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UGC NET 31st Dec 2025 Shift 1 — Solved Previous Year Questions

50 previous-year questions from UGC NET 31st Dec 2025 Shift 1 (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 which year, the number of students have doubled with reference to the previous year in a particular program? · Ans: B
2. In how many year(s) does the 50% of total number of admitted students in a year is less than the number of students admitted in B.A. program that year? · Ans: D
3. Which program has the second highest percentage increase from 2021 to 2025 in the number of admitted students? · Ans: B
4. In which year, the ratio of admitted students to its previous year admitted students, is the highest? · Ans: B
5. In which year, the ratio of admitted students in B.A. program to those in all the programs, is the lowest? · Ans: A
6. Choose the correct statements from the following: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
7. Arrange the following psychomotor domains of development from simple level to more complex one: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
8. Match List I with List II Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
9. Which of the following behavioural ability is associated with affective domain of a learner? · Ans: C
10. Which of the following is NOT correct about the Criterion-Referenced Testing? · Ans: D
11. 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
12. Arrange the following p-values from lower level to higher level of significance: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
13. Match List I (Scales of Measurement) with List II (Characteristics) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
14. Qualitative research can be construed as a research strategy that · Ans: C
15. Survey research on a sample at a single point in time, pertains to which of the following research designs? · Ans: A
16. Which of the following Principles are true for a typical communication process? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
17. Arrange the following levels of communication in the sequential order of complexity beginning with the most personal. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
18. Match List I (Type of Noise in Communication) with List II (Examples) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
19. Planned publicity that spreads spontaneously and rapidly 'by word of mouth' (but also by social network sites) throughout a potential media consumer market, refers to: · Ans: B
20. The mental or psychological recasting of a message so that its meaning is in line with a person's beliefs and attitudes, is · Ans: A
21. Match List I (Number) with List II (Code) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
22. Identify the correct mathematical statements: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
23. Arrange the following fractions in descending order: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
24. Complete the following series: 4, 36, 252, 1260, ......... · Ans: B
25. A train running at 54 km/hr takes 20 sec to cross a platform and 15 sec to pass a man walking in the same direction at a speed of 6 km/hr. Then the length of platform is · Ans: B
26. Contraposition is not valid in the case of which categorical proposition? · Ans: C
27. Match List I (Syllogism) with List II (Mood and Figure) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
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: A
29. 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
30. Which of the following is/are TRUE: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
31. Which of the following is NOT a valid file format for images? · Ans: D
32. Which of the following is a scripting language? · Ans: D
33. Match List I (Keyboard keys) with List II (Examples) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
34. Arrange the following computers in decreasing order of their processing power: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
35. 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
36. Which of the following are the characteristics of sustainable development? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
37. Arrange the following States in the descending order of their installed solar power capacity, as of August 2025: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
38. Match List I (Objectives of Mission LiFE) with List II (Action) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
39. Which of the following is a criteria air pollutant as well as a greenhouse gas? · Ans: C
40. The liquid that drains or leaches from a landfill, carrying dissolved and suspended matter, is called · Ans: B
41. Which of the following is NOT a fundamental principle of the National Education Policy 2020? · Ans: C
42. As per the National Credit Framework (NCrF), one Credit is equal to how many notional learning hours? · Ans: A
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: A
44. Arrange the following developments of education in their chronological order: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
45. Match List I (Commission on Education) with List II (Major Recommendation) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
46. Which of the following becomes an excuse to not learn something new? · Ans: D
47. Ideational fluency can be defined as: · Ans: A
48. Another word for the term 'seamlessly': · Ans: C
49. According to the passage micromastery refers to: · Ans: B
50. Which is the best skill to have in a fast changing and rapid learning environment? · Ans: A

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