This is an English medium book from McGraw Hill by Dr. Arpita Karwa (Ph.D., NTA Gold Medalist) — a courseware volume for the compulsory General Paper-I, Teaching and Research Aptitude, of the NTA UGC NET, SET and JRF examinations. It is the 3rd edition for 2026, includes the solved papers of NET June 2025 and January 2026, and carries digital support with HD video lectures accessible by QR code. The entire book is written in English in the Roman script; candidates preparing in Hindi should look for the Hindi medium edition of the title.
Paper-I is the one paper every NET candidate sits regardless of subject, and it is where the qualifying margin is most often found. This is not because it is difficult. It is because it is unfamiliar. A candidate has spent years in their own discipline and now faces teaching aptitude, research aptitude, comprehension, communication, logical and mathematical reasoning, data interpretation, ICT, people-environment-development and higher education systems — ten units, none of which their postgraduate work prepared them for. Many treat it as the paper that will look after itself, and lose the JRF on it.
Its saving grace is that Paper-I is stable and finite in a way that Paper-2 is not. The syllabus does not change, the question types recur, and the reasoning and DI portions are learnable skills rather than knowledge to accumulate. That makes it the paper where a fixed quantity of directed preparation produces a predictable return — which is exactly what a courseware structure, with worked content, question practice and video explanation, is designed to deliver.
The inclusion of the June 2025 and January 2026 solved papers matters: recent sittings show the current level and phrasing better than any description of the syllabus can.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script)
Author: Dr. Arpita Karwa (Ph.D., NTA Gold Medalist)
Published by McGraw Hill
3rd Edition, for 2026
For NTA UGC NET, SET and JRF — compulsory General Paper-I
Teaching and Research Aptitude
Includes NET June 2025 solved paper
Includes NET January 2026 solved paper
HD video lectures and digital support via QR code
Covers teaching aptitude and research aptitude
Covers comprehension and communication
Covers logical reasoning and mathematical reasoning
Covers data interpretation and ICT
Covers people, development and environment
Covers higher education system
The one paper every NET candidate sits, whatever their subject
A stable, finite syllabus where directed preparation gives a predictable return
मैकग्रा हिल द्वारा प्रकाशित तथा डॉ. अर्पिता करवा (पी-एच.डी., NTA गोल्ड मेडलिस्ट) द्वारा लिखित यह कोर्सवेयर NTA UGC नेट, सेट एवं जेआरएफ के अनिवार्य सामान्य प्रश्न-पत्र प्रथम — शिक्षण एवं शोध अभिवृत्ति — हेतु तैयार किया गया है, तृतीय संस्करण 2026, जिसमें नेट जून 2025 एवं जनवरी 2026 के हल प्रश्न-पत्र तथा QR कोड द्वारा HD वीडियो लेक्चर सुविधा सम्मिलित है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं — हिन्दी माध्यम के अभ्यर्थी इसका हिन्दी संस्करण देखें। प्रश्न-पत्र प्रथम प्रत्येक अभ्यर्थी को देना होता है, चाहे विषय कोई भी हो, और अर्हता का अंतर प्रायः यहीं बनता है — कठिनाई के कारण नहीं, अपरिचय के कारण: अभ्यर्थी वर्षों अपने विषय में रहा होता है और यहाँ शिक्षण अभिवृत्ति, शोध अभिवृत्ति, तर्कशक्ति, आँकड़ा निर्वचन, ICT तथा उच्च शिक्षा प्रणाली जैसी दस इकाइयाँ सामने आती हैं। किन्तु इसकी विशेषता यह है कि यह पाठ्यक्रम स्थिर एवं सीमित है, अतः निश्चित मात्रा में लक्षित तैयारी से यहाँ निश्चित परिणाम मिलता है।
