Other Courses Offered

Eligibility:
Candidates who have secured at least 55%(without rounding off) marks / 50% for i. SC/ST candidates in Masters Degree examination and ii. For the candidate who have completed their Ph.D. degree prior to 19.9.91 in the following or related subjects are eligible for appearing in the Joint CSIR-UGC test.

S. No.	Name of the Subject Area
1.	Chemical Sciences
2.	Earth, Atmospheric : Ocean & Planetary Sciences
3.	Life Sciences
4.	Mathematical Sciences : Mathematics & Statistics
5.	Physical Sciences

Eligibility:
Candidates who are in the final year of M.Sc. or equivalent examination can also apply for the test. However, such candidates will be considered eligible for JRFs/LS only after they have passed the Masters Degree examination or equivalent with atleast 55% marks in the relevant or related subject.

(iii) Age Limit : The upper age limit for admission to the eligibility test is as under :.

(a) For Junior Research Fellowship :

28 years for December / June of the corresponding years exam, relaxable upto 5 years in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC, physically handicapped and women applicants.

(b) For lecturership :

Candidates above 28 years of age are also eligible for appearing in NET for lecturership only. (No upper age limit).

The test will consist of two papers :

(i). Paper I

Paper I will consist of two sections :

Section A and Section B

Section A will consist of 30 questions on general information on science and its interface with society to test the candidates awareness of science, aptitude for scientific research and quantitative reasoning and also a few questions from common elementary computer science.

Section B will consist of 70 objective type questions from the subject area chosen by the candidate. Each question will carry 2 marks. In the subject "Mathematical Sciences" the candidate will have to attempt any 50 questions out of the given 70 questions in Section B; each carrying 2.8 marks.

Negative marking will be there for wrong answers.

Paper I will be of 2 hours 15 minutes duration and will carry maximum of 200 marks.

(ii).Paper II

Paper II will consist of number of questions requiring descriptive answers (of maximum one page length). The candidate is required to answer a specific number of questions ranging from 10 to 20 in his/her opted subject.

The paper will be of 2 hours and 30 minutes duration and will carry maximum of 200 marks. The final result will be based on aggregate of marks secured in both the papers.
A candidate who does not appear in Paper I will not be permitted to appear in Paper II, i.e., every candidate will have to appear in both the papers.

Candidates qualifying for the award of Junior Research Fellowship JRF(NET) will receive fellowship either from CSIR or UGC as per their assignment or from the Schemes to which they may find association.

The value of the fellowship is at present Rs. 12,000/- per month. It will be governed by terms and conditions of CSIR, UGC or Scheme, as applicable.

The number of fellowship for each subject is limited, SC/ST/OBC applicants will be given such special considerations as may be decided by the Co-ordination Committee as per policy guidelines.

The duration of fellowship will be initially for 2 years carrying a monthly stipend of Rs .12,000/-. On Completion of two years as Junior Research Fellow(JRF), the stipend of a Fellow may be increased to Rs. 14,000/-pm for the 3rd year on the basis of assessment of candidates research progress / achievements through interview by an Expert Committee; upon such a recommendation a fellow will be called SRF(NET). In the event of the Committee not recommending upgradation, the Fellow will continue as JRF(NET) with a stipend of Rs. 12,000/- per month for the 3rd year or his/her fellowship may be terminated depending upon the decision of the Committee.The progress of research work of JRF(NET)/SRF (NET) will be assessed again at the end of 3rd year following the procedure adopted at the end of 2nd year. If the work of JRF(NET) is still not found satisfactory for upgradation, the fellowship will be terminated.The total tenure as JRF(NET) plus SRF(NET) shall not exceed 5 years.

ELITE - JCU - June 2008 / December 2008

We conduct correspondence courses for
1. Physics
2. Mathematics
3. Chemistry
4. Life Science
5. Statistics.

Our course is based on the NET syllabus. It consists of extensive theory covering all the topics in the syllabus. As the syllabus of NET is vast, we have covered the entire syllabus in a concise, lucid manner giving adequate stress to the important theory parts, so as to enable the student to prepare well and face the NET with confidence.A large number of theoretical questions, numerical problems (solved and unsolved)have been provided. 2 Model Test papers are provided towards the end of the course. Our course is useful for SET / SLET of various states.

We are providing course material for :
1) Paper-IA - General Paper and Computer Science.
2) Paper - IB & Paper - II - Concerned subject mentioned above.

Paper - IA (General Paper) is provided in 4 volumes.
Paper-IA (Computer Science) is provided in 4 volumes
Paper-IB (Concerned subject) - is provided in 4 volumes
Paper-II (Concerned subject) - is provided in 10-15 volumes

For detailed prospectus click here