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Competitive MCQ-Exams/Tests and English Studies: Musings on NET (December 30, 2012) of English.

Thank you University Grants Commission, also known as ‘You Get Cash’, for making me nearly mad during the last National ‘Eligibility’ Test and thereby revealing to me in an epiphanic moment about paper. Before I go on to my paper, let me make clear in the very outset itself that here we will not discuss the recent lawsuits between UGC and the students. I will not address the issues such as the validity of judicial judgments or the quality and standard of NET. This paper is not for that. Now, with your consent, to my paper.
This paper will seek to address the changes in the nature, methodology of study, pattern of questions, the scope, range,
We needs to competent in closer reading and analysis of English, I think. Moreover, questions could also include origin, history, development and growth of English language, the English, anything...I think, now you know where this may end…you name it! To take this point to a higher level, the questions now tend to test your knowledge about allusions, dedications, sources of epigraphs, subtitles, closing paragraphs, opening paragraphs ,award committees, criteria for awards, who publishes what and what not…This seems to end up in an anything goes attitude! Now ,the irony is that when I searched the www.ugcnetonline site, I found that the UGC still maintains a syllabus of study for English NET. Towards the end of the list, I saw this word ‘contemporary’ in it. It took some time for me to realize the ‘danger’ the word carries with it! I would argue that that syllabus is only a generally generalized text. ‘One who generalizes, generally, lies!’ The statement could be extended to say that the reading lists and supplementary reading lists, if there are any, are also wonderful