UGC-NET is mandatory for appointment to all Teaching posts in Government colleges and universities. It is conduct bi-annually in the month of June and December by NTA (National Testing Agency) every year. Top few students from UGC-NET qualified candidates are selected and awarded UGC-JRF (Junior Research Fellow) which allow candidates to pursue Ph.D. from any institute in India with scholarship from UGC.

First you will need to understand the syllabus of UGC-NET in computer Science and then work over each subject one by one. In this article, I will discuss various resources that will help you achieve your target in a systematic and economic way. Many students think without coaching, it is not possible to crack the exam, they are wrong. Now in today's internet world, a large number of high quality study material, resource are free and better than all those provided by costly coaching centres.

1. We will explore syllabus of UGC NET.
2. Some books you should refer for each subject.
3. Online video lectures from best professors.
4. MCQ for self examination.

First you should the official website where you can apply for the exam and get all further updates regarding the exam https://ugcnet.nta.nic.in/

Latest updated syllabus for all subject can accessed using the link https://www.ugcnetonline.in/syllabus-new.php

Now you have option to choose between English and Hindi language as medium of the exam. So accordingly syllabus is available in both languages.

Syllabus contains a total of 10 Units, each unit corresponds to complete subject or  combination of subjects.

We will list down all the educational resource for each unit. All resource listed are Free.

Unit 1: Discrete structures and optimization:

Books:

1. C.L.Liu: Elements of Discrete Mathemat ics, McGraw Hill.
2. Lipschutz, Seymour: Discrete Mathemat ics, Schaum’s Series

Online Lectures Playlist:

Discrete Mathematics lectures by

Prof. Kamala Krithivasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0862D1A947252D20

 

Unit 2: Computer System Architecture

Books:

1. Mano, M.M. : Digital Logic and Computer Design, Prentice- Hall of India
2. Mano, M.M. : Digital Design, Prent ice-Hall of India.

Online Lectures Playlist:

Computer Architecture by Prof. Anshul Kumar, Department of Computer Science & Engineering ,IIT Delhi.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59E5B57A04EAE09C

Digital Circuits and Systems by Prof. S. Srinivasan Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL803563859BF7ED8C

 

Unit 3: Programming Language and computer Graphics

Books:

1. E. Balaguruswamy: Programming in C, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Y. Kanetkar: Let us C, BPB Publication
3. Balaguruswamy : Object Oriented Programming and C++, TMH
4. Hearn, D.,Baker, : Computer Graphics, Prentice Hall.
5. Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, Raymond Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp TMH. 

Video Lectures

Introduction to Programming through C++ by Prof. Abhiram Ranade, Department of computer science, IIT Bombay.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEAYkSg4uSQ2qzihjdDEseWrrY1DyxH9P

Internet Technology by Prof. I. Sengupta, Department of Computer Science Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (From Lecture 11 to last)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMVogVj5nJSssxplPGgKHZLgdzL5-O88

Computer Graphics by Prof. Samit Bhattacharya, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Guwahati

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwdnzlV3ogoWaYiowRtJ8t8FeR-ODfSV1

 

Unit 4: Database Management System

Books:

Siberschatz, Korth : Data base System Concepts, McGraw Hill.

Video Lectures

Database management system by Prof. Partha Pratim Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIwC9bZ0rmjSkm1VRJROX4vP2YMIf4Ebh

Data Warehousing  by Edureka

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9ooVrP1hQOEDSc5QEbI8WYVV_EbWKJwX

Big Data Systems by Prof. Rajiv Misra, IIT Kanpur (First 9 Lecture only)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFW6lRTa1g813IyYHLRP_bWJEKQDeEcSP

NO-SQL

1. https://youtu.be/99huTxCEqbg
2. https://youtu.be/HH4tttAqaz4
3. https://youtu.be/BPGQZFG4K2Y
4. https://youtu.be/JhzNv695Xqk

 

Unit 5: System software and Operating System

Books:

Operating system concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne

Softcopy of this book is available at link https://drive.uqu.edu.sa/_/mskhayat/files/MySubjects/2017SS%20Operating%20Systems/Abraham%20Silberschatz-Operating%20System%20Concepts%20(9th,2012_12).pdf

 

Video Lectures

Introduction to Operating System by Prof. Chester Rebeiro, IIT Madras

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqSpQzTE6M9SYI5RqwFYtFYab94gJpWk 

 

Unit 6: Software Engineering

Books:

1. Pressman S. Roger, Software Engineering, Tata McGraw‐Hill.
2. Jalote Pankaj, An integrated Approach to Software, Engineering, Narosa Publishing House.

Video Lectures:

Software Engineering by Prof.N.L. Sarda, Prof. Umesh Bellur, Department of Computer Science & Engineering ,IIT Bombay

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8751DA481F0F0D17

Software Engineering by Prof. Rajib Mall, IIT Kharagpur

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbRMhDVUMngf8oZR3DpKMvYhZKga90JVt

 

Unit 7: Data structure and algorithm

Books:

1. Schaum’s outline series, “Data Structure”, TMH.
2. Data structure using C by Rajni Jindal, Umesh Publication.

Video Lectures:

Data structure and algorithm by  Dr. Naveen Garg, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,IIT Delhi.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF3763AF2E1C572F

 

Unit 8: Theory of Computation and compilers

Books:

1. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by Jeffrey Ullman and John Hopcroft.
2. Compiler Design By Aho Ullman

Video Lectures:

Theory of Automata, Formal Languages and Computation by Prof.Kamala Krithivasan,Department of Computer Science and Engineering,IIT Madras

Computer  - Theory of Automata, Formal Languages and Computation

 Principles of Compiler Design by Prof. Y.N. Srikanth,Department of Computer Science and Engineering,IISc Bangalore

Computer Science -  Principles of Compiler Design

 

Unit 9: Data Communication and Computer Networks

Books:

1. Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum, Nick Feamster, David Wetherall
2. Data Communications and Networking by Behrouz A. Forouzan

Video Lectures:

Computer Networks and Internet Protocol by Prof. Soumya Kanti Ghosh and Prof. Sandip Chakraborty

Department of Computer science and engineering, IIT, Kharagpur

Computer Networks and Internet Protocol

 

Unit 10: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Books:

1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a university textbook on artificial intelligence, written by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig

Video Lectures:

Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Deepak Khemani,Department of Computer Science and Engineering,IIT Madras

Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

 

MCQ for self examination

There is a website which contains thousands of MCQs for each subject mentioned above as well as for other subjects.

https://www.sanfoundry.com/