UGC NET English 2025 Question Paper & Answers
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Official PYQ
UGC NET English 2025 (December 2025 / January 2026 cycle, Paper 2)
120 Mins 200 Marks
100Questions
200Max Marks
Sample questions from UGC NET English 2025 (December 2025 / January 2026 cycle, Paper 2)
1According to Freud's example in his Interpretation of Dreams, the psychoanalytic critic tends to associate symbols with images. Which of the following symbols is not correct in that context?
- A) Ponds as female or yonic symbols
- B) Flowers as female or yonic symbols
- C) Towers as symbols of sexual pleasure
- D) Lances as male or phallic symbols
Answer: C
2In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described "three silent
revolutions in England". Identify the wrong option.
- A) When the Professions fell off from the Church
- B) When the fraternity fell off from the society
- C) When Literature fell off from the Professions
- D) When the Press fell off from Literature
Answer: B
3Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion A: The years after 1945 saw changes in English poetry.
Reason R: Some poets, despite Modernism, continued Romantic traditions, writing deeply personal responses
to the world and engaging with 'eternal', 'elemental' themes.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
- A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
- B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
- C) A is correct but R is not correct
- D) A is not correct but R is correct
Answer: B
4Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I LIST-II A. "Habitus" I. Pierre Bourdieu B. "Anaclisis" II. Sigmund Freud C. "Fetishism" III. Alferd Binet D. "Hyperreality" IV. Eco
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
- B) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
- C) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
- D) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Answer: C
5Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion A: The defining event of the first part of the twenty-first century was the attack on American targets,
including the Twin Towers in New York, on 11 September 2001.
Reason R: A novel by Christopher Brookmyre published two days before the attacks happened, A Big Boy Did
It and Ran Away, was, and still is, astonishingly prescient both about the violence and about some of its roots
and resonances.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
- A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
- B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
- C) A is correct but R is not correct
- D) A is not correct but R is correct
Answer: B
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Official PYQ
UGC NET English 2025 (June 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
120 Mins 200 Marks
100Questions
200Max Marks
Sample questions from UGC NET English 2025 (June 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
1Choose the correct key points related to approach to Feminism and Gender Studies:
A. Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture.
B. Feminist critics explain how the subordination of women is reflected or challenged by literary texts.
C. They examine the experiences of women of all races, classes, sexual preferences, and cultures.
D. Mary Wollstonecraft defines four models of sexual difference: biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural.
E. Feminist critics' goals: to expose patriarchal premises and resulting prejudices, to promote the discovery and reevaluation of literature by women, and to examine social, cultural, and psychosexual contexts of literature and literary criticism.
F. Simone de Beauvoir prefers "womanism" to "feminism."
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- A) A, B and C Only
- B) A, B and D Only
- C) B, C and D Only
- D) B, D and E Only
Answer: B
2Who said that "Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Johnson was the Vergil, the pattern of elaborate writing"?
- A) Matthew Arnold
- B) John Dryden
- C) Samuel Johnson
- D) Ben Johnson
Answer: B
3Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones:
A. Patrick White, Christina Stead and Robertson Davies are the famous Australian novelists.
B. The notion of "civilized barbarity" was anticipated in H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel Allan Quatermain, in which "Civilization" is said to be "only savagery silver-gilt".
C. Novels like French Lieutenant's Woman, Midnight's Children and Waterland deconstruct traditional notions of history and subjectivity.
D. O'Brian's Country Girls trilogy and McGahern's The Dark which were banned in Ireland were published during 1950s.
E. The trauma of the mid-century years accounts for the prevalence of dystopian elements in novels like A Clockwork Orange, Lanark and The Handmaid's Tale.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- A) A, C and D Only
- B) A, B and D Only
- C) B, C and E Only
- D) B, C and D Only
Answer: C
4The term "Trace", which refers to the trace of the other, has been borrowed by Jacques Lacan from:
- A) Jacques Derrida
- B) Immanuel Levinas
- C) Sigmund Freud
- D) Christopher Norris
Answer: B
5Who, amongst the following, attempted to reconcile discrepancies between various classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle, as well as between philosophy and poetry?
- A) Sir Philip Sidney
- B) Longinus
- C) The Neo-Platonists
- D) John Dryden
Answer: C
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