UGC NET English Syllabus 2025, Download Official PDF

UGC NET Exam is conducted twice every year, once in June and again in December. Today, we have provided the official syllabus of English Literature. If you want ot become an English Subject Processor or Assistant Professor in the Degree College and university.

English is such very tough and competitive subject. Most of the aspirants keep away from this subject, but those who have completed post-graduation can apply for the English Subject UGC NET Subject. In the UGC NET Exam, there are two types of subjects: Paper 1 and Paper 2. Paper 1 is common for all aspirants.

The main subject is specific or domain-oriented. In the English subject, there are many topics like poetry, prose, novel, drama, etc.

UGC NET English Syllabus 2025: Overview  

The candidates can check the UGC NET English syllabus 2025 in the table given below

Name of Exam	UGC NET
Conducting Body	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Frequency of Exam	Twice a year
Mode of Examination	300 marks (Paper 1- 100 marks,  Paper 2 (200 marks)
Number of Papers in Exam	Paper 1 and Paper 2
Total Number of Questions	Paper 1- 50 questions   Paper 2- 100 questions
Total Marks	300 marks (Paper 1- 100 marks,  Paper 2- 200 marks)
Time Duration	Online Computer-Based Test (CBT)

UGC NET English Paper 1 Syllabus 2025

As we have told you, there are two subjects in the English Paper 1. To help you, we have added the paper 1 subject that is mandatory to pass this. Check the paper 1 English Literature Syllabus and topic details.

• Research Aptitude  
• Reading Comprehension  
• Communication  
• Reasoning  
• Logical Reasoning 
• Data Interpretation  
• Information and Communication Technology  
• People and Environment  
• Higher Education System: Governance, Polity and Administration 

UGC NET English Paper 2 Syllabus 2025: Section-Wise

Paper 2 for the UGC NET English syllabus primarily consists of topics like Drama, Poetry, Fiction, Cultural Studies, English in India, etc. There are many units in the English Syllabus 2025.

UGC NET English Syllabus Units	UGC NET English Syllabus Section
Unit I	Drama
Unit II	Poetry
Unit III	Fiction and Short Story
Unit IV	Non-Fiction Prose
Unit V	Language: Basic Concepts, theories and pedagogy, English in Use
Unit VI	English in India: history, evolution, and future
Unit VII	Cultural Studies
Unit VIII	Literary Criticism
Unit IX	Literary Theory post World War II
Unit X	Research Methods and Materials in English

UGC NET English Syllabus: Important Novels List

Candidates often look for a list of novels from which questions are commonly asked in the UGC NET English exam. Below is a table featuring some of the key English novels important for the UGC NET English exam 2025.

English Literature Important Novels for UGC NET Exam
Novel	Author
The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)	John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe(1719)	Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels (1726)	Jonathan Swift
Clarissa (1748)	Samuel Richardson
Tom Jones (1749)	Henry Fielding
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)	Laurence Sterne
Emma (1816)	Jane Austen
Frankenstein (1818)	Mary Shelley
Nightmare Abbey (1818)	Thomas Love Peacock
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)	Edgar Allan Poe
Sybil (1845)	Benjamin Disraeli
Jane Eyre (1847)	Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847)	Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair (1848)	William Thackeray
David Copperfield (1850)	Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter (1850)	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick (1851)	Herman Melville
Middlemarch (1871-2)	George Eliot
Three Men in a Boat (1889)	Jerome K Jerome
Ulysses (1922)	James Joyce
The Rainbow (1915)	DH Lawrence