UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 envisions professional education programmes (engineering, management, law, etc.) becoming part of broad-based multidisciplinary universities, so that students combine professional studies with humanities, social sciences and other fields, leading to more holistic and flexible learning.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because NEP explicitly critiques excessive fragmentation and isolation of professional institutions.

Option B:
Option B is correct as it reflects NEP’s push to locate professional programmes within multidisciplinary universities that also provide general education.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect; abolishing professional education is neither realistic nor proposed by NEP.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because NEP does not advocate online-only professional education; it recognises the importance of labs, studios and clinical or practical components.

Statements A, B and D accurately reflect the aims of multidisciplinary education. A is true because students are encouraged to combine majors, minors and electives across domains. B is true as NEP 2020 explicitly calls for flexible and less compartmentalised structures. D is also true since multiple-disciplinary exposure broadens perspectives and problem-solving approaches. Statement C is false; departments may continue to exist while enabling cross-disciplinary choices rather than being abolished. Thus, A, B and D only are correct.

Option A:
Option A is correct because it includes all three statements that capture breadth, policy emphasis and skill development, while excluding C, which misinterprets multidisciplinary education as eliminating specialisation.

Option B:
Option B is incorrect because it includes only A and B and omits D, thereby not highlighting the developmental impact on analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect because it selects B and D and omits A, not explicitly stating that students actually choose courses across different fields, which is central to multidisciplinary design.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because it treats every statement as correct, endorsing C’s idea that departments must be abolished, which is not a requirement of multidisciplinary institutions.

NEP 2020 states that multidisciplinary universities and colleges, with flexible combinations of subjects, should increasingly become the norm in higher education instead of segmented, single-discipline institutions.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because NEP criticises narrow single-discipline institutions and rigid subject walls as features of the old system.

Option B:
Option B is correct as it describes the vision of large multidisciplinary HEIs where students can combine arts, sciences, social sciences and vocational areas.

Option C:
Option C is wrong since the policy does not say that only distance-education institutions should dominate; it emphasises diverse, high-quality physical and blended campuses.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because NEP wants vocational and general education to be integrated within multidisciplinary institutions, not to have only vocational trades with no broader learning.