 Hi everyone, a very very good evening to all of you. I am back again with another video where in I'm going to be talking about a few aspects which a lot of students have been asking on WhatsApp and calls. Before that a quick check whether all the devices are working perfectly. So just a second. I would really want if you guys can comment down if you guys can see my screen and can hear me clearly so that I can move ahead and talk about the topics that are displayed on your screen. I'm going to quickly cover a few topics today because a lot of students are worried and are awaiting the net result. Hi everyone, hi Zubi, hi Neho, Harsh, History of English, Anshika Kumari, hello everyone. Okay, so I'm going to quickly start if you guys can just comment if I'm audible to you. Great. Thank you so much Sarthak and History of English for the comments. Okay, so in today's video what I'm going to do is I am going to talk about a few things we are first going to look at the result date regarding the hassle. We are going to first talk about that. Secondly, I'm going to take you through the entire paper very quickly to tell you exactly how the paper was and we have received feedback from so many students. So we are going to quickly talk about that feedback as well that what is the overall market condition as of now what how many people are qualifying and what is going to be the qualifying marks for paper one and paper two what is a safe score so to say. I'm also going to talk about the expected cut-off and towards the end if time permits, I'm going to take you through the paper analysis as well. I am going to skip a few topics which are mentioned here because I've already covered this in detail in my last to last life. Okay, so if you've not seen it you can check this out. I explained the entire criteria of how the UGC net cut-off is calculated. I also spoke about the expected cut-off which we are going to quickly talk about but before that I want to take you through the result date. So as you guys know that the last exam happened on 14th of December 2023. The provisional answer key was released in the first week of January and the correction window opened right after that. So the final answer key and result that we are expecting the date range is going to be 16 to 20th of January and very 2024 that is from tomorrow onward. So you have to brace yourself up and fasten your seat belt because any time this week the result can be out. So if you guys are anxious and do not know what to do next, we are going to quickly take you through the expected answer key as well. Now without any further delay, I want to take you through the expected cut-off list. Okay, so for general category as of now our prediction is that the net qualifying percentage would be 58% and the GRF qualifying would be 64% and then I've also listed down the cut-offs for EWS, OBC, SC, ST and PWD. The paper in general wasn't tough at all. The paper as you guys who have been following the trend of UGC net are already aware that every time they kind of have different weightage to, they give different weightage to different portions, different units. This time surprisingly, just like 2017-18, they focus too much on post-colonial European and Indian literature. British literature no doubt has always held about 40 to 50% of the paper. I'm going to quickly talk about those key insights as well. Though I've not listed it down in PPT, but then I'm going to type it out on the screen so that you guys can see it. But as far as the expected cut-off list is concerned, for general category 58% is what we are expecting. And a lot of students are asking that, okay, how many questions needs to be correct in order to fall in this rain? So I have the calculator in front of you and I'm calculating right now that what is going to be a safe score. And I would want you guys to also calculate how many questions are you getting correct out of 150. Okay. So as you all know that there are 150 questions, each carry two marks of weightage. So total the paper is of 300 marks. And if we want to achieve 58% of 300, I am doing the math right in front of you. 300 into 58% is 174 divided by 2 is 87. So if you are getting near about 85 to 90 questions correct, that means it is a safe score. So Mila K-paper 1 and paper 2 may, if you are getting somewhere around 85 to 90 questions correct, so it is a good score for net. Though as far as the market condition is concerned, the number of students who have appeared for the exam, a lot of students have crossed more than 90, 95 questions. So the students that we spoke to in the last one week time, we found that about 170 students from our course are getting in this range of safe scores. So we are expecting that and we are still, you know, in touch with a few students, we could not connect to them or counsellors are still getting in touch with them. So we are expecting that about 200 students are going to qualify from our batch. I remember last time the number was 165. This time, since the paper was even more, I would not say easier, but it was more from what we have taught. We were able to analyze that, OK, these are the portions where they might focus and we kind of consciously added those lessons in our course. Because of that, I think that about 200 students are going to qualify net from our course because we've been in touch with the students and we are trying to find out that how many questions are they getting correct. So as for the analysis of that data, we have reached a conclusion that about 200 students are going to qualify this time from our batch and all of us are very, very happy. In my heartiest congratulations to each one of you out there who has put in so much effort to get through such a difficult exam. OK, so these are two things that I wanted to talk from this particular PPT. I did take this live a few days back. So this PPT is from that particular life. I just wanted to take you through these two topics expected cutoff and result date. Now, let us, OK, before that, I want to also give you an example. This time I saw that about 10 to 12 questions directly came from chronology and a lot of students who are not a part of our course and have recently joined us have been talking to us on phone and are asking that, OK, how do we prepare chronology? Because we have given all the PPT and everything. So if I show you, for example, let's say, OK, so these are few PPTs that I also showed in the last live where we talked about, you know, how to make notes. So, for example, let's let's take Francis Bacon for that matter. So Francis Bacon's work is publishing dates with him so that when you remember, you remember dates. But a lot of students have a very good question. How do we remember the chronology dates? So for that, we always suggest you that this time we are starting with this new series where we are going to teach chronology with the help of stories. OK, so this is one sample. This is Charles Dickens' full chronology. We put it in a story format. Similarly, in the story format, we are teaching chronology in our courses so that you can remember it in a story form. Like if you remember the sentence from My Very Educated Mother, you remember all the planets in the solar system in the same way. There's a job, we can see in Pickwick paper, Oliver Twist applies for it. So you have a story set in your mind. So this is one sample that I wanted to show you guys so that you exactly know how to do it. In this way, we are going to be sharing with you very soon. Our entire team is working on it and we have some amazing subject matter experts who have recently joined our team and all of us together are planning these kind of new lessons where students can grasp information quickly, can retain it for a longer period of time. So I wanted to share a sample with you. Those of you studying on your own, please ensure that you make such stories so that you can absorb the material even better. Or if you wish, you can even enroll in our program. So if you go to arpathakarva.com and you go to paper two, there's a video course on which we are right now giving 50% off, direct off on one month, one year and six months package. OK, so the entire demo material is mentioned here. You can check out all the lectures, everything from here. Then there are different pricing and we are giving it right at 50% costing. The entire syllabus is also displayed here, which I have explained in detail in my last YouTube live where I discussed the entire question paper. So I would really, really request that if you're actually serious to prepare for UGC net, please avail this offer. I'm also going to show you the poster. So this is a Makar Sakranti offer that we are running where you're getting flat 50% off on paper one and paper two both. So we are giving a complete video course where you don't have to study from any other source and these kind of chronological material we are going to provide you with. Other than that, you can also check out, you know, our video lectures, which is there. This is a sample PDF that we give to our students. So we explain all the stories and everything in mind map format so that it's like all these characters, they stick in your brain and you are able to retain it. Okay, so all these, you know, for all the writers, we have these kind of PDF, you name your work and we have a PDF for this. We have a separate video lecture where we talk about each and every character and right now this course is available at flat 50% off. So if you guys are really, really looking forward to clear this exam. See, we all know after looking at the cut off list that whether we fall in this range or not. If, let's say you are getting only 60 questions right out of 150 to very, very, it is very clear that you're not passing net this time. But that does not mean that you cannot pass it next time. So it is very important that you enroll a little earlier and qualify the exam. This is the last offer that is going to be there on the, you know, on our website where we are giving this flat 50% off. And this offer we are just giving because Makar Sakranti is very, very special to me because I really believe that just like kites, we all should fly high. And a kite can only fly high in the sky if it is attached, it is attached to a string and that string in our life is discipline. So if you have that discipline cast ring, you can fly really high. If you cut that discipline cast ring, then your kite might land in some barren land and you cannot enjoy that entire sky view. So just like kite, we have to rise high and dedication, consistency, our two, three beautiful virtues that you can keep with yourself and achieve the heights. So keeping that in mind, we are giving this 50% off. And if you're really interested, you can enroll in our course. These are the kind of PDFs you'll get. Also, there's an entire brochure in a course trailer that you can get. You just have to WhatsApp my team on this number that is displayed here. And my team is going to give you all the information. All the information is also available here on our website at Pratakarwa.com. Also, those of you who are not aware, we have uploaded all the past year papers. On our website as well. So the December paper is also here. You can directly check the entire paper with Ansaki, which is released by NTA and not just this time's paper. All the papers since 2004 is available. So, all the official papers with Ansaki is there, not just paper two, but paper one in all the other exams that we provide coaching for. One interesting thing is that this offer that we are giving is going to help you to also prepare for a gate exam, which is happening next month. OK, so if you buy our course, you can not only prepare for UGC net English, but you can give all the other competitive exam because UGC net English curriculum that kind of covers MA entrance, PhD entrance, UPSC and gate English literature, of course. So you can do all these exams with one course. So it is very, very important. The offer was valid only till 13th January, but because we were receiving heavy demands from students, we have extended the offer and it is going to be applicable for tomorrow as well. So if you are interested, please ensure that you buy the course by tomorrow. So this was something that I wanted to share with you now moving forward. I just wanted to show you the expected cutoff thing a little more clearly. You can have a look and if you are not falling in the cutoff range, that means if your answer like the total number of questions that you're getting right is below 80, then I would wholeheartedly suggest to you that please enroll or start preparing on your own. Don't wait for the result to come out because NPA at times takes 10 to 15 more days or sometimes a month more to release the result. They are busy with a lot of other formalities and that is why they're not able to like focus so much on the result. So that is the reason I don't want you to waste your crucial days and please focus on on the June attempt. OK, now moving forward to the next important topic, which I wanted to mention here. So overall, if we analyze the paper, I wanted to share some key pointers with you. Number one, so if we talk about British literature, British literature say, as usual, 50% questions I think one thing that you have to also understand British literature says if canonical writers say questions that he I think there are writers like John Clare, Jaha say questions that if you go to my syllabus, I would really recommend that even if you're preparing on your own, please ensure that you cover all the writers that we've listed here. We are giving you close to 450 video lectures on just British literature because we cover each and every topic. As you can see from past two, three years, they have stopped focusing on William Shakespeare, then there was not a single question from Shakespeare, but instead they focused on the Elizabethan Theatre. So here we have a lecture where we talk about early Elizabethan play. I'll just show you. So this type of information is that you don't have to miss out on. Just as John Clare asked a question this time. So John Clare, as you have to cover the writers, then there was a question on early Elizabethan play where they asked a question on the interludes. John, Heavard, Gore, Budak, these are all important things that you need to know. That is the reason why you cannot just focus on the canonical writers. So when I'm writing here, 50% questions came from British literature that includes for you to cover writers like John Clare, to cover important quotations, to cover subtitles and to also cover important magazines. So this time I think it's right here. I'll just show you this time. There was a question from Yes. So literally journals and only question questions, these are the journals, the important magazines. You need to know this is very important. So if you have only covered important writers, you have read T.S.Late, Virginia Wool, Charles Dickens, that is not enough. You have to know a lot of other information as well. I'll just show you one important thing. So let's say if you're talking about William Blake. So you know the main works of William Blake. But then these are some other minor works that he has written, which many people don't know. So it is very important that you know a few things about them. That's when you can get extra marks that many students miss out on. OK, so this is one thing. Another interesting thing is this time they focus too much on post-colonial Indian and European writers. So once a trend came out in 2017 to 2019 when post-colonial Indian and European people used to ask a lot of questions. Then after 2019, a trend shifted when they stopped focusing on these three literatures. Again, they have come back to this. Because see, if we talk about literature, then overall, that's all. The 13 modules that I have listed here, there is nothing outside of it. Anything that is written or translated in English is covered in this syllabus. It is so vast. So they shift their emphasis every time. They do it on a topic. Then suddenly a trend shifts, in which they take a little less importance to British and come to post-colonial. There are many times post-colonial questions are coming from Americans. So a good student who qualifies net in first attempt is the one who prepares all the 13 modules very thoroughly. That is the reason we have made this syllabus free of cost available so that you don't miss out on the important writers. So this time, if you see, they have asked a lot of questions. Specifically, if we talk about African writers. I can also show you, so let us, so in the literature, they have asked a question here. See, they have asked a question from post-colonial theory, Jean Reyes and Homi Ke Baba. Then I have kept all of them here for this reason. This question paper is available on the website. So if you have any questions, then please feel free to ask them in the comment section. This question paper is available on the website as well. I have kept it for my mother so that it becomes easier for you. Leo Tolstoy has actually asked three questions. I was surprised that he had less writers than one writer. He had to ask three questions. Chancellor Billion, one of the famous American writers, has asked a question there. Then if we talk about matching characters here, that is the reason why I always believe in giving you these diagrams. So that your brains are setting the characters. It should never happen that you have read a lot of novels, but you don't remember the names of the characters. Okay, another interesting thing, if we talk about any literature, be it British, post-colonial, Indian, American, so you know very important that what were the literary groups. That is the reason why I give you a different entire list where all these literary movements and schools are, and you should know all their writers, you should know their important canonical works. But it was a question from transcendentalism, it was a question from university with. Many times I have seen they have given question on naturalism, impressionism, once or twice I lost generation, they have asked a lot of questions. In an ordinary group, they had asked a few years ago. So keep on shifting like this. They know that literary movement, even though syllabus is not specified from there, they are going to give you two, three questions. Sometimes they will ask from university, sometimes from Sanok Ben, sometimes from KitKat Club. If you remember 50-50, then you can never get it wrong from anywhere. Okay, so chronology of this type, we don't just give it in this, even we give you sub-stories for remembering the name of all these writers. So if we talk about KitKat Club, we give all the writers in KitKat Club in this type of story format, so that you know the link of all of them. And we are starting a different, a whole different video lecture series is starting, where how you remember these details quickly, for that we will give you morning stories like this, so that it becomes very easy for you to memorize all these stuff. So our 900 video lectures series, where we do all the works of each writer in detail. Let's say Charles Dickens has great expectation. So you get all the videos of each section. Everything important, opening, closing lines, you get them all. You will not only get all the writers, but you will also get them on how to remember the authors. Okay, so this is another interesting thing that we are starting this time. Now, another important thing that is very, very common this time was chronological questions. For which I told you that such stories help a lot to retain it very, very quickly. Now, one very important thing that I have seen, if you are studying from the surface, that means you are only studying major British writers, all the major writers. So it is next to impossible for you to clear an exam as difficult as net. Why so? Because if you observe the whole paper as well, I have highlighted this whole paper so that you know from where the questions come. I have given you two boxes. One is self-preparation if you are doing one, if you are in our online course, then where will you get this writer? This is your topic, this topic is covered. So that you exactly know what to study and what not to study. So if you analyze the whole paper, then you will see very evidently that they were major writers. They asked a lot of in-depth questions and very tricky questions. And a lot of minor writers also asked questions. Okay, so let's say, if we talk about Virginia Woolf, which book has said this? Now, the one who has read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Let's Say To The Lighthouse, he might not be able to answer because you have to have knowledge of the rest of the novels. The rest of the non-fictional work that Virginia Woolf has written, it is very important to know about that. Okay, then if we talk further, so let's say he has asked the question of Partition Narratives. Then he has asked the questions of chronology. He has asked the questions of characters from novels. There are so many questions from literary theory and criticism. I think he has not left any theory that has no questions. That is the reason why if you look at literary theory, then I give you nearly 80 lectures on literary theory only because literary theory is very, very interesting and very simple. If you are taught in the right way, you can read a book and cover British literature with a book. You won't get a summary of every novel. You will miss a lot of facts and information of novels. He will give you an overview of the literature of that period. But still it is possible that you should read British literature. But literary theory is very impossible to understand with books for beginners. That is the reason why it is important. I always say that you should read the videos, go to YouTube, try to look out for lectures on literary theory from where you will get to know what is actually literary theory. And I would suggest you one thing. You can go and search for this on YouTube. If you look at my crash course on literary theory, you will get a basic idea on literary theory, which is a 36-minute video in which I have provided a lot of overview on literary theory. So if you don't know what literary theory is, please go and watch that video. If you understand it, then you can think of enrolling in the program because in that program, we cover literary theory in much more detail and much more depth. And as far as I have talked to the students so far, everyone has said that the reason why they were able to get beyond 90 questions right is because literary theory and criticism were their strengths. That was the strength, so they could get 10-15 extra marks, which they might not be able to get if they didn't read the literary theory in so much detail. Okay, now moving ahead, if we look a little more. So again, this question is from Ezra Pounce. They have touched upon American writers. John Clare is a very minor British writer, which we cover in our course under Romantic writers. You will find him there. So right here. So we all stop here. John Clare is a Romantic writer, a writer of Romantic age. It is very important to know the basics about him. Okay, then if we talk about Simon Lacra's concept again, literary theory. Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, I was telling you that Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities is a lot of people who read it. But the first thing you need to know when you read it is that it is written in London and Paris. So it is set in London and Paris. What is the opening line? What is the protagonist's corner? What is the backdrop? If you know the details, what are the names of the three books? After that, you should go to the summary of the novel. So there are some basic details that we cover in the course, which we really recommend that students who are reading it themselves should also take a look at our sample PDFs and make their notes according to them. Okay, then he has talked to Transcendental Colab American Literature. Then he has asked questions from cultural studies. If we talk here, then again the characters have to match with the work. She stoopes to conquer very, very famous play. She has talked about Antonio Grams' very famous literary theorist. Then she has talked about post-colonial and feminism. Then again, she has talked about the treat-card name Desire. She has talked about the play of Afra Ben, the novel of Afra Ben, and the work of Leo Tolstoy. So if you look at these questions that I have just highlighted, then you will be able to understand that somewhere, if the paper has not come from a very major writer, then if someone is reading the route logistic of English literature and thinks that he will clear the net, then the whole paper will look out of syllabus. But when you go through this list, you actually know that it is not out of syllabus, you have to read all this. But because you are not reading it, that is why you are looking out of syllabus. It is just like you are living in India. You don't know that there is another continent, you know, named Australia. So if you ever land on Australia, then you will feel that it has been created all of a sudden. It is not like that. It is from centuries. But you have never read about it, so for you, it is of any new thing. So similar to that is that if you are reading a book and you think that it will become so net, then when you look at the writers of literary theory, literary criticism in the paper, like Norm Chomsky, this time they have asked a lot of questions. I think they have asked Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall. So if you look at them, you will think that the paper was out of syllabus. Okay, now we are talking about Raymond Williams and the question is here. Amitabh Ghosh has come to the question. Then the intellect that I have told you that it is very important to know the historical background. We don't have to read the writers. Whenever we read any writer, so the very first thing that we do is we talk about the age, historic cultural background, political background, social events, what happened. They tell us and after that we study all the writers of that age. Okay, then again chronologically they have asked questions from Indian literature. They have asked from Indian aesthetics. In Indian aesthetics, I would really, really recommend that all the writers I have written here, you should read all these schools carefully. There is a whole series of them which I have given in English and India. So you can read them as well. They are free of cost available on YouTube as well. So if you want, you can watch those videos and you can prepare from there as well. Then we move on. So again, they might have asked a tricky question because they don't know who these writers are. They don't know who Dante is, Thomas Aquinas is. Now if you go here, then in European literature, if you don't read Dante, then you can't move forward. I mean, in Italian literature, the first writer we teach is Dante. If you know the works of Dante, then this question becomes easier. Okay, because you can set up chronologically. Similarly, if you talk about criticism, then we won't just study Dryden or Pope. We study Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Thomas Hobbes. So you need to know a lot about these works as well. And one of the works that you will get from Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Mallory, we all know, is from the Old and Middle English literature. I gave it to him as well. I think I gave it to him as well. So he wrote about Thomas Mallory. So these are some things that we tell very quickly in the course because you can solve these extra questions from here. Many people can't clear the net from these two marks because they miss out on these important information. So my suggestion to you would be very, very simple, that if we talk about clearing the net, then you should keep this cut-off in mind. The result will come in 4-5 days. So if you are doing the correct answer below 90 questions, by combining paper 1 and 2, so it is a high time that you start your preparation. Before starting the preparation, I would really recommend that you visit the website once, visit the syllabus, and then cover the syllabus chronologically. When you are covering chronologically, make stories of this type. And another interesting thing, if you are really, really eager to clear the net in the first time and if you want more such chronological stories just that you can remember things. So I would really recommend you to join our course because in our course, we cover all these topics in too much detail. I mean, I teach students in so much detail that no matter where the question comes from, they always feel that 90% of the paper they have read has come from there. And that is what they claim also. I would really recommend that 50% off is going on. If you are actually interested, please enrol because I would never want you guys to pay more than what you should. So if there is an offer and you actually want if you are not in cut-off range, you are not answering 85-90 questions. So it is very, very important that you start your preparation from now on. Paper 1 and paper 2 costs are also valid. If you just want to buy paper 2, that option is also available. Okay, so with that note, I would like to take your leave. I am really, really interested to know in the comments below that what is your result, your questions, what range are you calling? Are you able to clear the cut-off? Are you not able to clear the cut-off? Because there is this very, very interesting thing that I would want to share with you. So anybody who is not fitting in that cut-off range, I would want you to go through this particular slide, pause the video and absorb what I have written. It is very, very important that we do not criticise ourselves. We say to ourselves, okay, it is fine that we did not do good but it does not mean that I have no potential. I can prepare well this time and I can definitely clear net in the next attempt. So do not criticise yourself. Do not keep yourself in a state of denial. It is better that we face the reality. We learn from our mistakes and then we decide to be the best version of ourselves. Okay, so with that positive note, I would like to take your leave. That is it from my side for this video lecture. I will meet you very soon in the next video lecture. Till the time we meet next, happy learning. Keep loving literature.