S. Vishnu Sharma
CSIR NET 2021 exam will be conducted in June this year and this is a good news for science career enthusiasts.
Human Resource Development Group of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced that exam will be conducted in June and the exact date is to be notified by mid of April 2021.
‘Based on all your feedback we will do our best to conduct the exam in June 2021 and notify the exact date by mid April 2021’ is the message of twitter.
CSIR NET 2021 is for great science career enthusiasts
This news is bound to make all those who dream about a career in teaching or research in science.
About the exam
CSIR NET 2021 is also known as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Eligibility Test 2021.
The exam is conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) on behalf of CSIR.
Individuals who pass this exam can get selected as assistant professors in colleges located across the country or get junior research fellowship (JRF) to take up research work in science subjects.
The exam is also known as CSIR UGC NET exam.
The subjects
Individuals who pass CSIR NET 2021 can become assistant professors or junior research fellowship (JRF) in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences and Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.
CSIR NET vs UGC NET
There is another well-known exam UGC NET which too si quite similar to CSIR NET.
However there is a lot of difference between these two popular exams.
UGC NET allows candidates who pass it to become assistant professor or junior research scholar in arts and humanities and languages subjects.
On the other hand individuals who pass CSIR NET can become assistant professor or junior research scholar in science subjects.
Eligibility
Candidates who wish to apply for CSIR NET 2021 must have passed post graduate exam in science subjects from any recognised university.
Also, candidates who passed BS-MS or BS (4 years) or BE/BTech or BPharma or MBBS can also apply for CSIR NET 2021 exam.
Individuals who passed BSc (Hons) or are enrolled in MS-PhD integrated programmes can also apply.
The pass percentage in the qualifying exam must be 55 percent is the CSIR NET 2021 applicants are from General category.
The same is 50 percent if the candidates for CSIR NET 2021 are from SC/ST/PwD categories.
Age limit
If applicants are targeting junior research fellowship through CSIR NET 2021, their age limit must be 28 years as on 1 July 2021.
For applicants of CSIR NET 2021 who are from SC/ST/PwD/Female categories, there is an age relaxation of five years.
Applicants of CSIR NET 2021 from OBC (non creamy layer) categories have an age relaxation of five years.
There is no upper age limit for applying for assistant professorship through CSIR NET 2021.
How to apply
Individuals willing to apply for CSIR NET 2021 have to remember that the procedure to apply is online.
Applicants for CSIR NET 2021 have to visit the official website of the exam hosted by National Testing Agency (NTA) at ‘https://csirnet.nta.nic.in/WebInfo/Page/Page?PageId=1&LangId=P’
Soon after the webpage dowloads after clicking the above link, applicants for CSIR NET 2021 can scroll down the page and look for the link to apply for the exam.
Individuals can click the link to apply and commence registration to obtain username and password.
After obtaining username and password, applicants can login using them and start applying for CSIR NET 2021 exam.
They have to fill details like name, age, date of birth and complete the registration and pay the registration fee, upload photograph, scanned image of signature and submit the application finally.
The final copy of submitted application can be viewed and print out can be taken and preserved for future use.
Registration fee
Applicants from general category have to pay a registration fee of Rs 1000 while applying for CSIR NET 2021.
The same for OBC (non creamy layer) is Rs 500. SC/ST/PwD (People with Disabilities) have to pay Rs 250.
Point to remember
Candidates are advised to visit the official website of CSIR NET 2021 exam and refer the information booklet available there to know about the exact amount of registration fees.
Important dates
The application submission for CSIR NET 2021 exam will begin by mid April this year.
The last date to submit application forms, date of availability of hallticket for dowloading, date of result declaration will be informed at the appropriate time.
Applicants can visit the official website of the exam mentioned earlier at regular intervals to know more.
Exam pattern
CSIR NET 2021 will be conducted in online mode, will be a computer based test.
The total duration to answer 200 questions is three hours or 180 minutes.
The questions will be in multiple choice format where each query has one or more answers and candidates have to choose the right one from them.
Syllabus
The questions in CSIR NET 2021 will be from various science lessons taught at post graduate levels in colleger or universities.
The lessons are given below:
1) Chemical Science
# Organic Chemistry
# Inorganic Chemistry
# Physical Chemistry
# Medicinal Chemistry
# Environmental Chemistry
# Supermolecular Chemistry
# Green Chemistry
# Catalysis
# Chemistry in Nanoscience and Technology
2) Earth Science
# Oceans and Atmosphere
# The Earth and Solar System
# Interior of Earth, Deformation, and Tectonics
# Earth Materials, Surface Features, and Processes
# Environmental Earth Sciences
# Mineralogy and Petrology
# Marine Geology and Paleoceanography
# Quarternary Geology
# Economic Geology
# Palaeontology and its Applications
# Meteorology
# Physical Geography
# Structural Geology and Geotectonics
# Geochemistry
# Geophysics
# Precambrian Geology and Crustal Evolution
# Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
3) Life Sciences
# Developmental Biology
# Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
# Fundamental Processes
# Diversity of Life Forms
# Methods in Biology
# Evolution and Behavior
# Cellular Organization
# System Physiology – Plant
# Cellular Organization
# Inheritance Biology
# Ecological Principles
# Applied Biology
4) Physical Sciences
# Electromagnetic Theory
# Classical Mechanics
# Quantum Mechanics
# Mathematical Methods in Physics
# Thermodynamic and Statistical Physics
# Electronics and Experimental Methods
5) Mathematical Sciences
# Linear Algebra
# Algebra
# Linear Integral Equations
# Partial Differential Equations
# Calculus of Variations
# Classical Mechanics
# Complex Analysis
# Ordinary Differential Equations
# Numerical Analysis
# Descriptive Statistics
# Exploratory Data Analysis
Contact
The official website of CSIR NET 2021 will be the most ideal place to receive any information about the exam.
The website of the exam ‘https://csirnet.nta.nic.in/WebInfo/Page/Page?PageId=1&LangId=P’ and is run by National Testing Agency (NTA).