three, three questions he comes. Okay, so same way, they have started the same kind of thing in paper one as well. So now what is happening in paper one is that they are going to ask any number of questions from any unit. So the lesson that you have to learn from this time is that you cannot leave any unit. All the units have to be done because we are not sure if your shift may, which units are the questions I guess. So you cannot leave it to your luck. You have to be very well prepared for paper one. Okay, so very briefly, in paper one, we have seen a dramatic shift, which is that they have stopped adhering to the same number of questions from each unit. Number two, if we talk about the pattern of paper, there was no difficulty in the level of questions. As usual from every time, as I say that similar kind of questions repeat. So if you look at UGC net paper one, one thing is very, very clear that if you have studied past year papers well, so many times the same questions repeat, many times similar questions repeat. Similar questions repeat means that digits will change, we will twist the question a little bit, but the same topic will come with questions. One time it was also seen that there are many questions from Indian logic. The part of logical reasoning is Indian logic. It is often neglected by students, but this time four or five questions came from Indian logic. Now my suggestion to you would be that number one, please start going through past year papers whenever you are preparing for UGC net paper one, or you have to be very, very vigilant about covering all the important topics. So this is one takeaway from paper one exam. Now let's talk about UGC net paper two, something which scares every English literature aspirant because they kind of do something different every time with the paper. So what was the pattern this time? I have a set of questions which students have sent me. I am going to share those questions with you, but before that let me just tell you my overall analysis about the paper. So something very, very simple that I understood this time also that like always British literature literary theory and criticism was the main part of the paper this time. 70% questions in theme topics. And as I always say to everybody you can watch any two or three videos on my YouTube. I have repeatedly said one thing in every video that you cannot neglect these three units. You can leave American, post-colonial, European, anything, but British literature should be on your tips. Literary theory and literary criticism should be on your tips. And same thing this time also a lot of questions came from these three topics. Now there are a lot of questions that came from chronology. A lot of students are worried that why did they ask so many questions? As I always say that every time there is a change in their pattern. And every time there is a change so that they also experiment so that the child's test can be done somewhere and the child is not passing the paper just like he did last time. It is seen that his knowledge is so exhaustive that he is being challenged in every way yet he is able to clear it. That is what their aim is to conduct this exam. So if we talk about chronology-based questions so a very simple thing that I always tell my students that whoever is involved in my course now I have this habit that I take any lectures whether it's a video lecture or an audio lecture I always tell all the works in chronological order plus I also tell the dates on which these works were published. I always recommend students' dates because there are 2000-2000 plus works whose dates cannot be made up. It is humanly not possible. So it is always important that when you make notes of any writer so you take chronological works so that if you have a pictographic memory so when you turn the pages in a photographic memory you will remember that this work was written and it was later written. That means this work was published first and this work was published later. That is a very simple way to attempt chronological questions. I would still not suggest you to mug up dates for the next exam because it is humanly not possible. You will want to do it. You will remember 20, 30, 50 dates at max but you will get confused because 5 books have been written in 1 year in 1904 there is a book in 1905-1906. How will you remember it? It is better to write every writer's work chronologically and remember it so that it is automatically stored in your memory. Now let me just take a moment and talk about the questions that came. All my students gave the papers so they were not in a position to memorize the entire question but they remembered the name of the writer or the work from which the question was asked. I have that list of questions and my team has compiled all of them for this YouTube live so that I can share that with you. I am quickly going to tell you and if in case I want to comment on someone I am definitely going to pause, comment and then continue with the list. So Margaret Actwood had a question from the work of Mulkraj Anand. Jack DiRida has a question. Jack DiRida is from Literary Theory. He has a question from the work of Raymond Williams in Cultural Studies. He has a question from Godess in Kanthapura. What was the profession of A.K. Ramanujan? It was a question. He has a question from the work of Meena Alexander. He has a question from the time period of the Russian Revolution. He has a question from the chronology of Francis Bacon. He has a question from Ben Johnson's place. I hope, yeah, I am visible. Then he has an egoistic sublime and a literary term given by John Keats which comes under literary criticism. He has a question from there. First University Commission English and India has a question from there. George Herbert has a question from the chronology of the Alters which is the chronology of the works. George Herbert is a metaphysical poet. Tragedy of Milton in Aristotle's model again is a part of literary criticism. It is a part of dramatic poetry and literary criticism. Then who supported English plus French drama? I am still not sure which writer it was but somebody who supported both English and French drama. I think this is a question coming from literary criticism because there are a lot of critics who were writing during the renaissance time who talked about whether the English drama is better, French drama or the classical Greek drama is better. Then the lines of Charles Dickens' works have come. The comment on Charlotte Bronte's question has come from Charles Dickens. The question has come from the condition of England the question has come from Thomas Dequincey character from Jane Austen's work Frankfurt School is a question from literary theory. The question has come from Stuart Hall's book Stuart Hall again a literary critic as in who comes under cultural studies, literary theory. Then there is a question that came from Manohar Mangalorkar's combat of shadow which is again in Indian writing Nizam Ezekiel's question, Pilal's question. Then there was a question from Sri Arbindo's work Savitri. There was a question from Bhasa's work which is a part of Indian aesthetics which we take under Indian literature. So those of you who are a part of my online course I would want you to just remember the modules that we have divided under the fifth module I teach this Sri Arbindo's work. Sanskrit dramatist Bhasa's work again is a question of Indian aesthetics. There is a question from Nonchal's module 7 literary theory. William M. Simpson's 7 types of ambiguity something that I always say that the question has to come from there. There is a question again from New Criticism. Cleanit books. There are 3 or 4 questions from New Criticism. Well brought on. Practical Criticism. All the books that you have heard if you have heard the lectures. So I have to tell you from one line that I have asked you to memorize it. John Crowe's answer to New Criticism. There is a question from Jean Baldur's. You have seen how many questions there are from literary theory. Then Jack Lacan's Mirror Stage which in psychoanalytical criticism when I read the stages Idigo, Super Ego then I talk about you know Sigmund Freud. There is a question from Jack Lacan's Mirror Stage. Then there is a question from Francis Bacon about a work that is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. There is a question about John Erbuthnor, John Gray, Alexander Pope. All 3 of them British writers. Then there is a question from cultural capital. Again, something that I cover in cultural studies as well as in literary criticism, module number 7. There is a question from Raymond Williams on the chronology. There is a question from Philip Sidney at work. Then there is a question from Samuel Johnson's biography. I don't know which biography was asked because Samuel Johnson has written a lot of biographies. But there is a question from a biography. Tabula Rasa which is John Locke's concept which I teach under British literature when we talk about all the important critiques. So John Locke's Tabula Rasa concept comes. That mind is a blank state when a person is born it's a blank state on which nature versus nature concept is applied. Matthew Arnold's Touchstone again literary criticism module number 7. There is a question from Thomas Carly and Michael Angelo and Hamlet's reference. Then there is a question from the movement poets. All those who are a part of online course, you know there is a different module of literary movements in which we talk about all the movement poets. There is a question from Edgar Allen Poe. Then there is a question from meaning of habitus part of cultural studies. There is a question from William Falkner's work. There is a question from Absalom in Light in August. There is a question from Edward L.B. from Zoo Story. There is a question from Alan Ginsberg Jack around. There is a question from the module of literary movements. So there are many more questions. But my intention behind sharing all these questions with you is to ask these types of questions. Now one thing that I want to very, very simply state that all the questions that have come in the paper they have not asked questions from any unknown writers. Those of you who are a part of online course, you remember what we have read. Those of you who have studied from a book or who feel that paper is hard, I would just recommend to arpatakarwa.com. Under score syllabus, you will find a detailed list of writers. Just tally all these writers' names, which have questions from anywhere, Jack Karau John Locke, you can tally all these names. And you can click on control plus F to find it on that page. So you will get it. If you don't want to scroll so long. All the writers are repeatedly coming because this is what we have displayed on the website. After 10 years study, we have made the questions that are repeatedly asked by the authors. And if you look at it, you will be surprised that this time they have asked all the questions from those writers only. It is not that some have come from very different writers. Definitely 5-7 questions have come. Why have they come? I am going to address that. But overall analysis and paper as it is, the important writers who come every year have come from them. Now one thing I would also want to talk about is the overall analysis. Now if we talk about overall analysis, so something that I am very very sure of is that the paper was moderate. It wasn't difficult. It wasn't easy. It wasn't difficult. Moderate why moderate? The paper of UGC Net as I always say is divided into three sections. So out of all the 100 questions that are coming in paper 2. The same applies for paper 1 also, but just for easier calculation I am talking about paper 2. So paper 2 gives you 100 questions. How do they divide? Is that 50% questions are moderate. 25% are very easy. Something that if you have gone through any one guidebook, you can answer a few of them correctly. And 25% are very hard. Very hard as that means that something that not a lot of people can answer. And in 25, there are also 10 questions that are like this. Even as a teacher, after 6 years of UGCI teaching experience, after being a gold medalist of Rajasthan University, after doing Ph.D., after clearing net multiple times, I cannot answer. Those 10 questions, they are deliberately put to drop the cutoff. I am talking about 25 questions that are difficult. Out of them, 10 questions are very weird, which most of us cannot answer. Rest 15 depends on your level of preparation. If you have done a very very thorough study, then you will be able to do 15 questions. But if you have not done that much then you will not be able to answer all the questions. So overall if you ask, so the paper was moderate, it wasn't very difficult, it wasn't very easy. Now one more thing. A lot of people say, even if you come to listen, you may feel that the paper was very hard for me. I didn't feel it was moderate and if you know, they might say that it wasn't moderate, it was very difficult. Let me tell you, every paper is hard for that child whose preparation is not complete. Suppose if you look at the entire syllabus of UGC 9, British literature, American, post-colonial, European, Indian literature, literary theory, literary criticism, literary movements, cultural studies, English and India research methodology and language in pedagogy. These are all the units. If you have read only two units suppose you just got the time to complete British literature and let's say American literature, you haven't read anything else. So the remaining questions will definitely be hard for you. All those questions will look alien to you. Just like Shakespeare says that this sounds Greek to me. That means a language that I don't know. If somebody is speaking in Greek I would not understand it. That doesn't mean what he is saying is hard. It's just that I am not well equipped with the language. Similarly, if you have left a significant portion of your syllabus, then all those writers will look Greek to you. I'll tell you an example. There was this one student which I was interacting with in the webinar and he enrolled in our course a month before the exam. So he was only able to complete till Victorian period of British literature. Now when that person is going to sit in front of the computer screen on the day of the paper, he will find a lot of writers coming from literary theory. He'll literary theory and literary criticism. For example, Pardhan Andesh Jack Lacan Raymond Williams and let's suppose there would be writers or there would be terms like beat generation or there would be terms like KitKat Club. Now all these terms will be very, very unfamiliar to will sound very unfamiliar to him. And he'll be like, oh my god, the paper was difficult. But the paper wasn't difficult. The paper was moderate. The only thing is that because you did not study the syllabus, you feel that the questions did not come from what you studied. You have only read British literature or you have only covered half of the British literature. That is still enlightenment. There are 12 questions or 15 questions that you got out of the 15 questions. That means if you attempt 12 of the 15 questions then you don't know how much you have studied. If you haven't studied sociology then I will feel difficult because I have not studied sociology. Similarly if a child is taking the full knowledge of English literature then he will feel difficult. If you are feeling difficult then ask yourself whether the paper was difficult or whether you were not prepared. Plus, many children tell me that ma'am, we studied from a guide book or we studied from two or three books or from a friend's notes. Now what happens in these cases is that suppose you are studying from a guide book and you are studying a topic of Alexander Pope. Now on Alexander Pope, there is half page material in the guide book. That's it. Alexander Pope's minor works are not there. The summary of major works is not there. So what is going to happen that Alexander Pope may not have come to the question from the depth of Alexander Pope. So you will also feel that the paper was hard because I studied Alexander Pope but I did not come. The point is that you have not studied Alexander Pope from the net point of view. Whatever things you have to study about Alexander Pope in the net, you have to miss out on all those things. You have not read the works in the summary detail. You have not read the important lines. You have not read the minor works that he has not read. If he has written a letter on Alexander Pope's work, you have not read that. Alexander Pope was just living on time. He was not a part of the literary movement. He was not a part of his friend group. He had a problem with which writer and he gave a criticism on his poetry. You did not read that. You did not read all this. The one who has read all this will feel easy on Alexander Pope's question. So understand, before categorizing that this was hard, please use your brain and think about whether I am well prepared or not. Because UGC net English is not a very easy exam. The main problem with the entire paper is that there is no syllabus. The syllabus says anything and everything written or translated in English. It is a very big thing. Anything under the sun is a part of syllabus because Premchandra also comes as a syllabus because his work was written in Hindi but was translated in English. Then Kalidas also becomes a part of English literature syllabus even though he wrote in Sanskrit. But since it was translated in English it is a part of the syllabus and so many writers all around the world who are writing in English is a part of English literature. So that is the reason why I always insist that no matter how you are preparing, please I am really, really holding my hands and pleading that go to my website there is a free list of syllabus which is given to everyone. Anybody can access it free of cost that is a syllabus that we teach in our online course but we are making it available for everyone Pan India so that students who are preparing even on your own can know what all writers they have to study and they are not lost because there is no guide book that has all the things in place. I would also suggest you one thing there is a book that you will find a lot of books on British literature. William J Long Routledge History of English literature then we have David Deitchies all these books are not giving complete information on British literature plus the most important concern is there is no good book on American post-colonial Indian American and European literature there is no good book through which you can study literary theory. Literary theory's question comes from their works. Most of the books that you will study there are their terms which they have told. For example for Dhanande Sashorn the concept of sign and signifier will be explained to him. Peter Verry has introduction to literary theory but nobody is mentioning the names of the works that was written by Dhanande Sashorn which is asked in the exam. So please become a little more vigilant. Please understand the depth of the paper and accordingly start your preparation and that is the reason why I always plead you that please download the syllabus that is there on the website available free of course. You can go to arpitaakarwa.com type it on Google go to course syllabus button that is there on the homepage click there you will get a 13 module syllabus which contains 850 topics that you must study for this exam and please start your preparation with that. Also how much should you study for each topic for that I am giving some demo lectures which are available free of cost on our website. So there is another website on which we give paid courses courses.arpitaakarwa.com there if you go there is a specific course which is available free of cost you just have to sign up you don't have to even buy anything there you will find few free lectures one of them is already uploaded on YouTube Paradise Lost you just type Paradise Lost Summary by Arpitaakarwa you will get my lecture it is a 25 minutes lecture where I have explained Paradise Lost. Now I want all of you to watch that video so that you know that in a text like Paradise Lost what are the things you have to study when you study Paradise Lost on any website or any book or guide. So you just study the story. The question doesn't come from the story. The question comes from the book one. What is the question mentioned in the book two. They have mentioned the Gileli and Gileli. Adam the tiff between Eve why did God create Eve this is the question. Eve was created from Adam's rib. This is the question. You need to know these small things. So how do you read any text. That is why I am telling you there is a free lecture available on YouTube. Students don't have the paying capacity. They want to study on their own. They don't want to enroll in the course. So I want to guide them so that they don't make this mistake and they have to give the exam repeatedly. That is the reason why I am telling you again and again strategy. Number two is syllabus because UGC that syllabus prescribed it is nothing you cannot clear net just by reading unit one poetry drama, fiction, non-fiction. You won't understand which fictional text, which writers, which poets which dramas you want to read. Those things are available on free of cost website. You can check that out. You can check out demo lectures on how to read. And then you know you can start your own preparation. One more thing that I would want to suggest right here is that you know if you look at the entire paper per se, if you look at the entire paper I would say based on the questions that I have received 90% questions as a thing that if you the syllabus that I have told you you read it. You can easily clear 90% questions easily. If you know the correct way of reading and you have recovered the correct sources because why I am saying this so confidently and out there on YouTube when I have 5 lakh subscribers we are handling India's biggest YouTube channel in UGC net English and I am so confidently saying this, that 90% questions you can easily attempt because every year whenever the net is 100 to 120 students clear net from our course and when I talk to 120 students it turns out that they did not find the paper difficult because they prepared it in a way. They have told me every lecture they have remembered all those points they have not done any other material refer only my points and they have also cleared their places so I know that the students are getting questions from them. That is why I am saying that if you refer the syllabus you also prepare it yourself but you know 100% of your problem is resolved. Okay, so my overall analysis about the paper in one word is that the difficulty level was moderate it wasn't hard please reassess how you have studied, what loopholes you have left. Now coming on to the fourth topic which is cut off. So till now I have talked about UGC net paper 1, paper 2 and difficulty level, overall analysis basically now I am going to talk about the fourth topic which is expected cut off. So considering the paper and based on the webinar, the course part of our online course part plus I have talked to the students on WhatsApp and calls based on all that collective data. I can say that net cut off for general category is going to be around 58%. J.R.F. will go around 63% to 65%. S.T.S.C. O.B.C.P.W.D.E.W.S. what will be the cut off of these categories and we have made a tabular expected cut off which you can get from WhatsApp. You just have to drop a WhatsApp message on the official number. It is available on the YouTube description also. We have given the number in it. Our number is displayed on the website and I am also going to share that live as well. The number is 797-660-3731 I am repeating it 797-660-3731 just type please share expected cut off and my team is going to share you the entire expected cut off which we have made after speaking to a lot of students and we are very very sure that every year we share the expected cut off on our YouTube channel on our Facebook Instagram and every time about 1-2% will be the cut off of the net sometimes exactly what we say but it has nothing to do with what we say. We are just doing a good analysis and based on that we share our expected cut off. So net cut off would be for general category 58% JRF would be 63-65% looking at the questions I think JRF will be high because there are no difficult questions but it also depends upon how the students can't really say about it okay so please we will upload it on the website we will also share it with you so please message us on WhatsApp that we share expected cut off my team is going to share the expected cut off if you want to get the detail syllabus that I was talking about we need the link of all the modules that we study the topics and also the list we made on WhatsApp we will share that as well so please share that I want to know the UGC net English syllabus module wise list I will tell my team that whoever gets this message please share the module 1 to module 13 links so that you will know our 13 modules and you can start your preparation from this. Now let's look at the next question which is how to know whether you have qualified the paper or not now cut off I have told difficulty level I have told you in your brain know how you have given the paper so the question is that how to know right now when the question paper answer key is not out that whether you are somebody who will be on the other side of the cut off or will you you know fall short and not clear the cut off so see I tell you one very very simple trick which has worked from past 6 years because I have been in teaching net since past 6 years 2018 and I have taught more than 10,000 students and based on all those students experience I am saying you that if you can confidently say today that you have attempted 70% questions right in both paper 1 and paper 2 so paper 2 I should write 70 questions right on paper 1 around 30-35 questions out of 50 if you are very confident that I have done right in the rest of the questions this 70 questions is right if you are this confident then that means you can clear net this time for sure if you think 40-50 questions you have done right I will very very clearly say that you will not clear net see on one side I am saying that cut off will go around 58% I am saying that if you are doing right 50 questions then there is no chance why am I saying this because let me tell you that what happens is that when we say that 70 questions are right I have attempted 70 questions right so we often give ourselves a lot of benefit of doubt we all have this tendency that we think yes this will be right I know this but most of the cases in which we think 70 is right 20-25-15 are wrong why are they wrong because we have a question in our mind we have answered it we have a question done so we cannot check the net we cannot ask anyone so we feel that we have attempted the right question but when the question comes in front of you and you will see you will know that you have thought that you have done right I have talked to every student and they say that 50 questions are right they cannot clear the net in many cases they say that if someone says that we are right we are absolutely sure they clear the net because even then even those who are saying 70 are 60-65 even those who are saying 90 they take out JRF they get 70 but they don't even those 15-20 questions I am telling you honestly don't give yourself wrong hopes let us be very very honest with you those of you who are feeling disheartened with what I just said there is a very very special video that I have made with a lot of love for everyone the title of the video on youtube is this is what Arpita ma'am has to say to everyone who thinks that they are disappointed with the paper I will write after this live the link of that video in the description also so that you can just click and watch that video it is a 3 minute video a video which I have made with a lot of love and I want each one of you to watch it right after this live that video is going to give you a very different vision of how you are feeling right now if you are disheartened please do watch that video it is my heartfelt request please watch that video coming back to the topic how to know whether you have qualified so my suggestion to you would be if you think that 70% questions you are doing and you are confident about it then it is a very safe space you can just relax and do whatever you want to do you don't have to stress about the next net exam but if you think it is 60, 50, 40 or lesser than that you are confident then that means that it is time to gear up and start for the next net exam right so now it comes to those who think that they have done less than 70% questions confidently how to prepare for December so one very simple thing that I would like to suggest is that start right now right now that means today it is 17th June 9.51pm I want you to start your net preparation for December 2023 and come tomorrow morning at whatever time you wake up so 18th June is the time when you should start your preparation I don't want you to think about cut off think about question paper answer key, correction window and exam result because this whole process is of at least one month in the next one month a lot of things will happen net is going to release the expected key then it is going to release correction window of 10 days period then after a few days will release the result the entire process will take one full month now if you think you have only given 40% paper confidently the rest you have cut off or you have worked on your guess you think so don't waste this one month why not I will explain you because we can't change what has happened think a lot about it what you have to listen to what you have to learn and move ahead why not, why not I wish that question would have been right thinking about all this is utterly ridiculous you have to think about it take 15 minutes time think about it and after 15 minutes say what you have to do let me start doing that what you will waste if you wait for the result what will happen I will tell you some problems that might happen, number one in a month if you read minimum 3 hours daily then you waste 90 hours 90 hours means if you want you can cover a whole literature if you want then you can cover American literature, post-colonial literature in this 90 days 90 hours period you can cover the opportunity you will waste secondly the next 6 months is going to be very very difficult for everyone who lives in India why, because the next 6 months are filled with holidays we have Rakshamandan we have Durga Puja, we have Diwali we have Christmas, New Year and a lot of other state-wise festivals because of all this our momentum will break 2-3 days gap Diwali is 7-8 days gap minimum I am telling you those who have Diwali holidays forget it, 15-20 days gap Durga Puja is there depending upon which state you are in how much celebration is there because of these gaps you won't be able to read 30-40 days in the next 6 months period so I want you to save those 30 days which you will miss out later and you are ahead of the competition those who are students who won't listen to me will wait for a month and after that preparation will start you will be at a better place when they will start Shahrukh Khan says one very beautiful line which is very dear to my heart that many people say he was an overnight success so he says that people don't know how many sleepless nights I have worked to get where I am which you call as overnight success we clear the net he said that he was lucky he didn't study he worked hard he worked hard for hours when someone else was sitting and having fun when he was chilling when he was passing time that is the reason why life is paying him that reward so please remember this thing very very clearly that this 30 days period is very safe read it now and start preparations for December for the net another important thing that I want to tell you is that you know the entire 6 months period you have to make a strategy which I will talk in the last segment which is timetable but before that keep in mind that if you don't read it now the demerit is that I wish I had read it one more minute so my 55 or 52% which was cleared by 58 it will come in the same month because the same mistake which you have made in the past 6 months which you wasted a lot of time on that same mistake you are going to do in the next month so just learn from the mistake that you have made and I can confidently say this because I talk to all the students who make the same mistake that is the reason why I am addressing this on youtube so that anybody of you who is watching this video can contemplate what they are doing with life one more special thing that I want to share here the online video course the animated course that you have just started for UGC net and since the last 6 months we have been giving that course and there are animated videos of the video of that entire course some other sample videos are available on our website courses.arpatakarwa.com you can check that out that video course that we are providing for December also we are giving a special 2000 rupees off if you enroll tomorrow and day after the reason why I am giving this off is very simple I want you guys to take an initiative and start your preparation because if you enroll if you take a subscription plan then you will have to pay me and that is the reason why I am deliberately giving this off because the people who are attending this webinar please ask yourself if you want to waste a month if you don't want to then please enroll tomorrow and start your studies from tomorrow I am telling you net is not an easy journey it is a very difficult journey and till the time you have to brace yourself that is the reason you are getting a 2000 rupees off it is an early bird discount the reason we are giving it is because we want to motivate students to enroll early and start preparation early so those of you who want that coupon code can contact my team on the same number 7976303731 and you can enroll in the course please before enrolling I want you to check the online course syllabus please check it very thoroughly check demo lectures check the PDFs we are giving check the mock test we have given you the free of cost so you can see it well and feel confident we would never want any student to come to our course and I don't like the feeling we want them to first feel our course see the title you enroll see 5-7 videos and then if you feel that wow I like it just like these animated stories I remember I am liking the visualization I am liking the facts I am enjoying reading only then enrol because I would never want a single student who came to my course the reason why they are putting in so much effort to give India's first animated video course for UGC net english we are working day and night to deliver this video course this is going to be a huge video course we are giving you 900 videos we are giving PDFs we are giving mock test we are giving you more than 3,000 questions and all of this is because your journey is smooth you are having fun and you don't feel that you want to study you feel wow I want to study reading this story is fun you understand this story because we believe in happy learning it should not be a sad learning it should be happy learning so you have to study from happiness so if you feel please check out the demo lectures and then you can enrol the discount coupon my team will give you now let's address the last and the final topic it has been a long video for just 3 minutes sorry I am taking a lot of time but I had to explain everything so I just exceeded the limit and I will take a live video but it exceeded but I think you will get benefit out of it last topic which is timetable now if we talk about timetable there are two types of things one is if you are preparing for the next 6 months for December one is if you enrol in the course any course you enrol your teacher's strategy I can tell you my strategy I will explain what it is both of them are the same process you can read it yourself you can enrol in the course you have to study in the same way now firstly I want you to enrol the syllabus we have given module 1 is British literature 2 is American 3 is postcolonial 4 is European 5 is Indian 6 is literary 5 is English in India then we have language in pedagogy we have cultural studies and we have research methodology so all these 30 modules are there now I want you to first begin with module 1 British literature so we are giving you 900 lectures out of 900 lectures 350 lectures are British literature if you read it yourself then it will take you same time just double the time if you are studying with us for 2 hours then it will take 4 to 5 hours because we are making notes if you are studying with yourself then you will have to refer to 4 websites and make notes and then you have to remember if you are studying with us then we are giving you complete notes you are explaining videos you have to remember so you have to keep the same time period if I am saying that British literature you have to cover it for 2 months then you have to study with us because we are preparing for December so you have to give yourself 5 hours I am telling you the minimum it takes a lot of time to make notes because you will not get the material of Alexander Poppe from one place if you are studying in Austin then you will have to study different works from different websites you can get sense and sensibility you can get half from one website you have to compile and write the whole story similarly you have to do the same thing for Pride and Prejudice so it will be lengthy so sorry for suddenly something popped up as I got distracted right so coming back to the topic so if we have given you 6 lectures of Jane Austen so you have read those 6 lectures in 2 hours then you have completed the lecture of 3-20 minutes you have to remember and you are done for the day if you make notes with yourself then at least you will start understanding 1-1.5 hours of one novel so we will read the 6 novels of Jane Austen so while doing those 6 novels you will take 6 hours then you will have to remember so time period will be filled that is the only demerit of going by your own way one demerit is that we analyze the previous papers and give you video lectures in which we cover all the topics from where the exam questions are coming we miss out on the topics from where the details we have to skip and we highlight the details from where they come plus we also tell you that this question came so you get in touch with it but if you want to make your own notes I made my own notes and I made all those notes and took 1 year and then I started the course so coming back to the timetable thing that I was sharing so British literature demands 2 months period then comes the next topic the most important topic which is literary theory and criticism you have to give it at least 1 month in British literature there are around 350 lectures there are 100 lectures now the reason why I am saying you literary terms and literary theory and criticism you have to touch the next so our module is 6 and 7 but we say you should cover it first because from here 20% questions come from here 50% questions come so 2 months you have to give to British literature 20% questions literary criticism and theory you have to give it 1 month then 3 months are done now the remaining 1.5 months you have to cover European, American, post-colonial, Indian literature and the last 1.5 months you have to cover all other units literary terms and devices, language and pedagogy literary movements, English and India and cultural studies you have to cover these these 15 questions come so if you see in 2 months British literature literary theory and criticism 3 months are done in 1.5 months 4 literature American, post-colonial, European Indian and in the last 1.5 months you have to cover other units other modules if you see syllabus on the side it will be clear what I am saying those who have not seen the syllabus we also apply this strategy if you have to prepare yourself then also apply because if you do this then in 6 months your syllabus is completed after this you need half a month for revision I am telling you very less but half a month you need for revision in this I did not include mock test practice despite that it is taking so much time so you see in our course there are 8-9 hundred lectures you will take 6 months to cover them and you have to give time for revision because if you did not revise then you must have forgotten many things and there will be no point in sitting in the exam so if you start from tomorrow that is 18th of June so if we see approximately 15 months of June then full July, August, September October, November, December till the end if there is paper in the middle then you have less time and 15 days of June 6 months in which you will cover 6 months syllabus and 15 days revision so if you have to study so much so please start your preparation if you do not get the guilt in December that I wish I did not waste this time one thing that I want all of you to understand I have covered it for example somebody says that I have read American Literature before this attempt now what to do now you do not do American Literature we will take it later in revision whatever units you have not done now you start doing those units until the result does not come some people think that if the result comes then we will waste what we will read after a month we will know that we have cleared the net it never happens and believe me or not many of my students who I have told this and they have said that what we have learnt in this month when we cleared the net we sat in the interview of the assistant professor we were asked questions that time this knowledge came to us so if you take extra studies and in case you get the net then do not be sad because what you have learnt you will have to study for the interview so based on your net certificate you will not get the entry to study you will have to give the interview in the interview you cannot say that I have done 3 units in the net so I can answer the questions it can be asked on post-colonial criticism it can be asked on literary terms any terminology that you have not studied for the net if you still study but in case you do not give the net if you get the net even that will help you in clearing the interview secondly, those who think that you can get the net you have to give an attempt for JRF so if you study for a month then you are preparing yourself for JRF your mind will say many times that you do not do it yet so let us relax I would suggest once take the JRF in your hand after taking the exam relax it it is better to do it later read it now give the exam later clear it and then chill and relax without guilt so this is what I think right so with that note I think I have covered all the pointers I made some rough notes which I had to share because I felt that I could not miss out I have covered almost everything which I had to say those who have seen this whole YouTube life I say it because I keep on doing that with my students but those who have seen this YouTube life I am very grateful that you all have listened so patiently and thank you for being such an interactive audience I was seeing that your comments are coming so I was not able to take a lot of questions but let me see if I can just share with you a few comments and answer a few questions and then I am going to wrap up you guys have to sleep because from tomorrow you are going to study I am pretty sure okay so I think okay there are too many questions okay so I have Taroshi saying thank you good evening thank you Anjali thank you so much so a lot of questions are there I think I am going to exceed the time limit so what I would suggest all of you is to think about Ponder Pound whatever I have said please don't get worried about whatever is happening in the UGC network exam whatever things are not in control our control is on our studies we should focus on our studies and then after focusing on studies we should focus on our results what will happen in the next exam what will be the result we cannot do anything about it so what is the point of thinking so much about it rather let's think about something where we can do something okay so with that note I would like to take a leave that's it from my side for this lecture till the time we meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to www.arpatakarwa.com bye bye good night