TIPS ON HOW TO PREPARE FOR PAPER 3 OF UGC NET COMPUTER SCIENCE

HOW TO PREPARE FOR CORE AND ELECTIVE PART OF UGC NET COMPUTER SCIENCE PAPER 3

If you look the syllabus of ugc net computer science particularly for paper 3, it’s a huge ocean. So mastering over all areas is simply not an easy task. So you got to focus upon some of the conventional areas where questions are often asked.

In paper 3 you all know that there are two parts, core part and elective part. Concentrate more on core part as it contains popular subjects and also easy to learn. There are actually 14 sections.

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Out of these fourteen sections, aspirants will be familiar with most of the sections. But the major fault they commit is that they don’t read books and never make notes of their own on important concepts and instead  try to rely on what they have learnt during their post-graduation and appear for the exam without focused preparation and meet failure.

Always bear in mind that when it comes to exams, you got to take it seriously and put 100% efforts as much as possible from your side and eventually you will be victorious in the exam. Nothing comes easy in life. Learn regularly for atleast two months as I have already mentioned in my previous article by  making action plans on what are the areas to be covered everyday.

How to tackle elective/optional subjects of ugc net compuer science:

As you all are aware of the fact that there are five electives namely:

1. Discrete Mathematics

2. Information coding and theory 

3. Linear and non linear programming 

4. Neural networks and fuzzy logics

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Questions on electives are mostly problem solving based one except elective 5. It is not required to master all the electives. Try to select some electives which you feel to be learnable and give more importance to theoretical aspect of electives because paper 3 is a good blend of theorotical and problem solving questions.
Elective 1, 2, 5 can be prepared with some extra effort.

Bottomline: Give more focus on core papers.

Don’t get afraid when you see big questions. Always remember the fact that big question means easy answer. All that is needed is being patient, presence of mind and thinking logically.

Let me give an example for this,

What is the output of the following

program ?

#include<stdio.h>

main( )

{

int a, b = 0;

static int c[10] =

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0};

for (a=0; a<10;++a)

if ((c[a]%2)= =0) b+=c[a];

printf(“%d”,b);

}

(A) 15 (B) 25

(C) 45 (D) 20

This was actually a question asked in UGC Net computer science paper 3 exam.

When candidates see such questions, they immediately leave the question or make a guess just like that. Don’t do it.

Do you know how to solve this?  Its very simple.

An array has been declared and initialized with 10 elements.

Then we have a for loop which will execute 10 times.

Then there is a if statement which has modulus operation (modulus means the remainder part of the answer will be taken in to consideration.

 we have to get zero as the remainder, Then only even numbers will be taken in to consideration.

i.e., 2%2=0,

4%2=0,

6%2=0,

8%2=0

Then we have

b+=c[a];

which means b=b+c[a];

initially b is initialized as zero, therefore add 2+4+6+8=20

So the answer is 20.

Very simple.

So learn the question and  the answer options well.
There are greater chances that you will mark the right answer with what you have learnt and understood.  

Finally, I wish all my readers all the very best for the forthcoming UGC NET exam. I wish you all pass this exam with flying colours. Let me conclude with a quote, “Little drops of water makes a big ocean”.

Similarly, “Little amount of hard and smart work on a consistent basis helps you reach your destiny”.


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 With regards,
Tanvir Khan
UGC NET COMPUTER SCIENCE