UGC NET and SET
Preparing for the eligibility exams, without the guesswork.
Written by Asst. Prof. Geetika Rai. For net and set candidates.
Preparing for the eligibility exams, without the guesswork.
Written by Asst. Prof. Geetika Rai. For net and set candidates.
The eligibility exams decide who teaches and who is funded to do research, and most of what is written about them online is either a syllabus copied from a PDF or a promise about cut-offs nobody can keep. What is here instead: how to read a notification, what the paper has actually asked over the years, and which state's exam is genuinely yours. Every official fact carries the date it was checked and a link to the body that published it.
| Post | The angle | |
|---|---|---|
| The unit most candidates leave last | Research methodology and statistics is not the hard unit. It is the payable one. | Read → |
| Which SET is yours | A State Eligibility Test qualifies you for that state. Sitting the wrong one costs a year. | not written yet |
| How to read a notification | The four things in it that actually decide your attempt. | not written yet |
Research methodology is not the hard unit. It is the payable one.
Ask a NET candidate in month one what they are studying and you will hear personality, or social, or cognitive. Ask them about research methodology and statistics and you will usually get a sentence about doing it later. I have watched this happen for years, and later almost always means the last fortnight.
Read more on this → 8 Aug 2026
| Psychology myths | Things almost everyone believes, that the evidence settled years ago |
|---|---|
| Careers in psychology | Routes, regulation, and what the work is actually like |
| Student mental health | Exam pressure, and what helps — for students and parents |
| Growing up in India | Development research, read against the households it happens in |
| Reading research | How to read a paper properly, and where Indian work is published |
| Concepts explained | The ideas students reliably get stuck on, one at a time |
| Teaching psychology | What lands in a room, what does not, and why |