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Are you preparing for the UGC NET Law Paper? As an aspiring law scholar, you must have a sound understanding of various legal topics. However, given the vastness of the subject, it can be challenging to identify the most important topics to focus on.
From Constitutional Law to International Law, we'll cover everything you need to know to succeed in this exam.
We'll also provide tips and tricks to help you memorize and understand these complex concepts. So, whether you're a beginner or an experienced law student, this post is for you. So, let's dive in and prepare for UGC NET Law Paper!
Important Topics for UGC NET Law Paper - Overview
The syllabus of the University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) 2023 is very comprehensive. So, to understand and study the complete syllabus of UGC NET 2023, we need an intelligent preparation strategy, and that intelligent strategy is to mark the important topics of each section.
The UGC NET 2023 candidates should figure out the important topics based on the weightage of the topics. You should mark out the important topics at the start of your preparation so that you can focus and invest your time in covering those topics first.
Important Topics of UGC NET Law Paper 1 2023
The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) 2023 law paper 1 is 100 marks.
The UGC NET law paper 1 consists of 50 multiple-choice questions (MCQs). For each correct answer, 2 marks are allotted, and there is no negative marking for any wrong answer. The time allotted for paper 1 is 90 minutes.
Important Topics of UGC NET Law Paper 1 are as follows:
Teaching Aptitude
Research Aptitude
Reading Comprehension
Communication
Reasoning (including mathematical)
Logical Reasoning
Data Interpretation
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
People, Development, and Environment
Higher Education System: Governance, Polity, and Administration
1. Teaching Aptitude
Teaching: Nature, Objectives, Characteristics, and Basic Requirements
Learner's Characteristics
Factors Affecting Teaching
Methods of Teaching
Teaching Aids
Evaluation System
2. Research Aptitude
Research: Meaning, Characteristics, and Types
Steps of Research
Methods of Research
Research Ethics
Paper, Article, Workshop, Seminar, Conference, and Symposium
Thesis Writing: its Characteristics and Format
3. Reading Comprehension
A passage to be set with questions to be answered.
4. Communication
Communication: Nature, Characteristics, Types, Barriers, and Effective Classroom Communication.
5. Reasoning (including mathematical)
Number Series
Letter Series
Codes
Relationships
Classification
6. Logical Reasoning
Understanding the structure of arguments
Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
Verbal analogies; Word analogy - Applied Analogy
Verbal classification
Reasoning Logical Diagrams; Simple diagrammatic Relationship, Multi - diagrammatic relationship
Venn diagram; Analytical Reasoning
7. Data Interpretation
Sources, Acquisition, and Interpretation of Data
Quantitative and Qualitative Data
Graphical Representation and Mapping of Data
8. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
ICT: Meaning, Advantages, Disadvantages, and uses
General Abbreviations and Terminology
Basics of Internet and e-mailing
9. People, Development, and Environment
People and Environment Interaction
Sources of Pollution
Pollutants and their impact on human life, exploitation of natural and energy resources
Natural Hazards and mitigation
10. Higher Education System: Governance, Polity, and Administration.
Structure of the institution for higher learning and research in India; formal and distance education; professional/technical and general education; value governance, polity, and administration; concept, institutions, and their interactions.
The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) 2023 law paper 2 is 200 marks. The UGC NET law paper 2 consists of 100 multiple-choice questions (MCQs). For each correct answer, 2 marks are allotted, and there is no negative marking for any wrong answer. The time allotted for paper 2 is 180 minutes.
UGC NET Paper 2 is a subject-specific test and consists of 82 subjects.
The list of all 82 subjects for paper 2 of the UGC NET 2023 is as follows:
Economics / Rural Economics / Co-operation / Demography / Development Planning/ Development Studies / Econometrics / Applied Economics / Development Economics / Business Economics
Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting / Sculpture Graphics / Applied Art / History of Art)
Geography
Social Medicine and Community Health
Forensic Science
Pali
Kashmiri
Konkani
Computer Science and Applications
Electronic Science
Environmental Sciences
Politics, including International Relations / International Studies including Defence / Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, and American Studies
The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) 2023 law paper 2 is 200 marks. The UGC NET law paper 2 consists of 100 multiple-choice questions (MCQs).
For each correct answer, 2 marks are allotted, and there is no negative marking for any wrong answer. The time allotted for paper 2 is 180 minutes. CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Preamble, fundamental rights, and duties, directive principles of state policy.
Union and State executives and their interrelationship
Union and State legislature and distribution of legislative powers
Judiciary
Emergency provisions
Temporary, transitional, and special provisions in respect of certain states
Election Commission of India
Nature, scope, and importance of administrative law
Principle of natural justice
Judicial review of administrative actions – Grounds.
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IHL
International law – Definition, nature, and basis
Sources of International law
Recognition of states and governments
Nationality, immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Extradition and asylum
United Nations and its organs
Settlement of international disputes
World Trade Organization (WTO)
International humanitarian law (IHL) - Conventions and protocols
Implementation of IHL - Challenges
JURISPRUDENCE
Nature and sources of law
Schools of jurisprudence
Law and morality
Concept of rights and duties
Legal personality
Concepts of property, ownership, and possession
Concept of liability
Law, poverty, and development
Global justice
Modernism and post-modernism
COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW AND SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE
Comparative Law – Relevance, methodology, problems, and concerns in Comparison
Forms of governments – Presidential and parliamentary, unitary and federal
Models of federalism – USA, Canada, and India
Rule of Law – 'Formal' and 'substantive' versions
Separation of powers – India, UK, USA and France
Independence of the judiciary, judicial activism and accountability – India, UK, and USA
Systems of constitutional review – India, USA, Switzerland, and France
Amendment of the Constitution – India, USA and South Africa
Ombudsman –Sweden, UK, and India
Open Government and Right to Information - USA, UK, and India
Some of the important topics are important, but as much as the above-mentioned important topics are. So some of the important topics are as follows:
LAW OF CRIMES
General principles of criminal liability – Actus reus and men's rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability
Stages of crime and inchoate crimes - Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt
General exceptions
Offences against a human body
Offences against state and terrorism
Offences against property
Offences against women and children
Drug trafficking and counterfeiting
Offences against public tranquillity
Theories and kinds of punishments, compensation to the victims of crime
Meaning and concept of 'environment' and 'environmental pollution
International environmental law and UN Conferences
Constitutional and legal framework for the protection of the environment in India
Environmental Impact Assessment and control of hazardous waste in India
National Green Tribunal
Concept and development of human rights
Universalism and cultural relativism
International Bill of Rights
Group rights – Women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker sections
Protection and enforcement of human rights in India – National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Commission for Women, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Schedule Tribes and National Commission for Backward Classes
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW
Concept and meaning of intellectual property
Theories of intellectual property
International conventions about intellectual properties
Copyright and neighbouring rights – Subject matters, limitations and exceptions, infringement, and remedies
Law of patent – Patentability, the procedure for grant of a patent, limitations, exceptions, infringement and remedies
Law of trademark – Registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing off remedies
Protection of Geographical Indications
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
Information technology law- digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance, electronic records and duties of subscribers
Cyber crimes, penalties and adjudication
UGC NET Law Preparation Books
The table below shows the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) Law Preparation Books: -
Book Name
Author Name
Book Price
NTA UGC NET Law Paper 2 Paperback – 12 March 2021
Tushar Shukla, Rohit Raj, and Amibh Kumar
Rs. 583/-
TOPPERSNOTES UGC NET Paper 2 Law Study Material For National Eligibility Test 2022 Examination Set of 3 Books in English Latest Edition Paperback – 1 January 2022
Toppersnotes
Rs. 1724/-
Simplified Approach to UGC NET LAW - Including Previous Years' Papers Paperback – 1 January 2022
Dr Amritpal Kaur, Jai Gautam, and Shreeram
Rs. 805/-
Trueman's UGC NET Law Paperback – 1 January 2023
Suman Chauhan
Rs. 500/-
NTA UGC NET Law Paper II 2020 Paperback – 2 March 2020
Tushar Shukla and Raman Vashishtha
Rs. 462/-
UGC NET Law 2023 Preparation Tips
You should follow the preparation tips and tricks below to ace and score well in the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) Law paper.
1. Focus on Limited Study Material
You don't have to search or study from every available study material. You should have limited study material, for example: for law subject study from 1 book which has all the information and all types of questions related to law.
Study material does not mean only books. Study material includes all educational sources like books, youtube channels, coaching institute notes, etc.
So, study from one or two sources only for the UGC NET 2023 and study with full dedication and focus on achieving your goal easily.
2. Attempt Mocks
Start attempting and practising mock tests because while attempting mocks, you will learn so much about the exam pattern and examination that will help you easily crack the UGC NET 2023 eligibility test.
You must practice at least 40 to 50 mocks before the UGC NET 2023 examination, so start attempting mocks from today onwards.
To attempt mocks, you can join various coaching institutes. You can enrol in our LegalEdge's mock and purchase our LegalEdge's mock test series for practice.
You will get a mock test series of 50 tests from our website LegalEdge. It is not compulsory to purchase from us. You can purchase mock test series from any website, but practice mocks. It will greatly help you in your UGC NET 2023 preparation and examination.
The benefit of solving mock tests is that you will solve 100 questions in one mock test, and if you are attempting around 30 to 40 mock tests, you will get to solve around 4000+ questions. And in that 4000+ questions, you will get all types of questions that can come in the UGC NET 2023 examination.
After attempting the mocks, analyze them, find your mistake, and try to rectify it. Do not repeat the same mistake again in the next mock.
Prepare a copy or register and note your mistakes and what new you have learned while attempting or analyzing the mocks.
3. Revision of Current Affairs From May 2022
If you start revising the current affairs from May 2022, you will know that many topics or news from the last 4 months you have left will be covered only in that revision. That's why I recommend you start revising current affairs in May and revise it by December.
You can revise the current affairs from our uploaded videos on our Youtube channel of LegalEdge. It will help you prepare well for the UGC NET 2023 entrance examination.
For the current affairs section, revision is a must because current affairs are a topic that if you study at night, then the next morning you will forget, so it requires proper revision of each and every topic.
4. Fear of Failure
When your UGC NET 2023 examination is near, you will fear that you might fail the examination. That fear of failure is good, don't worry; every student goes with this fear of failure.
As much as you fear, your performance will also improve. The fear of failure helps you to enhance your performance due to the fear you will study more, and that is beneficial for you.
As per our data analysis, we learned that students perform exceptionally well under high pressure.
If you fear the examination, studying more for good results is good.
5. Make Short Notes
Students should prepare a question bank for every major and minor section of the law subject.
The students should prepare a question bank of 50 questions from each major topic, consider the previous year's question paper of their choice, and create 50 HOTS questions. So this question bank will provide you with the best guidance during revision.
6. Make Your Own Strategy
Start practising a comprehensive test series through which your ability to complete the test and your speed will increase.
Don't listen to anybody. Make your own strategy the way you like to study. If you want to study law or English first, that is up to you. But make that strategy that is beneficial for you. Or that helps you to study easily and improves your performance.
Make a proper timetable for studying each and every subject.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the UGC NET Law Paper covers a wide range of legal topics, and a thorough understanding of the principles and concepts in these areas is essential to succeed. By focusing on the above-listed topics and preparing diligently, you can ace the exam and achieve your dreams of becoming a lawyer. Good luck!