University and college teaching is an inspiring, pleasing and rewarding career that provides ample opportunity to influence, manage and shape the lives of hundreds of students every year.
With the expansion of higher education in India, there is a great demand for well qualified and devoted teachers.
As compared to others, higher education teachers enjoy a flexible and friendly learning condition which provides a genuine work/leisure balance.
But …To be a good teacher, you must have a deep passion for exchanging ideas at an intellectual level. you must enjoy working with students enthusiastically and be ready to work hard.
Creativity, patience, tact and a sense of humor also help to become a popular teacher among students. Good teachers always guide students how to explore and learn from the vast knowledge and let them free from the boundaries of the classroom.
- To start a career as a lecturer/ Assistant Professor in a college/ university/ prestigious institute, one must need Master’s Degree with National Eligibility Test (NET).
- For teaching in college or university, one can earn at least Rs. 40,000 and above depending on education, experience, and city.
- Indian market is always in need of competent teachers. With the emergence of private/ deemed universities and Global Institutes, the demand for lecturers and professors is on an all-time high.
So…don’t think about the opportunities !
if you are starting fresh you should also look Things to Know When preparing for UGC NET EXAM
Don’t loose your focus and keep aiming for Your Target !
1. Sound Planning and Preparation-
To crack NET Exam requires concentration on the strategy to define your mission, objectives, and deadlines.
Benjamin Franklin rightly said,
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
The first and foremost step towards your success is to choose your goal honestly and sincerely.
Take a bold decision and ask yourself why you want to become a teacher/ professor? Never choose NET Exam as your ambition if there is a social circle pressure.
The answer should come from the core of your heart. The next important step is to ask yourself when to start preparing and how to prepare.
Preparation and background work must start by the first Semester/ Year of post-graduation.
Try to get a comprehensive understanding of the exam process, its structure and various aspects related to the preparation.
2. Commitment –
It means staying loyal to what you said or promised long after the mood you said it. For success, commitment gives you energy which fuels your drive to achieve instead of simply wishing.
We all have this energy high or low. Always take the first bold step earliest which is mostly the hardest part of any mission/project.
One of the fine ways is to promise yourself to get/do something nice when you succeed.
3. Zeal and Enthusiasm –
Khalil Gibran once said: “ Zeal is a volcano, on the peak of which indecisiveness does not grow.”
Take care that you should not attempt the NET as a trial. Your first attempt after masters ought to be the best attempt.
This exam is all about the complete and deep study of the subject with a lot of clarity.
The exam can be performed well when you have gone through a number of references/authors and you are very strong in fundamentals with clarity.
4. Focus and concentration–
For NET, you must have clarity of thought and the ability to stay focused and determined on your studies. This happens when you are aware of exactly what the Examination expects from you.
Unlike your university examination, this examination is relative. You have to show better performance than other aspirants to get a final place in the merit list.
This will happen when you keep your goal SMART i.e Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Research-based and Time-bound.
5. Time Management –
Self-control and proper time utilization is another important skill which makes you or breaks you.
If you consider everything to be equally important and equally urgent, then you will experience more stress rather than success in your life.
Lord Chesterfield rightly said, “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
6. Remain Healthy-
In order to perform better, eat right, exercise and take the right amount of sleep. If you give weight to health, you will discover the secret of running stress-free life and find time to relax.
7. Visualize Success-
You can get anything you want if you have success instinct followed by action. Success starts with a vision.
You can’t do anything that you cannot picture yourself doing.
Famous psychologist Dr. Walter Scott rightly said, “Success or failure is caused more by mental attitudes than by mental capacities.”
You may find a lot of temptation to give up the attempt in the NET examination but never quit.
Here you keep in mind some words of Thomas Edison’s who said,
“Many of life’s failures are those people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
