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How to prepare for MA Geography to ensure the admission? Any recommended book/books?


AJAY SINGH 28th Sep, 2019
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pdwords Student Expert 28th Sep, 2019

Hello,


MA Geography Entrance Test conducted in JNU consists of 100 marks, out of this 60 marks is for objective question, and the remaining 40 marks belong to subjective questions which consists of diagrams and practice maps.

Unit I (60 marks) Multiple Choice Questions on : 1. Geomorphology, climatology, oceanography and biogeography. 2. Human geography, economic geography, political geography, Population geography, human ecology and human settlements. 3. Regional geography of India- physiographic divisions, patterns and levels of development of agriculture and industries, growth of population, urbanization, and socio-culture diversity. 4. Geographical information System, Remote Sensing, Cartography, Quantitative Techniques/Statistics.

Unit II (20 marks) - Short Questions on Physical, human regional geography and geography of India.

Unit III (10 marks) - Question on Cartography, scale and map projections, topographical maps of India, Methods of data representation Unit IV (10 marks) - Question on Statistical Methods – frequency distribution, measures of central tendency and dispersion, Correlation.

Some of the best book regarding this are NCERT(specially X-XII), Geography through Maps by K.Sidhartha, GC Leong Physical and Human Geography, for Statistics you may refer NCERT books.Apart from this, go though previous year question paper along with you graduation books.

For previous year question paper, refer to the official website of JNU-

https://admissions.jnu.ac.in/searchquestionpaper.aspx


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