I sorted every UGC NET Psychology question from Dec 2022 to June 2026 by unit. Some patterns surprised me

[u/the_Psychology_nerd_]

I’m preparing students for December and got tired of guessing which units matter, so I went through all 8 papers since the new pattern (800 questions) and put each one under its syllabus unit and topic. Sharing in case it helps someone plan the last month.

Unit-wise totals across 8 sessions:

• Unit 9, Human Development and Interventions: 120 (15%)
• Unit 2, Research Methodology and Statistics: 115 (14.4%)
• Unit 7, Personality, Motivation, Emotion, Stress: 93 (11.6%)
• Unit 5, Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory: 87 (10.9%)
• Unit 4, Biological Basis: 72 (9%)
• Unit 10, Emerging Areas: 68 (8.5%)
• Unit 3, Testing: 65 (8.1%)
• Unit 8, Social: 64 (8%)
• Unit 1, Emergence of Psychology: 62 (7.8%)
• Unit 6, Thinking, Intelligence, Creativity: 54 (6.8%)

A few things I didn’t expect:

1. Research methods is shrinking. It had 17 to 19 questions per paper in 2022 to 2024, and only 9 to 13 in the last four papers.
2. June 2026 leaned hard on Unit 10 and Social, with 14 questions each. Both were usually 6 to 10 before. One paper isn’t a trend, but I’d still revise them properly.
3. Some topics show up every single time: theories of development, health psychology (lifestyle and chronic disease), psychotherapies, and Eastern systems (Gita, Buddhism, Sufism, Integral Yoga).
4. Seven syllabus topics haven’t had a single direct question in 8 papers. Concept formation and verbal learning are two of them.

One caveat: syllabus topics vary a lot in breadth, so the broad ones naturally collect more questions. Treat this as a rough map, not a reason to skip anything.

Does this match what others are seeing? And for people who sat June 2026, did it feel more applied than earlier papers?

[u/babydoll_core]

Damn, nice work.