UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Live, 9 Jan 2025, Shift 1

UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Live, 9 Jan 2025: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has conducted UGC NET Geography Exam for December 2024 cycle in the shift 1 of Day 5 (9 Jan 2025). Thousands of students appeared in the exam and provided review of the exam. Candidates who appeared for the exam today and those who are planning to take the exam in the UGC NET June 2025 cycle. As per the students, the paper of UGC NET Geography 2024 was moderate in nature and was more aligned towards concepts. As usual there were so many questions from geomorphology, river, authors, etc. We have come up with the UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 for December cycle that will provide good attempts, difficulty level and topics.

UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Overview

The UGC NET Geography Exam 2024 was of moderate to difficult level, with a balanced focus on conceptual clarity and application-based questions. There were 150 questions carrying 300 marks. Here’s UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 overview:

UGC NET Political Science Aspects	UGC NET 2024 Overview
Exam Name	UGC NET 2024 December Cycle
Conducting Body	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Subject	Geography
Number of Papers	Two (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
Mode of Exam	CBT (Online)
UGC NET Geography 2024 Exam Date	09 Jan 2025
Exam Duration	3 hours (Paper 1 + Paper 2 together)
UGC NET 2024 Exam Time	Shift – 1 (09:00 AM to 12:00 PM)
Question Type	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Number of Questions	150
Total Marks	300
Medium of Exam	English and Hindi
Official Website	https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in/

UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Paper 1, 9 Jan 2025

The difficulty level for Paper 1 of UGC NET Geography exam that was conducted on 9 Jan 2025 in shift 1 was moderate. Students found so many questions from communication, ICT and teaching aptitude. Here are the topic-wise good attempts and difficulty level of the UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Paper 1:

UGC NET Paper 1 Topic	Difficulty Level	Good Attempts
Teaching Aptitude	Moderate	7-8
Research Aptitude	Moderate	5-6
Communication	Easy to Moderate	7-8
Data Interpretation (DI)	Easy	4-5
Logical Reasoning	Moderate to Difficult	4-5
Mathematical Reasoning	Moderate	3-4
ICT	Easy	3-4
People & Environment	Easy	3-4
Higher Education System	Easy to Moderate	3-4
Comprehension	Moderate	4-5

Questions Asked in UGC NET Paper 1 Exam, 9 Jan 2025

• Teaching Aptitude:
  • Memory
• Research Aptitude:
  • Triangular Research
  • Positivism
  • Research Paradigm framework
• Reading Comprehension:
  • RC on Indian and western poets
• Communication:
  • Mass media related
  • AI Term was given by
  • Internet communication
• Data Interpretation:
  • Table Based percentage DI – Employed and unemployed graduate data
• Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude:
  • Number Series: 1, 7, 25, 61, ?
  • Boat and stream
  • Coding decoding
• Logical Reasoning
  • Moods & Figures
  • Square of Opposition (E – I,A)
  • Formal Fallacy

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT):
  • HTML
  • Machine Language
  • Full form of PING
  • Storage Device
  • On-head theory
• People, Development, and Environment:
  • Pollution
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Econology
  • Protocols Chronology
  • Soil
  • International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched at: 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21)
  • Acid Rain
  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Higher Education System:
  • NEP 2020
  • SWAYAM platform
  • NCERT
  • Nalanda University
  • University Chronology – Delhi, Allahabad, IGNOU

UGC NET Geography Exam Analysis 2024 Paper 2, 9 Jan 2025

UGC NET Geography 2024 exam comprises of Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (Geography specific). As per the students review, the paper 2 of geography was of moderate level. The good attempts are predicted to be 75-80.

Unit	Topics Covered	Difficulty Level	Good Attempts
Unit I – Geomorphology	Plate tectonics, weathering, geomorphic cycles	Moderate	7-8
Unit II – Climatology	Atmospheric circulation, climatic classification, global warming	Moderate to Difficult	6-7
Unit III – Oceanography	Ocean currents, marine resources, El Niño	Moderate	6-7
Unit IV – Geography of Environment	Biodiversity, climate change, environmental management	Moderate	7-8
Unit V – Population and Settlement Geography	Population theories, urbanization, migration patterns	Easy to Moderate	8-9
Unit VI – Geography of Economic Activities and Regional Development	Globalization, industrial location theories, regional planning	Moderate to Difficult	6-7
Unit VII – Cultural, Social and Political Geography	Social geography, cultural diffusion, geopolitics	Moderate	6-7
Unit VIII – Geographic Thought	Historical development, paradigms, models	Moderate to Difficult	5-6
Unit IX – Geographical Techniques	Cartography, GIS, remote sensing	Moderate	8-9
Unit X – Geography of India	Physiography, rivers, agriculture, regional disparities	Moderate	8-9

Memory Based Topics of UGC NET Geography 2024, 9 Jan 2025

Here’s a list of memory-based topics from the UGC NET Geography Exam 2024 (conducted on 9 January 2025), based on feedback and analysis:

• Coastline length of states
• Chronology of River by length
• Meanders & oxbow lakes
• Aryan Nordic Species Place
• Mackinder’s Heartland Theory- match the following
• Ecology word discovered by
• Ecosystem word discovered by
• ​​Noctilucent clouds is found in which layer?
• Birth Rate description
• ​​Crop Combination Theory (Weaver, Doi and Rafiullah)
• Anaximander of Miletus​​
• ​​Nature of Indian Geography – Neeraj Nachiketa
• Effect of ​​ENSO
• Mistral, Bora, and Santa Ana – cold winds
• Heights in descending order: Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, Annapurna.
• Pluto: A dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.
• Shipbuilding: Refers to the construction of ships, vital in maritime history and trade.
• A Sacred Geography author: Diana L. Eck.
• David Harvey’s book “The Condition of Postmodernity
• ​​Dynamic theory of tide
• Seismic Slope Displacements
• Carving Grand Canyon

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