CSIR NET is a national-level examination undertaken by the National Testing Agency, to select individuals as Junior Research Fellows and Lecturers in Indian colleges, School Analytics and universities. The CSIR NET is conducted for 5 different subjects namely Chemical Sciences, Life sciences, Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematical Sciences.
For the preparation of these subjects students can take the help of the following books :
- Life sciences: Books for preparation of life sciences are :
- CSIR-UGC NET- Life Sciences by Trueman’s
- Fundamentals of Life Sciences (Volume I and Volume II) by Rupendra Singh
- Life Science by Ashish Nagesh, Quaisher J. Hossain
- Mathematical Sciences
- CSIR-UGC NET/JRF/SLET – Mathematical Sciences (Paper I & II) by Dr A. Kumar
- CSIR-UGC NET/JRF/SLET – Mathematical Sciences (Paper I & II) by Churchill and Brown
- Foundations of Functional Analysis by S. Ponnusamy
- Physical Sciences
- CSIR-UGC NET (JRF & LS) Physical Science by Arihant Publications
- Solid State Physics by Neil Ashcroft
- Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Weber
- Chemical Sciences
- Organic Chemistry by Clayden, Greeves, Warren, and Wotherss
- Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins and Julio De Paula
- CSIR-UGC NET/JRF/SET Chemical Sciences by Dr Hemant Kulshrestha and Dr Ajay Taneja
- Earth science
- Joint CSIR-UGC (NET) Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences Exam Guide (for Part B & C)
- Statistics of Earth science dating by Graham Borradaile
- Climatology and Oceanography by D.S. Lal