What is the difference between CSIR NET exam and Ugc net exam? How much is the cutoff to get JRF?
Are you confused about CSIR NET and UGC NET?For the granting of the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and to establish the eligibility of the applicants as professors, the National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts CSIR NET and UGC NET. Both these exams are conducted at the national level by National Testing Agency. The UGC NET exam is organised for eighty-one subjects from different streams. On the other hand, the council of Industrial Research National Eligibility Test is also conducted in specific subject areas that fall under the exact faculty of Technology and science. Check it in detail below thank you
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The core difference between CSIR NET and UGC NET is that the former is only meant for science stream only for five subjects such as physical science/mathematical science/biological science/chemical science/earth science
on the other hand UGC NET is for subjects pertaining to humanities, social science, computer science and applications to name a few, it includes a total of 81 subjects, check out at https://www.ugc.ac.in/net/syllabus.aspx to know more details regarding this
the eligibility criteria for UGC NET is passed master's degree in relevant discipline from a recognized university securing 55% aggregate, there is relaxation of 5% for reserved categories, in case of CSIR NET those who have completed BTech/Bpharm/BS degree of four years/Integrated MSc or BS-MS securing 55% aggregate are also eligible to apply,
check out previous year cut-offs in case of CSIR NET at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/csir-ugc-net-cut-off
check out previous year cut-offs in case of UGC NET at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/ugc-net-cutoff
Both CSIR NET and UGC NET has got JRF/lectureship, though in case of JRF there is age limit such as 28 years for CSIR NET as on 1st January of the appearing year for UGC NET it's but for lectureship there is no age limit. for UGC NET this year the age limit is increased to 31 years through generally it's 30 years, these exams are conducted twice a year separately by NTA, visit the respective pages of the entrance exam as mentioned below to know more details regarding this-
CSIR NET - https://competition.careers360.com/exams/csir-ugc-net
