UGC NET in Computer Science

Exam pattern

The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test has recently introduced a new exam pattern. All the questions will be multiple choice objective types. There will be 60 questions in paper 1. Of these candidates are required to attempt only 50 questions. Paper 2 and Paper 3 comprise of fifty and seventy five questions respectively. Candidates are required to answer all questions in these sections. The maximum marks allotted for Paper 1 and Paper 2 is two hundred. Paper 3 will contain questions for a maximum of 150 marks. There is no negative marking in this exam. Candidates are required to score a minimum of 40 % marks in paper 1 and paper 2 so as to clear the cut off. 50 % marks is required to qualify paper 3.

Reference books for UGC NET Computer Science

• UGC University Grants Commission NET/SET for Lectureship Exam Paper I (Compulsory) - As per new syllabus by GKP
• UGC NET/JRF/SLET Teaching & Research Aptitude (General Paper-I) by Lal Jain, K. C. Vashistha
• UGC NET Digest Teaching and Research Aptitude (General Paper - I) by Dr. M. L. Kamlesh
• UGC - JRF & Lectureship Paper I Teaching and Research Aptitude by Dr. M S Ansari
• Discrete Mathematical Structures by Baker
• Computer System Architecture by M.Morris Mano
• Computer Organisation by Karl Hamachar,Zaky
• DBMS by Raghu Rama Krishnan
• Fundamental Of Databse System by Navathe
• Database Concepts by Korth
• Intro To Datastructures  By Trembley
• Fundamentals Of Data structure By A M Padmareddy
• Data communication by Forouzan
• Unix Programming by R.Stevensons
• Theory Of Langauages by Aho Ullman
• System Programming by Jhon J Donovan
• Software Engineering Concepts by Pressman Or Somerville
• Principles Of Compiler Design by Aho Ullman R.Sethi
• Operating System Concepts by A.Galvin
• Neural Network Fundamentals With Graphs ,Algorithms by N.K.Bose ,P.Liang
• Introduction To Algorithms by Coreman
• Fundamental Of Algorithms by Sahani & Others
• Computer Networks by Leon Garcia,Widja
• Computer Graphics C Version by H.Backer
• Comipiler Construction by D M Dhamdhere
• Finite Automata And Languages by Am Padmareddy

Apart from these books, candidates are advised to refer textbooks studied during the Bachelor’s and Master’s programme in Computer Science. Besides this, candidates can also refer journals and websites on related topics for a more comprehensive overview.

On examining the previous year papers, it has been observed that the following pattern has been followed in the Paper-II for Computer Science

Subject	No. of Questions
Discrete Structures/ Mathematics	5
Computer Arithmetic	5
Programming in C & C++	5
Relational DB Design & SQL	5
Data & File Structures	5
System Software & Compilers	5
Operating Systems	5
Software Engineering	5
Computer Networks	5
Current Trends & Technologies	5
Total Questions	50

To clear the paper-II a candidate must acquire 40 marks. You can select any six subjects of your choice and prepare these subjects  thoroughly to aim for an attempt of 60 marks. I have cleared NET in CS by following this strategy, So I hope it will work for others too.

Books recommended for the paper II

Most of the books that are recommended here contain large number of solved and unsolved problems. You must focus on the questions given at the back of chapters. In addition to these GATE( Computer Science) entrance test preparation book will be a good support to practice questions.

Subject	Books
Discrete Structures/ Mathematics	1. Schaum's Outline Series, Discrete Mathematics. 2. 2000 Solved Problems in Discrete Mathematics, Schaum's Outline Series. 3. Discrete mathematical structures with applications to computer science,Jean-Paul Tremblay,R. Manohar.
Computer Arithmetic	1. Structured Computer Organization, Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
Programming in C & C++	1.Schaum's Outline of Programming with C, Byron Gottfried. 2.Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++, John Hubbard 3.Let us C solution by Yashwant Kanetkar 4.Test Your C Skills - Yashavant Kanetkar Yashwant Kanetkar
Relational DB Design & SQL	1. An introduction to database systems,C. J. Date 2.Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases.by Ramon Mata-Toledo
Data & File Structures	1. Schaum's outline of theory and problems of data structures, Seymour Lipschutz 2. The Art of Computer Programming, Donald E. Knuth. 3. Data Structures and Algorithms, Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman, John E. Hopcroft.
System Software & Compilers	1. Systems Programming and Operating Systems, D M Dhamdhere.
Operating Systems	1. Operating System Concepts, Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne. 2. Operating Systems: Internals And Design Principles, Stallings
Software Engineering	1. Software engineering, Ian Sommerville. 2. An integrated approach to software engineering, Pankaj Jalote 3. Software engineering a practitioners approach - Roger S Pressman
Computer Networks	1. Computer Networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum 2.Computer Networks, Behrouz Forouzan, Firouz Mosharraf
Current Trends & Technologies	Study about latest trends in computer Networks, Mobile computing, data mining and warehousing and the e-projects that are being initiated in India.