UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 clearly states that all children should achieve foundational literacy and numeracy by Grade 3; this is treated as the system’s top priority and a critical threshold for later learning.

Option A:
Grade 1 is the very beginning of schooling; complete FLN by this stage is unrealistic because children are still developing basic pre-literacy skills.

Option B:
Grade 2 is still within the foundational stage, but NEP 2020 sets the FLN deadline one year later, not at this point.

Option C:
If FLN were postponed until Grade 5, learning gaps would already have accumulated through the early primary years.

Option D:
Grade 3 is explicitly named in NEP 2020 as the latest grade by which every child must attain foundational literacy and numeracy.