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The UGC NET Exam is for all those aspirants who want to become lecturer or researcher after pursuing the Masters'. If you want to become a lecturer, then it is compulsory to pursue Masters. To appear in UGC NET Exam, you must secure at least 55% aggregate marks in postgraduation. The difficulty level of the exam is quite high, but if you prepare with the best study material & with a proper study plan then it will be easy to qualify it. The exam is conducted twice a year. You can apply for any of these two sessions.
There will be two Papers in the UGC NET Exam I. e. Paper 1 and Paper 2. You will have to prepare for both these paper equally to get qualified in exam.

The most common route to this course is through direct entry. A merit list is prepared on the basis of scores in the under graduation programme and selection is made accordingly. This admission procedure is followed by all the universities. There are some universities which conduct their entrance tests for the purpose of taking admissions. Banaras Hindu University conducts post graduate entrance exam for taking admissions for postgraduate course in botany. University of Rajasthan holds Joint Entrance Test for admissions in Master courses with a 70% weight assigned to entrance and the rest to academic record of qualifying exam. Entrance Mode:
The top entrance exams for Master of Science in Botany are:
BHU Post Graduate Entrance Test: Held by Banaras Hindu University in May every year, it is a university level entrance test to take admission for post graduate programs at BHU. This test asks questions from Zoology, Chemistry and Botany. Joint Entrance Test: Conducted every year by University of Rajasthan in June, Joint Entrance Test is an entrance examination for admissions in post graduate courses. Its syllabus covers Zoology, Chemistry and Botany. SVUCET This entrance examination is held in June every year by Sri Venkateswara University Common Entrance Test. This test covers questions from Zoology, Chemistry and Botany. Selection Process
Every institute follows a selection process of its own. Some of them take admissions on the basis of merit list. However, the others accept scores of entrance tests conducted by them. Some universities proceed with the students who qualify the entrance exams and move them to next filtering stage that is a personal interview or group discussion round. Further, some of the universities may undertake a comprehensive counseling procedure for final selection for admission to Master of Science in Botany. There are many institutes which prefer to take direct admission in this course as per the merit list based on marks scored in undergraduate degree. Regards.