UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 proposes that a four-year integrated B.Ed. in multidisciplinary institutions should become the main route into teaching, with existing two-year B.Ed. programmes allowed only during a transition period before being phased out.

Option A:
Immediate abolition without alternative pathways would create disruption and teacher shortages, which NEP explicitly wants to avoid.

Option B:
This option is correct because it describes the gradual transition towards four-year integrated B.Ed. programmes that the policy envisages.

Option C:
One-month courses cannot provide the depth of subject knowledge or pedagogy required for quality teaching and are not mentioned in NEP 2020.

Option D:
Restricting teacher education to distance mode would weaken practicum and school-based experience, which the policy seeks to strengthen.