UGC NET English Dec 2025 - Topic-Wise Distribution

Sep 21, 2026

UGC NET English Dec 2025 topic-wise question distribution covering Research Aptitude, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Indian Literature, English Studies in India, Dalit Literature, and Reading Comprehension. Includes detailed multiple-choice practice items on MLA parenthetical citations and works-cited entries, matching research materials with source types, identifying incorrect in-text citations, selecting correct research-method statements, arranging thesis sections in chronological order, and applying assertion-reason logic. Also includes cultural studies and essay film sequencing questions with answer keys.

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Topic-Wise Distribution

Research Aptitude

Cultural Studies

Reading Comprehension

Literary Theory

UGC NET English Dec 2025 Topic-Wise Distribution Research Aptitude-5 questions Cultural Studies-4 Questions Literary Theory-23 Questions Literary Criticism-9 Questions Indian Literature-7 Questions English Studies In India-2 Questions Dalit Literature-1 Question British Literature-27 Questions Language and Linguistics-9 Questions American-1 Question Reading Comprehension-10 Questions Research Aptitude 51. Arrange the following list of the authors according to MLA Handbook 9thedition for parenthetical citations and works-cited-list entries: Rita Charon Sayantani Dasgupta Nellie Hermann Craig Irvine Eric R. Marcus Edger Rivera Colon Danielle Spencer Maura Spiegel 1. Charon, Rita. and Dasgupta, et al. 2. Charon, Rita, et al. 3. Charon, Rita and Dasgupta, Hermann, Irvine, Marcus, Colon, Spencer, Spiegel. 4. Rita Charon and others. Answer: 2 UGC NET English Dec 2025 Q.115 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Source) LIST-II (Types of Research Material) A. Bartleby I. World's largest bibliographic database B. Project Muse II. A repository of theses C. WorldCat III. A range of verse and fiction D. Shodhganga IV. Full Text research article Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II 2. A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV 3. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV 4. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II Answer: 1 Q. 139 Which of the following in-text citations is incorrect? 1. Others note that doctors have not yet adequately explained the effects climate change will have on human health (Lemery and Auerbach 4–5) . 2. According to Naomi Baron, reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing”(Baron 194) . 3. According to Gao Xingjian,“Literature in essence is divorced from utility”(7) . 4. The author knew Bureau de la Rivière, another of Charles V’s executors (Christine 192) . Answer: 2 Q 106 Which of the following statements are correct about research methods? A. Structuralism identifies structures in language, or systems of relationships with identities and meanings that shows us the ways in which we think. B. Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of language systems distinguishes between la langue and la parole. C. Sometimes called the "school of London," these new critics include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Tzvetan Todorov. UGC NET English Dec 2025 D. Shklovsky pointed out literature's constant tendency toward estrangement and defamiliarization to move readers away from habitual responses to ordinary experience. E. Jonathan Culler and Robert Scholes helped to bring psychoanalysis to the English language. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. A, B, and D Only 2. A, D, and E Only 3. B, D, and E Only 4. C, D, and E Only Answer: 1 Q.107 Arrange the following in chronological order of their appearance in the format of a thesis. A. Bibliography B. Introduction C. Conclusion D. Table of Contents E. Preface Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. E,D,B,C,A 2. E,B,C,D,A 3. D,B,C,A,E 4. D,B,A,C,E Answer: 1 Cultural Studies Q.52 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Author) LIST-II (Work/Show) J. Fiske I. Wracking Dallas R. Boothby II. Fiction and the Reading Public I. Aug III. Television Culture Q.D. Lewis IV. Aust Looking: Cossusser Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II 2. A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV 3. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III 4. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I Answer: 1 Q 102 Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Television is the popular cultural form of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reason R: Meanings and messages are not simply 'transmitted', they are always produced: first by the encoder from the 'raw' material of everyday life; second by the audience in relation to its location in other disco

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How is the question set organized in UGC NET English Dec 2025?

It is organized by topic categories such as Research Aptitude, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Indian Literature, English Studies in India, Dalit Literature, and Reading Comprehension.

What type of questions appear in the Research Aptitude section?

The section includes multiple-choice questions on MLA citation formats, matching research-material sources, identifying incorrect in-text citations, and selecting correct statements about research methods.

What skills are assessed in the Cultural Studies portion?

It focuses on matching authors to works/shows, interpreting concepts like popular cultural forms using assertion-reason reasoning, and identifying strategies/subcodes in media and ideology-related analysis.

Sep 21, 2026

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