UGC NET Previous Year Question Papers

The examination for UGC NET is held twice in a year to recruit candidates who wish to teach in universities as assistant professors or grant Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for the selected applicants interested in research.   

To clear a complex exam like UGC NET, the candidates require to have a thorough understanding of the exam structure and an assessment of their preparation for the exam.  

One of the effective ways to do is to practice the previous year question papers for UGC NET exam. The practice of solving past year question papers help in familiarizing with exam pattern, type of questions asked and in the identification of the key topics provided for the syllabus.  

If you are gearing to prepare for UGC NET 2024 exam, then it becomes important to carefully go through the UGC NET previous year question papers.

To help with you with that, in this blog, I have provided you with complete information about UGC NET previous year question papers which includes UGC NET Paper 1 question papers, UGC NET Management Question Papers, UGC NET Commerce Question Papers and along with that given the benefits of solving the UGC NET previous year question papers.  

So, without further ado, let’s get started! 

UGC NET Previous Year Papers

As I have mentioned above, when it comes to cracking the UGC NET exam, practicing the previous years papers play an important role in your exam preparation.  

Solving the previous year question papers provide you an insight about the important topics to cover and with adequate practice help you analyze your strengths and weaknesses.  

For UGC NET 2024 exam preparation, going through the previous year papers is great way to familiarize with the exam’s nature.    

Therefore, I have provided for you below, the links to download the UGC NET Management previous year question papers and UGC NET Commerce previous year Question Papers.  

Before you proceed to knowing more about previous year’s questions, you must know about the books that will be helpful in your preparation and to assist you in your selection of best books, you can refer to my recommended booklist of UGC NET 2024.  

In the table below, I have provided the UGC NET December 2023 question papers of Commerce and Management subject:

Now, that you have gone through the UGC NET Commerce question paper and of Management subject question paper, you will gain an overall idea of the nature of exam. 

As some of the questions get repeated in UGC NET paper, then it becomes important to go through the previous year papers to not miss those extra marks and realize the significance of solving previous year papers.  

For your convenience, I have already listed down the important topics from the UGC NET syllabus, you can directly go to the UGC NET Syllabus.

With that said, let me now look at the benefits of practicing UGC NET previous years’ question papers. 

Importance of Solving UGC NET Question Papers

In this section I will highlight the importance of solving previous years’ papers which includes UGC NET previous year question paper 1 as well as past year papers of optional subjects of Commerce and Management. The key benefits of solving the UGC NET past year papers are as follows:

Importance of Solving UGC NET Previous Year Question Papers:

1. Helps understand the Exam Pattern –

Solving the previous year papers will help in understanding the test design followed by NTA NET in the real exam.  

In case you haven’t gone through the exam pattern yet, you can check the latest UGC NET exam pattern here.

2. Helps Prepare for the difficulty level of questions –

Practicing the UGC NET past year question papers will get you acquainted with the difficulty level of the questions asked in both the UGC NET Papers of Paper-I and Paper-II. 

3. Develops understanding of the Important topics –

Rehearsing the UGC NET previous year question papers will help you in identifying and covering the crucial topics that are given in the syllabus. 

4. Identify and balance Strong and Weak areas –

An adequate practice of previous year question papers will help you in analyzing your strengths and weaknesses and work on improving them accordingly.

5. Increases Accuracy –

Another benefit that comes along with solving previous year papers is the increase in accuracy as the previous year papers also help in the application of elimination technique which increases the number of questions attempted correctly in the exam.

Aside from going through the previous year’s question papers, you can also attempt UGC NET mock tests which I have provided to ensure your progress during exam preparation.

UGC NET Paper 1 & 2 (commerce and Management) Question Paper

You can download the past years’ UGC NET question papers with solutions for the years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 through the links provided below:

With the table provided above, you can go through the Commerce past year papers and UGC NET Management question papers to prepare well in these subjects.

Conclusion

We have arrived at the end of the section. I have provided the UGC NET previous-year papers so that you can download and practice these papers to amplify your preparation.

Along with this, I have also discussed in detail the benefits of solving these previous-year papers so that you understand the relevance of practicing past year papers. 

Work hard & stay motivated!!