UGC NET Exam Analysis 2025, Difficulty Level, Good Attempts

UGC NET Exam Analysis 2025: National Testing Agency will conduct UGC NET exam 2025 for the December session from December 31, 2025, onwards. The candidates appearing for the examination must check the exam analysis once it is available. UGC NET exam will be held in two shifts: Shift 1 is from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and Shift 2 is from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Candidates must go through the exam analysis of UGC NET 2025 with difficulty level and good attempts on this page.

Check the below table for overview of UGC NET Exam Analysis 2025:

UGC NET Exam Analysis 2025 difficulty level has been shared now as the examination is successfully conducted on 31st December. Once the exam concludes, experts will review both Paper 1 and Paper 2 to assess the overall and subject-wise difficulty. This analysis will help candidates understand whether the paper was easy, moderate, or difficult and how it may impact the expected cut off marks.

Details about UGC NET Exam Analysis 2025 good attempts have been updated after the exam on 31st December. The good attempts are estimated based on the paper’s difficulty level and student feedback. This information helps candidates roughly evaluate their performance and understand how many attempts can be considered safe for qualification.

UGC NET December 2025 exam commenced on December 31 and it concluded on January 07, 2026. The exam was held in two shifts and you can check the detailed analysis below. 

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis (January 7, Shift 1) 

As per the students' feedback, Paper 1 of Shift 1 was Moderate.

• In DI: Percentage, Average, Ratio was asked. It was easy to moderate.

• Maximum of teaching

• Commission basis

• Teacher Learner Centric

• Variance

• Kyoto Protocol

• 1857 Universities

• Number Series

• H. Index

• ICT based teaching

• Informal Fallacy

• Logical Equivalent, immediate inference

• Acts of PDE

• Sea Pollution

• Wild Life

• Sampling techniques

• NoIR

• Third generation of Computer

• Pragmatism

• Plagiarism

• Memory Hierarchy

• UGC/AICTE Chronology

• Triangulation

• Percentage average

• CPU

• Biosphere reserve

• Acid Rain, etc.

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis (January 6, Shift 1) 

According to students, the UGC NET December 2025 January 06 paper was easy to moderate. Know about the important topics asked below. 

• Learning (Assertion Reasoning)

• File extension (Match the following)

• Wildlife Conversation

• Connotation Dec

• Standard Hypo testing

• Average

• Project Method

• Inter personal Communication

• Binomial distribution

• Variation

• Reflection

• Standard Deviation

• Communication (Models) (Match the following)

• Binary Number

• Newspaper order

• Scholar Ancient University (Match the following)

• University Order Post Independence (Match the following)

• Noise Level (Db)

• HE-Sanskar

• NEC

• Email

• Square of opposition

• Environment Protection Act

• Indian Logic

• Vice Chancellor

• Kothari Commission

• Chinese Scholars

• Variable

• E portfolio, etc.

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis (January 5, Shift 1) 

As per the students' Paper 1 of Shift 1 is Easy to Moderate. DI in Paper 1 was easy. English Paper 2 was Difficult and lengthy. Know about the detailed exam analysis below.

• Shannon-Weaver

• AICTE

• NAAC

• Ql/Qn

• Number series

• Excel

• Protocol

• P-Value

• Environment Summit

• CI and SI

• Types of evaluation

• Average

• Levels of Teaching

• Environmental Protection (Chronology)

• Research method

• NEP (Assertion & Reasoning), etc.

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis (January 3, Shift 1) 

As per the students' Paper 1 of Shift 1 was Easy to Moderate. Know about the important topics asked in UGC NET December 2025 exam below. 

• Validity

• IL (hetabhyaas)

• GHG

• Qn/Ql

• DI was easy

• Fallacy formal

• SOO

• Conversion

• Informal Fallacy

• ICT (Malware, Hacking, Phishing, etc.)

• Bits

• App

• LAN

• Argument, etc.

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis (January 2, Shift 1) 

As per the UGC NET December analysis, Paper 1 was easy to moderate. However, paper 2 was moderate and lengthy. Candidates found the questions to be tricky and calculative. 

• Formal Fallacy

• Hydro power

• Type of Validity

• Number series (1 Question)

• Blooms Taxonomy

• Black foot syndrome

• Input out put devise

• Hydropower

• NEP

• Sampling (Matching question asked in which situations were given)

• RAM/ROM

• Group Communication

• Ratio

• Python programming language

• Operating System

• Input/output device

• USB

• Swayam Year

• Teaching Modal, Post teaching

• Chronology (TV, Radio, Newspaper)

• Volatile Memory

• Protocol

• NAAC GEC (MTC)

• USB fulform

• Function of councils

• Validity of Argument

• External Validity

• Friction, etc.

UGC NET 2025 Dec Exam Analysis OUT (Dec 31, Shift 1) 

As per the students feedback, the overall difficulty level of the UGC NET Dec 31 Shift 1 exam is Moderate. Know about the UGC NET December 2025 topic wise analysis.

• Syllogism- Mode & Fig

• Square of opposition

• NCRF, ABC

• Number series

• Green House Gas effect

• DI, Table (21-15) related to admission

• Film City

• Traditional Square of opposition

• Commission

• DI asked Ratio Based, etc.

The following table shows the number of students  enrolled in four different Colleges (A-D) during the four years from  2020 to 2023. Based on the data in the table, answer the questions that  follow:

1. Number of students enrolled in College A in year 2020 and 2021 together is _________% more than the number of students  enrolled in College C in the year 2022 and 2023 together. (1) 12.5 (2) 8.5 

(3) 10 (4) 15 

2. If the ratio between number of girls and boys in College B in 2021 is 3 : 5 and the ratio between the number of girls and boys  in College C in 2022 is 7 : 5, then what is the ratio between the number of girls in College B in 2021 to the number of boys of College C in 2022? 

(1) 2 : 5 (2) 3 : 5 

(3) 1 : 3 (4) 2 : 3 

3. Taking all the Colleges together, the total number of students enrolled in the year 2020 is _______ more than the total number  of students enrolled in the year 2023. 

(1) 500 (2) 900 

(3) 300 (4) 700 

4. What is the average number of students enrolled in College B over all the four years? 

(1) 850 (2) 750 

(3) 840 (4) 720 

5. For College B in the year 2021, if 20% of students were enrolled in B.Sc; 30% of students were enrolled in B.Com. and the remaining students were enrolled in BCA, then what is the difference between the number of students enrolled in BCA and  

B.Sc? 

(1) 260 (2) 220 

(3) 230 (4) 240

6. Identify the advantages of video conferencing. 

(A) Increased productivity 

(B) Going green 

(C) Lack of personal contact 

(D) Clarity of audio and video always 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: (1) A, B and D Only (2) A and C only 

(3) A, B and C Only (4) A and B Only 

7. A sum of Rs 3800 is divided among three persons A, B, and C in the ratio 1/2 : 1/3 : 3/4 what is the share of the person C? (1) Rs. 3360 (2) Rs. 2240 

(3) Rs. 2150 (4) Rs. 1800 

8. Which of the following soil tpye supports earth worm activity? (A) Loam soil 

(B) Gleyed soil 

(C) Rendzina 

(D) Podzol 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: (1) A, B and C Only (2) B, C and D only (3) A, C and D Only (4) A, B and D Only 

9. Arrange the following OSI layers in correct sequence: (A) Data link layer 

(B) Physical layer 

(C) Network layer 

(D) Presentation layer 

(E) Application layer 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: (1) E, D, B, A, C (2) E, D, A, C, B 

(3) B, A, C, E, D (4) B, A, C, D, E 

10. Identify the fallacy in the following: 

"Only man has an immortal soul". No woman is a man. Therefore, no woman has an immortal soul". 

(1) Strawman (2) Equivocation 

(3) Red Herring (4) Bandwagon argument 

11. Which amongst the following is not a Buddhist monastic University? 

(1) Nalanda (2) Takshashila 

(3) Vikramshila (4) Odantpuri 

12. Match the List-I with List-II. 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 

(1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) 

(2) (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) 

(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I) 

(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) 

12. Match the List-I with List-II. 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below (1) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) 

(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II) 

(3) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV) 

(4) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III) 

13. Total gain in Biomass by an animal is known as (1) Gross Primary Productivity 

(2) Gross Secondary Productivity 

(3) Net Primary Productivity 

(4) Net Secondary Productivity 

14. The form of computing utilized by an email service is (1) Distributed (2) Grid 

(3) P2P (4) Cloud 

15. A shopkeeper purchased 10 kg of Basmati rice at the rate of Rs. 50 per kg and 15 kg of ordinary rice at the rate of Rs. 20 per  kg. He mixed the two varieties of rice and sold it for a gain of 25%. What was his sale price (Rs/kg)? 

(1) Rs 10 per kg (2) Rs 20 per kg 

(3) Rs 30 per kg (4) Rs 40 per kg