All ten units of Paper 1. Every question explained.
Paper 1 is common to every UGC NET subject — the same syllabus whether you sit Commerce, English, History, Education or anything else. Here is exactly what the bank contains.
Where the questions actually are.
NTA draws roughly five marks from every unit in every paper. These counts are what the bank holds for each — question, explanation, wrong-option analysis and frequency data.
Tagged by shape, not just by topic.
Match-the-list behaves nothing like assertion-reason. Practise the format you keep losing marks on.
This is what every explanation looks like.
Not a summary of the answer. The actual working, the trap, the wrong options one by one, and what to do when the paper itself is broken.
The working
Start with what the intersections give. ‘Is’ appears in all three sentences and SI is the only code in all three, so is = SI. Sentences 2 and 3 share Krishna and is, with codes KA and SI, so Krishna = KA. Sentences 1 and 3 share three words — is, walking, school — and three codes: SI, AG and VI. Removing SI leaves AG and VI for walking and school. Reading each of those two sentences in order, the codes line up with the words as written, which puts walking at AG and school at VI.
Set intersection alone does not settle this question. Walking and school occur in exactly the same two sentences and never apart, so no amount of intersecting can separate AG from VI — options 2 and 3 are both consistent with the substitution logic. The key resolves it by position, yet sentence 2’s codes are not in word order. So the paper applies its own rule selectively. In the hall: solve as far as the data allows, then take the keyed option — do not assume you have missed a step.
Why the other options fail
Memory hook
Four ways into the same bank.
By topic
Pick a single topic — square of opposition, sampling, pollution — and drill only that, in one sitting, with the frequency data telling you whether it is worth your time.
By exam session
Sit a full past paper as it appeared, timed, in order. The closest thing to the real thing short of the hall itself.
Repeated questions only
The questions NTA has asked more than once, or rebuilt from the same template. The highest-value revision set on the site, and nobody else has it.
My mistakes
Everything you have got wrong, hardest first, resurfacing until you stop missing it.
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