Preparation that is built on how students actually learn

UGC NET is one three-hour session with two objective papers: Paper 1 (50 questions, 100 marks) and Paper 2, your subject (100 questions, 200 marks). Every question carries 2 marks, so Law alone decides two-thirds of the result.

The site is organised around that structure. Paper 1 holds 5,705 MCQs across 10 syllabus units. Paper 2 (Law 058) holds 3,580 MCQs across 10 units, and the full Law set passes 4,000 questions once the mock-test questions are counted. Around the banks sit timed mock tests, a 20-question quick test, a daily quiz, notes, previous-year questions, a Pomodoro timer, a personalised Exam Strategy Engine and a cut-off trend page. Every one of them is open the moment the page loads.

Each part exists because of a specific difficulty that aspirants report again and again. The next section names those difficulties plainly, and the sections after it show how each feature answers one of them.

These are the seven obstacles we designed around. Where a mechanism is backed by research, the superscript number points to the references at the foot of the page.

Testing yourself beats re-reading

In controlled experiments, students who practised retrieving material remembered more a week later than students who spent the same time re-studying it, even though the re-readers felt more confident.¹² A review of ten common study techniques rated practice testing and distributed practice as the two with the strongest evidence, and highlighting and re-reading as low-utility.³ This is why the site is built around questions, not around long text.

Spacing beats cramming

A large quantitative synthesis of published experiments found that spreading study over time improves long-term retention compared with massing it.⁵ The unit-wise structure, the daily goal and the multi-month plans let you revisit each unit several times rather than once.

Small, specific plans get done

Stating when and how you will act (“after dinner, one unit of 30 questions”) makes follow-through more likely than a vague intention.⁶ Habits, in turn, formed in a median of about 66 days in one real-world study, with large individual variation and missed days causing little harm.⁷

Feedback corrects over-confidence

People with weaker skills often misjudge their own performance.⁸ Mock analysis, the mistakes filter and cut-off data give you an external reference, so your plan rests on measured weakness rather than a feeling.

What this is not: a guarantee. Research describes averages across many learners. These findings explain why we built the site this way; your result still depends on the work you do.

Paper 1 is covered by 5,705 MCQs in ten units. The chart shows the size of each. Comprehension is the smallest bank (168) because its questions are passage-based; Higher Education System is the largest (753).

Paper 2 (Law 058) holds 3,580 MCQs across ten units, and over 4,000 including questions that appear inside mock tests. Each question has an answer and an explanation, so a wrong answer becomes a short lesson. Wrong and unanswered questions are collected by the mistakes and unanswered filters for later revision, which is retrieval practice aimed exactly where memory is weakest.¹

The Pomodoro technique splits work into fixed rounds with short breaks. Our timer offers 25 minutes of focus with a 5-minute break, or 50 minutes with a 10-minute break, and a longer break after every four rounds.

Its role. It turns “study today” into a concrete, finishable unit, such as thirty questions from one unit, and it follows you across practice pages so you never leave to find a clock. It counts rounds completed today, giving you one honest measure of effort.

The evidence, stated carefully. Experiments show that attention to a single long task declines over time, and that brief interruptions can reduce that decline.⁴ That supports planned pauses in general. The specific 25/5 ratio comes from the technique's inventor⁹ and is a practical convention, not a proven optimum, which is why we offer a second preset and let you choose.

Where it is deliberately absent. Mock tests use their own exam clock, because a second timer would distract from the paper you are rehearsing. Read why in the FAQ.

Two aspirants with the same syllabus can need opposite plans: one has two months and weak Paper 1, the other has two weeks and strong Law. The Exam Strategy Engine exists because generic advice fits neither.

You answer 13 plain questions. The engine then combines them with what the site already knows on your device (practice progress, Daily Quiz scores, the 20-question Law test, mock results and the exam date) and runs ten analyses. Each result names the exact parts of the site to use next. It saves the strategy on your device and can recalculate after new practice, showing what changed.

Why it matters. Planning is where most preparation fails, because it is the step with the least feedback. By tying your plan to measured performance, the engine applies the same principle as spaced, targeted practice: spend scarce hours where your own data says marks are being lost.³ Like all guidance here, it does not predict or guarantee a result.

Open the Exam Strategy Engine

The question “what score do I need?” has no fixed answer, because NTA sets cut-offs for each session and category. What you can do is look at how they have actually moved.

Marks are out of 300 (Paper 1 plus Paper 2), so every 2 marks equals one correct answer. Figure 3 shows unreserved Law cut-offs for eight sessions, December 2022 to June 2026.

How the planning range is calculated

For each outcome, the page takes the latest five sessions that have a full set of figures, finds their average, and measures how much they typically vary (standard deviation). The expected range is the average plus or minus one standard deviation, rounded to an even mark. The safe target is the top of that range plus 6 marks, a cushion of three correct answers.

Applying that to the current data gives, for unreserved candidates, a planning range of 204 to 218 for JRF (average 211) and 178 to 192 for Assistant Professor (average 185), with safe targets of 224 and 198 marks. These are our calculation, not NTA figures.

What it is for, and what it is not

Its role is to set a measurable goal. Once you know that the target is about 99 correct answers out of 150 rather than “as many as possible”, your mock scores become comparable to something, and goal-based effort tends to rise as the goal comes into view.¹⁰ Five caveats apply: a few sessions are a small sample, cut-offs depend on the difficulty of that session's paper, some sources disagree (the page marks those cells with a dash), the range ignores category changes in the future, and it is never a promise. More in the FAQ.

Open the full cut-off trend page and target calculator

What we do not do: no countdown pressure to buy anything, no hidden paywalls, no invented testimonials or pass rates, and no guarantees. A streak is a tool for you; missing a day is not failure.

Because there are no accounts, your progress, saved questions, strategy and preferences are stored in your own browser. The strategy engine runs on your device. See how progress is saved and what personal data is handled.

Laws and syllabi change, and some content may be drafted with AI assistance, so verify citations against the original Act or judgment. Spotted a wrong answer? Report it. See also accuracy, AI assistance and why we cannot guarantee results.