How to Become Assistant Professor in India? Steps to Apply

From the decades, teaching is considered as a noble profession. The teaching is not just a job but it gives you an opportunity to contribute shaping the future of the country.

Teaching is a grad career option due to the stability, attractive salary, holidays, and working schedule. Apart from all the perks the teachers have a different place in terms of respect in society.

One can be a part of the education system based on his choice to be a school teacher or a lecturer. Let’s have a look into the article about how can one become an assistant professor in India?

What is the Eligibility for Professor?

The graduate candidates are eligible for teaching in schools. To be eligible for lectureship in universities or colleges, the candidates need to have a masters’ degree.

The University Grant Commission (UGC) has decided the minimum eligibility for lectureship as follows:

·           The candidates must have completed the post-graduation degree with more than 55% aggregate marks to be eligible for teaching in the college, universities or other higher education institute.

·         NET Qualification

·         There is no age limit for lectureship. You may apply at any age for the assistant professor posts.

·         The aspirants should have the NET qualification in the particular subject of their master’s degree.

Keep reading to know more in detail.

Stage of the professor or lecturer

The interested candidate in teaching will be promoted or selected as an assistant professor if they fulfill the above eligibility criteria along with a NET qualification.

 The UGC NET and CSIR NET exam are organized for the selection of candidates for assistant professor and junior research fellowship.

After the assistant professor, the next promotion is for an associate professor for which the candidates must have the work experience of 5-8 years teaching.

For professors in universities, the candidates must have a Ph.D. in the respective subject and some published papers or research work.

Career requirements for lectureship in India

·         Educational: Master’s degree with NET qualification
·         Subject: Your post-graduation subject
·         Experience: Teaching and Research experience as a graduate assistant, lecturer, and/or assistant professor can be helpful
·         Key Skills: Critical thinking and communication skills; knowledge of instruction and classroom management, subject knowledge
·         Salary: 30-60 Thousand

Selection Process for lectureship

For assistant professors or lectureship, the candidates must have the NET/SET qualification conducted by the university grant commission (UGC).

The UGC NET and CSIR NET exam are a national level eligibility test for the selection of candidates for lectureship and JRF.

The candidates after post-graduation will be eligible for the NET exam, which is held twice a year.

The CSIR NET exam is held for science stream candidates for five subjects - physical, chemical, life, mathematical, and earth science.

On the other hand, the UGC NET exam is held for other stream candidates for more than 81 subjects. Similarly SET (stands for state Eligibility test) exam is held for the same purpose.

The difference between set and net is that candidates who qualify the NET exam will be eligible to apply for any university in India while the SET qualified candidates can apply for the universities of that state only.

However, qualifying the NET exam will not assure you about the job or employment, but it will give you an opportunity to get the job.

After qualifying the Net exam the candidates can apply for the vacant posts in the interested institutes and you will be exempted from any written examination for the same.

The selection of NET qualified candidates will be based on personal interview.

I hope it will help you to know about the selection procedure of the assistant professor in Indian universities s or institutes. Kindly share your thoughts about the same in the comments below.

All the best!!

Is Self-Study Enough to Crack the IIT JEE exam?

It is the common question of the candidates preparing for the admission into IIT institutes.

The IIT JEE is considered one of the toughest exam and this fear force students to join a coaching classes for preparation.

But is it really helpful to join a coaching or student can crack the IIT JEE exam without coaching?

Here we are going to put some light on the fact that you can prepare for JEE mains or advanced exam without coaching.

Keep reading to know how.

Some Facts about Self-study vs Coaching classes

Here I am not the hater of the coaching classes. Of course, the coaching classes provide you the study material, theory, questions and many more facility that help you to crack the exam, but what is the most important thing required to crack the JEE exam is you will to study.

If you have decided and are ready to prepare for yourself, it is the best option to prepare for the exam as all other options will be always available for you.

You may get all the good study material, assistance from seniors or school teacher. There are good lectures available online nowadays.

Thus, self-study is no less than the coaching study. Even one of the report claims that the candidates doing the self-study get better results than that of having coaching for the JEE exam preparation.

Let’s have a look at the figures that shows the clear difference between students who crack the IIT JEE exam with self-study Vs students who joins coaching for the JEE preparation:

IIT Institute	% of Students who crack JEE with Coaching classes	% of Students who crack JEE with Self study
IIT Delhi	52.9	47.1
IIT Madras	60.6	39.4
IIT Mumbai	47.4	52.6
IIT Guwahati	38.6	61.4
IIT Kanpur	45.2	54.8
IIT Roorkee	44.9	55.1
All India	48	52

How to prepare for JEE without coaching? - Important Tips

The self-study provide you a better environment, better time and place of your choice for the preparation.

You can save money and time choosing the self-study and remove the dependency on coaching classes.

The coaching classes make a fake environment of competition to make you run away from study while during self-study you will find it interesting. The best advantage now a days is internet.

The first thing while preparing for the exam is to go through the syllabus and be familiar with the exam patter.

The JEE mains exam consist three subjects physics, chemistry and mathematics of 11^th and 12^th standard.

Note down all the topics and go through all of them. Start with theory part and clear your concepts. Then solve the topic related question to make your theory strong. After theory start solving question bank.

Solving the previous year paper and mock test is the best practice to prepare for any exam. You will get the brief knowledge of the type of questions asked in the exam and paper pattern.

The NTA is conducting the mock test for the JEE mains exam. You can take advantages of the NTA mock test to have the brief idea about the paper difficulty level.

After solving the mock test analyse your response and know your strong and weak points. Work on them accordingly. Make a proper schedule and study plan and strongly follow it. 

The conclusion of the above figures is that students can crack the JEE exam with either self-study or coaching classes but in both cases they need to do hard work themselves.

All the best!!