UGC NET English Literature June 2025 Reflection A Crisis in the Canon: Reflecting on UGC NET English Literature – June 27, 2025 This year’s UGC NET English Literature exam didn’t just challenge students — it disoriented them. It raised a painful question: Is this still an English Literature paper? Instead of rewarding literary knowledge, deep reading, and critical thinking, the exam tested endurance, memorization, and guesswork. The overwhelming consensus? This wasn't the exam we prepared for. 1. Chronology Took Center Stage — And Hijacked the Paper Instead of critical thought or literary interpretation, students were bombarded with questions like : "Arrange these works by obscure authors in the order of publication.” It wasn’t analysis — it was a parade of random facts. The paper felt like a timeline guessing game , not a literature exam. 2. Too Tough to Read, Too Long to Solve The paper was draining to...
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