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UGC NET 02nd Jan 2026 Shift 2 — Solved Previous Year Questions

50 previous-year questions from UGC NET 02nd Jan 2026 Shift 2 (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. In terms of the cumulative marks from 2021 to 2025, which of the following students has scored maximum marks ? · Ans: A
  2. Which year witnessed the lowest average marks attained by the students ? · Ans: A
  3. How many students experienced continuous decrease in marks obtained from 2023 to 2025 ? · Ans: B
  4. What was the approximate percentage increase of marks for student C from 2023 to 2025 ? · Ans: C
  5. If we compare the cumulative combined marks of students A and B over the years with those of students C and D, then the marks scored by A and B together are more than those scored by C… · Ans: D
  6. Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : · Ans: B
  7. Match List I with List II. · Ans: C
  8. As per the information processing approach of learning, which of the following statements is NOT correct ? · Ans: D
  9. Arrange the following sheaths of personality from lower order to higher order : · Ans: B
  10. Being a constructivist teacher, you will NOT do what ? · Ans: D
  11. A box plot is useful for displaying information on : · Ans: C
  12. Identify the correct sequence of steps in the process of deduction from the following : · Ans: B
  13. Match List I (Mixed Method Design) with List II (Nature). · Ans: D
  14. Qualitative content analysis of documents relating to different time periods, pertains to which of the following research designs ? · Ans: B
  15. If we suggest that x causes y, can we be sure that it is x that is responsible for the variation in y ? This relates to : · Ans: C
  16. Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : · Ans: A
  17. Arrange the following in sequence according to Nowak and Warneryd's model of a communication campaign. · Ans: B
  18. Match List I (Term) with List II (Meaning/Related with). · Ans: B
  19. View of mass communication as the representation of shared belief where reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed, is known as the : · Ans: C
  20. The study of the communicative effect of time is known as : · Ans: A
  21. Three years ago, the average age of a family of 5 members was 17 years. A baby was born, but the average age of the family is still the same today. The present age of the baby is… · Ans: C
  22. The next term in the following series is : CMO, FPR, ISU, ___?___ · Ans: C
  23. Arrange the following fractions in ascending order : · Ans: C
  24. Identify the correct mathematical statement(s) : · Ans: A
  25. Match List I (Word) with List II (Code). · Ans: A
  26. All bipeds are rational. Swans are bipeds. ∴ Swans are rational. commits the fallacy (hetvabhasa) of : · Ans: C
  27. Match List I (Standard Form Categorical Propositions) with List II (Symbolic Representation). · Ans: C
  28. Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : · Ans: D
  29. Which of the following are true ? · Ans: A
  30. Which of the following are true ? · Ans: A
  31. Identify the correct logical sequence for programming : · Ans: D
  32. Which of the following fall in the category of primary memory ? · Ans: D
  33. Match List I with List II. · Ans: C
  34. Which term is not related to computer hardware ? · Ans: C
  35. Which aspect of security ensures that information is not altered by any unauthorised person ? · Ans: B
  36. Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : · Ans: C
  37. Suppose the water of a lake is contaminated by a pesticide. Arrange the following in the increasing order of accumulated concentration of the pesticide in the lake ecosystem. · Ans: C
  38. Match List I (Disaster) with List II (Related Term). · Ans: B
  39. The Blue-Baby Syndrome is caused by the contamination of ________ in drinking water. · Ans: C
  40. The biogas is a mixture of ________. · Ans: B
  41. In the National Education Policy-2020, which body has been proposed to frame 'graduate attributes' for higher education programme ? · Ans: D
  42. Which among the following is not true with regards to the UGC guidelines (2022) for pursuing two academic programmes simultaneously ? · Ans: D
  43. Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : · Ans: B
  44. Arrange the following bodies in the chronological order of their establishment : · Ans: D
  45. Match List I (Body of a University) with List II (Function). · Ans: D
  46. Behaviorists do not recognise which of the following in their study of human action ? · Ans: A
  47. In the passage, instead of the word 'purge', which of the following words can be used : · Ans: D
  48. According to Behaviorism, all human action is : · Ans: C
  49. One widely-held assumption of Psychology is that : · Ans: A
  50. When people want a reward, they behave in a certain way because of : · Ans: B

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